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. . .