I got scammed this week. Cheated. They took my money and sold me a pig in a poke, or more precisely, a receiver in a plastic bag.
Now you might ask: a receiver? Yes, a receiver, that thing that connects the speakers to the set-top box and the…

I got scammed this week. Cheated. They took my money and sold me a pig in a poke, or more precisely, a receiver in a plastic bag.
Now you might ask: a receiver? Yes, a receiver, that thing that connects the speakers to the set-top box and the…

JTA — The class does not begin with a lecture. Instead, Neta Elkayam stands at the front of the room and sings — usually in the Moroccan Arabic of her ancestors, rather than her native Hebrew.
The students — most of them Black, most…


The South Australian premier has denied exerting pressure on the Adelaide festival board to disinvite Randa Abdel-Fattah as a speaker at Adelaide Writers’ Week, while reiterating that he agreed with the decision.
The board dumped the Palestinian…

The Adelaide Festival board is under mounting pressure to reinstate Palestinian-Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah’s invitation to Adelaide Writers’ Week after nearly a dozen former festival leaders labelled her exclusion an “egregious…

JTA — Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer, Maryland’s longest-serving member of Congress and a lawmaker with longstanding close ties to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC, has announced his retirement.
“I did not want to be one of those…

The commander of the IDF’s Battalion 101 in the Paratroopers Brigade revealed the complexity involved in West Bank operations during an interview with Walla published on Friday.The commander, referred to as Lt.-Col. R. summarized a recent,…

Here are Friday’s updates on Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East:
■ Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed 13 since Thursday, medical officials said. The IDF said six militants were killed in what it termed retaliation for a failed rocket…

In the weeks after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, religiously charged videos started circulating on social media. Dozens of young women posted videos of themselves cutting up their “immodest” clothing, jeans, crop tops, minidresses, vowing to…