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Uber investor Shervin Pishevar accuses Benchmark of wreaking havoc on Uber and says he’ll intervene in lawsuit against Travis Kalanick

Uber investor Shervin Pishevar accuses Benchmark of wreaking havoc on Uber and says he’ll intervene in lawsuit against Travis Kalanick

  Shervin Pishevar and Steve Russell, a fellow Uber investor, are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit that Benchmark filed against Uber founder, Travis Kalanick.… Read More ›

Israel Watches Tag-Team Operation Against ISIS Nervously

Israel Watches Tag-Team Operation Against ISIS Nervously

All the regional forces engaging in the fight against ISIS are Israel’s enemies, but so is ISIS – what is the Jewish state to do?… Read More ›

Can Greenblatt succeed where his predecessors failed?

Can Greenblatt succeed where his predecessors failed?

Op-ed: To succeed in his mission, Trump’s Middle East envoy needs to create an updated and revised version of the Saudi peace initiative by limiting… Read More ›

Rabbis scrap High Holidays call with Trump in protest

Rabbis scrap High Holidays call with Trump in protest

Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative leaders say they cannot take part in annual tradition after Charlottesville response   WASHINGTON — Movements representing three streams of American… Read More ›

New York – Regulators, Whole Foods Shareholders Approve Amazon Deal

New York – Regulators, Whole Foods Shareholders Approve Amazon Deal

  New York – Whole Foods shareholders and federal regulators approved Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of the organic grocer, a deal that could bring big… Read More ›

There’s an eerie quiet from North Korea — and it could end with peace or a nuclear detonation

There’s an eerie quiet from North Korea — and it could end with peace or a nuclear detonation

  After a heated exchangeearlier this month between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in which each threatened the other’s country with… Read More ›

Senior PA Official to Britain: We Want Our Own Balfour

Senior PA Official to Britain: We Want Our Own Balfour

“The Balfour Declaration is an historic statement for which Her Majesty’s Government does not intend to apologize.”   Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has… Read More ›

Turning a blind eye to extreme Right or Left anti-Semitism

Turning a blind eye to extreme Right or Left anti-Semitism

Op-ed: The neo-Nazi demonstration last week in Charlottesville was despicable, as was President Trump’s choice to overlook its severity. But it is important for us… Read More ›

When American Jews fought Nazis — in New Jersey

When American Jews fought Nazis — in New Jersey

In 1930s Newark, Jewish gangsters led the ‘Minutemen’ in defending the community against pro-German anti-Semites   JTA — The Nazi punching debate (is it OK… Read More ›

New York – Why Some Jews Are Paying $500 For An Italian Etrog

New York – Why Some Jews Are Paying $500 For An Italian Etrog

  New York – Fifty years ago, leaders of the Chabad movement tasked Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan with supervising the local production and export… Read More ›

Tillerson sees possible pathway to DPRK dialogue

Tillerson sees possible pathway to DPRK dialogue

Washington – Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signaled that the US is open to dialogue with North Korea, a day after the regime in Pyongyang… Read More ›

Rights Group Say Administrative Detention of Arab Citizens ‘Very Alarming’

Rights Group Say Administrative Detention of Arab Citizens ‘Very Alarming’

Five Israeli citizens, all Arab, are currently being held in administrative detention without trial.   The Association for Civil Rights in Israel voiced alarm on… Read More ›

We’re not going anywhere

We’re not going anywhere

Op-ed: Lior Meiri, one of the founders of ‘the New Likudniks,’ explains the controversial new movement’s ambitions to change the Likud party from within; ‘The… Read More ›

State says outpost legalization law protects Palestinians

State says outpost legalization law protects Palestinians

Responding to petition from left-wing NGOs, government insists preventing additional outpost evacuations is in Israel’s ‘national interest’   In its official response Thursday to a… Read More ›

Washington – US Secret Service Says 1,100 Employees Face Unpaid Overtime

Washington – US Secret Service Says 1,100 Employees Face Unpaid Overtime

  Washington – The U.S. Secret Service will not be able to pay an estimated 1,100 employees for required overtime work after September due to… Read More ›

BILLIONAIRE TRUMP ADVISER: CEOs were wrong to abandon the president

BILLIONAIRE TRUMP ADVISER: CEOs were wrong to abandon the president

  Thomas Barrack, a real-estate billionaire and close ally of President Trump, has questioned business leaders who have stopped advising the president. “To abandon the input of… Read More ›

How Will the Netanyahu-Putin Meeting Affect the Region

How Will the Netanyahu-Putin Meeting Affect the Region

Netanyahu will be careful to praise the Russian-Israeli bilateral relations.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to go to Sochi on Wednesday for a… Read More ›

Lebanon, Hezbollah and Syria launch two-pronged attack on ISIS

Lebanon, Hezbollah and Syria launch two-pronged attack on ISIS

After Lebanese army launches a border offensive against the Islamic State Saturday, Hezbollah and Syria mount their own border attacks; ‘We’re confronting ISIS terrorists to… Read More ›

A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment

A young adult novel gives cancer the comic treatment

Abby Sher has written soulful nonfiction and performed with Chicago’s Second City. Now two worlds combine in a hilariously touching coming of age story  … Read More ›

Portland, OR – Oregon Eclipse Tourists Greeted By Anti-Semitic Banners On Overpass

Portland, OR – Oregon Eclipse Tourists Greeted By Anti-Semitic Banners On Overpass

  Portland, OR – Signs with anti-Semitic messages were hung on highway overpasses in Oregon. The banners were hung on two northbound highways, which were… Read More ›