Monday, February 6, 2012
The Jewish Retail Giant and the Black Community
by Stephen Whitfield / JointMedia News Service
At the very end of December, 2011, when the Sears Holding Company announced that up to 120 of its stores (both Sears Roebuck and Kmart) would be. . .
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Insights for investors from one who knows firsthand
by Pierce Courchaine
Rebecca Rothstein, a managing director at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Beverly Hills, focuses on helping high net worth and ultra-high net worth. . .
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Report: Hadassah Medical Center can’t meet payments
JTA
The Hadassah Medical Center has not been able to pay its suppliers, an Israeli business daily has reported.. . .
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Friedman responds to criticism over ‘bought and paid for’ jab at Congress
JTA
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that he should have used a more "precise term" when he wrote that congressional ovations for Israeli. . .
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Israeli officials escalate war of words with N.Y. Times [UPDATE]
by Ron Kampeas, JTA
Israeli officials are stepping up their criticism of The New York Times, slamming columnist Thomas Friedman and arguing that the newspaper is an. . .
Monday, December 19, 2011
Shopping malls get in Chanukah spirit
JTA
Westfield, the world’s largest shopping mall empire founded by Holocaust survivor Frank Lowy, will welcome in Chanukah on three continents.. . .
Thursday, December 15, 2011
ADL, Reform group rip Lowe’s for pulling ads from show on Muslims
JTA
The Anti-Defamation League and a Reform movement group have expressed concern with a decision by Lowe’s to pull its ads from a show that depicted. . .
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Kosher Club to close its doors after 30 years
By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Kosher Club, a warehouse-stye kosher market on Pico Boulevard, near La Brea Avenue, will close its doors on Friday, a victim of the competitive. . .
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
In their off hours, El Al flight crews are now ‘ambassadors’
by Dan Klein, JTA
A good flight crew requires a certain amount of charm to keep passengers calm during turbulence, emergencies or pretzel shortages.. . .
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Wodka vodka ads, called anti-Semitic, removed
JTA
An offensive billboard that the Anti-Defamation League said reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes was removed.. . .
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
El Al, struck by soaring fuel prices, to lay off 200
JTA
El Al Airlines said it is laying off 200 workers after a steep increase in fuel costs hit its bottom line.. . .
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
ADL raps Wodka vodka ads for stereotyping
JTA
The Anti-Defamation League criticized the New York ad campaign of Wodka vodka for reinforcing anti-Semitic stereotypes.. . .
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Buffett points the way
by Warren Boroson, The New Jersey Jewish Standard
Warren E. Buffett is the second-richest person in the United States (after Microsoft’s Bill Gates), so when he purchased an Israeli-based stock not. . .
Monday, November 14, 2011
Tnuva drops Brooklyn distributor following labor campaign
JTA
Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy company, said it will not renew its contract with its Brooklyn distributor, which is accused of underpaying workers. . .
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Volkswagen AG donating $1 million to ADL
JTA
Automotive giant Volkswagen AG said it will donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.. . .
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Dan Duquette, founding member of Israel Baseball League, takes over Orioles
JTA
Dan Duquette, a founding member of the Israel Baseball League, has returned to Major League Baseball after nine years.. . .
Monday, October 24, 2011
50,000 sign pro-Rubashkin petition to White House
JTA
An online petition in support of jailed kosher meat executive Sholom Rubashkin garnered 10 times its anticipated goal of 5,000 signatures.. . .
Friday, October 21, 2011
Madoff boasts he is “quite the celebrity” in prison
Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is "quite the celebrity" and treated "like a Mafia don," ABC. . .
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Portland-area paper to shut down
JTA
An Oregon Jewish paper, The Jewish Review, will close in January after publishing for more than 40 years.. . .
Monday, October 17, 2011
Madoff ‘clawback’ suit going after Jewish group helping elderly
JTA
The trustee charged with recovering assets lost in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is suing the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged for $5.2. . .
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Merged social justice group hires its first president
JTA
Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice has hired Alan van Capelle, the deputy comptroller for the City of New York, as its new. . .
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Madoff victims getting first payout
JTA
Victims of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff are beginning to receive restitutions, according to The New York Times.. . .
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Koch Industries bypassed Iran sanctions
JTA
Koch Industries went to great lengths to bypass U.S. laws banning dealings with Iran until 2007, according to a report.. . .
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
BMW family admits using slave labor for Nazis
JTA
The family that owns BMW has admitted to using slave labor during World War II.. . .
