Author: David Rutman

Sacha Baron Cohen Trial of the Chicago 7 Promo Pic Oscar nominee Sacha Baron Cohen will star in Oscar winner Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” due out next month. The Jewish star Cohen will play the Jewish political personality from the 1960s Abbie Hoffman, in a film written and directed by the […]

Matt Lauer Estate From Listing Matt Lauer has put his Hamptons estate back on the market for a measly $43.995 million. The disgraced former Today Show star first bought the home in 2016 from Richard Gere for $36.5 million. The 62 year old Lauer has been trying to sell the estate for more than a […]

Investment firm Greenfield Partners raises $150 million for Israel’s tech ecosystem The capital is to be invested in early growth-stage tech companies.[IsraelDefense 13, Sept 2020] Israeli venture capitalist leads investor rounds for two tech companies  aMoon, an Israeli venture capital firm, has taken part in a $30 million Series A round of financing in the British […]

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year is one of the most important dates in the Jewish calendar and is thought to be the day God created Adam and Eve. Friday night marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah 2020, the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah translates into “head of the year” in Hebrew. The holiday is […]

Research at Rambam and the Technion finds: Cancer patients may not be at high risk for the Coronavirus disease A first-of-its-kind study examining the assumption that cancer patients are an at-risk group for COVID-19 finds that these patients do not get infected any more than the general population and do not suffer from more severe […]

Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish billionaire casino and resorts mogul, will give President Trump’s reelection campaign a much needed boost of up to $50 million in new donations. This according to a CNBC report. In the super- PAC (political action committee) era, money can be funneled to these private organizations which are not restricted by campaign […]

Distinguished Wharton School of business in Philadelphia is now offering full scholarships to Israeli MBA students. The money for the scholarships comes from a $10 million endowment made by the Yuri and Julia Milner Foundation. The money will be used for the new Friends of Israel MBA Fund, which will provide full-tuition and financial support […]

The new Oculus Quest 2 is now available for about $300. In 2014 Facebook acquired the Oculus virtual reality company for $2 billion. So in spite of a global recession caused by the Corona Virus pandemic, virtual reality gear seems to still be in high demand. Well people do need a distraction from the boredom […]

Clare Bronfman Leaving Court News ScreenShot Clare Bronfman, heir to the Seagram’s empire, could spend five years in federal prison. That’s if federal prosecutors get their way. Bronfman is accused of bankrolling the infamous Nxivm sex cult. People were shocked when the Nxivm story broke. The cult somehow got women to allow themselves to be […]

Live streaming service CBS All Access, a ViacomCBS company, will be renamed Paramount+ and expand into international markets. Paramount, a movie and television studio, and the CBS television network are both part of the media empire created by the late Sumner Redstone. His daughter, Shari Redstone, currently serves as the chairman of ViacomCBS. So what’s […]