Business
TIAA-CREF Decision Sets Precedent to Block BDS Motions – Legal Analysts
A decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to allow a major financial services group to keep Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions off the agenda at their shareholders’ meeting, created new precedent to counter BDS assaults on the financial community, legal analysts told The Algemeiner. The SEC’s decision on Thursday was a relief for TIAA-CREF, officially Teachers Insurance...
May 30, 2013 3:27 pm
Pension Fund TIAA-CREF Declines to Vote for Israel Boycott
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement suffered a major defeat on Thursday when Teachers...
Israel’s Cortica Raises $1.5m from Mail.Ru for Image to Text Technology
Cortica, an Israeli technology developer, received a $1.5 million investment from Russian...
May 30, 2013 1:09 pm
Report: Facebook Talks to Acquire Waze Collapse After Staffers Refuse to Leave Israel
Waze has not had its day, at least not yet. According to Allthingsd.com, talks with Facebook...
May 28, 2013 2:25 pm
Israeli Company Mobileye Commercializing Automatic Driving Software
JNS.org - Israeli company Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. has unveiled a car that navigates...
May 27, 2013 12:28 am
Israeli Electric Car Company Better Place Files For Bankruptcy
The once-promising electric car company Better Place filed for bankruptcy this week in a Tel...
April 10, 2013 6:54 am
“Israeli Al Jazeera” Takes Shape
Jerusalem Post – Communications mavens have been saying for years that what Israel needs...
March 6, 2013 2:58 pm
Israeli Company Targeted by Boycotters Reports Huge Sales Increase
It has been a break out year for SodaStream, a fact that can be reflected in a 51% increase...
March 6, 2013 12:52 am
17 Israelis on Forbes World’s Billionaires List
Forbes Magazine on Monday published its annual list of the World’s Billionaires....
February 18, 2013 1:04 pm
Intel Doubles Israel Exports, Hopes Israelis Will Manufacture Next Generation of Chips
The world’s top computer chipmaker doubled its exports from Israel in 2012 and is now...
February 14, 2013 11:45 am
Bank of Israel’s Fischer Calls for NIS 28 Billion in Cuts Over Next Three Years
Outgoing Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer sounded the alarm Wednesday over the growing...
February 13, 2013 1:22 am
Entrepreneurs Bend the Laws of Kashrut for Startup
Forbes – Zalmi Duchman and Yosef Schwartz have always been entrepreneurs who bent the...
February 11, 2013 12:51 pm
Apple Planning New Research and Development Center in Israel
Tech giant Apple is opening a new research and development center in Israel later this year,...
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Personalities Sports
NBA Finals a Time to Remember Legendary Jewish Coach Red Auerbach
JNS.org - At the start of each nationally televised game of the 2013 NBA Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat, ABChas aired a film-clip montage of basketball’s great players and coaches—a montage that includes Jewish coach Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the mastermind behind nine championship teams for the Boston Celtics. Red was one of four children of Marie and Hyman Auerbach. Hyman was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who left Belarus when he was 13. The couple owned a deli and [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish History
The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity
JNS.org - The sons of Jewish immigrants from Germany and France, the Marx Brothers became zany masters of stage and screen who continue to captivate audiences. But in addition to providing comic relief, their films captured the drama of the entry of their marginalized religion into the U.S. Wayne Koestenbaum, author of the 2012 book The Anatomy of Harpo Marx, explains that the Marx Brothers’ Jewishness as a family “was evident, marked, thoroughly legible.” “Within a family already marked as Jewish within [...]
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Arts and Culture Jewish Identity
SuperJew
For my shekels, the question of whether the comic book character Superman, is Jewish or not shouldn’t even be questioned. Born and named Kal-El by his father Jor-El, “El” is one of the ancient names for God used throughout the bible and found in great prophets such as Samue-el, Dani-el and angels Micha-el and Gavri-el and of course, Isra-el. As Simcha Weinstein in his entertaining book, “Up, Up And Oy Vey” points out, “Kal” is the root of several Hebrew [...]
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Israel Sports
Formula 1 Road Show Thrills Jerusalem
JNS.org – Some 100,000 people attended Israel’s first-ever Formula 1 Road Show in Jerusalem on Thursday and Friday. For several hours, the controversies that normally characterize Jerusalem were put aside, and a diverse mosaic of Israelis watched up close as the motor-sport stars temporarily conquered the city. “It was an amazing experience, the most fast and furious thing I have seen,” spectator Masada Porat told Israel Hayom. “It was a rare, extreme event that explodes in your face.” Spectator Irena [...]
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Book Reviews Jewish Identity
Klara’s Journey Casts Jews in Fast-Paced Adventure Through Russian History
JNS.org – “If you’re sick, move away. Have some consideration for others,” a red army soldier scolds a slow-moving old man selling train tickets. “No, fires back the old man, proud, haughty, not realizing it’s a new country, a Bolshevik country where force heads the list instead of civility,” reads the following line in Ben G. Frank’s new novel, Klara’s Journey, released June 1. Reminiscent of Boris Pasternak’s Dr. Zhivago—whose backdrop is also a train ride across the Russian frontier during the [...]
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Personalities Theater
Nora Ephron, Famed Jewish Screenwriter, Remembered Through Tribeca Film Festival Prize
JNS.org – For filmmaker Meera Menon, no honor could have been more fitting than winning the inaugural award named after famed Jewish screenwriter and novelist Nora Ephron, the woman whose work inspired her. At the recent 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Menon was named the first recipient of the $25,000 Nora Ephron Prize, given to a writer or director whose work embodies that of the late Ephron, who wrote the scripts for a number of hit films, including “When Harry Met [...]
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Book Reviews Personalities
Book Review: ‘Jewish Jordan’ Memoir an Important Guide for Players and Coaches
JNS.org – Despite his friends’ and family’s doubts that a young Orthodox Jewish athlete could ever play college or professional basketball without compromising his religious values, between 1999 and 2009 the “Jewish Jordan” defied conventional wisdom and found his place on the court. In his new memoir, Jewish Jordan’s Triple Threat, Tamir Goodman describes his triumphs and disappointments in life, crediting his practice of Judaism for shaping his identity as an athlete and his understanding of basketball as a team sport. [...]
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Blogs Sports
Omri Casspi, ‘Jewish Jordan’ Partner on Basketball Camps to Inspire Youths On and Off the Court
Tamir Goodman (left) and NBA forward Omri Casspi—pictured on the court of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls—together run basketball camps that seek to inspire youths on and off the court. Photo: Courtesy Tamir Goodman. JNS.org – Before last year, basketball camps for Jewish youths never had an instructor quite like Omri Casspi, a forward for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and the first Israeli-born player in NBA history. Casspi is a de facto ambassador for [...]
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