JERUSALEM (JTA) — A California-based company is acquiring the tech firm Orbotech for $3.4 billion in what is reported to be one of the largest buyouts of an Israeli company. KLA-Tencor Corp., a manufacturer of semiconductor equipment, and Orbotech announced the deal on Monday. Orbotech, based in the central Israel city of Yavne, develops technologies…
(JTA) — Inspired by an Oscar-nominated American film, activists against anti-Semitism in Britain raised thousands of dollars for erecting three billboards outside the headquarters of the Labour Party. Days after setting up an appeal for donations on an online crowd-funding platform, the Community United against Labour Party Antisemitism, or Culpa, group raised $4,860 out of their…
The Kentucky Legislature is considering mandating the last Wednesday in September as “A Day of Prayer for Kentucky’s Students.” House Bill 40 passed the Kentucky House last week on a vote of 83-5 and now goes to the state Senate for its consideration. The bill states that students would participate in the Day of Prayer…
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has taken to Instagram to document his Israel trip. His fans are loving it. Within two hours of uploading a photo of his night out at a Jerusalem bar, Musk racked up almost 250,000 likes. “Learning how to pour flaming absinthe over a tower of glasses in Gatsby,…
Engine malfunction forced a helicpter carrying Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to the ground last week, law enforcement officials told CNN. The couple was flying from Washington, D.C. to New York when on the engines on their twin-engine helicopter, owned by the Trump Organiation, failed, forcing a quick landing. The couple ended up taking a…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Torah tells how God created the earth and the heavens, although the stories that follow tell us more about the former than the latter. A new exhibit doesn’t quite answer theological questions about space, but it does show the ways in which Jews have looked at, written about and traveled into…
The Weinstein Company, once led by Harvey and his brother Bob Weinstein, is filing for bankruptcy after Harvey Weinstein was fired in October over numerous reports that he sexually assaulted and raped several women, the New York Times reported. Weinstein has also become infamous for having many women whom he sexually harassed or assaulted sign…
D.C. Councilman Trayon White has issued an apology for his earlier claim that a Jewish family controls the weather. White made the accusation in a now-deleted video he posted following a snowstorm on Friday. “It’s climate manipulation,” he said. “D.C. keep talking about ‘We are a resilient city,’ and that’s a model based off the…
The New York City Council will investigate a recent report that Jared Kushner’s family real estate business filed dozens of false construction permits, New York 1 reported Monday. The permits, uncovered by the Associated Press, falsely stated that there were no rent-controlled units in their buildings in order to expedite construction approval. Housing advocates accused…
Pressure is mounting on Mark Zuckerberg to speak publicly about Facebook’s alleged misuse of personal data about over 50 million users, Bloomberg Technology reported. Facebook recently admitted that it allowed the data to be used offline by Cambridge Analytica, the political research firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Republican mega-donor Robert Mercer. The data…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Keith Ellison, the deputy chairman of the Democratic Party, said he has never had a relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the virulently anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam. He accused critics who are pressing him to explain his relationship to Farrakhan of trying to divide Jews and blacks, but also only…
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