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New rabbinical school arises in Cincinnati as Hebrew Union College sued over closure

New rabbinical school arises in Cincinnati as Hebrew Union College sued over closure

College for Contemporary Judaism centers around liberal Judaism, commitment to backing Israel, and serving US Jews between the coasts where rabbinical...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin

FIFA head says Iran will ‘for sure’ participate in soccer World Cup in US

FIFA head says Iran will ‘for sure’ participate in soccer World Cup in US

‘Iran has to come, they represent their people,’ Gianni Infantino says, while Trump has previously suggested Iranian players might not be safe on...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Israel's 'Rational' Left Is More Dangerous Than Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

Israel's 'Rational' Left Is More Dangerous Than Ben-Gvir and Smotrich

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Haaretz

Ofer Cassif

VOX POPULI: Takaichi backing GSDF member at LDP convention a slap to the people

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Israeli ambassador said to meet discreetly with French far right’s Marine Le Pen

Israeli ambassador said to meet discreetly with French far right’s Marine Le Pen

National Rally party leader’s reported meetings with Israeli, Lebanese envoys come amid her criticism of Macron’s stance on Israel, and as...

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The Times of Israel

Stav Levaton

The Geopolitical Hedge That Isn’t

In every serious chancellery from New Delhi to Riyadh to Canberra, the same strategy is now being executed. Faced with a Washington that has walked...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Vincent James Hooper

Jews, be careful of betrayal within

Jews, be careful of betrayal within

Jews, be careful of betrayal within. There, I said it. It is a very harsh sentence, but I fear I have touched on the core reason why Israel advocacy...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

Ticketmaster in Live Nation krivi izkoriščanja monopolnega položaja

Ticketmaster in Live Nation krivi izkoriščanja monopolnega položaja

Newyorška zvezna porota je v sredo podjetji za prodajo vstopnic za prireditve Ticketmaster in Live Nation spoznala za krivi izkoriščanja...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Jewish groups ask US Supreme Court to rule on Ohio man barred from hosting home prayers

Jewish groups ask US Supreme Court to rule on Ohio man barred from hosting home prayers

Orthodox groups file amicus brief on behalf of Daniel Grand, who has been banned since 2021 by University Heights municipality from holding Shabbat...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

Razočaranje v Portorožu: »Imam občutek, da sem na cedilu pustila ogromno ljudi«

Razočaranje v Portorožu: »Imam občutek, da sem na cedilu pustila ogromno ljudi«

Slovenskim teniškim igralkam ni uspelo ugnati Špank, na moškem teniškem prestolu pa je prišlo do menjave.

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Dnevnik

Bojan Glavič

For 5th time, Netanyahu included on Time’s annual list of 100 most influential people

For 5th time, Netanyahu included on Time’s annual list of 100 most influential people

Magazine, referencing Hamas Oct. 7 terror attack, says prime minister ‘responsible for the worst security failure in his country’s history,’ but...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

»Ko smo zaprti v tisti majhni kapsuli, nismo več le sodelavci, postati moramo družina«

»Ko smo zaprti v tisti majhni kapsuli, nismo več le sodelavci, postati moramo družina«

Vesoljska misija Artemis II, ki je podrla rekorde Apolla 13, je v prvi vrsti zgodba o posameznikih in neprespanih nočeh, ki so nam vrnile vero v...

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Dnevnik

Damjan Franz Lu

Settlers try to steal Palestinian-owned sheep in Hebron Hills as West Bank violence soars

Settlers try to steal Palestinian-owned sheep in Hebron Hills as West Bank violence soars

2 Palestinians reportedly wounded in separate stone-throwing incident near Bethlehem; rights group says 378 attacks carried out during 40 days of Iran...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

The pope has shown the world how to stand up to Trump

The pope has shown the world how to stand up to Trump

Sometimes, the “good guys” do wear white hats. The “good guy” I am referring to is the American-born leader of the Catholic church, Pope Leo...

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Al Jazeera

Andrew Mitrovica

Hope in the Data: Can Palestine Explain America’s Moral Shift?

Hope in the Data: Can Palestine Explain America’s Moral Shift?

In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Ramzy Baroud

The Debt to Pleasure

The Debt to Pleasure

 This extraordinary book by John Lanchester begins with a purported Preface by its purported author, who goes by the suspiciously apt name of Tarquin...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Confronting Somaliland’s Motor Vehicle Accident Emergency

Motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), also known as road traffic collisions, occur when vehicles collide with other vehicles, pedestrians, animals, or fixed...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed Osman

Islamabad’s Diplomatic Resurgence and the US-Iran Peace Talks

Islamabad’s Diplomatic Resurgence and the US-Iran Peace Talks

Islamabad’s Diplomatic Resurgence and the US-Iran Peace Talks After being diplomatically isolated for years, Pakistan emerges as a strong global...

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New Eastern Outlook

Abbas Hashemite

Mislim svoje mesto: Sosedje niso več to, kar so bili

Mislim svoje mesto: Sosedje niso več to, kar so bili

S koliko sosedi ste kdaj spili kavo? Ste šli kdaj do njih, če vam je zmanjkalo sladkorja za pecivo, ki ste ga želeli speči, ali ko ste nujno...

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Dnevnik

Marko Peterlin

Operation "Hourglass": Trump's Cunning Plan to Seize Three Islands That Will Rewrite the History of the War with Iran

Operation

Operation “Hourglass”: Trump’s Cunning Plan to Seize Three Islands That Will Rewrite the History of the War with Iran The two-week ceasefire...

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New Eastern Outlook

Viktor Mikhin

Cynická obluda: Taraba pre zlepšenie sebavedomia

Taraba sa nestane členom SNS, pretože ho strana tento týždeň odmietla prijať.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Monsters in the Basement, Monsters in the Attic

Monsters in the Basement, Monsters in the Attic

I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone this before, but I was afraid of the monsters in our basement. And the ones in the attic. I suppose that’s...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jeremy M Staiman

A Giant Warning

I was privileged to see “Giant” on Broadway tonight with many friends from the UJA-Federation of New York community. We walked in expecting a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Menachem Creditor

The day I made my father wait at Heathrow for a Nazi-fighting philosopher

The day I made my father wait at Heathrow for a Nazi-fighting philosopher

Professor Jürgen Habermas, who has died aged 96, was widely celebrated. Many obituaries read like academic papers; I offer here a personal tribute,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Dimitris eleas

Hungary’s youth-led revolution is a wake-up call for Israel’s opposition

Hungary’s youth-led revolution is a wake-up call for Israel’s opposition

As Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule crumbles under economic collapse, Israelis in Budapest see a blueprint for change – but the path in Israel remains...

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The Times of Israel

Shalom Yerushalmi

Unpacking the Netanyahu Legacy – part 2

 The Architect of Disaster: Unpacking the Netanyahu Legacy – Part 2 The Weak Autocrat: How Netanyahu Became the Tail Wagged by His Extremist...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lonny Baskin

Parshas Tazria-Metzora: Why Is This Affliction Different?

The double parsha of Tazria-Metzora has a very strange combination of topics that actually go very well together. Let’s start with how the Rambam...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gedalia Walls

‘Intifada’ is not just a slogan

I don’t care that this was technically vandalism. The statements and sentiments expressed on Cross Campus are and should be protected free speech....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Elijah Wiesel

Rubber’s history could be a window into AI’s future

Rubber’s history could be a window into AI’s future

A 7,000-word piece of science fiction published on Substack by an obscure investment research firm helped trigger a worldwide market meltdown...

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The Japan Times

Gautam Mukunda

Breaking out of your MBTI

When the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) swept Korea a few years ago, many embraced it as a playful distraction — something similar to blood type...

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The Korea Times

Han sang-hee

Evolution of Paris

Five graphs that changed the world Virtual ancient Rome: walking from the Colosseum to the Forum De artificiali perspectiva, or anamorphosis Aeon...

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Aeon

Aeon Video

I Have Seen This Before (Part 2)

In Part 1, I showed that the Lithuanian state’s official position on the service of Lithuanian guards at Majdanek is “tales and stretching the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

The case for ‘hardened engagement’ with America

The case for ‘hardened engagement’ with America

Across the capitals of America’s closest allies — from Ottawa and Tokyo to Brussels, Canberra and Seoul — a dangerous geopolitical narrative has...

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The Japan Times

Stephen R. Nagy

US Senate foils effort to nix Israel arms sale, but 75% of Democrats vote to block it

US Senate foils effort to nix Israel arms sale, but 75% of Democrats vote to block it

Sanders’ resolutions to stop bulldozer, bomb deliveries gain broad Democratic support, demonstrating major shift in party’s approach toward Israel...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

The Iran war has exposed Taiwan’s Achilles’ heel

The Iran war has exposed Taiwan’s Achilles’ heel

In the event of a war with China, Taiwan has some surprisingly tough defenses that could make it as difficult to tackle as a porcupine: A shoreline...

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The Japan Times

David Fickling

Setting Out Toward Financial Independence

Everyone talks about financial independence, but what does it actually mean? In the complex economic reality we all navigate, we are called to be more...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sharon Levin

Artemis bol zlyhaním štátu a triumfom človeka

Astronauti leteli do neznáma, závislí od technológie, ktorá mohla zlyhať.

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SME.sk

Washington Post

The great debate: Is the Iran War morally correct?

Trump says yes. He feels that otherwise, Iran would acquire a nuclear weapon and use it to threaten the world. Others, including some religious...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoseph Janowski

Trump: Leaders of Israel, Lebanon to speak today; Lebanese source: ‘Not aware’ of planned contact

Trump: Leaders of Israel, Lebanon to speak today; Lebanese source: ‘Not aware’ of planned contact

US president hopes for ‘breathing room’ between the 2 countries, stops short of announcing ceasefire * Hezbollah continues firing at Israel *...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Two Year Anniversary since Iran Shot at Israel: Nation That Remembers—and Because It Does, It Endures

Two Year Anniversary since Iran Shot at Israel: Nation That Remembers—and Because It Does, It Endures

Two years have passed since the night the skies over Israel were streaked with fire. Two years since sirens echoed not just in Sderot or Kiryat...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kyle blank

Celebrating division as a success in Libya

Celebrating division as a success in Libya

This week, Libya witnessed two events that were celebrated as signs of progress, even though they express nothing more than the normalisation of...

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Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Acute Angles: I badmouthed my rabbi – do I need to ask his forgiveness?

Dear Rabbi Ingram.  I spoke lashon ha-ra  to a friend about my rabbi about two months ago. I don’t know what got into me as I like my rabbi and he...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chaim Ingram

Čo Šimkovičová poradila Čechom: Zničte televíziu

V prípade Českej televízie ide o pomstu.

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SME.sk

Jindřich Šídlo

When Restraint Becomes a Moral Failure

In recent weeks, a sharp and unusually public tension has emerged between Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over issues of war, morality, and the role...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Muskat

Birthing Mother

The Torah speaks of the difference for a woman giving birth to a male, rather than a female. The amount of impurity connected with a female, is double...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Je pápež Američan? Nie, je katolík

Podpora Trumpa medzi katolíkmi klesla pod 50 percent.

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SME.sk

Washington Post

Amatérski diplomati Ameriky sú odsúdení na neúspech

Witkoff a Kushner nemajú znalosti z jadrovej fyziky.

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SME.sk

Washington Post

Join the dots

Peering into the origins of our Universe, astronomers found something that shouldn’t be there: what are those little red dots? by Jenny Greene  ...

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Aeon

Jenny greene

2 arrested for trying to torch London synagogue in what cops call an antisemitic attack

2 arrested for trying to torch London synagogue in what cops call an antisemitic attack

47-year-old woman and 46-year-old man detained hours after targeting Reform temple, throwing two bottles of suspected flammable material that did not...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Why US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome is losing support on both sides of the aisle

Why US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome is losing support on both sides of the aisle

Budgeting for the purely defensive anti-missile system was once a given, but since Oct. 7, left-wing progressives, financial conservatives, and...

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The Times of Israel

Andrew Lapin