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In world 1st, Israeli F-35 shoots down Iranian jet in air-to-air combat over Tehran

In world 1st, Israeli F-35 shoots down Iranian jet in air-to-air combat over Tehran

Incident also 1st time in some 40 years that Israeli Air Force engaged in air-to-air combat with manned aircraft; IAF expected to mark jet with decal...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Iran’s cluster missiles scatter bombs and destruction across Israel

Iran’s cluster missiles scatter bombs and destruction across Israel

Missile’s warhead opens up on descent, spreading some 20 submunitions, each with 2.5kg of explosives, indiscriminately threatening a much wider area

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

2 'Annoying Habits' That Show Your Partner Really Loves You

2 'Annoying Habits' That Show Your Partner Really Loves You

Short-term discomfort in service of accountability makes couples more resilient.

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Psychology Today

Mark Travers Ph.d

Daily Briefing March 4 – Trump’s war on Iran draws ire as detractors blame Jewish state

Daily Briefing March 4 – Trump’s war on Iran draws ire as detractors blame Jewish state

Editor David Horovitz on who launched this war, whose war is it and how the international stage is perhaps getting it all wrong

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

From the Marketplace of Ideas to the Marketplace of Answers

From the Marketplace of Ideas to the Marketplace of Answers

How AI may be changing the way our beliefs take shape.

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Psychology Today

John Nosta

Iranian warship sinks after apparent submarine attack near Sri Lanka; 101 said missing

Iranian warship sinks after apparent submarine attack near Sri Lanka; 101 said missing

Unclear who attacked frigate, which was armed with missiles and torpedoes and could carry a helicopter, but US military has said it aims to sink...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Sicilijo streslo več potresov z magnitudo do 4,5

Sicilijo streslo več potresov z magnitudo do 4,5

Na italijanskem otoku Sicilija so na območju okoli vulkana Etna danes zabeležili več potresov, med katerimi je imel najmočnejši magnitudo 4,5. Po...

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Dnevnik

Sta

A Wake-Up Call from Iran to the Muslim World

I write this from a religious freedom conference convened by Empower Women Media, led by Iranian-American advocate Shirin Taber and Lebanese-American...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Soraya M. Deen

Iranian Proxy Hezbollah Drags Lebanon Into War

The current war in Iran has spilled into Lebanon, much to Iran’s satisfaction. Hezbollah, a creation of Iran and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sheldon Kirshner

Snubitev leta, v kateri je svetovna številka ena rekla da brazilskemu milijonarju

Snubitev leta, v kateri je svetovna številka ena rekla da brazilskemu milijonarju

Belorusinja Arina Sabalenka, svetovna številka ena v ženskem tenisu, zmaguje tako na igrišču kot drugje.

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Dnevnik

Jože Okorn

The Spaghetti Method: A Simple Way to Discover Your Purpose

The Spaghetti Method: A Simple Way to Discover Your Purpose

Stop searching, start experimenting, and let life light you up.

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Psychology Today

Jordan Grumet M.d

Guaranteed safety during the holidays

In Parshat Ki Tisa (Shmot 34:23), we read about “Aliya LaRegel,” the mitzvah to go up to Jerusalem on the holidays of Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot:...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Broken Tablets and Golden Cracks: From Rock Bottom to Repair

Broken Tablets and Golden Cracks: From Rock Bottom to Repair

History usually moves slowly. But sometimes it moves in moments that feel almost biblical. The dramatic events unfolding around Iran — a regime that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeffrey Levine

Exploratorium

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Aeon

Aeon Video

Behind the Mask: What Purim Costumes Reveal About Us

Behind the Mask: What Purim Costumes Reveal About Us

I don’t know about you, but over the past week my social media feeds have been overflowing with Purim costumes. Friends, grandchildren, neighbors...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Feldstein

Regarding Senator Chris Van Hollen at J Street Calling AIPAC ‘Not Pro-American’

Regarding Senator Chris Van Hollen at J Street Calling AIPAC ‘Not Pro-American’

“I will tell you that AIPAC may call itself pro-American. They may call themselves pro-Israel. But they are neither. They have been a very...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael J. Lewis

Tehran After Khamenei: Iran’s Escalation and the Risks of Regime Change

Tehran After Khamenei: Iran’s Escalation and the Risks of Regime Change

The current Iranian escalation and the widening attacks against multiple states in the region — including Gulf countries and even Cyprus — raise a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rafi Glick

The Curious Being of Amalek

The brief story of Amalek is perhaps the oddest story in the Five Books of Moses. Ostensibly, Amalek, whether a terrorist nation or a terrorist who...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joel Cohen

In the Middle of a War

It is my practice on Fridays, before the onset of Shabbat, to send a message to everyone in the office.  I try to be at least a little bit inspiring...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Clifford Rieders

The Two True US War Goals

End the Islamist regime. Transfer full power to the pro-Western opposition that represents the majority of Iranians. Turn over to it: all government...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ira Straus

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran Betrays His Central Promise

Trump’s Other Endless War: How a Strike on Iran Betrays His Central Promise

In international politics, starting a war is often easier than ending one. History has repeatedly shown that great powers can pull the trigger with a...

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Middle East Monitor

Peter Rodgers

Iran Is Seesawing Between Gunboat Diplomacy and War for the Whole Jackpot

Iran Is Seesawing Between Gunboat Diplomacy and War for the Whole Jackpot

Due to the technical or legal reasons, readability mode is not available for this article. Thank you for your kind understanding.

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Haaretz

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Purim – A King Without Virtue — The Flawed Instrument

Purim – A King Without Virtue — The Flawed Instrument

Sometimes redemption emerges from messy circumstances, flawed personalities, and unlikely alliances. Each year on Purim we retell a story filled with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Richard Diamond

Divine and Human Symbiosis

The episode of the Golden Calf stands as the Israelites’ lowest moment, a profound betrayal of God occurring so soon after the revelation at Sinai....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mordechai Silverstein

Cult Member, Idiot, or Monster: What’s Your Excuse for Genocide?

Cult Member, Idiot, or Monster: What’s Your Excuse for Genocide?

UN Rapporteur Albanese once reported that “Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is at an escalatory stage of a long-standing settler colonial...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kile Jones

The Song of the Kanaani: Cats, Creation, and a Shepherd’s Prayer

The Song of the Kanaani: Cats, Creation, and a Shepherd’s Prayer

Kanaani Cats, Bereshit, and the Song of Creation There are moments in life when a person begins to feel that the world itself is speaking. Not through...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mikhail Salita

Cynická obluda: Ako naozaj dostať Chorvátov na kolená

Možnosti ako im slovenská kapitálotvorná vrstva môže položiť ekonomiku tu sú.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Vlak na Kras: Kosovel znova povezal Sežano in Zagorje

Vlak na Kras: Kosovel znova povezal Sežano in Zagorje

Ob 100-letnici Kosovelovega literarnega večera v Zagorju ob Savi je simbolični Vlak na Kras povezal Sežano in Zagorje ter obudil pesnikovo misel o...

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Dnevnik

Vesna Levičnik

Hope Won't Save You. Practice Might.

Hope Won't Save You. Practice Might.

Personal Perspective: The psychology of hope, 2.0.

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Psychology Today

Camille Preston Ph.d

Featured Post

Featured Post

Vladimir Putin, of all people, along with several European leaders, has declared that “the US- Israel war against Iran is illegal under...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shuki Friedman

Haftarat Parshat Para: Not For Your Sake, But For My Name

This week’s parsha is dedicated to the heroic soldiers, security forces and first responders of the IDF, defenders of the Jewish people and the land...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Brander

Anxiety as a Symptom of Medical Illness

Anxiety as a Symptom of Medical Illness

Anxiety can be a symptom of a medical illness or a side effect of medication.

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Psychology Today

Peter M. Hartmann

Khamenei’s Death and the West’s Problem

Khamenei’s Death and the West’s Problem

In the new war against the Islamic regime in Iran, Israel and America have eliminated the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. As significant as the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael savvakis

The Man You Hate to Love

Israel and the United States are joined together in a sizable military operation – a.k.a. a war – with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israel has...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bob Avraham Yermus

The book that wrote itself

Sitting in a coffee shop in London with my wife and sister, we were trying to translate one of the ruder Hebrew sayings in a way that will rhyme in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Arnon rubinstein

Suicidal Empathy: Normalizing the Iranian Regime

In the post-World War II era, the international community established what were meant to be Universal Taboos. These were the “red lines” of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Erez levin

Iranian missile downed as it heads towards NATO member Turkey

Iranian missile downed as it heads towards NATO member Turkey

Multi-national military alliance condemns ‘targeting’ of member state; Ankara warns it will take ‘all necessary steps’ to defend its territory;

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Shoes on the Danube Bank: Where the Dead Have No Graves

Shoes on the Danube Bank: Where the Dead Have No Graves

“The shoes are full of stones scattered in them.” The sentence landed with the dull thud of something that should not be possible and stopped me...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexandra Ell

Irán využíva slabosť USA a ich spojencov, ktorí sa nepoučili na Ukrajine

Západné systémy sú schopné zostreliť takmer čokoľvek, ale za neúmerne vysokú cenu.

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SME.sk

Martin ehl

Canadians support Israel – don’t listen to our PM

I was taking a break from my TOI Blog, but wish to express the support for Israel that I and many Canadians share.   We send our care and concern...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Joanne Cohen

What really happened in the village of Qaryut?

An incident that took place earlier this week between the Jewish community of Shiloh and the Palestinian village of Qaryut in the Binyamin region...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hanan amuir

Of course this is Israel’s war in Iran. It’s America’s, too. We’d all better win it

Of course this is Israel’s war in Iran. It’s America’s, too. We’d all better win it

Trump’s critics, ostensibly from his own camp, evidently have a very dim view of his intellect and skill set * In Iran, unlike Gaza, ‘total...

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The Times of Israel

David Horovitz

Nevarna stran žalosti: 5 kritičnih znakov, da vaše telo kliče na pomoč

Nevarna stran žalosti: 5 kritičnih znakov, da vaše telo kliče na pomoč

Od nespečnosti do vnetnih procesov: razumevanje povezave med čustveno stisko in kroničnimi boleznimi je pomembno za človeka.

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Dnevnik

Ivo Belan

Poland - Pakistan: Moralism as a Substitute for Strategy

Poland - Pakistan: Moralism as a Substitute for Strategy

Poland – Pakistan: Moralism as a Substitute for Strategy Poland is sliding into a risky partnership with Pakistan, which could ultimately do Warsaw...

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New Eastern Outlook

Adrian Korczyński

(REKLI SO) Erik Valenčič: Zdaj je čas, da smo hrabri, glasni in odločni

(REKLI SO) Erik Valenčič: Zdaj je čas, da smo hrabri, glasni in odločni

"Moje življenjsko spoznanje je, da je vsaka vojna, v katero sem šel od leta 2003, geografsko bližje nam. To sem razumel marca 2022, ko sem...

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Večer

Dr

Erik a Matúš vymysleli nový koktail

Koalícia sa hlási k ovplyvňovaniu výsledkov volieb.

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SME.sk

Peter Tkačenko

USA musia čo najskôr znovu otvoriť Hormuzský prieliv pre ropné tankery

Produkcia ropy zatiaľ neklesá, ale nebude ju mať kto vyviezť.

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SME.sk

Washington Post

Africa’s Long Tradition of Resistance: From Kingdoms to Colonial Revolt

Introduction: Recovering a Silenced Story For centuries, Western narratives portrayed Africa as passive—a continent of helpless victims, easily...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ed Gaskin

Iran’s War Against Israel: The Shia Eschatological Vision & Messianic Conflict

Iran’s War Against Israel: The Shia Eschatological Vision & Messianic Conflict

My personal journey into understanding why Iran is so intensely hostile toward Israel began when I studied at the Islamic College in London, which...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr

IDF carries out ‘extensive’ strikes on regime targets; Iran fires missiles at Israeli towns

IDF carries out ‘extensive’ strikes on regime targets; Iran fires missiles at Israeli towns

Katz: Khamenei’s successor an ‘unequivocal target for elimination’; Israeli military says it’s carrying out ‘systematic, round-the-clock...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian