Londoners faced one of their most chaotic mornings yet today, as a London Underground strike entered its first full day in force. With almost no Tube service before 08:00 and journeys advised to be...
Yiddish New York: A Living Heritage of Torah, Safety, and Continuity Walk down Hester Street in a century-old photograph and you can almost hear it: the bargaining at pushcarts, the crackle of Yiddish in...
Walk into almost any synagogue and you may hear the phrase tikkun olam. The Hebrew words sound ancient, but to most non-Jews they are unfamiliar. Translated simply, they mean “repairing the world.” The idea...
The machines did not arrive as monsters. They arrived as helpers—polite, ever-awake, and eager to please. In offices and bedrooms, in clinics and classrooms, people now ask chatbots to plan a week, critique a...
BIRMINGHAM — In 2021, Reform UK was little more than a footnote. Its inaugural conference drew a few hundred activists to a function room in Manchester, far overshadowed by the Conservative Party gathering down...
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the Pentagon to be styled once again as the Department of War, reviving a name that vanished from official use more...
Washington’s Shadow War on Venezuela: Bounties, Battleships, and the Long Siege CARACAS — The gray silhouettes of U.S. warships have reappeared in the Caribbean, a show of force not seen with such intensity since...
Russia has now turned its back on Europe. It has signed an agreement with China to build a new pipeline that will carry Siberian gas straight into the Chinese heartland — and, in time,...
By Jaffa Levy CARACAS — President Nicolás Maduro appeared on national television this week flanked by his defense minister and closest lieutenants, warning that Venezuela was facing its most serious external threat in decades....
By Jaffa Levy — 27 August 2025 Kyiv continues to press Western capitals for “security guarantees.” President Zelensky has raised the issue repeatedly in Washington, insisting that without binding assurances Ukraine will face another...