The aliyah organization Nefesh B\’Nefesh says it has slashed18 percent of its staff and is cutting the salaries of its remaining employees. The organization last week made across-the-board cuts of 15 employees. Salary cuts were instituted at all levels as well, according to Yael Katsman, NBN marketing and communications director. The cuts were first reported Thursday in Haaretz.
The trustee for the Bernard Madoff estate has sued the owners of the New York Mets, claiming they should have known the money made with Madoff was done so nefariously.
Jewish groups are satisfied that a decision by Canada\’s best-known department store chain to drop an Israeli beauty line is unrelated to boycott calls. A joint statement Thursday by The Bay stores, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Canada Israel Committee said The Bay was dropping AHAVA beauty products \”primarily because of sales results which had been declining for several years.\” The announcement came days after a pro-Palestinian coalition, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, launched a boycott campaign against The Bay for selling the popular AHAVA line of Dead Sea beauty products.
The number of Jewish households in the greater Baltimore has grown substantially in the past dozen years. A new demographic study of the Baltimore Jewish community also shows that Baltimore\’s Jewish population has jumped by 2,000 people since the last survey, conducted in 1999. Baltimore is home to 93,400 Jews, according to the 2010 Greater Baltimore Jewish Community Study conducted by Ukeles Associates on behalf of the Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore.
The largest settlement to date in the Bernard Madoff multi-billion dollar Ponzi scandal has been approved by a U.S. judge today, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Haifa is poised to be the next home to a Disney amusement park. A 20-acre, $168 million entertainment complex including a 25-screen multiplex and a Disney amusement park is set to be built near the Carmel Tunnel.
Alter Communications, which publishes the Baltimore Jewish Times, is set to emerge from bankruptcy.
Google has acquired its first Israeli company.
Tensions flared in the Senate during an otherwise slow afternoon Thursday when Sen. Joe Lieberman asked for unanimous consent to extend some remarks on health care for \”an additional moment.\” He didn\’t get it.
Israeli sales of Coca-Cola drinks have dropped dramatically following a recall of bottles with contents that smelled of sulfur.
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