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Jerusalem daycare tragedy: When ideology blocks oversight, babies pay the price - opinion

Two infants died in an unregulated Jerusalem daycare, exposing failed law enforcement, budget cuts, and deep cultural divides over accountability and prevention.

An Israeli police officer holds a bag containing food items that are suspected to have poisoned dozens of toddlers in Jerusalem. January 19, 2026.
Amanda Seyfried attends the fifth annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles, California, October 18, 2025; illustrative.

Amanda Seyfried learns about Shaker founder for film ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’

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The guide to new connections after 60: how to make friends in later life

Site BP 784, relics of a hut with an annex from the Middle Ages.

Ancient Sudan burial site reveals 4,000-year-old funeral ritual in forgotten Nubian kingdom


Tisha Be'av: a social tragedy from then to now

Every generation has its own barns, whose stock is the source of its national resilience. We have a supreme obligation to protect them against those who would set them afire to promote their ideology

An ultra-Orthodox jew prays at the Westen Wall July 17, 2002 on Tisha B'Av

What is the impact of online shaming and cyberbullying?

Like any form of bullying, there are deep consequences to this treatment of others and it’s impact on both children and adults.

BULLYING BY online ‘mean girls’ can have a deep psychological, social and emotional impact.

We need competence,not ideology

Many journalists and academics who dominate the public discourse are devoted to ideological slogans and allegiances.

A Likud party election campaign billboard depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen above a billboard depicting Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, in Petah Tikva, Israel

The battle for free speech on university campuses

There is a coalition of extreme activists, mostly hailing from the international far Left, doing everything possible to ensure voices like those of Col. Kemp and Gen. Kuperwasser are silenced.

Richard Kemp

In Plain Language: Israel is real

If Hollywood is the prime manufacturer of make-believe in this world, Universal is the epicenter of that art.

 A MAKE-BELIEVE conductor poses before an imaginary trip to Hogwarts. .

This Normal Life: Foiled by the flu

It was the flu that finally broke me.

THE FLU was my cherry on top of an already unpalatable series of unfortunate events.

Everyone must serve

For solidarity, there needs to be a sense that everyone shares in carrying the burden.

IDF soldier who spotted would-be terrorists near the Gaza security fence

Poll: Gantz beats Netanyahu again, but still lacks majority to form gov't

Avigdor Liberman's Yisrael Beytenu Party remains the kingmaker; Otzma Yehudit passes the electoral threshhold to enter the Knesset.

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beteynu chairman Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Labor Party’s swan song

Labor and Meretz are at a political crossroads.

LABOR’S AMIR PERETZ (left) and Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz join forces on Monday.

Squeezing Iran

Much debate has been conducted over whether the world is safer now, and many liberal Americans have been shuddering in their shoes over the likelihood of Iranian retaliation.

FILE PHOTO: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pray near the coffin of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, who was killed in an air strike at Baghdad airport, in Tehran, Iran, January 6, 2020. Official President's websi