Business
India, China Will Cut Consumption of Iran Oil
JPost/Reuters – China, India and Japan are planning cuts of at least 10 percent in Iranian crude imports as tightening US sanctions make it difficult for the top Asian buyers to keep doing business with the OPEC producer. The countries together buy about 45 percent of Iran’s crude exports. The reductions are the first significant evidence of how much crude business Iran could lose...
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February 21, 2012 11:39 am
Bloomberg News: Israel was the Safest bet for Investors Over the Last 10 Years
With a risk-adjusted return of 7.6 percent over a 10-year period that ended Feb. 19, Tel Aviv’s...
February 21, 2012 8:55 am
Plans to Purchase More F-35 Aircraft Moving Forward at IAF
JPost – The Israel Air Force is moving forward with plans to purchase a second squadron...
February 21, 2012 4:00 am
Decade of Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Shows Investors One of World’s Best Bets
JPost/Bloomberg – Israel, under threat of war from its neighbors since being founded...
February 21, 2012 1:49 am
International Inspectors in Tehran With World Watching
Bloomberg – United Nations investigators begin two days of meetings in Iran today,...
February 16, 2012 11:48 am
Israel Buying $1 Billion Worth of Italian Military Jets, to Dismay of South Korea
30 Italian M-346 training jets will be purchased by the Israeli Air Force to replace the...
February 13, 2012 9:29 am
President Obama Will Release $3 Trillion Annual Budget Today
Bloomberg – President Barack Obama’s budget today will outline his ideas for how the...
February 9, 2012 4:05 pm
General Electric Invests in Israeli Startup to Fight Cancer
Israel21c – General Electric is investing in Israeli start-up, Check-Cap — a ...
February 8, 2012 12:05 pm
Israeli Defense on Full Display at Asia’s Largest Aerospace Event
Next week, Singapore will play host to the largest aerospace and defense event in Asia. ...
February 8, 2012 6:00 am
World Markets Showing Resiliency in Face of Iran and Syria Crises
Bloomberg – Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Syria’s bloody crackdown and Greece’s...
February 7, 2012 2:01 pm
December Was Best Month for U.S. Job Growth in Nearly One Year
Bloomberg – Job openings in the U.S. increased in December by the most in almost a year,...
February 3, 2012 9:56 am
U.S. Economy Hits 3 Year Low Jobless Rate
NY Times – The United States economy gained momentum in January, adding 243,000 jobs,...
February 2, 2012 10:49 am
U.S. Market Key for Landmark Israeli-American Tech Partnership
2011 was a good year for Israel’s technology scene. $2.14 billion was raised for technology...
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Sports
Jewish Jordan Big Fan of “Linsanity”
Washington Post – All I can say is I’m ashamed I didn’t think to call Tamir Goodman myself, to ask the former Jewish Jordan what he thinks about the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Goodman, of course, became the subject of an ethnic-fueled media madness during his high school career in Maryland, especially after appearing in Sports Illustrated and then flirting with the Terps. He recently told ESPN 600 in El Paso that he had 700 media requests in the first week [...]
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Arts and Culture Book Reviews
Race, Religion and DNA
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA By Jeff Wheelwright W.W. Norton and Company, 260 pages, $26.95 “From breast cancer to secret Jewish rituals, hidden links signify unlikely kinships in this meditative exploration of the science of racial connectedness,” read Publisher’s Weekly’s review of “The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess”. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG., which is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew [...]
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Arts and Culture Personalities
High End Jewish Whisky Society Bottling Rare Single Cask Malts
If you’re an avid whisky drinker, you might want a membership. Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin, well known whisky connoisseurs, have partnered with Seth Klaskin, to form the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society. “Joshua and I started as whisky bloggers. He actually had the name Jewish Single Malt Single Whisky. As bloggers, we started to build a lot of contacts within the whisky industry and we started to build these relationships. Neither one of us gotten into blogging thinking we [...]
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Arts and Culture Blogs
A Sneak Peek at “Footnote,” Israel’s Oscar Nominee
In his latest film, Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar has created a drama of personal controversy. He explores spirit, resilience and responsibility. “Footnote” tells the story of a father, embittered by his life and angered by the success of his son. That son, though publicly applauded, is in turn challenged by the not-fully-formed third generation—his son. The story of “Footnote” is universal, told here within the confines of a single family. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi), [...]
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Music
Rock and Roll Feminism Straight Out of Brooklyn
Tablet – The brainchild of former Titus Andronicus guitarist Amy Klein, Permanent Wave is three things in one: a “combination between activism, a show-booking entity, and a production company,” says Sophie Weiner, who’s involved in all three. A feminist rock collective, or call it what you want; its bands are not the kinds of acts that you are likely to see at the Grammys anytime soon. Here’s what a Permanent Wave-sponsored show looks like in practice: A loud electro thump [...]
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Arts and Culture
England’s Other Jubilee: 60th Jewish Book Week
Spectator – There are two notable diamond jubilees this year: the obvious one and Jewish Book Week (JWB). The festival opened last weekend and will run at Kings Place in London until Sunday evening, when David Aaronovitch and Umberto Eco will end proceedings with a discussion about the latter’s novel, The Prague Cemetary. JBW is a celebration of literature; but, as one might expect, Jewish identity is central to most events. Yesterday afternoon saw Dennis Marks and Michael Hofmann debating [...]
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Blogs Book Reviews
Thinking, Fast and Slow – A Must Read
I must recommend Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the very start when he describes his conversations with his late friend and collaborator Amos Tversky in the Rimon restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, just off Ben Yehudah. Ah, the memories flooded back of the many times I sat there for a quick lunch. But unfortunately it was one year before them; otherwise I might have become a wiser man. The Israeli Nobel Prize winner for [...]
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Book Reviews
Judy Blume’s “Most Autobiographical Character”
Tablet – Sixty-five years ago this winter, in 1947, a fifth-grade girl found she was suddenly the new kid in school, longing for home and for people she knew. She had moved temporarily from the suburbs of New Jersey to the shores of Miami Beach with her mother, brother, and grandmother, who had lost relatives in Dachau just a few years before. Her father, a dentist, stayed behind in Elizabeth for work. His plan was to fly south for special [...]
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