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Jannus TH Siahaan

Jan 8, 2025, 9:04 PM

Indonesia, BRICS, and Global Geopolitical Dynamics

The official announcement of Indonesia's joining of the BRICS Organization has become important geopolitical news this week, not only for domestic audiences like me, but also for global audiences, both BRICS member countries themselves and developed countries. It seems sudden...

Elchanan Poupko

Jan 7, 2025, 3:39 AM

The resignation speech Trudeau owes Canadian Jews

'It is during my term in office that 260 years of Jews finding a safe refuge in Canada have come to an end'

Daniel S. Smith

Jan 7, 2025, 3:16 AM

The Algorithm Tweakers

How could Luigi Mancione have thought he could get away with murdering a CEO in Manhattan? Everything is transparent nowadays. German-American billionaire & Girardian philosopher Peter Andreas Thiel wrote in 2004: One must never forget that one day all will...

Simone Suzanne Kussatz

Mar 26, 2024, 3:18 AM

More Than Machinery, We Need Humanity, Paris

This image shows a gallery visitor at the current exhibit at La Galerie Rouge. In the background, one can see an image by Robert Doisneau on the left and an image by Sabine Weiss on the right. Photo credit: ARETE/Simone Kussatz

La Galerie Rouge's current exhibition, “The Concerned Photographer / La Photographie Humaniste,” offers a deep exploration into the realms of humanistic photography and concerned photography, fusing the visual narratives of two significant movements of the 20th century. Whereas humanistic photography...

Ziona Greenwald

Dec 14, 2023, 9:57 AM

Prisoners of Zion

After governments shut down the world almost overnight because of Covid, making travel all but impossible, I published an op-ed about how it felt to be grounded in Israel, no vacations or reunions with distant family on the horizon. ...

Diane Joy Schmidt

Aug 3, 2023, 6:12 AM

What’s the big deal about hate violence?

A jury decided today, August 2, 2023, that the shooter in the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania should be put to death. I recall the enormous international outcry when the shooting happened in 2018, and a...

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 30, 2023, 7:13 AM

We’re Not Prepared

Similar to the Yom Kippur War when Israel found itself unprepared and under a surprise attack by the newly Soviet-armed Syrians and Egyptians, I am convinced that Western society is ill-prepared and open for a real shock by what...

Richard Kronenfeld

Jul 15, 2023, 9:02 PM

Will the Real Racist Fascists Please Stand Up?

Back in the 1950’s and 1960's, the Golden Age of Television, there was a game show entitled To Tell the Truth. Its premise was simple: a panel of celebrities (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle, Tom Poston, and Peggy Cass) were...

Marianne Widmalm

Mar 16, 2023, 8:07 AM

The Devil, GMOs, the Tower of Babel and Worldly Power

First, I am happy to contribute again at the Times of Israel Blog, as I have had to pause my writing for over a year to care for my elderly parents. They continue to need my daily help, but...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 28, 2022, 5:28 AM

The liars are winning, the genie is out of the bottle

Sometimes we need to face sad facts before we could find solutions I need you to keep hope because the news I'm bringing is bad, bad, bad. For honest people, the contrast between reality and make-believe has never been starker. Fake...

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