Israel asked to join U.N. Human Rights Council group
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
Israel was formally invited to join a regional group within the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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December 2, 2013
ADL raps rapper Kanye West for ‘classic anti-Semitism’ [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
The Anti-Defamation League rapped rapper Kanye West over his off-the-cuff remarks in a radio interview that Jews and “oil people” are more well-connected than black people in general and President Obama in particular.
Giving Tuesday: Will it be the latest craze?
Ryan Torok
December 2, 2013
First came Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday, then Cyber Monday and now – Giving Tuesday. In its second year, Giving Tuesday takes place online on Tuesday, Dec. 3, with Jewish nonprofits hoping to raise money for their various causes.
Keene, Kaliningrad and Riga: Confronting the memory of Kristallnacht
Michael Berenbaum
December 2, 2013
I travel for my work; I travel often — my wife and children might say too often. Just before Chanukah, I was in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Canada, New Hampshire, Washington, D.C., and then back home. A hectic schedule is of little interest, but what I experienced might be.
Israeli Arab pleads guilty to Tel Aviv bus bomb
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
An Israeli Arab pleaded guilty on Monday to planting a bomb on a Tel Aviv bus a year ago, during Israel\’s eight-day offensive in the Palestinian Gaza Strip, an Israeli court said.
Noa, Noam most popular names for Jewish babies in Israel
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
Noa for girls and Noam for boys were the most popular names for Jewish babies born in Israel in 2012.
Keeping Start-Up Nation alive: Financing scale-ups by reinventing Israeli capital markets
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
The historic 2010 dual graduation of Israel to developed country status both within the OECD and MSCI country indexes should have opened its markets to a much larger pool of foreign investors. Instead, there has been a real decrease in foreign portfolio investment and an increase in local portfolio outflows, reducing the future of the local capital investments and overall economic growth.
Opinion: A ‘nightmarish’ scenario for the Jewish State
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2013
When I visited Israel in the summer of 2012 and the American Presidential campaign was in full swing, my group met with an anonymous source who told us that the highest levels of the Netanyahu government, possibly including the Prime Minister himself, considered an Obama victory to be “a nightmarish scenario” for the Jewish State. Now, that nightmare has become a reality.
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