Bar Ilan’s Dr. Elie Holzer Awarded National Jewish Book Award
Bar Ilan University in Israel’s Dr. Elie Holzer, of the Churgin School of Education, will receive the prestigious 2014 National Jewish Book Award for his work “A Philosophy of Havruta: Understanding More...
Mazor Robotics Sold Six Renaissance Systems to End Year with Increased Profits
Israel’s Mazor Robotics, a developer of innovative guidance systems and complementary products, announced that in the last quarter of 2014 it both received orders for, and delivered, six Renaissance More...
February Cover Girl Gwyneth Paltrow Tells All to Marie Claire
Gwyneth Paltrow is the February cover girl for Marie Claire magazine. The publication is now offering a sneak peak of her interview on line in which the actress talks about her upcoming movie and her high profile More...
Jewish Celebrities We Lost in 2015
The saddest part of the end of the year is remembering all of the great people who we lost. We have compiled a list of some of the most important Jewish figures who passed away in 2014. If you think that we More...
All calm amid political storm at ‘Interview’ premiere
– All was calm on Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of Sony Pictures’ parody film “The Interview”, which had been in the spotlight for sparking tension with North Korea More...
Google News to shut in Spain ahead of new publisher rights law
– Google said it was closing its news-linking service in Spain next week due to new legislation under which publishers can charge search engines for using their content. In a statement, the global Internet More...
Hungary Acknowledges Own Jewish Geniuses, Frames Scientific Cooperation with Israel
The Hungarian-Israeli Scientific Society was formally established at Bar-Ilan University this week to promote scientific cooperation between the two countries. Bar-Ilan University President Professor Daniel More...
Jill Abramson Now Writes Traffic Stories
Jill Abramson is trying to make a comeback after having been ousted six months ago from her position as the first woman executive editor of the New York Times. Her latest groundbreaking work in investigative More...
Reporter Says AP Banned Interviews with Pro-Israel Professor
This report was originally published by The Jewish Press In a wide-ranging piece that covers mostly old ground in a new way and for a new audience, former Associated Press journalist Matti Friedman reveals More...
B’Tselem NGO Rebukes Its Palestinian Researcher for Denying the Holocaust
By Tzvi Zucker Atef Abu Al-Rub, a field researcher at Israeli Human rights NGO B’Tselem, made headlines in Israel when Israeli journalist Tuvia Tenenbom released video evidence of Al-Rub denying the More...