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Why We Submit, Rebel, or Awaken

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Psychology Today

Moshe Ratson Mba

The Hidden Curriculum of Fear

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

When a Nation Breaks: Trauma, Rupture, and the Threshold of Renewal 4th in series

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Ed Gaskin

Ascending in Holiness: A Concluding Reflection for Chanukah

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Frederick L. Klein

Recognizing a Palestinian state at this time is the coward’s way out

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Fred Maroun

Terrorism and a twist of fate

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Marjorie Davis

Trump’s Venezuela Delay: Ukraine Comes First

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Strength in Unity

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

George Theodoridis

Antisemitism as a Weapon: Candace Owens and the Power of the Unfalsifiable

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Tim Orr

Freedom of religion in Sydney

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Lauren Joshua

Israel Is Becoming a Role Model to the Fascist Madmen of the World

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Haaretz

Odeh Bisharat

October 8th Jews and the End of the Exile Mindset

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Shlomi Bennett

Why Do the Wicked Prosper While the Righteous Suffer? What the Psalms Say

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Mikhail Salita

Indicted ex-Netanyahu aide says PM backed plan to utilize intel he later leaked to Bild

Revelation by Feldstein contradicts PM claim that he wasn’t aware of affair; ex-spokesman says PM’s chief of staff told him he could quash probe...

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The Times of Israel

Jeremy Sharon

Slain journalist Daniel Pearl’s father charts recent ‘Zionophobia’ rise in new book

In ‘Coexistence and Other Fighting Words,’ Judea Pearl tracks post-Oct. 7 denial of Jewish self-determination, defending Israel on multiple fronts,...

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The Times of Israel

Rich Tenorio

Trump: Further releasing Epstein files risks harming reputations of those who ‘innocently met’ him

Settlers filmed hurling stones at left-wing Israeli activist in West Bank * Palestinian extremists said to torch Jenin church’s Christmas tree,...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Netanyahu uses summit of Israel, Greece, Cyprus leaders to send warning to Turkey

Participants at trilateral Jerusalem summit agree to boost cooperation in eastern Mediterranean; PM says the three countries can defend against...

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The Times of Israel

Lazar Berman

‘They control the banks’: Pennsylvania principal to be fired over antisemitic voicemail

Administration moves to oust Philip Leddy, who previously served as district’s DEI chair, after recording surfaces of him mocking Jewish parent in...

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The Times of Israel

Grace Gilson

China, rare earths and ‘weaponized interdependence’

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The Japan Times

Hotaka Machida

China’s recklessness risks a security crisis with Japan

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The Japan Times

Michael Macarthur Bosack

A brief history of enlightened oppression

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The Japan Times

Clive Crook

VOX POPULI: Niigata nuclear plant’s return an ugly paradox for big city residents

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Why No Contact Feels Worse Than Staying With a Toxic Person

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Psychology Today

Stephanie A. Sarkis Ph.d

Land, Climate, and Conflict: Unravelling the Nexus in Sudan, Syria, and Morocco

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, contributing to conflict only where weak land tenure governance amplifies drought-induced social and...

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E-International

Isabel Mackellar

Former spy Jonathan Pollard: Israel sent a man to convince me to kill myself

Former spy Jonathan Pollard: Israel sent a man to convince me to kill myself

Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday that he was told years ago by someone “sent by the Israeli government”...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Israel said to warn US that Iran could use missile launch exercise as cover to strike

Israel said to warn US that Iran could use missile launch exercise as cover to strike

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events as they unfold. Footage from the Palestinian village of Mukhmas, north of Jerusalem in the West...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Bondi gunmen threw bombs that didn’t go off, condemned ‘Zionists’ before attack — police

Bondi gunmen threw bombs that didn’t go off, condemned ‘Zionists’ before attack — police

The father and son accused of killing 15 people in a terror attack targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach last week trained with...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

In Gaza and Ukraine, Trump is again leaning on Jared Kushner for difficult diplomacy

In Gaza and Ukraine, Trump is again leaning on Jared Kushner for difficult diplomacy

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the dawn rose on US President Donald Trump’s second term, one key figure from his first administration stood back, content to...

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The Times of Israel

Matthew Lee

Netanyahu Incapacitated? It's Israel's Attorney General Who Has Been Locked Out

It's two years since the Supreme Court postponed implementation – until after the next election – of a law to prevent Benjamin Netanyahu from being...

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Haaretz

Chen Maanit

Philosopher of pride

Philosopher of pride

Listen to this essay In 1705, the Anglo-Dutch physician and philosopher Bernard Mandeville anonymously published a poem called The Grumbling Hive:...

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Aeon

Andrea Branchi

Israel warns US that Iran may use missile launch drill as cover to strike – report

Israel warns US that Iran may use missile launch drill as cover to strike – report

Israel has reportedly warned the Trump administration that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps may be using an ongoing military exercise...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

‘Won’t give up’: Hostages Square candle-lighting held to urge release of Ran Gvili

‘Won’t give up’: Hostages Square candle-lighting held to urge release of Ran Gvili

The family of slain hostage Master Sgt. Ran Gvili was joined by supporters at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square on Sunday night for the last night of...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Vance hits out at ‘purity tests,’ refraining from denouncing antisemitism that has roiled GOP

Vance hits out at ‘purity tests,’ refraining from denouncing antisemitism that has roiled GOP

US Vice President JD Vance claimed in an interview on Sunday that almost no Americans are antisemitic and that concerns about antisemitic voices...

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The Times of Israel

Jonathan J. Cooper

Genocide by other means: Palestinian babies murdered by exposure, not bombs

Genocide by other means: Palestinian babies murdered by exposure, not bombs

The bombs may have eased, but Palestinian children are still dying. This time, not by Israeli airstrikes, but from cold, and collapsing damaged...

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Middle East Monitor

Jamal Kanj

The perils of a multisphere world

The strategic outlook for 2026 offers little respite from volatility, as zones of stability contract and contested regions expand — from the Arctic...

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The Japan Times

Henry Wilkinson

3 arrested in protest at PM’s office as backers of state Oct. 7 probe vow ‘week of rage’

3 arrested in protest at PM’s office as backers of state Oct. 7 probe vow ‘week of rage’

Three people were detained on Monday after a small group of activists tried to block the entrance to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem while...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Daily Briefing Dec. 22: Day 808 – Eyeing Iran, Israel rattles sabers ahead of PM’s trip to US

Daily Briefing Dec. 22: Day 808 – Eyeing Iran, Israel rattles sabers ahead of PM’s trip to US

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world....

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The Times of Israel

Amanda Borschel-Dan

For the Estranged, a Loaded Question Stirs Up Loss and Shame

For the Estranged, a Loaded Question Stirs Up Loss and Shame

“What are you doing for the holidays?”—a harmless question that cuts deep.

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Psychology Today

Fern Schumer Chapman

Why Some People Sound Calm When They’re Not

Why Some People Sound Calm When They’re Not

How cultural expectations shape emotional expression and stress.

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Psychology Today

Beatrice Ng-Kessler Msc

Tell Me Where I Belong (Review)

It came as quite a shock to Dr. David Weill, a prominent heart-lung transplant surgeon, when he fortuitously discovered he was Jewish. Although it...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Steve Wenick

The failure of leadership and avoidable catastrophe

The antisemitic massacre in Australia did not shock anyone who has been paying attention. What should shock us is not that Jews were targeted, but...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Daniel Rosen

Iraq is trapped inside a closed box

Iraq is trapped inside a closed box

In recent weeks, the Iraqi political landscape has resembled an old television screen that has lost its image balance. The statements made by the...

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Middle East Monitor

Karam Nama

Israeli rescued from Jericho abduction says she was threatened with gun, assaulted

Israeli rescued from Jericho abduction says she was threatened with gun, assaulted

An Israeli woman who reported being kidnapped in the West Bank city of Jericho last week told investigators that she had been threatened at...

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The Times of Israel

Toi Staff

Culture minister threatens to end all state funding for film industry amid awards spat

Culture minister threatens to end all state funding for film industry amid awards spat

Culture Minister Miki Zohar on Sunday threatened to cut off all state funding to the film industry amid an ongoing spat over his attempt to stage...

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The Times of Israel

Amy Spiro

The Strange Logic of Loss

The Strange Logic of Loss

Loss of any kind can disrupt our thinking.

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Psychology Today

Mary C. Lamia Ph.d

When AI Rewrites History: A Global Threat to Truth

In every conflict, truth is fragile. In the age of artificial intelligence, history itself is under threat. The war in Gaza has exposed something...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Sabine Sterk

VOX POPULI: Winter haiku magnify the emotions of a single lost glove

VOX POPULI: Winter haiku magnify the emotions of a single lost glove

A glove lay on the ground. A single black left glove looked lonely, tossed by the wind on the sidewalk. Its owner must be troubled. The hand that...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Good Intentions

We learn from the Torah that Yosef married Osnat, the daughter of Potifar. She bore him two sons, Efraim and Menashe before the seven bad years....

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Kenneth Cohen

EDITORIAL: More measures needed to reduce victims in major Tokyo quake

EDITORIAL: More measures needed to reduce victims in major Tokyo quake

The government’s experts’ panel has released a new estimate of damage from a magnitude 7 or stronger quake striking directly under Tokyo. In the...

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The Asahi Shimbun

The Asahi Shimbun

Bible and Qur’an 99 Divine Names: Past and Future

Rabbi Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, founder of the school of “Prophetic Kabbalah”, was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon Spain, in 1240. In his book Sefer...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Allen S. Maller