Israeli biotech firm CollPlant is trying to patent a technology that that could eventually lead to the three-dimensional printing of hearts, kidneys and other vital human tissues. CollPlant, based in Ness Ziona, has filed a patent application in the United States for its “bio-ink” – made of a proprietary plant product that mimics the qualities…
Warren Buffett is a fan of Israel, and he’s not only saying it – he’s opening his wallet and encouraging other millionaires and billionaires to invest in the country. According to the Jerusalem Post, Buffett will meet with fellow businessmen in New York on Thursday, pressing them to buy up to $140 million in Israeli…
(JTA) — The case of a Maltese European Union official accused of shouting anti-Semitic hate speech at an EU employee and assaulting her has come to trial two years after the incident occurred. EU administrator Stefan Grech allegedly beat a senior employee over the head with a plaque commemorating Italian dictator Benito Mussolini while calling…
President Trump just welcomed another unlikely darling of the Christian right with a history of jilted business partners and employees. The newest member of the president’s personal legal team used to be a Jew. His name is Jay Sekulow and you should know who he is. A Messianic Jew Sekulow, 61, converted in college after…
(JTA) — Former first lady Michelle Obama will speak at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in New York this fall. The event, set for October 25, is billed as “An Evening with Former First Lady Michelle Obama.” No topic for her talk has been announced. Obama advocated for healthy eating and reversing childhood obesity with…
Mark Cuban has a multi-billion dollar business empire that includes the Dallas Mavericks basketball team. And he manages the whole enterprise from his smartphone – shooting off e-mails from his iPhone and Android mobiles. “If I’m laying in bed watching a game, if it’s halftime of a Mav’s game, that’s when I’ll do my emails,”…
Former top Israeli tennis athlete and Special Forces solider Dan Hanegby was killed Monday while biking in Manhattan after he collided with a charter bus. He was killed at about 8:15 a.m. when he swerved to go around a parked van, struck a bus next to him traveling in the same direction and fell off…
If Jared Kushner is indicted, all Jews might suffer. At least, so says Jonathan Sarna, a respected historian of anti-Semitism at Brandeis University. “We ought to be prepared for that eventuality. Somebody ought to be writing a memo,” Sarna told the Times of Israel. “If Kushner is indicted, we need to be prepared.” Kushner is…
David Axelrod laced into President Trump after the administration’s first televised cabinet meeting, blasting the event in which the president’s department secretaries praised in over-the-top terms as reminiscent of a totalitarian regime. “I think it was embarrassing,” Axelrod, the “brain” of former President Barack Obama, said on CNN. “I think the president would have burst…
A lawyer specializing in free-speech cases is representing neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin who has been sued for orchestrating an online trolling campaign against a Jewish real estate agent and her family in Whitefish, Montana. Las Vegas lawyer Marc Randazza is defending the Daily Stormer’s founder against a federal lawsuit that Tanya Gersh filed against him…
(JTA) — The vast majority of Reform and Conservative rabbis affiliate as Democrats, according to a new study. The study, published Sunday by Yale University, found that more than 80 percent of Reform rabbis, and about 70 percent of Conservative rabbis, affiliate as Democrats. Both were among the top five most Democratic clergy of the…
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