By Ben Sales, JTA World News Service TEL AVIV (JTA)—It was perhaps the biggest startup failure in Israel’s history. Five years of bombastic hype. $850 million of funding burned. Networks planned in at least seven countries. A founder who spoke of changing the world. When the electric car company Better PlaceContinue Reading
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By , JTA World News Service TORONTO (JTA)—Israel’s women’s lacrosse team, in contention for a world championship, is prepared to forfeit the gold medal game rather than play on the Jewish Sabbath. The team, in Oshawa, Ontario, for the sport’s World Cup tournament, has signaled it will refuse to play onContinue Reading
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA)—The intensity with which Israel reacted this week to new European guidelines prohibiting support for projects based in disputed territories surprised not only EU diplomats, but also their Israeli counterparts. The guidelines, which preclude already nonexistent EU grants to Israeli entitiesContinue Reading
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By Rashad Hussain, JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — During Ramadan, Muslim communities around the world experience a month of fasting, devotion and increased consciousness of their faith. They also remember those who are suffering around the world and seek an end to the forces of hatred that lead toContinue Reading
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By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA World News Service (JTA)—In their Krakow home, Anna Makowka Kwapisiewicz and her husband, Piotr, skim through an online article about Poland’s recent ban on kosher slaughter. What they find even more disturbing than the actual news are the comments posted by other readers. Hundreds of comments callingContinue Reading
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By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org Twitter on Friday agreed to release data identifying users to French authorities in response to a January ruling by a French court regarding anti-Semitic tweets posted last October under the hashtag #unbonjuif (#agoodjew). Users had jumped on the chance to tweet phrases like “a good JewContinue Reading
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By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Leonard Nimoy says there is a “strong strain of Judaism” in everything he does—including his famous on-screen hand gestures. Best known for his character Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television show and movies, most recently in his cameo as Spock Prime in this year’s blockbuster “StarContinue Reading
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By Emma Silvers, JTA World News Service SAN FRANCISCO (j. weekly)—Seated cross-legged in the sunny backyard of her north Oakland home, wearing loose, tie-dyed pants, beads around her neck, her hair in tousled braids and sipping kombucha tea—her drum is tucked away for now—Taya Shere brings a few stereotypes to mind:Continue Reading
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By Maxine Dovere, JNS.org For 90 years, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life has provided what many call a “tent” welcoming students of every Jewish background and denomination on campus. But as Hillel prepares to nominate its next president and CEO, questions persist over how open that tent should beContinue Reading
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By JTA News Desk, JTA World News Service (JTA)—Whistleblower Edward Snowden told a German magazine that Israel and the United States created the Stuxnet computer virus that destroyed nuclear centrifuges in Iran. Snowden made the statement as part of an interview with the German news magazine Der Spiegel in which heContinue Reading
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