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Marcel Hollender In Concert

Marcel Hollender In Concert

I remember being 20 years old, flipping through TV channels and always coming across Shalom Brasil. The program used to showcase events from the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Silas Anastacio

Cena benzínu ako horúci zemiak, ktorý si koalícia a opozícia prehadzujú. Zasiahne Trump

IGOR DANIŠ: Keď sa aj vojna skončí prímerím o desať dní, Teherán bude mať vždy v rukáve žolíka v podobe bombardovania tankerov a rafinérií.

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Pravda.sk

Igor Daniš

Iran, Trump, and the Time Trap

Iran, Trump, and the Time Trap

In the war that Donald Trump is waging against the Iranian mullahs, the military issue is not the only one that matters. The real question may be...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gilles Touboul

Bankomaty vybuchujú naozaj efektívne

IRIS KOPCSAYOVÁ: Ak pôjdete okolo bankomatu a vybuchne, nečudujte sa. Slovensko práve čelí vlne výbuchov bankomatov, pravdepodobne ich má na...

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Pravda.sk

Iris Kopcsayová

Senegal lawmakers move to tighten anti-LGBTQ legislation amid domestic support and global concern

Senegal’s parliament has approved a controversial bill that significantly strengthens the country’s already strict laws against same-sex...

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Blitz

M A Hossain

Seeking refuge from sirens and strikes, Israelis migrate south to quiet Mitzpe Ramon

Seeking refuge from sirens and strikes, Israelis migrate south to quiet Mitzpe Ramon

Located in the middle of the vast Negev Desert, the isolated hamlet on the Ramon Crater has seen the arrival of thousands since the joint US-Israeli...

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The Times of Israel

Jessica Steinberg

Katz threatens to take territory in Lebanon if attacks persist; evacuation warnings expand

Katz threatens to take territory in Lebanon if attacks persist; evacuation warnings expand

Demanding end to Hezbollah’s rocket and drone fire, defense minister says army readying to expand operations; Lebanese told to leave homes south of...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Two Reasons Why I Don’t Support This War

Many people I speak to who support the war support it for one of two reasons: They believe it is necessary to stop Iran from having nuclear weapons...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shayna Abramson

Government officials mark repopulation of Homesh settlement in West Bank

Government officials mark repopulation of Homesh settlement in West Bank

More than 20 years after disengagement, Settlements Minister Orit Strock calls return of residents atonement for ‘sins’ of 2005, as Likud MK Yuli...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

The Only Identity That Matters

We live in an age obsessed with identity. Which group you belong to, which labels you carry, which side you are on. Identity has become a political...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mark Frankel

India debunks AI Deepfake claiming Army Chief shared Iranian ship intelligence with Israel

India has moved swiftly to counter a viral artificial intelligence-generated video falsely depicting its army chief claiming that New Delhi shared...

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Blitz

Sonjib Chandra Das

If Palestinian lives matter, violence in Gaza cannot be normalized

If Palestinian lives matter, violence in Gaza cannot be normalized

Indonesian diplomat Aloysius Selwas Taborat recently responded to our article titled “Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitizing genocide in...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Netherlands fines Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler’s Shell firm €25.8m over Congo mining bribery case

The Dutch government has concluded a lengthy corruption investigation involving a company linked to Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, imposing a...

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Blitz

Tajul Islam

Hachodesh: Receiving the Kiss We Never Lost

Hachodesh: Receiving the Kiss We Never Lost

The first Rashi in the Torah notes that the Torah should have started with the commandment of “Hachodesh Hazeh Lachem.” The Mitzvah of renewing...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Lemmer

Miezyslaw Weinberg: The Circle of the Destiny

Tribute to the outstanding composer on the 30th anniversary of his passing Part I can be read here.  Soviet years  and Shostakovich Surviving alone,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Inna Rogatchi

Man seriously wounded in Ramat Gan stabbing; police suspect terror motive

Man seriously wounded in Ramat Gan stabbing; police suspect terror motive

Cops arrest alleged assailant, a 20-year-old Arab Israeli, shortly after attack; victim, Shas-linked head of Ramat Gan’s religious council, receives...

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The Times of Israel

Charlie Summers

Occupy Iran’s Gulf Shoreline

The way to protect the Persian Gulf is clear: Take the entire Iranian shoreline along the Persian Gulf. And annex it. Rightly annex it. It is a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ira Straus

A Message for Our Time from Parshiyot Vayakhel–Pekudei and HaChodesh

A Message for Our Time from Parshiyot Vayakhel–Pekudei and HaChodesh

This Shabbat we read the double portion of Vayakhel–Pekudei as part of the weekly Torah cycle. Because it is also the eve of the month of Nisan, we...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Harbater

Hezbollah’s escalation is pushing Lebanon toward humanitarian disaster and state collapse

Lebanon today stands on the edge of another devastating national collapse. Years of political paralysis, economic breakdown, and social fragmentation...

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Blitz

Suraiyya Aziz

A time for war – and a time to embrace

We are living in historic times! Who among us can have failed last week to recognise the stark truth of Ramban’s famous saying ma’aseh avot siman...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Chaim Ingram

Jerusalem mix

What strikes me lately is that we’ve had wars — plural. The word moves too easily into conversation now, as if it were a season or weekend plans....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Washington’s buck-passing strategy and the Gulf’s dilemma in the Iran conflict

Tensions in the Middle East have once again exposed a familiar pattern in international politics: great powers attempting to shift the burden of...

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Blitz

Damsana Ranadhiran

British Publishing and the New Apartheid

There are two internationally important events each year in the publishing calendar: the Frankfurt Book Fair in the autumn and the London Book Fair in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Games

(POGLED) Kolumna Vesne V. Godina: Sendvič, ki je zasenčil vojno. Ali kako smo globalno krizo skrčili na pritožbo

(POGLED) Kolumna Vesne V. Godina: Sendvič, ki je zasenčil vojno. Ali kako smo globalno krizo skrčili na pritožbo

V nadaljevanju preberite: - Velika vojna, majhna tema: Ameriški napad na Iran, širjenje konflikta na Bližnjem vzhodu in razkrajanje mednarodnega...

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Večer

Vesna V. Godina

The Riddle in the Middle

The Riddle in the Middle

We are on our way to complete the Book of Exodus with the double parasha of Va’yakhel-P’kudei describing the realization of the plans laid out...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Robert Lichtman

The Curious Incident of the Brain in Wartime

Sirens outside, neurological theatre inside, and the inconvenient discovery that one’s own nervous system has a flair for drama Observations from a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Talyah Ginsberg

We are not alone

Sometimes it appears that the world has gone crazy. In recent years, people who otherwise appear to be sensible and compassionate ignore, excuse,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Saks

Like it or not BBC, Iran’s rogue regime is the world’s problem

I find it fascinating that the BBC insists on referring at every opportunity to the fight against the brutal, murderous, terror-sponsoring,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jan Shure

Creating impunity through diplomatic statements

Creating impunity through diplomatic statements

Settler violence in the occupied West Bank is unacceptable, the EU and the UK stated yesterday. “Impunity for such acts risks provoking further...

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Middle East Monitor

Ramona Wadi

When They Target Chabad, Jews Know Exactly What to Do

When They Target Chabad, Jews Know Exactly What to Do

When commentators claim that Chabad is somehow orchestrating wars or dragging the United States into conflict, they are not offering serious analysis....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Arnie Herz

In Country That Sanctifies Death, Missing Pilot's Wife Is Breath of Fresh Air

In Country That Sanctifies Death, Missing Pilot's Wife Is Breath of Fresh Air

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

Sebastian Ben-Daniel

With His Bare Hands

When Bechor Chai Swid heard, on the morning of October seventh, that his friends were being slaughtered, he drove toward them immediately. It didn’t...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saguy green

A Modern ‘Banality of Evil’: UN Calls Russia’s Deportation of Ukrainian Kids a Crime

A Modern ‘Banality of Evil’: UN Calls Russia’s Deportation of Ukrainian Kids a Crime

Adolf Eichmann: “I was doing my duty… I not only obeyed orders — I obeyed the law.” That is how Adolf Eichmann explained his actions during...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alexander lutsenko

Game 4: Israel vs. The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Who is Team Netherlands? Similar to Israel, Team Netherlands draws heavily from players outside the European Netherlands— primarily from Curaçao...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Wesley seidner

V Varšavi prepovedali prodajo alkohola v nočnem času

V Varšavi prepovedali prodajo alkohola v nočnem času

Oblasti v Varšavi so danes potrdile prepoved prodaje alkohola med 22. in 6. uro. Gre za zadnjo v nizu tovrstnih omejitev v mestih na Poljskem, ki se...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Religious Freedom Crisis in Syria

Religious Freedom Crisis in Syria

Syria is passing through a complex political phase after years of war and conflict. However, recent international reports indicate that the issue of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Rami al dabbas

Sekretariat Sveta za nacionalno varnost obravnaval posnetke

Sekretariat Sveta za nacionalno varnost obravnaval posnetke

Operativna skupina sekretariata Sveta za nacionalno varnost je dopoldne obravnavala razmere po razkritju domnevnih prisluškovanj in drugih posnetkov...

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Dnevnik

Sta

Between Memory and Life: The Question Facing Kfar Aza

Sometimes, when I guide visitors through the massacre sites in the Gaza Envelope, people arrive there for the very first time. They come because they...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Adi Rabinowitz Bedein

Cynická obluda: Zodpovedná vláda si uvedomuje vlastné priority

Lepšia komplikovanejšia zlodejina ako žiadna zlodejina.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

The war on Iran started with missiles, but oil price can end it

The war on Iran started with missiles, but oil price can end it

The war began with airstrikes and missiles. But the turning point may come from the economy. In this fight, Iran is trying to win by raising the cost,...

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Middle East Monitor

Tamer Ajrami

Milk, Money, and the Many Forms of Giving

In the announcements of eJewishPhilanthropy, the section titled “Major Gifts” usually reads like a ledger of generosity measured in dollars: a...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Daphne Lazar Price

Shadows of deception: False-flag risks in the Israel–Iran Conflict

Shadows of deception: False-flag risks in the Israel–Iran Conflict

The concept of a false flag operation, though often dismissed as the stuff of thrillers, is a recognised tactic in security studies and international...

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Middle East Monitor

Greg Pence

When the Swastika Returns Without Shame

When the Swastika Returns Without Shame

How Come They Are Not Ashamed To Hate Publicly? A man recently confronted another passenger on a cruise ship after noticing large swastika tattoos...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tsahi shemesh

Borrowed Power

Trump, Netanyahu, and the Fantasy of Exemption Donald Trump’s pressure on Isaac Herzog to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu is not merely crude. It is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Today’s Villain, Tomorrow’s Statesman: The Changing Faces of Israel’s Leaders

Today’s Villain, Tomorrow’s Statesman: The Changing Faces of Israel’s Leaders

Political reputations are rarely permanent. In Israel especially, they tend to move in cycles — from admiration to rejection, from rejection to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gil Samsonov

Three Types of Community (Vayakhel-Pekudei)

Three Types of Community (Vayakhel-Pekudei)

A long drama had taken place. Moses had led the people from slavery to the beginning of the road to freedom. The people themselves had witnessed God...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Sacks

The Pilecki Institute Inaugurates its New York City Branch

This coming weekend, the Pilecki Institute will officially launch its activities in Manhattan’s financial district at 92 Greenwich Street,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Andrzej Pawluszek

Outcry as Churchill and others set to be removed from UK banknotes

Outcry as Churchill and others set to be removed from UK banknotes

Bank of England says new bills will feature local wildlife instead of historical figures; critics scoff that man who led UK to victory in WWII will be...

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The Times of Israel

Afp

Yentl – A Review

Evelyn Krape above Amy Hack (c) Manuel Harlan; used with permission from Manuel Harlan. Based on the original short story by Isaac Bashevis...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan baz

Iran’s new supreme leader purportedly issues defiant first statement, without appearing

Iran’s new supreme leader purportedly issues defiant first statement, without appearing

In message read out on state TV, Mojtaba Khamenei ostensibly vows to ‘avenge the blood’ of Iranians killed in US and Israeli strikes, continue...

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The Times of Israel

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