Archive for March, 2016

Air Force faces shortage of drone and jet pilots

Air Force faces shortage of drone and jet pilots

  Washington – A top Air Force general warned Wednesday that the U.S. faces a shortage of hundreds of fighter pilots and drone operators. In Capitol… Read More ›

Iran seen escaping UN sanctions over missiles due to ambiguous resolution

Iran seen escaping UN sanctions over missiles due to ambiguous resolution

“When you look at your hand, and you can’t even bluff… you fold,” said a US official.   UNITED NATIONS – Iran will likely escape new… Read More ›

US says Europe needs ‘working definition’ of anti-Semitism

US says Europe needs ‘working definition’ of anti-Semitism

In 2013 the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights dropped a definition of anti-Semitism from its website, eliciting harsh criticism from Israel and Jewish communities worldwide.… Read More ›

Israel wont allow Iran, Hezbollah on Syrian border, Rivlin tells Putin

Israel wont allow Iran, Hezbollah on Syrian border, Rivlin tells Putin

Israeli president tells Russian counterpart enemies’ presence in Golan Hieghts is a red line, backs return of UN peacekeepers   Israel will not allow Iran… Read More ›

Thank you, surge, may I have another?

Thank you, surge, may I have another?

  Late last night, around 10:30pm (“late” for parents), my brother (who is visiting from the NYC area) and I were standing in my kitchen… Read More ›

Bill Ackman is having the worst year in his fund’s history

Bill Ackman is having the worst year in his fund’s history

  Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, founder of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital, is having the worst year in his fund’s history. Pershing Square Holdings, his fund’s… Read More ›

FedEx: Amazon would have to spend ‘tens of billions’ to compete with us

FedEx: Amazon would have to spend ‘tens of billions’ to compete with us

  FedEx is not concerned about recent reports of Amazon possibly building up an in-house shipping network, and downplayed it as mere “headline grabbing” stories. During its… Read More ›

Washington – Analysis: Obama Dares GOP To Let Clinton, Trump Pick Justice

Washington – Analysis: Obama Dares GOP To Let Clinton, Trump Pick Justice

  Washington – By nominating an uncontroversial 63-year-old judge, President Barack Obama handed Republicans an unwelcome election-year proposition: Give in or risk letting Hillary Clinton… Read More ›

Jerusalem – How Palestinians Produce Guns Out Of Home Appliances

Jerusalem – How Palestinians Produce Guns Out Of Home Appliances

  Jerusalem – In just one in a series of overnight operations in Judea and Samaria, the IDF and police located weapons and gun-manufacturing machinery… Read More ›

New York – For New York Hospital’s Patients, Miniature Horses Are A Strong Rx

New York – For New York Hospital’s Patients, Miniature Horses Are A Strong Rx

  New York – Some of the most powerful medicine delivered to young patients at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York on Wednesday came in… Read More ›

North Korea sentences U.S. student to 15 years hard labor

North Korea sentences U.S. student to 15 years hard labor

North Korea has sentenced an American student to 15 years of hard labor after accusing him of removing a political banner from a hotel. The… Read More ›

Professor wins $700k for solving 300-year-old math equation

Professor wins $700k for solving 300-year-old math equation

  It was a problem that had baffled mathematicians for centuries — until British professor Andrew Wiles set his mind to it. “There are no… Read More ›

Donald Trump on brokered convention: ‘I think you’d have riots’

Donald Trump on brokered convention: ‘I think you’d have riots’

Washington – Donald Trump and Ted Cruz warned fellow Republicans Wednesday of dire consequences if the GOP establishment attempts to have a brokered convention this summer.… Read More ›

With Trump addressing AIPAC, Republican debate called off

With Trump addressing AIPAC, Republican debate called off

Fox News cancels Utah event as front-runner announces he won’t attend; Cruz, Clinton, Biden also set to speak at pro-Israel gathering   US network Fox… Read More ›

Will Jewish conservatives finally embrace Trump?

Will Jewish conservatives finally embrace Trump?

Republican Jews dedicated to keeping Democrats out of the White House may be giving the candidate a grudging second look   WASHINGTON (JTA) — Has… Read More ›

Sheldon Adelson on supporting Donald Trump: ‘Why not?’

Sheldon Adelson on supporting Donald Trump: ‘Why not?’

Jewish donor, whose backing is coveted by Republican candidates, indicates possible pivot toward front-runner at Las Vegas event   WASHINGTON — Sheldon Adelson said, “Why… Read More ›

UK’s Labour suspends anti-Semitic member a second time

UK’s Labour suspends anti-Semitic member a second time

After tweeting in 2014 that Hitler was the ‘Zionist God’ and that Jews have ‘big noses,’ Vicki Kirby was suspended. Recently, however, she regained an… Read More ›

Obama nominates Jewish Judge Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

Obama nominates Jewish Judge Merrick Garland to Supreme Court

The Court of Appeals judge is known as a consensus builder and has a record of bipartisan support; while expected to align with the more… Read More ›

US, Germany, France criticize Israel’s ‘land grab’ near Jericho

US, Germany, France criticize Israel’s ‘land grab’ near Jericho

‘This decision sends a wrong signal at the wrong time,’ says German Foreign Ministry statement, while French Foreign Ministry says it’s ‘extremely concerned’ after Israel… Read More ›

Will Kurdish moves on federalism scuttle Syria peace drive?

Will Kurdish moves on federalism scuttle Syria peace drive?

Peace talks in Geneva enter third day; new humanitarian aid reaches Aleppo province   Rmeilan- Kurdish-controlled areas of northern Syria are expected to declare a… Read More ›