JERUSALEM (JTA) — All Israelis in Las Vegas have been located and none were injured the shooting attack on a country music festival that killed 58 and injured more than 500. On Monday the Foreign Ministry had said that up to eighteen Israelis were unaccounted for and considered missing. Some 7,000 Israelis live in Las…
Scientists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for decisive contributions in the observation of gravitational waves, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. Weiss, a professor emeritus at MIT, was born in Germany in 1932 and immigrated to the United States in January of 1939, escaping the Nazi…
A top lawyer at CBS has been fired after she wrote on Facebook that she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of the Las Vegas mass shooting. “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” CBS vice president and senior counsel Hayley…
A columnist for a newspaper owned by billionaire mega-donor Sheldon Adelson repeatedly alleged on Sunday and Monday that the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas was perpetrated by Muslims—even after the police denied any connection to international terrorist organizations. Wayne Allyn Root, a self-proclaimed “Jew turned evangelical Christian” who was the…
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced the creation of a scholarship program named after her late husband that would give low-income college students the ability to focus on school rather than working to pay for tuition. Sandberg made the announcement on her Facebook page Monday on what would have been the 50th birthday of her husband,…
(JTA) — Jewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Amazon is expanding in Israel, setting up Alexa Shopping teams in two cities. The company will open research and development groups in Haifa and Tel Aviv with a total of 100 employees at the start, the Israeli business daily Globes reported. Alexa is a digital personal assistant developed by Amazon that allows…
The Orthodox Union is urging New York City to arrange for kosher certification of a free school lunch program, which observant Jewish and Muslim students have so far not been able to eat. “The mayor is openly discriminating against students in nonpublic and religious schools,” Orthodox Union CEO Allen Fagin told the New York Daily…
Milo Yiannopoulos, the alt-right provocateur who rode President Trump’s coat-tails to prominence, wed an unidentified man in a Hawaii ceremony over the weekend. A post shared by MILO (@milo.yiannopoulos) on Sep 30, 2017 at 10:40pm PDT Yiannopoulos’ husband was identified only as “John,” in photos posted on social media – which showed the two in…
BOSTON (JTA) – A 9-year-old school project to commemorate Holocaust victims surpassed its unlikely goal to collect 11 million stamps – representing the lives of 6 million Jews and 5 million other victims of intolerance who perished. On Friday, the eve of Yom Kippur, a community volunteer for the Holocaust Stamp Project at the Foxborough Regional…
When Dr. Avi Rivkind landed in Las Vegas three years ago to lecture as a trauma care expert, he saw something that troubled him. The airport, McCarran International, felt too open, almost exposed. He felt no less comfortable on the city’s Strip while watching crowds flow from hotels to casinos to shops to the street…
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