Posts Tagged: Jewish innovation
These Sharks Are Kosher
Matchmaking has long been a Jewish pastime, and now there’s also a corporate-funding matchmaker. A new program called BizTank brings together entrepreneurs and successful Jewish investors. The brainchild of...
Two Jewish Day Schools Receive $50,000 Innovation Grants
JNS.org - Two Jewish day schools have been awarded $50,000 apiece by the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC). The schools were two of five finalists among 62 applicants who...
Gates Foundation Gives Israeli Firm $110,000 to “Reinvent the Toilet” (VIDEO)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded $110,000 to an Israeli company which has built a toilet that doesn't require water and leaves no...
Pesach 2012 – Oil or Occupation
In an article in the New York Times, Thomas Friedman quotes an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study showing that there...