JERUSALEM — Amar’e Stoudemire, who retired from the NBA last week, reportedly has closed a deal to play with the Israeli basketball team Hapoel Jerusalem, which he co-owns. International sports journalist David Pick tweeted the news on Sunday evening. Stoudemire has called a news conference for Monday, where he is expected to make the announcement…
Ruth Lawrence, whose Oxford professor predicted she would be an English Einstein when she joined the math department aged 10, is now a happily married Orthodox Jewish mother of four in Jerusalem. Lawrence, once the youngest person to win a place at Oxford — and now 44, teaches physicists at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem,…
A Chinese consortium has agreed to acquire the Israeli Playtika, Caesars Interactive Entertainment’s online games unit, for $4.4 billion in cash. Playtika makes its games such as Bingo Blitz and Slotomania available on Apple App Store. Playtika will continue to operate independently with its own management team and its headquarters remaining in Herzliya, Israel, following…
Dave Schwartz, the beloved long-time meteorologist for the Weather Channel, succumbed to cancer on Saturday July 30, according to an announcement on weather.com. The 63-year-old Philadelphia native had beaten previous bouts of cancer over a ten year period. In 2006 he was diagnosed with stage 2 pancreatic cancer and a Whipple procedure was not able…
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man who attempted to stab Israeli soldiers monitoring a West Bank checkpoint was shot and killed by the troops. The man arrived Sunday at the Hawara checkpoint near Nablus in a private car and parked it near Israeli soldiers there. He then left the car and ran toward the soldiers while…
JERUSALEM — Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot arrived in the United States to meet with his U.S. counterpart. Eizenkot traveled to the U.S. on Sunday for an “official work visit” with U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, the IDF said in a statement. Eizenkot also is…
— Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders referenced his family’s Jewish history in condemning GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s attack on the parents of an American Muslim soldier killed in Iraq. “I’m Jewish. My father’s family died in concentration camps. I will do everything I can to rid this country of the ugly stain of…
— U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met in Paris with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. During Saturday afternoon’s meeting, the two leaders “discussed regional challenges and constructive ideas for the way forward to support our shared goal of a two-state solution,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. “Secretary Kerry stressed the…
With 99 days to go to the General Election there’s a temporary lull in the frenzy of political speculation and action that has accompanied the campaigns since last October. One of the loudest questions being asked on this day — though presumably few days hereafter — is who designed Hillary Clinton’s statement white pantsuit? The…
Schindler’s list is famous, his later life not so much. A letter from Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews during the war, describing his post-war financial and personal plight is up for sale for in excess of $30,000 from [Moments in Time.}(http://momentsintime.com/oskar-schindler-writes-i-ask-myself-if-its-even-worth-living/#.V50ge-srKHs%22) After the war Schindler tried to relocate to…
(JTA) — Human cruelty “did not end in Auschwitz,” Pope Francis said. In Krakow, following his historic visit to the Nazi death camp in Poland Friday, the pope compared contemporary atrocities around the world to the atrocities in Auschwitz, The Associated Press reported. Citing torture and overcrowded prisons, the pope said, “We say, yes, there…
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