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Iranian feminists understood the revolution better than Europe’s intellectuals - opinion

While Foucault praised Iran’s 1979 revolution as spiritual, Iranian women warned it would mean coercion, veiling, and the erasure of their rights.

Demonstrators gather outside the Iranian embassy during a rally in support of nationwide protests in Iran, in London, Britain, January 11, 2026
HESSY TAFT poses holding a photograph of herself taken in 1935 by well-known German photographer Hans Ballin during an interview with Reuters July 9, 2014.

Jewish woman once held up by Nazis as ideal Aryan baby dead at 91

A 3D printed miniature of US President Donald Trump and Cuban flag are seen in this illustration taken January 9, 2026.

Trump says no more Venezuelan oil or money to go to Cuba, pushes for deal

Jonathan Mayora collects items from his damaged family home, after the US launched a strike on Venezuela, capturing its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Catia La Mar, Venezuela January 4, 2026.

Venezuelan Interior Minister: One hundred people killed in US operation to capture Maduro


Israel hopes to renew ties with Havana following US-Cuba thaw

No sitting Israeli prime minister has ever visited South America.

A Cuban flag hangs from a building in Havana

Cuban Jewish leader: Synagogues have no need for security

“We are the only country with a synagogue that has its doors constantly open, where there is no kind of security at all, no kind of guards,” says president of Cuban Jewish community.

Men of the Cuban Jewish community attend a service at a synagogue in Old Havana

A Jewish path in Zamora

A Cuban-American academic with Spanish roots reveals the story behind annual events in Spain’s northwest.

Prof. Jesus Jambrina (left) gives a presentation on uncovering Zamora’s Jewish past at the La Crosse Synagogue, Wisconsin, on March 6

President Obama's Cuba - the memory of JFK

The Jerusalem Post

Israelis triumph in Cuban judo Grand Prix

After Shira Rishony claimed a silver medal in the under-48 kilogram event on Friday, Yarden Gerbi and Linda Bolder both went one better on Saturday.

Israeli judokas Yarden Gerbi (L) and Linda Bolder (R) both won gold medals at the Grand Prix of Havana in Cuba on January 23, 2016, while Shira Rishony (2nd L) claimed a silver the previous day. All three are guided by national team coach Shany Hershko (2nd R).

US and Cuba getting closer to restoring commercial flights

The announcement comes as the countries approach the one-year anniversary of renewed diplomatic ties.

A Cuban flag hangs from a building in Havana

Remembering Holocaust eased Cuba imprisonment, US contractor Gross says

Gross, a longtime-supporter of Jewish causes, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for importing banned technology and trying to establish clandestine Internet service for Cuban Jews.

Alan Gross smiles during a press conference after being released by Cuba on December 17, 2014 in Washington,DC

Ex-Guantanamo Bay warden to Israel: Force-feed hunger-striker immediately

Colonel Michael Bumgarner, who dealt with a mass hunger strike while he presided over the Guantanamo Bay detention center in 2006, says force-feeding is "a very simple ethical and moral issue."

The exterior of Camp Delta is seen at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, March 6, 2013. The facility is operated by the Joint Task Force Guantanamo and holds prisoners who have been captured in the war in Afghanistan and elsewhere since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

An opera of two tales

The Israeli Opera presents the dual drama ‘Agnon to Levin.’

An envelope-pushing program, agnon to levin at the israel Opera

Obama meets Castro in highest-level US-Cuba talks in decades

Speaking to reporters later, Obama made plain the two countries would still have their differences.

US President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuba's President Raul Castro as they hold a bilateral meeting during the Summit of the Americas in Panama City