Articles by: JewishNews-Limor

Senior Israeli official: World needs to see through Abbas’s ‘charade’

Senior Israeli official: World needs to see through Abbas’s ‘charade’

Official says world should finally hold Abbas “accountable” for his behavior.   The international community should end the “charade” whereby Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas… Read More ›

Republican professor: Carly Fiorina ‘took credit for HP’s comeback’ that was really thanks to Mark Hurd

Republican professor: Carly Fiorina ‘took credit for HP’s comeback’ that was really thanks to Mark Hurd

  After Carly Fiorina was fired as Hewlett-Packard’s CEO in 2005, Seton Hall University business professor Dr. A.D. Amar took a deep look at what went… Read More ›

A man who used to be ‘the Kremlin’s banker’ is suing Russia for $10 billion

A man who used to be ‘the Kremlin’s banker’ is suing Russia for $10 billion

  The man who used to be known as “the Kremlin’s banker” is suing Russia. On Monday, Sergei Pugachev filed a claim against Russia for over $10 billion… Read More ›

New Delhi – India Turns To Israel For Armed Drones As Pakistan, China Build Fleets

New Delhi – India Turns To Israel For Armed Drones As Pakistan, China Build Fleets

  New Delhi – India has accelerated plans to buy drones from Israel that can be armed, defense sources said, allowing the military to carry… Read More ›

Iran deal adoption to take place Oct. 18, no date set yet for sanctions relief

Iran deal adoption to take place Oct. 18, no date set yet for sanctions relief

Controversial accord to be implemented next month; US says Tehran must take steps to satisfy IAEA before punitive measures removed   WASHINGTON (JTA) — The… Read More ›

A giant of the private equity industry just got smoked on a big energy bet

A giant of the private equity industry just got smoked on a big energy bet

  It’s official: Samson Resources, the Oklahoma-based oil-and-gas exploration company, has gone bust. The company filed for Chapter 11 late Wednesday. That means private equity… Read More ›

Tesla is moving to secure the critical resource it needs for its future

Tesla is moving to secure the critical resource it needs for its future

  Tesla builds electric cars, but it also builds batteries — and with the development of its Gigafactory in Nevada, in association with Panasonic, it… Read More ›

Billionaire JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon says there’s no point in slashing CEO pay

Billionaire JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon says there’s no point in slashing CEO pay

  JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says it’s OK that chief executives get paid way more than their average employees — and that cutting down on… Read More ›

Irving, TX – Muslim Group Doesn’t Fault School Or Police For Boy’s Arrest

Irving, TX – Muslim Group Doesn’t Fault School Or Police For Boy’s Arrest

  Irving, TX – One of the largest Muslim groups in Texas said Thursday that it does not fault police and school officials who handcuffed… Read More ›

San Francisco – Amazon Dangles $50 Tablet Computer To Hook More Consumers

San Francisco – Amazon Dangles $50 Tablet Computer To Hook More Consumers

  San Francisco – Amazon is dangling a $50 tablet computer in its latest attempt to lure consumers who can’t afford or don’t want the… Read More ›

Rochester, NH – Trump Declines To Correct Man Who Says Obama Is Muslim

Rochester, NH – Trump Declines To Correct Man Who Says Obama Is Muslim

  Rochester, NH – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner who said President Barack Obama is Muslim. Trump was holding a… Read More ›

New York City’s mayor will require all of the city’s public schools to teach computer science

New York City’s mayor will require all of the city’s public schools to teach computer science

  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce Wednesday that the city’s public schools will be required to offer classes in computer science… Read More ›

Roanoke, VA – On-air Shooting Survivor Makes 1st Public Comments

Roanoke, VA – On-air Shooting Survivor Makes 1st Public Comments

Roanoke, VA – The woman who survived an on-air shooting that killed two TV journalists in Virginia says the gunman never said a word. In… Read More ›

New York – How The Dow Jones Industrial Average Fared During Rosh Hashanah

New York – How The Dow Jones Industrial Average Fared During Rosh Hashanah

  New York – U.S. stocks rose sharply on Tuesday, a day before the start of a crucial Federal Reserve meeting. Policymakers at the U.S.… Read More ›

United Nations – UN: Israel-Palestinian Clashes A Threat Beyond Jerusalem

United Nations – UN: Israel-Palestinian Clashes A Threat Beyond Jerusalem

  United Nations – The U.N.‘s Mideast envoy warned Tuesday that clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in and around Jerusalem’s holy sites have the potential… Read More ›

On Rosh Hashana, challenge the lives we have created

On Rosh Hashana, challenge the lives we have created

Op-ed: A Jewish society is one which understands that to be fully human is not to accept our failings; to be fully human is to… Read More ›

Israeli mini-scanner tells what’s in food, drink or pills

Israeli mini-scanner tells what’s in food, drink or pills

Start-up launches pocket molecular sensor that can tell you how many calories are in that burger, if that jacket is real leather, how ripe that… Read More ›

Uproar in Lebanon after general’s death reported

Uproar in Lebanon after general’s death reported

A report says that Antoine Lahad, former commander of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army, is dead and will be buried in Lebanon, sparking a social… Read More ›

Taiwan awards ‘China’s Schindler’ presidential honor

Taiwan awards ‘China’s Schindler’ presidential honor

Envoy to Vienna issued thousands of visas to Jews trapped in Austria during World War II.   TAIPEI – Daniel Weihs, who served as the Science… Read More ›

Germany’s Merkel sees need to cooperate with Russia on Syria

Germany’s Merkel sees need to cooperate with Russia on Syria

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his Russian, French and Ukrainian counterparts in Berlin on Saturday evening.   Germany and other western European powers need… Read More ›