JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Jesus. He shows up on toast. He appears on dental X-rays. He manifests in Lane 5 of a bowling alley in a viral drone video. Sorry, we don’t mean that itinerant Jewish preacher from the first century. We mean the John Turturro character from “The Big Lebowski.” In a 90 second short, directed by Anthony…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is nearing completion of new “Buy American” rules to make it easier to sell U.S.-made military drones overseas and compete against fast-growing Chinese and Israeli rivals, senior U.S. officials said. The changes, part of a broader effort to overhaul U.S. arms export protocols, could be rolled out by the…
Israeli scientists are using whiteflies, tiny insects that feed on the undersides of leaves, to create better drone technology. Tel Aviv University researchers say that the fly could serve as a model for stability in small drones, based on the fact that the propel their bodies forward before flapping their wings in flight. “Whiteflies take…
JERUSALEM – Israel has charged a Palestinian computer hacker from the Gaza Strip with breaking into Israeli military drone camera systems for Islamic militants and gleaning details of civilian aircraft movements. Beersheba District Court said on Wednesday it had charged Majd Oweida, 22, with designing several computer programs to help the Islamic Jihad group –…
The AFL-CIO posts the following question on it Web site: “The sustained war on workers from the right has left unions trying to prevent rights from being weakened rather than setting the agenda. Where are the opportunities to play some offense?” The answers are all over the lot; no coherent agenda is evident. But that…
