Monday, March 11, 2013

App to track Obama’s Israel visit

JTA

Israel's Prime Minister's Office launched an app to follow President Obama's visit in real time.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

The future as seen at CES in Vegas

By Tom Teicholz

When I was a young kid, my dad used to take me to the auto show at the old New York Coliseum, where together we looked, agog, at the cars of the. . .

Monday, February 11, 2013

Apple to open third research center in Israel

JTA

Apple will open its third research and development center in Israel.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Reform congregation websites hosted by URJ are hacked

JTA

The websites of several congregations hosted by the Union for Reform Judaism were hacked and linked to anti-Semitic websites.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Prenatal whole genome sequencing technology raises Jewish ethical questions

by Joel N. Shurkin, JTA

Expectant mothers long have faced the choice of finding out the gender of their child while still in the womb.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

IDF live-tweeting Gaza offensive

By JewishJournal.com

Here is the Twitter feed from IDF.

Monday, November 5, 2012

Microsoft Corp., Israel agree to strategic cooperation

JTA

Israel and the Microsoft Corporation have agreed to a strategic cooperation to advance computing technology. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer met on Monday. . .

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Israeli solar power pioneers take global step forward [UPDATE]

JTA

Arava Power Company co-founders have hired an outside company to raise $10 million to fund the development of solar fields outside of Israel.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Criminalize anti-Semitic websites, Rome provincial council says in motion

JTA

Rome’s provincial council is calling for websites that promote racism and anti-Semitism to be blocked and such online hatred criminalized.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Space center dedicated in Arab-Israeli city drops Ramon’s name

JTA

A space center that opened in the Arab-Israeli city of Taybeh was not named for the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon following opposition from city. . .

Monday, October 22, 2012

‘Dead Jew’ is newest anti-Semitic phrase on French Twitter

JTA

Hundreds of French Twitter users wrote the phrase “a dead Jew” on Twitter after the company removed some anti-Semitic content.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Facebook removes Hezbollah page

JTA

Facebook removed pages for Hezbollah, its affiliated Al-Manar television station and its leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah.

Monday, October 15, 2012

‘Good Jew’ hashtag is third most popular on French Twitter

JTA

Monday, October 15, 2012

Two American economists win Nobel Prize

JTA

Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, American economists with ties to Israeli universities, won the Nobel Prize for economics.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Jewish economist Alvin Roth ‘surprised,’ ‘delighted’ by Nobel Prize

by Edward Krudy, Reuters

U.S. economist Alvin Roth, winner of the 2012 Nobel prize for economics on Monday with colleague Lloyd Shapley, was "surprised" and "delighted" when. . .

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Jewish doctor from New York co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry

JTA

Robert J. Lefkowitz, a Jewish physician and path-breaking biochemist from New York, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Brian K.. . .

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Haredi rabbi in Israel tells followers to burn iPhones

JTA

A prominent haredi Orthodox rabbi in Israel ordered his followers to burn their iPhones.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

New Apple operating system lists Israel without a capital, Jerusalem without a country

JTA

The map included in Apple’s new iOS6 operating system reportedly does not show Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Have an invention? Meet an investor in Israel

by Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c

Israelis love to invent things. Last year, the number of patents granted to Israeli companies in medical instrumentation put it first globally in. . .

Friday, August 3, 2012

JPL prepares for ‘7 minutes of terror’

by Sophie Golub, Contributing Writer

The atmosphere at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will be a mixture of fear and anxiety on Sunday, Aug. 5, as its engineers and scientists. . .

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Israeli researchers grow marijuana without a high

JTA

Israeli researchers say they have developed a cannabis plant that gives no high.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

French groups drop suit against Google

JTA

French groups have settled a lawsuit accusing Google of violating French anti-racism laws because of a function that they say perpetuated. . .

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Flame virus can sabotage computers, attack Iran, expert says

by Jim Finkle, Reuters

The powerful Flame computer virus is not only capable of espionage but it can also sabotage computer systems and likely was used to attack Iran in. . .

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus, according to anonymous Western officials

Reuters

The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame computer virus that collected intelligence to help slow Iran's nuclear program, The. . .