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Playing tetris may prevent post-partum PTSD – study
Few young people are likely to have heard abut Tetris, a puzzle video game created almost four decades ago by a Russian software engineer called Alexey Pajitnov. The game requires players to complete vertical lines by moving differently…
Are battles between secular and religious Israelis the new normal?
On a serene Yom Kippur evening, Tel Aviv’s bustling Dizengoff Square became the unexpected epicenter of a profound clash between religious traditions and secular values. The incident that unfolded on this holiest day of the Jewish calendar,…
The Talmud is important, but no one should be paid to study it – opinion
As though Ukraine doesn’t have enough problems, recently it had to deal with an onslaught of cultists for the annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s grave. Some 35,000 ultra-Orthodox followers descend on Uman each year to pray,…
WhatsApp to war: How Cubans were recruited to fight for Russia
Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes has bought a new sewing machine for the first time in years, plus a refrigerator and a cellphone - all on Russia's dime.She said her 49-year-old husband Enrique Gonzalez, a struggling bricklayer, left…
Google Doodle celebrates ancient statues in Jordan
Google celebrated 9,000-year-old statues in Jordan with a Google Doodle on Saturday, September 30. “Today's hand-crafted Doodle celebrates the Ain Ghazal statues — roughly 9,000 years old and considered one of the earliest large-scale…
From darkness to light: A date linked to numerous Holocaust milestones – opinion
September 29 marks a painful day in Jewish history, connected as it is to the rise of Hitler and the beginning of the end for six million Jews.On September 29, 1933, the Hitler-led government passed a law prohibiting Jews in Germany from…
Yom Kippur War declassified: A look at the war like never before
“In the early afternoon of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, on October 6, 1973, alarm sirens interrupted the silence of the fast, and the signal was given for the start of the Yom Kippur War, which has become a national trauma in Israel’s…
Holocaust denier running in Minnesota school board election
A known Holocaust denier and antisemitic writer has submitted his candidacy for a school board election in Minnesota, US according to an expose from Newsweek published earlier this week.The man, named Vaughn Klingenberg, is running for the…
Donald Trump is a ‘wannabe dictator,’ retiring top US general says
Top US general Mark Milley retired on Friday after a four-year tenure, saying in a speech that US troops take an oath to the Constitution and not a "wannabe dictator," an apparent swipe at former President Donald Trump.Milley was hailed by…
Eritreans arrested in Tel Aviv knife brawl, one asylum seeker killed
A Sudanese asylum seeker was killed and nine Eritreans were injured in two incidents in Tel Aviv's Hatikvah neighborhood early on Saturday morning, Israel Police said.Fifteen asylum seekers were arrested by police for involved in a suspect…
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