Thursday, December 17, 2009
David Sable: Madison Avenue Mensch
by Mark Pearlman, JInsider.com
Tensions flared in the Senate during an otherwise slow afternoon Thursday when Sen. Joe Lieberman asked for unanimous consent to extend some remarks . . .
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Recall sends Israeli Coke sales plummeting
JTA
Israeli sales of Coca-Cola drinks have dropped dramatically following a recall of bottles with contents that smelled of . . .
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Rothstein pleads not guilty in Ponzi scheme
JTA
Scott Rothstein, the disbarred South Florida lawyer accused of running a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, has pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges of wire . . .
Monday, November 30, 2009
Jewish Agency adds air carrier for immigrant flights
JTA
The Jewish Agency dropped El Al as its exclusive carrier to fly new immigrants to . . .
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Business Maxims From Noah’s Bagel Maven
By Tom Tugend
In the age of Bernard Madoff and automated phone option menus in lieu of personal customer service, the words “business mensch” may strike most . . .
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Business Ethics for a Post-Madoff World
by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff
The Madoff scandal, which involved so many Jews as both perpetrators and victims, inevitably raises deep questions in people’s minds about the . . .
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Ethics Plan Would Raise Sanctity of Business
By Rabbi N. Daniel Korobkin
An observant Jew was once brought before the judge on counts of tax fraud. Seeing the kippah-wearing Jew before him, the judge innocently asked, . . .
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
L.A. Orthodox rabbis want business ethics to be kosher, too
By Julie G Fax
Seeking to accentuate Jewish traditions that place a premium on ethical integrity, Los Angeles Orthodox rabbis are encouraging local businesses to . . .
Monday, June 2, 2008
With business booming in India, young Jews are staying put
By Ben Frank
Most young Jews are educated in Indian schools where English is the language of instruction and are highly proficient in English and technology. They . . .
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Mud’s a dirty business but entrepreneur digs it
By Keren Engelberg
"My goal is to be able to support the community I live in and support the organizations that are working to protect the Copper River.... It supports . . .
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Skateboard Creator Builds Business on Performance
By Amy Klein
Skateboarding runs in the Tashman family, although not on the paternal side. His mother, who also grew up religious, skateboarded when she was a kid. . . .
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Jerusalem Gets Business Jump-Start
By Rochelle Furstenberg
Today, Nir Barkat, high-tech entrepreneur and dynamic Jerusalem councilman, is trying to breathe economic life into the city by using the academic . . .
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Business Thrives With Eye on Beauty
By Keren Engelberg
Shawn Tavakoli reads Women's Wear Daily, and he's not ashamed to admit it. He also reads Vogue, Mademoiselle and most other beauty magazines. It . . .
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Designer Fashions Hobby Into Business
By Gaby Wenig
When M.R.S President Molly Stern was growing up in Los Angeles and attending Yeshiva University of Los Angeles High School, she felt out of place. "I . . .
Thursday, October 24, 2002
Would a Split Spell Business Relief?
By Wendy J. Madnick
As the vote on secession comes to a head in the Nov. 5 election, business groups find themselves playing a major role in swaying voters to their . . .
Thursday, November 8, 2001
Business Wins in N.Y.
By Adam Dickter
During New York's mayoral campaign, Michael Bloomberg caused a minor ruckus when he seemed to advocate school prayer.
In an off-the-cuff remark, he . . .
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Sponsor Terror, Lose Business
By Matthew E. Berger
The House International Relations Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill this week that would continue to restrict foreign access to . . .
Thursday, March 1, 2001
Family Business
By Naomi Pfefferman
At age 5, long before he began writing satirical pop songs and Oscar-nominated film soundtracks, Randy Newman trekked down to the sound stage at 20th . . .
Thursday, August 14, 1997
‘Out of Business’
By Tom Tugend
"We're winding up our operations and terminating our relationship with the U.S. government," said Joseph DeSutter, executive director of the . . .
