Articles by: JewishNews-Ilan

Boeing, Chevron, and other huge companies are spending $90 million on Trump’s inauguration

Boeing, Chevron, and other huge companies are spending $90 million on Trump’s inauguration

  President-elect Donald Trump is stepping into office on Friday. And some analysts argue that his “America first” foreign policy agenda could mark a break… Read More ›

Jerusalem of tech: How the capital has given Tel Aviv a run for its start-up money

Jerusalem of tech: How the capital has given Tel Aviv a run for its start-up money

The sleepy capital is becoming a hi-tech hub to be reckoned with.   When Time magazine picked Jerusalem as the world’s top emerging technological hub in… Read More ›

Jerusalem is undividable

Jerusalem is undividable

Op-ed: Instead of dividing Israel’s capital, we must expand it and strengthen its Jewish majority. How? Annexing Ma’ale Adumim to Jerusalem will dramatically affect the… Read More ›

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

27-year-old plantation owner Francis Salvador made history on Jan. 11, 1775, when he was appointed to the South Carolina Provincial Congress   JTA — Long… Read More ›

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

Washington – Lawsuits Over Trump Business Threaten To Tie Up Presidency

  Washington – As a businessman, Donald Trump has kept the courts busy. That’s hardly likely to change when he enters the Oval Office, creating… Read More ›

Two reconciliations for two people

Two reconciliations for two people

Op-ed: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely not end before a peace is achieved between the rival camps in the two populations. Until that happens, we… Read More ›

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

Suspicion surrounds rabbinical courts convening remotely, conversions to Judaism based on long-distance Jewish learning rather than in-person rabbinic counseling   JTA — The morning of… Read More ›

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

In ‘Barry,’ Adam Mansbach and Vikram Gandhi take a crack at portraying future president Barack Obama’s campus isolation during his Columbia years   SAN FRANCISCO… Read More ›

AG formally confirms Netanyahu is under investigation, details cases already closed

AG formally confirms Netanyahu is under investigation, details cases already closed

Avichai Mandelblit says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to justify criminal probe over suspicion the PM received ‘improper benefits from businessmen’   Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit… Read More ›

Trump on Russia sanctions: Time to move on, but I’ll meet with intelligence agencies anyway

Trump on Russia sanctions: Time to move on, but I’ll meet with intelligence agencies anyway

  President-elect Donald Trump responded Thursday to President Barack Obama’s fresh sanctions against Russia, saying that it’s “time to move on,” but that he’ll meet… Read More ›

Taipei – Chinese Carrier Enters South China Sea Amid Renewed Tension

Taipei – Chinese Carrier Enters South China Sea Amid Renewed Tension

  Taipei – A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the top half of the South China Sea on… Read More ›

Israel curbs working ties with nations that voted for UN resolution

Israel curbs working ties with nations that voted for UN resolution

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered his nation’s Foreign Ministry to temporarily limit all working ties with the embassies of the 12 UN… Read More ›

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

Addressing Russian-speaking Jews, Israeli leaders born behind the Iron Curtain say American Jewry is in more ‘danger’ than Jews in France, Iran, or Ukraine  … Read More ›

Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

Israel’s El Al looks to new planes to reassert dominance

El Al’s main advantage has long been tough security; average age of its long-haul fleet is 18 years; airline, pilots in new wage deal to… Read More ›

The last dance at Amona

The last dance at Amona

With the clock ticking, hundreds gather in the wildcat outpost, slated for evacuation by next Sunday, to protest, comfort and celebrate   The Amona outpost… Read More ›

Tillerson’s past offers few clues on his Middle East perspective

Tillerson’s past offers few clues on his Middle East perspective

Trump’s choice for secretary of state, an oil man, will come under scrutiny for his broad opposition to sanctions.   WASHINGTON – Donald Trump announced… Read More ›

Paris – John Kerry Awarded French Legion Of Honor For Peace-making

Paris – John Kerry Awarded French Legion Of Honor For Peace-making

  Paris –  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is now an officer in France’s Legion of Honor. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault bestowed the… Read More ›

Trump taps Iowa Gov. Branstad for China ambassador

Trump taps Iowa Gov. Branstad for China ambassador

  Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has been picked for the post of US ambassador to China by President-elected Donald Trump. Trump spokesperson Jason Miller confirmed… Read More ›

Police interview IDF officials on submarine affair

Police interview IDF officials on submarine affair

Ongoing police investigation into role in submarine scandal of David Shomron, PM’s attorney, reveals that IDF officers were involved; police gather officers’ testimony. Police collected… Read More ›

Today’s counter-culture Millennials increasingly turn off, tune in, and go analog, says author

Today’s counter-culture Millennials increasingly turn off, tune in, and go analog, says author

In new book, David Sax reports on comeback of real things and explains why it matters to people of all ages   When author David… Read More ›