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Covenant, Interdependence, and the Common Good

A Theology of Social Action and Justice VIII Modern societies often imagine the person as an independent individual who enters social relationships by...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ed Gaskin

Japan’s migrant children: The hidden challenges of belonging

Japan’s migrant children: The hidden challenges of belonging

Migration is often discussed in terms of economics, demographics and border policy. Far less attention is paid to the children who arrive alongside...

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The Japan Times

Kay Ann A. Ramos

OPINION Trump's Korea gamble: Putting politics ahead of vital alliance

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The Korea Times

Shim Jae-Yun

Israel confirms striking Syrian air base, saying Turkey was planning to deploy forces

Israel confirms striking Syrian air base, saying Turkey was planning to deploy forces

Netanyahu’s office asserts Damascus was repeatedly warned ‘such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel’s security’; US envoy says working...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Trump’s Gaza Plan — The Only Game in Town

Trump’s Gaza Plan — The Only Game in Town

Hillary Clinton is probably not the person most people expected to make one of the strongest arguments for Donald Trump’s Gaza policy. Speaking with...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

William Keenan

The U.S.-Israel Alliance Can Fight Together

The Pentagon should help close three gaps exposed by the Iran war: campaign termination, regional missile defense, and industrial replenishment The...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ofer Israeli

Collective Responsibility

There is a story told in the Talmud about Rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi and the Prophet Eliyahu. Despite the fact that Eliyahu had been dead for centuries,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

US sanctions ICC president, senior trial lawyer on team seeking Netanyahu’s arrest

US sanctions ICC president, senior trial lawyer on team seeking Netanyahu’s arrest

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court and one of its top prosecutors as it continues a...

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The Times of Israel

Agencies

Omission Can Be Denial. Lithuania Said So.

Omission Can Be Denial. Lithuania Said So.

On May 9, 2024, a Jewish citizen of Vilnius went to Antakalnis Cemetery to stand at the grave of his grandfather Aron Fridman, who fought Nazi Germany...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Grant Arthur Gochin

Israel stands its ground

Israel is politely telling the US “no” to withdrawing from Gaza in stages while Hamas slowly disarms. Israel told Turkey in no uncertain terms...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yoseph Janowski

The Most Important Election Nobody Votes In

It is worth noting that primaries have become one of the defining features of American politics in recent years. Hardly a week passes without news of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karen Lehmann

“The Courage to Win” Parashat Ki Tetze 5786

The portion of Ki Tetze opens with an eerily familiar verse [Devarim 21:10]: “When (Ki) you go out to war against your enemies, and G-d delivers him...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ari Sacher

What Are They Thinking??

Internationally acclaimed actor Hugh Grant appeared on America’s Tonight Show with David Leno in July 1995 approximately 2 weeks after being...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Howard Rosen

The Church, the Jews, and the Struggle for Authority

The Church, the Jews, and the Struggle for Authority

This is the third essay in my series on contemporary antisemitism. This essay traces one of the historical roots of contemporary antisemitism. For...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Stephen Stern

Itamar Ben-Gvir: The More He Shocks, the More Entrenched He Becomes

Few Israeli politicians provoke as immediate a reaction as Itamar Ben-Gvir. For much of the Israeli left and international opinion, he embodies the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Eitan Chikli

What’s the Logic of a Deal?

Jared Kushner is in the neighbourhood in order to bring about an agreement between Israel and Hamas. He even met with Hamas.  I cannot help but ask...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Bob Avraham Yermus

Election committee approves voting booths in 159 old-age homes after controversy

Election committee approves voting booths in 159 old-age homes after controversy

Coalition’s move to do away with COVID-era provision placing ballot boxes in assisted living facilities had been expected to harm opposition parties

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Americans love giant trucks — but they’re killing us

Americans love giant trucks — but they’re killing us

The motor vehicles sold in the U.S. have been getting bigger and heavier, with large pickup trucks leading the way. Large pickups also lead the way in...

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The Japan Times

Justin Fox

The Human Story Behind Somaliland’s Historic Recognition

Hargeisa, Somaliland. The Call that Changed the Geopolitical Map: There are moments in the life of a people when history does not knock politely on...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Nassir Hussein Kahin

Can a Government Without Netanyahu Change American Minds on Israel?

Can a Government Without Netanyahu Change American Minds on Israel?

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

Leon Hadar

It’s 1982 All Over Again

Yehuda Katz (z”l) came home today. Forty-four years after the battle at Sultan Yacoub, Yehuda Katz’s remains were returned to Israel. I am...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Robin Bailey-Chen

The Mecca Defence Pact: A Watershed Moment in the Geopolitics of the Middle East

The Mecca Defence Pact: A Watershed Moment in the Geopolitics of the Middle East

The Mecca Defence Pact: A Watershed Moment in the Geopolitics of the Middle East A trilateral defence pact recently signed between Saudi Arabia,...

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New Eastern Outlook

Pranay Kumar Shome

The Dark Heritage of Holocaust Exterminators at Leisure

The Dark Heritage of Holocaust Exterminators at Leisure

*Originally published in 2022. Get E-International Relations delivered to your inbox, free of charge. As you sign up, consider becoming a paid...

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E-International

Martin Duffy

Bibi Cried Wolf? U.S. Trust in Israeli Intel Is Stooping to Irreparable Lows

Bibi Cried Wolf? U.S. Trust in Israeli Intel Is Stooping to Irreparable Lows

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

Zvi Bar'el

Water in the Wilderness: A Desert Preaches

Something happened in the Judean wilderness last Saturday that the record books say has never happened before. In the middle of August — the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michael Knighton

EDITORIAL: Heavy rain needn’t take lives. We must prepare better

The torrential rains that hit Chiba Prefecture on Aug. 13 caused heavy damage not only in outlying agricultural areas but also in urban locations,...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Two pro-Israel candidates will vie to succeed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Two pro-Israel candidates will vie to succeed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

Trump ally Byron Donalds receives GOP nomination as David Jolly wins Democratic primary, with the key difference between them on Israel-related issues...

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The Times of Israel

Sharon Udasin

Jewish in America, Lately

(Originally written on 9/2/2024) I grew up as a typical millennial byproduct of the 1990s in a family of mixed religious backgrounds; though I have...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Benjamin Bogart

Palestinian Rejectionism Is the Harder Problem

Palestinian Rejectionism Is the Harder Problem

If poverty, unemployment and restricted movement were the principal causes of Palestinian violence, why have repeated periods of greater economic...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Saurav Dutt

Damage in Chiba Heavy Rains: Danger of Linear Precipitation Bands Vividly Clear

14:59 JST, August 16, 2026 Torrential rains beyond imagination caused widespread flooding, and some people even lost their lives in submerged cars....

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The Japan News

Editorial

The Other Israeli Startups

The Other Israeli Startups

In 1914, my grandfather, Henoch Tepper, was struggling. Having arrived from Latvia in 1901, he was thirty years old and married with three children....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Hugh Taylor

Syria arrests Assad-era officer who fled prison sentence in Austria

Syria arrests Assad-era officer who fled prison sentence in Austria

Musab Abu Rukbah returned home after Vienna court sentenced him to 8 years in jail for torture, sexual assault of Assad critics while serving as head...

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The Times of Israel

Feras Dalatey

Anniversary of War’s End: Efforts to Maintain Peace Must Be Preserved

15:00 JST, August 16, 2026 The National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead was held at the Nippon Budokan hall in Tokyo on Saturday to mark the...

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The Japan News

Editorial

هوس التميّز

هوس البشر بالتميّز بين أقرانهم غريزة إنسانية طبيعية، حتى وإن حاولنا إنكارها أو...

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العين الإخبارية

د. علي محمد العامري

AG says government must up enforcement against draft evaders, Haredim comprise over 80%

AG says government must up enforcement against draft evaders, Haredim comprise over 80%

At the same time, Gali Baharav-Miara notes less than 10% of indictments this year targeted ultra-Orthodox evaders; Haredi faction leader: She has no...

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The Times of Israel

Sam Sokol

Chinese AI video is coming for more than Hollywood

Chinese AI video is coming for more than Hollywood

New large language models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Yet the clearest...

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The Japan Times

Catherine Thorbecke

Jewish Museum Frankfurt: Over 800 Years of Jewish History, Memory, and Renewal

At the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, more than 800 years of Jewish history and culture come to life. Founded as the first municipal Jewish Museum in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jay Abramson

Keď „apkami“ nahradíme človeka

Len prednedávnom sa v médiách objavili informácie o rušení množstva pobočiek Slovenskej pošty, najmä na vidieku a v malých mestách.

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Pravda.sk

Miroslav Tížik

Trump’s North Korea pivot is a warning for Japan

Trump’s North Korea pivot is a warning for Japan

U.S. President Donald Trump has long touted his personal relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Now that relationship is beginning to...

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The Japan Times

Simon Hutagalung

PM, Kushner clashed over Israel’s insistence on continuing strikes against Oct. 7 terrorists

PM, Kushner clashed over Israel’s insistence on continuing strikes against Oct. 7 terrorists

After local indictment, man who allegedly attacked congregant at NYC synagogue hit with federal hate crime charges * Israel reportedly withdraws...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

ZOA’s Microscope on AIPAC

ZOA’s Microscope on AIPAC

Mort Klein, president of ZOA, recently issued a diatribe against AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) that ended with a quote from British...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alan Newman

IDF says it hit meeting of elite Hamas commanders near Gaza port; six reported dead

IDF says it hit meeting of elite Hamas commanders near Gaza port; six reported dead

Military says targets included Nukhba Force company commander, three platoon commanders and several other terror operatives; Hamas-run civil defense...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Middle East Deadlock: How Washington’s Reckless Policies Buried Its Own Hegemony

Middle East Deadlock: How Washington’s Reckless Policies Buried Its Own Hegemony Washington’s policy in the Middle East, particularly in light of...

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New Eastern Outlook

Muhammad Hamid Ad-Din

VOX POPULI: It took a disaster to show us the power of print through a manga

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Israel’s “PR Problem” Is Not a PR Problem

Israel’s “PR Problem” Is Not a PR Problem

“Israel is losing the PR war” has become a familiar complaint, one often accompanied by claims that Israel’s public relations are terrible, that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Karen Klein

Featured Post

Featured Post

Since I published a reflection about why I chose not to attend the premiere of The Darkest Light, the film about my father, I have received countless...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Neshama Carlebach

Huckabee defends calling violent settlers ‘terrorists’: They’re ‘pouring gas on a fire’

Huckabee defends calling violent settlers ‘terrorists’: They’re ‘pouring gas on a fire’

US ambassador to Israel insists Netanyahu and US envoy Jared Kushner didn’t clash at meeting over Gaza proposal, says Israel ‘never backed away’...

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The Times of Israel

Nava Freiberg

If It Were Up to Huckabee, Israeli Settlers Would Set the West Bank Ablaze

If It Were Up to Huckabee, Israeli Settlers Would Set the West Bank Ablaze

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

Nadav Tamir

PM, Kushner clashed over continued Israeli strikes on Oct. 7 terrorists — officials

PM, Kushner clashed over continued Israeli strikes on Oct. 7 terrorists — officials

Officials tell ToI that Trump aide also took issue with Netanyahu’s refusal to let police recruits leave Gaza for training, as Board of Peace needs...

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The Times of Israel

Jacob Magid

Nietzsche Was Wrong About One Thing

Nietzsche Was Wrong About One Thing

What doesn't kill you still hurts, but there are ways to get stronger.

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Psychology Today

Sherry Hamby Ph.d