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Yiddish translation of the Sabbath hymns (1829), page 1. The images sear the conscience: children crushed beneath rubble, families irreparably torn apart, neighborhoods transformed into haunting voids. The dead count in the thousands—many of them the most innocent among us. These horrors may unfold around the world, but they are not our tradition’s inheritance. Judaism […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
Geoffrey Hinton at the 2025 Nobel Lectures The greatest danger of artificial intelligence may not be “killer robots” or machines rising up against us, but something far more subtle: persuasion. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “Godfather of AI,” has warned that machines are already better at emotional manipulation than we are at resisting it. But are […]
The Tube strike entered its second full day on Tuesday, intensifying disruption across London as commuters grappled with packed buses, long walks and overloaded journey planners. With negotiations stalled, the capital is facing a week of rolling shutdowns that have turned routine journeys into logistical puzzles. Virtually all Underground lines remain closed, including major arteries […]
Prince Harry during an Invictus-related engagement, 2019. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Prince Harry’s return to the United Kingdom this week is more than a diary of engagements. It is a reminder of his commitment to service, his enduring ties to Britain, and his capacity to connect with people not as a distant royal but as a […]
The City Ground — Forest’s home, and a reminder of roots amid today’s instability. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The City Ground — Forest’s home, and a reminder of roots amid today’s instability. Source: Wikimedia Commons. The dismissal of Nuno Espírito Santo by Nottingham Forest might, at first glance, appear to be just another footnote in the […]
Broadcasting House, the BBC headquarters in London. Photo: Oxyman, via Wikimedia Commons. LONDON — 8 September 2025 Yes, a widely respected organisation’s report suggests that the licence fee — which is sold as a guarantee of independence — is in practice underwriting a state-aligned media machine. Instead of protecting audiences from propaganda, the BBC’s failures […]
Birmingham residents paint the St George’s Cross on mini-roundabouts. Descriptive footage of the street-level flag campaign. “Operation Raise the Colours” footage: flags painted and flown in Birmingham neighbourhoods. If your theme blocks iframes, link directly instead: Video 1 · Video 2 The flag, above all, has become central to this story. Across towns and cities, […]
Jeremy Corbyn, 2019. Zarah Sultana, official parliamentary portrait. The start of this new political realignment comes as Britain drifts headlong into an economic crisis. The divide between rich and poor is widening, with wealth concentrating at the very top. For the working and middle classes, the system now feels rigged against them — a daily […]
Exterior of an Aldi supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Exterior of a Morrisons supermarket. Photo via Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0). Aldi has taken the crown as the UK’s cheapest supermarket this month. It beat Lidl by just a few pence on a standard 75-item basket. The figures, released this week, show […]
Hannah Hampton with the Women’s Super League trophy after Chelsea vs Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, 10 May 2025. Photo: Katie Chan / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). The Women’s Super League enters its new season with momentum that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago: bigger audiences, record transfer fees, sharper broadcast packaging […]
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 complete by 18:00, commuters resorted to creative workarounds—including walking, cycling, and enduring grinding waits for overloaded buses and Elizabeth line services. […]
KYIV — The claim landed like a hammer blow in a war already defined by attrition and exhaustion: “142,000 servicemen deserted.” In a few words it compressed two and a half years of fear, flight and discipline into a single number large enough to bend the narrative. It ricocheted through Telegram channels and regional outlets, […]
Russian accounts describe custom malware, a OneDrive trove and a casualty ledger; Kyiv rejects the story as information warfare NY-Style Enhanced — Excerpt (No Headline) MOSCOW — The story began with a single post on a Telegram channel, buried in a feed of battlefield footage and provincial news. But within hours, it had been transformed […]
Carolyn Gelenter, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, being arrested by police in Parliament Square. Video courtesy of Novara Media. London — Stephen Kapos, 87, survived the Holocaust as a child. This winter, he laid flowers in Trafalgar Square to commemorate Palestinians killed in the Gaza war. Weeks later, he was summoned to Charing Cross police […]
LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn’s inquiry has shifted the debate back onto the government, forcing ministers to confront allegations of complicity in Gaza that will now circulate in public reports and international forums. Last week Corbyn convened a two-day tribunal in Westminster to examine Britain’s role in Israel’s war in Gaza, after Parliament blocked his bid […]
PARIS — When Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer convened a “coalition of the willing” in Paris to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, they were not speaking from a position of strength. Twenty-six capitals signed the communiqués. None could answer the basic question: what can Europe actually guarantee? The answer lies on the battlefield. Russia dictates […]
Who really benefits as costs climb and fans are priced out? Today morning, the BBC reported that Egyptian police had shut down Streameast, a piracy site which drew more than 1.6 billion visits in the past year. The site gave millions free access to pirated live streams of Premier League football matches, Formula One races, […]
There is something profoundly human about wanting to know who or what you are talking to. Is the voice on the other end of the line a living person, or a machine trained to mimic one? Is the photograph before you a record of reality, or a digital fantasy stitched together by an algorithm? Without […]
Walk down Hester Street in a century-old photograph and you can almost hear it: the bargaining at pushcarts, the crackle of Yiddish in the air, the thrum of a city being learned from scratch. New York’s Yiddish world built neighborhoods, newspapers, theaters, unions—and a language ecology that turned the Lower East Side into the capital […]
In a single post, Donald J. Trump captured a sobering truth: America’s influence over two great powers has slipped away. The story runs deeper than one president. It is the result of decades of triumphalism, coercion, and missed opportunities. The Post Itself “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they […]
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 is both ordinary and radical: that people are not here merely to tend private lives, but to make the world more […]
Imagine you type out a query: Opinion on Bhutan. Or perhaps: What’s the background of the Prime Minister? You might ask, Where are the good places to take a holiday? Or something more practical: What medicines should I take for a cold? Just as easily, you could turn to weightier questions: Tell me something about […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology
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 draft, calm a panic, even say goodnight. The question is no longer whether these systems can help. It is what they […]
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 the road. Nigel Farage, the perennial agitator of British politics, was not even in the room. The party was polling at […]
LONDON — London is bracing for days of severe disruption on the Underground as members of the RMT union prepare a rolling walkout that is expected to halt most Tube services for four consecutive weekdays, with only limited trains resuming early Friday. The action follows months of talks over pay, fatigue, and shift patterns. Transport […]
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group of 20 summit, an unusual step by a government that has long defended its military partnerships with both countries. The request, relayed through diplomatic channels in recent days, underscores Pretoria’s determination to keep the summit free of […]
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 than three quarters of a century ago. The move, long floated in Mr. Trump’s speeches as a symbol of what he […]
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise of a strategic victory is unraveling. Instead of triumph, Israel faces the contours of strategic defeat: a grinding stalemate in Gaza, an economy losing investor confidence, a fractured society, and the looming prospect of a confrontation with Iran that Israel is ill-prepared to fight. This is not a […]
JERUSALEM — In the Hebrew press, the calls are growing louder, sharper, and more extreme. The country’s most widely read right-wing daily, Israel Hayom, published an opinion piece this week that made plain what many in the ruling coalition already believe: Israel must escalate the war in Gaza without hesitation, regardless of political consequences. Shachar […]
JERUSALEM — More than four in five Jewish Israelis — 82 percent, according to a June Haaretz poll — now say they support expelling Gazans from the Strip. The figure is overwhelming, and it explains why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity has surged during the war. He is more popular than at any point in […]
BERLIN — The turbulence in Germany’s politics cannot be separated from the choices its leaders have made since 2022. What some analysts describe as a “political tsunami” is also the result of self-inflicted wounds: policies that have left Europe’s largest economy cut off from its energy lifelines, its export markets, and its sense of security. […]
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 the Cold War. Officially, Washington insists the deployment is part of a counter-narcotics operation. Yet in Caracas, and across the hemisphere, […]
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, potentially southward into India. The Power of Siberia-2 is more than a project on paper: it is the symbol of a […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Economics
The machines aren’t waiting. They’re already here. Across offices, hospitals, studios, and courtrooms, artificial intelligence is seeping into the daily routines of professionals who once thought their roles were untouchable. What matters now is not whether automation is coming, but where the line is drawn between what can be digitized — and what must remain […]
LONDON — On the afternoon of 24 July 2025, a bare-bones website suddenly lit up with traffic. Its message was stark: “It’s time to build a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you.” Below the slogan sat nothing more than a simple email sign-up box and the promise of a founding […]
Middle East A cluster of American guided-missile destroyers has shifted into the Eastern Mediterranean, adding a sea-based layer to Israel’s missile defense while Washington weighs the risk of deeper entanglement. By Jaffa Levy WASHINGTON — The United States has expanded its maritime air- and missile-defense umbrella around Israel, moving a group of Arleigh Burke–class destroyers […]
South America / Venezuela / World
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. The address came as U.S. destroyers and support ships converged in the Caribbean Sea and American surveillance flights resumed from Curaçao, […]
President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday as China staged a vast military spectacle in Beijing, accusing President Xi Jinping — flanked by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un — of “conspiring against the United States.” The remarks landed as world leaders and delegations took their places on Tiananmen Square for […]
NEW DELHI/LONDON — As Britain’s asylum system creaks under record numbers and Labour’s government pursues reforms, Indian newspapers are watching closely. Their coverage reflects both practical concerns — warnings to Indian students, exposure of fraud — and cultural unease, with diaspora voices comparing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s rhetoric to Enoch Powell’s. Warnings to Students This […]
LONDON — Immigration is once again Britain’s most combustible political issue, and this week it spilled into the streets and across X — the platform once known as Twitter — with hashtags like #StopTheBoats trending at the top of the feed. Protest clips outside hotels housing asylum seekers, posts accusing Labour of favouring migrants over […]
LONDON — The arrest of Graham Linehan, co-creator of the sitcom Father Ted, has erupted into a global flashpoint after Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling used their platforms on X to denounce the move. Linehan, 57, was arrested at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence, following April posts in which he urged that if […]
LONDON — Graham Linehan, the Irish writer and co-creator of the cult sitcom Father Ted, was arrested at Heathrow Airport this week on suspicion of inciting violence through social media posts. What might once have been a narrow police matter quickly escalated into a political and cultural storm, amplified by prominent voices on X, including […]
LONDON — Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have surged to their highest level since 1998, rattling the Treasury and intensifying the pressure on Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her first full Budget. The yield on 30-year government bonds — gilts — has climbed sharply in recent weeks, outpacing both U.S. Treasuries and German Bunds. For investors, […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) / United States
Sam Altman speaks less like a computer scientist than a strategist. He has no doctorate in artificial intelligence, no technical pedigree of the kind that fills the ranks at OpenAI. Yet he has come to occupy a singular position in the field. As chief executive of OpenAI, he is both salesman and forecaster, a man […]
When the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization gathered in Tianjin this week, it was meant to be a grand performance — and across Asia, newspapers described it as such. But while Chinese state media hailed the forum as a “new global order,” regional press from Indonesia to Thailand filtered the summit through their own […]
When Vladimir V. Putin stepped onto the red carpet in Tianjin last weekend, the choreography was as carefully managed as any in the long history of Sino-Russian relations. The Russian leader’s arrival for the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was not merely a diplomatic courtesy. It was an act of political theater, crafted to […]
BEIJING, Sept. 3, 2025 — At dawn tomorrow, Beijing’s storied Tiananmen Square will awaken to a spectacle of steel and stride, as the People’s Liberation Army stages its largest military parade in nearly a decade. This grand display—slated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Asia—will bring together tens […]
As Gaza slides into documented famine and the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures remain in force, the United States has blocked visas for a Palestinian delegation to the United Nations—an act that collides with the U.N. Headquarters Agreement (1947) and the host’s international law obligations. No number of airport denials will bury the record […]