“We’re building, grooving, growing.” So says Dov Charney, the disgraced ex-CEO of American Apparel, in Bloomberg. But he’s not talking about American Apparel — the company liquidated its inventory after declaring bankruptcy a second time in January of this year. Charney has a new company — Los Angeles Apparel — and he’s using the same…
The White House just disclosed the salaries of the people working in the Executive Office, and it doesn’t look good for the Jews. Three employees receive no money at all for their role in the Trump administration, and all of them are Jewish. Another receives $30,000 annually — tied for the lowest non-zero salary on…
When Orit Hashay began raising money for a start-up selling bras online, she found that many potential investors were concerned with one thing: the fact that she was pregnant. “While the investors liked my ideas, they seemed preoccupied with the prospect of me becoming a mother and how it might change my priorities,” Hashay told…
(JTA) — Iran has imposed sanctions on 15 American companies over their alleged support for Israel. The announcement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry accuses the United States of “propping up the Zionist regime, terrorists and suppressing civilians in the region,” the state agency IRNA reported. The announcement comes two days after the United States issued…
Just like her father, Ivanka Trump pledged to resign from all her positions in the family business. But so far, she hasn’t filed the paperwork, a ProPublica investigation found. “I will take a formal leave of absence from The Trump Organization and my eponymous apparel and accessories brand,” Ivanka Trump wrote in a Facebook post…
We may think that what happens in our doctor’s office is confidential, but, in reality, our medical secrets fuel a multi-billion-dollar trade in patient information. The leading firm in this opaque data trade is QuintilesIMS, a company founded as IMS in 1954 by an enigmatic German immigrant named Ludwig Wolfgang Frohlich. Today, the company that…
Dear Ivanka and Jared, Please excuse the informality of my greeting. Your celebrity has become so ubiquitous that first names are all that’s needed. You are, right now, the most powerful Jews in America, and I trust you recognize the significance of your position seriously enough to listen to my plea. Because I’m worried. The…
A Chinese consortium has agreed to purchase the Israeli social media games company Playtika for $4.4 billion in cash. The consortium is buying the company from Caesars Interactive Entertainment, which acquired Playtika in 2011, for about $170 million. Caesars reportedly is selling the unit to pay down debt. The deal is one of the largest…
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