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78% of Jewish Israelis support continuing Iran war — poll

78% of Jewish Israelis support continuing Iran war — poll

Most Jewish citizens say PM’s choice to launch war was mainly security-related while most Arabs say it was political, but majorities of both say...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Back to the Aspiration Business

A six-year-old child recently described the Seder’s four children like this. “There’s one who’s good. One who’s naughty. And two more who...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

William Hamilton

Jewish, Proud, and Unapologetic

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Gary Epstein

Scathing UN report demands Syria investigate abuses during deadly clashes with Druze

Scathing UN report demands Syria investigate abuses during deadly clashes with Druze

Investigators find ‘no indication’ that Damascus actually probed human rights violations committed by forces, detail ‘widespread looting,...

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The Times of Israel

Kareem Chehayeb

Dazed and Confused

Two years after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023, the ceasefire and the return of all living Israeli hostages from Gaza, enabled us to...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Lehrer

Rim uvaja prepoved kajenja na plažah

Rim uvaja prepoved kajenja na plažah

Mesto Rim bo z aprilom uvedlo popolno prepoved kajenja na plažah blizu italijanske prestolnice. Cilj ukrepov je po besedah mestnih predstavnikov...

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Dnevnik

Sta

2 Ways to Increase Your Capacity for Joy

2 Ways to Increase Your Capacity for Joy

You may need to retrain your nervous system to tolerate joy.

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Psychology Today

Mark Travers Ph.d

187 years after deadly Iran pogrom, Mashhad crypto-Jews are focus of Jerusalem exhibit

187 years after deadly Iran pogrom, Mashhad crypto-Jews are focus of Jerusalem exhibit

Now at Israel’s National Library, display shows how the Jewish community of Iranian city outwardly acted as Muslims for over a century after a...

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The Times of Israel

Zev Stub

Auguries of failure: Israel invades Lebanon, yet again

Auguries of failure: Israel invades Lebanon, yet again

When will Israel realise that invading Lebanon with paralytic compulsion can never be the solution to its security ills?  Having destroyed Gaza with...

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Middle East Monitor

Dr Binoy Kampmark

The Jefferson Hack to Control Anger

The Jefferson Hack to Control Anger

What the Founding Fathers can teach us about emotional regulation.

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Psychology Today

Jeffrey S. Nevid

Katz warns strikes on Iran to intensify as regime keeps up missile fire at Israeli civilian areas

Katz warns strikes on Iran to intensify as regime keeps up missile fire at Israeli civilian areas

IDF bombs Iran’s key naval arms production site, missile factories; Pentagon said to weigh deploying another 10,000 ground troops; Iran threatens...

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The Times of Israel

Emanuel Fabian

Slovenija in Turčija podpisali sporazum o socialni varnosti

Slovenija in Turčija podpisali sporazum o socialni varnosti

Minister za delo, družino, socialne zadeve in enake možnosti Luka Mesec ter turški minister za delo in socialno varnost H. E. Vedat Isikhan sta...

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Dnevnik

Sta

UN Rights Council set to appoint expert who called Hamas a ‘resistance movement’

UN Rights Council set to appoint expert who called Hamas a ‘resistance movement’

Palestinian academic Zeina Jallad, who has called for expelling Israel from international organizations, poised for special rapporteur post, against...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Text of Board of Peace Gaza plan calls for Hamas to disarm over period of eight months

Text of Board of Peace Gaza plan calls for Hamas to disarm over period of eight months

Plan calls for terror group to also agree to destruction of its tunnels; IDF would only fully withdraw upon ‘verification that Gaza is free of...

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The Times of Israel

Reuters

Can Caffeine Calm Your ADHD Brain?

Can Caffeine Calm Your ADHD Brain?

ADHD may be an issue of insufficient activity in the prefrontal cortex.

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Psychology Today

Lindsay Weisner Psy.d

Mass cancellations as Arkia changes course, says long-haul flights to depart from Israel, not Jordan

Mass cancellations as Arkia changes course, says long-haul flights to depart from Israel, not Jordan

After saying flights will take off from Jordan and Egypt, Arkia updates that flights to New York, Bangkok and Hanoi will revert to Israel, where...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Tax Season Is the Stress Test Every Israeli SMB Fails

Tax Season Is the Stress Test Every Israeli SMB Fails

How small businesses are using automation to survive April’s filing chaos Every year, the same scene plays out in thousands of Israeli offices:...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Achiya cohen

What Thunders Behind AI’s Words

What Thunders Behind AI’s Words

Emerson's warning about character now applies to machines.

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Psychology Today

John Nosta

Prudent See Danger: Dennis Coyle’s 421 Days in Taliban Hands Ends in Freedom

Prudent See Danger: Dennis Coyle’s 421 Days in Taliban Hands Ends in Freedom

Dennis Coyle stepped off the plane in Texas this week after 421 days in Taliban captivity. The 64-year-old Christian linguist from Pueblo, Colorado,...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yosef Eitan

Violence and the Sacred (Tzav, Covenant & Conversation)

Violence and the Sacred (Tzav, Covenant & Conversation)

Why sacrifices? To be sure, they have not been part of the life of Judaism since the destruction of the Second Temple, almost two thousand years ago....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jonathan Sacks

BREAKING: YPF case: U.S. court reverses US$16 billion sentence against Argentina

BREAKING: YPF case: U.S. court reverses US$16 billion sentence against Argentina

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York overturned a lower court’s ruling in the prolonged trial over the expropriation of the...

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Buenos Aires Herald

Facundo Iglesia

Why Bloomscrolling Could Be Good for You

Why Bloomscrolling Could Be Good for You

The science of scrolling toward awe, kindness, and all things beautiful.

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Psychology Today

Ludmila N. Praslova

How a Huggy Dog Is Helping Children With Wartime Trauma

How a Huggy Dog Is Helping Children With Wartime Trauma

An Israeli psychologist reports on his huggy-dog intervention.

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Psychology Today

Karyl McBride Ph.d

Shabbat Hagadol

This year, Shabbat Hagadol has special significance. It falls on the Tenth of Nissan, just as it did in Egypt. Pesach falls on the fifteenth, which is...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

Power Without Command: The Iran War and the Limits of American Primacy

Power Without Command: The Iran War and the Limits of American Primacy

Power Without Command: The Iran War and the Limits of American Primacy For decades, American dominance rested on a simple reality: when Washington...

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New Eastern Outlook

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Parashat Tzav

Parashat Tzav

When the Fire No Longer Depends on You The fire was already there — before Aharon, before the gesture, before the song. It burned. Not because...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Yosef B. Moran

Cynická obluda: Paradox SFZ

Niežeby nebolo čím zavolať.

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SME.sk

Cynická Obluda

Advocacy Calls – Hadassah Answers

In August, 2011, Marcie Natan, then Hadassah’s national president, called upon Ellen Hershkin (then a future National President) and me to head up...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Debby Mazon

What We Do When We Open the Door?

A Reflection for Shabbat Hagadol: There is a moment at every Passover seder that no one fully rehearses. The meal is winding down. The children are...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven C. Wernick

(POGLED) Vlada narodne enotnosti: Bolje Janša na strehi kot Golob v roki

(POGLED) Vlada narodne enotnosti: Bolje Janša na strehi kot Golob v roki

V nadaljevanju preberite: - Robert Golob z idejo “široke koalicije” nagovarja sodelovanje, a hkrati odpira prostor za zmanjšanje odgovornosti...

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Večer

Marko Crnkovič

Passover and the Angel of Death

The climax of the Passover story and of the ten plagues is the visit of the Mashchit (the destroyer) to the Egyptian houses to slay their first born....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fred Naider

How Algeria’s ‘Technical’ Autocracy is Fueled by European Desperation

In the diplomatic circles of the Mediterranean, there is a polite fiction that energy security and democratic values are parallel tracks that never...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Amine Ayoub

The Israelites’ Joy in Creating the Mishkan, God’s Earthly Abode

The Israelites’ Joy in Creating the Mishkan, God’s Earthly Abode

This is Part One of a two-part series on creating and sustaining a mishkan and bringing the biblical experience into the present day. When it came...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Michele Braun

The Realism of Peace: 47 Years Since the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

The Realism of Peace: 47 Years Since the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty

On the 47th anniversary of the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, it is easy to forget how much the gamble taken by Menachem Begin...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shaike Komornik

Making Seder out of Chaos

Making Seder out of Chaos

The Mossad of Festivals I may have said it before, but I’m not a fan of a lot of aspects of Orthodox Judaism. It’s a long story with quite a lot...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ella Ben Emanuel

Don't Let AI Write the Story of Your Life

Don't Let AI Write the Story of Your Life

Your narrative is too precious to hand over to a machine.

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Psychology Today

Faisal Hoque

Treasure Trove: From Herzl to Moses to … who?

Treasure Trove: From Herzl to Moses to … who?

There are many similarities between Moses and Herzl. Each grew up outside the mainstream Jewish establishment: Moses in Pharaoh’s home and Herzl in...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

David Matlow

Does Humanity Need an IRL Project Hail Mary?

Does Humanity Need an IRL Project Hail Mary?

Personal Perspective: A blockbuster movie reveals the mission humanity needs.

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Psychology Today

Mike Brooks Ph.d

Chokepoints of Power: Why the World Still Depends on Narrow Seas

Chokepoints of Power: Why the World Still Depends on Narrow Seas

In an age defined by digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and the promise of a borderless global economy, it is easy to assume that...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mohamed abdi idiris

Between Uvda and Washington

This past week, I was completing Shvil Yisrael, the Israel National Trail. Somewhere along a stark, sun-bleached stretch in the south, the roar of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Aaron Seitler

Janša s starejšima oboževalkama, Logar z violončelom, Resnica na konju

Janša s starejšima oboževalkama, Logar z violončelom, Resnica na konju

Štirinajst političnih strank, ki so kandidirale na letošnjih državnozborskih volitvah, se je odzvalo pozivu Muzeja novejše zgodovine Celje in...

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Dnevnik

Mojca Marot

Od petka do petka: mamljive salame, nenamerna ugrabitev in drama pred vrtcem

Od petka do petka: mamljive salame, nenamerna ugrabitev in drama pred vrtcem

V tokratnem pregledu neobičajnih novic s področja črne kronike poročamo o tatovih, med katerimi sta se dva odpravila na pohod celo z otrokom, o...

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Dnevnik

Tamara Krivec

Meja med pravico in zlorabo volitev

Meja med pravico in zlorabo volitev

Izpodbijanje volilnih rezultatov je pravica. A ta pravica ima mejo – začne in konča se pri dokazih. Vse, kar ostane brez njih, ni več pravni...

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Dnevnik

Pisma Bralcev

Zoran Zupančič: Žirija ne sme iti na nož

Zoran Zupančič: Žirija ne sme iti na nož

Nekdanji selektor ženske vrste v smučarskih skokih Zoran Zupančič je po koncu sezone 2024, v kateri je Nika Prevc osvojila prvi veliki globus,...

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Dnevnik

Gte

Narrative Play and Resilience in Early Female Development

Narrative Play and Resilience in Early Female Development

Narrative play and archetypes support resilience in girls’ development

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Psychology Today

Peter Andrew Danzig Lcsw

Building Forward: Reframing the American Political Story

In my most recent essay on these pages, I defined the existing threats being generated in this nation against Jews, leading to the possible end of...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steven Windmueller

Oreo: The Most Jewish Cookie That Isn’t Jewish

Oreo: The Most Jewish Cookie That Isn’t Jewish

Oreo vs Hydrox — Is Oreo the Chosen Cookie? There is no mention of Oreos in the Torah. No footnote in the Talmud. No obscure medieval rabbinic...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Brad Goverman

(FOTO) Orkanski veter razdejal Gorenjsko in ponekod zaprl šole

(FOTO) Orkanski veter razdejal Gorenjsko in ponekod zaprl šole

Močan veter je na Gorenjskem precej škode povzročil v občinah Preddvor, Cerklje na Gorenjskem, Tržič, Cerkno in Železniki ter Mestni občini...

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Dnevnik

Tina Jereb

The next maritime hot zone: Why the Red Sea can’t escape the Iran crisis

The next maritime hot zone: Why the Red Sea can’t escape the Iran crisis

Rising tension around Iran is elevating the Red Sea from a secondary theater to a critical axis of global trade

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RT.com

Samir Bhattacharya

What the Meta and YouTube Lawsuits Say About Kids and Social

What the Meta and YouTube Lawsuits Say About Kids and Social

Here are some things we can do to help children that big tech will not.

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Psychology Today

Doreen Dodgen-Magee