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Japan food sector: immigration, a labor crunch and rising costs

Japan food sector: immigration, a labor crunch and rising costs

The “Indian curry” lunch is a Japanese salaryman’s treat. Two or three mildly spiced dishes, paired with unlimited quantities of slightly sweet...

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The Japan Times

Gearoid Reidy

Soldier jailed, commanders penalized after IDF chief calls out ‘Messiah’ patch

Nahal Brigade commander, after handing soldier 30-day sentence, tells subordinates ‘discipline is a basic value’; right-wing politicians assail...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Is Modi ‘coup-proofing’ India’s military?

Is Modi ‘coup-proofing’ India’s military?

India created the post of Chief of Defense Staff in 2019 to achieve what its military had long lacked: genuine jointness among the Army, Navy and Air...

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The Japan Times

Brahma Chellaney

A Zayin of Revelation — The Work of Sivan

A Zayin of Revelation — The Work of Sivan

Every Hebrew month carries its own spiritual rhythm—a distinct energy inviting deeper self-understanding. After the liberation of Nissan and the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sam Cohen

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence

A Fractured World Order and the Xi–Trump Test of Strategic Coexistence The Trump-Xi summit, coming amidst fragile international markets,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Abbas Hashemite

When Israel Wins, Hate Returns

When Israel Wins, Hate Returns

For Israelis, success on the world stage has increasingly become a trigger for hostility rather than celebration. Whether in technology, medicine,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

VOX POPULI: Trump-Xi summit recalls ‘Asakai’s nightmare’

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Jerusalem braces for clashes, friction as tens of thousands to attend annual Flag March

Jerusalem braces for clashes, friction as tens of thousands to attend annual Flag March

More Palestinian shopkeepers close businesses ahead of anticipated violence in Old City as thousands of police deploy in the area; alternative march...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

(POGLED) Od Maribora do Ljubljane: Avtocestni križev pot

(POGLED) Od Maribora do Ljubljane: Avtocestni križev pot

Za tiste, ki si ljubi kruhek služimo v prestolnici – in živimo v štajerski prestolnici, je sicer mukotrpen odhod na delo zadnje čase vse bolj...

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Večer

Matjaž Korošak

Alliance Built on Illusion: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Regional Failure

Alliance Built on Illusion: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Regional Failure

In modern geopolitics, alliances are often presented as symbols of unity, strength, and shared strategic vision. Yet, behind official statements and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed abdi idiris

‘So this is the American century?’

By the time the delegation from Donald Trump landed in Beijing, the Chinese leadership had already prepared the banquet menu. Not diplomacy. Not...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Paul Mendlowitz

Why I Am Not Attending My College Graduation

My peers in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (DURP at UIUC) will be attending our...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ezra landman-feigelson

Why Trump decided to back Iraq’s prime minister-designate, Ali al-Zaidi

Why Trump decided to back Iraq’s prime minister-designate, Ali al-Zaidi

The decision by United States President Donald Trump to back Ali al-Zaidi as Iraq’s next prime minister may have surprised some quarters. But when...

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Middle East Monitor

Jasim Al-Azzawi

The World After the Iran War

The World After the Iran War

TEL AVIV—Major wars usher in new international orders. The Thirty Years’ War brought the Peace of Westphalia. The Napoleonic Wars gave rise to the...

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Project Syndicate

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Cynická obluda: Lučanského PTSD

Chudák, musel pri tom videu veľmi trpieť.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

The Grotesque Closing Scene Before the Tide Turns

If the world were a theatre, I feel we have reached the scene in which all the villains assemble together on one stage, a moment where darkness...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yakov Nagen

The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust

The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust

People do strange things to the dead when the dead become politically inconvenient. They soften them. They resize them. They strip away the details...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kelsey maurine brickl

Can the Holocaust Survive As A Universal Metaphor?

The controversy surrounding the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies’ recent seminar, “Nakba and Holocaust as Cultural Traumas,”...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Moshe Manheim

Russia’s Military Parade: Exhaustion from War of Aggression Becomes Evident

Russia’s Military Parade: Exhaustion from War of Aggression Becomes Evident

16:19 JST, May 13, 2026 It can be said that the event laid bare that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, now in its fifth year, has severely...

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The Japan News

Editorial

Jews and Zionism

For centuries, Jews were persecuted and pogromed by Christians in Europe and by Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa. They decided to stop...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jaime Kardontchik

Taiwan After the Trump-Xi Summit: From Strategic Frontline to Strategic Balancing Point

Taiwan After the Trump-Xi Summit: From Strategic Frontline to Strategic Balancing Point

Maintaining the status quo is the only rational path towards national survival and regional stability.

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E-International

Jinghao Zhou

The Salon and ‘My Road to Jerusalem’

Dedicated to the Song (at the end of this reflection) composed by Dr. Lena Allen-Shore- “I Prayed in Jerusalem at the Wall for the Peace of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michel M.j. Shore

America’s Superpower Suicide

America’s Superpower Suicide

TORONTO—The United States is spending billions of dollars to lose a war in Iran that is enriching its oligarchs, impoverishing its citizens,...

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Project Syndicate

Timothy Snyder

How the Gulf Energy Crisis Is Reshaping Asian Economies

How the Gulf Energy Crisis Is Reshaping Asian Economies

Unwinding dependence on the Gulf corridor will take time, courage, and lots of money.

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E-International

Morgan d. bazilian

From Lab to Life: Cancer Cells from ‘On’ to ‘Off’

Consider biological evolution. It made us humans (and the entire amazing planet) what we are today.  It gave us oxygen to breathe, plants to eat and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomo Maital

NY school district pays $125K to settle suit over erased pro-Palestinian student art

NY school district pays $125K to settle suit over erased pro-Palestinian student art

Long Island district ordered to pay out student whose Palestinian-themed watermelon parking spot art in 2024 was painted over by high school over...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

US federal judge blocks Trump’s sanctions against anti-Israel UN envoy Albanese

US federal judge blocks Trump’s sanctions against anti-Israel UN envoy Albanese

Judge says measures against Francesca Albanese violate her 1st Amendment rights, after US imposed measures on her last year for ‘political and...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

From the Shadow of Death to the Light of Jerusalem

In 5727 (1967), the whole world seemed to change before our eyes. After the great miracle of Israel’s survival and the astonishing victory of the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eliezer Simcha Weiss

When Identity Replaces Citizenship

When Identity Replaces Citizenship

America is not Weimar Germany (younger generations – open Wikipedia to learn about Weimar Germany), and identity politics is not national socialism....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ethan Kushner

In the UK, Muslim votes are treated as a problem to be managed

In the UK, Muslim votes are treated as a problem to be managed

Britain’s politics is in turmoil. The Labour government is consumed by an open leadership crisis, with the Prime Minister facing demands from more...

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Al Jazeera

Naomi Green

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

On Ohad Naharin’s ZŌ, and what we are not yet saying I went to see Ohad Naharin’s ZŌ knowing something of his work, knowing something of gaga,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Cathy Lawi

Opinion – On the Question of Who Should Lead the Global South

Opinion – On the Question of Who Should Lead the Global South

The Global South’s greatest strength may not be in producing a potential hegemon, but building a world order shaped by coordination rather than...

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E-International

Camila abbondanzieri

Uranium Over Democracy: Why France's Expulsion from Niger Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Africa

Uranium Over Democracy: Why France’s Expulsion from Niger Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Africa Paris loves to play the knight in shining...

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New Eastern Outlook

Mohammed Ibn Faisal Al-Rashid

Obrodenie V4 by mohlo byť ukotvené na Ukrajine

Babiš, Fico a Tusk nazývajú Magyara svojím d’Artagnanom.

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SME.sk

Arslan suleymanov

(POGLED) Ob napovedanih odhodih radiologov: Pismo direktorju UKC Maribor

(POGLED) Ob napovedanih odhodih radiologov: Pismo direktorju UKC Maribor

Specialist radiolog piše direktorju UKC Maribor Vojku Flisu ob napovedanih odhodih radiologov.  V nadaljevanju:  Sam si navedel, da naj bi...

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Večer

Izr. prof. dr. tomaž t. Šeruga

Lebanon Accuses Iran of Violating Its Sovereignty in Formal UN Complaint

Lebanon Accuses Iran of Violating Its Sovereignty in Formal UN Complaint

For years, Lebanon has carried the crushing burden of regional rivalries, proxy wars, and foreign interference. Governments rose and fell, crises...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Junaid Qaiser

Insanity and Israel’s Electoral System

As election season heats up, familiar patterns are once again repeating themselves, and the Israeli public is becoming increasingly disillusioned and...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David raab

Demokrati môžu získať Senát, ale nebude to jednoduché

V republikánskych štátoch čelia obrovským prekážkam.

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SME.sk

Washington Post

Israel’s Rise Is Reshaping the Gulf Order

Israel’s Rise Is Reshaping the Gulf Order

Iran’s combat operation with the United States has exposed the limits of old security assumptions—and pushed Arab states closer to a regional...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saurav Dutt

Neo-Nazi who plotted to poison Jewish children gets 15-year sentence in NYC

Neo-Nazi who plotted to poison Jewish children gets 15-year sentence in NYC

Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, a leader of Maniac Murder Cult, to be imprisoned after pleading guilty to soliciting hate crimes and sending...

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The Times of Israel

Luke Tress

The Flag of Humanity

The Flag of Humanity

“If they ask me derisively, what is this flag? … a flag is something symbolic and national and with a flag one leads people anywhere one wants,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gavriel rosen

The Witness That Cannot Survive Cross-Examination, Part I

The public trial of LGGRTC before Lithuania can avoid the courtroom Lithuania’s Genocide and Resistance Research Center, LGGRTC, is expected to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eugene J. Levin

US Senator Rand Paul’s son accosts NY congressman with drunken antisemitic tirade

US Senator Rand Paul’s son accosts NY congressman with drunken antisemitic tirade

William Paul apologizes after berating Rep. Mike Lawler about ‘you Jews’; when told his comments were hateful, he had reportedly told lawmaker to...

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The Times of Israel

Jta

Board of Peace envoy: Hamas tightening its grip on Gaza, taxing those with nothing left

Board of Peace envoy: Hamas tightening its grip on Gaza, taxing those with nothing left

Mladenov says disarmament plan wouldn’t force the terror group to disappear as political movement, stresses Hamas would hand over weapons to...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Iranian FM threatens UAE, claims Tehran knew of Netanyahu’s visit to Abu Dhabi

Iranian FM threatens UAE, claims Tehran knew of Netanyahu’s visit to Abu Dhabi

PM’s former spokesman insists his account of wartime trip is true after the United Arab Emirates denies he visited * Rubio: China has ‘interest to...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

US thought Iran war would hasten Gaza’s demilitarization. Instead, Hamas is emboldened

US thought Iran war would hasten Gaza’s demilitarization. Instead, Hamas is emboldened

While Washington believed conflict would leave a weakened Tehran unable to aid its proxies, Hamas has dug in on refusing to disarm and like its patron...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Adam Was Not Created to Be an Interface

Adam Was Not Created to Be an Interface The first mistake is to think that Adam means “the first human being.” That is already too modern, too...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

UK cops plan ‘unprecedented’ operation for concurrent Nakba Day, ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies

UK cops plan ‘unprecedented’ operation for concurrent Nakba Day, ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rallies

British police say they will be using ‘the most assertive possible use of our powers’ to prevent unrest this Saturday, when at least 80,000 are...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Devotion 26 — Sh’ma and Responsibility

What We Hear Changes What We Owe “Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one.”— Deuteronomy 6:4 “To whom much is given, much will be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ed Gaskin

Yom Yerushalayim

Yom Yerushalayim is the newest holiday in the Jewish calendar. We celebrate the great victory of the Six Day War, when the entire city was back in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen