Rabbinate will try tracking people born through in vitro fertilization and urge them to voluntarily undergo ‘proper conversion’ to Judaism The Tel Aviv Chief Rabbinate will participate in an operation to locate children born from egg donations, as these children’s religious status may come under question if the donors were not recognized as Jewish. Ynet […]
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Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Bazman1987 New York Hatzolah ambulance (illustrative) This may not have been the first time that Grafton E. Thomas attacked Jews in Monsey. The FBI has allegedly impounded a car registered to the mother of 37-year-old Grafton Thomas, the man suspected of stabbing Chanukah guests with a machete in the Monsey home […]
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Gallup has been asking the U.S. public to name the men and women they admire the most around the world every year since 1948. In 2019, Barack Obama and Donald Trump were tied as the most admired man with 18 percent. No other man was mentioned by more than two percent of respondents and Jimmy Carter, Elon Musk and Bill […]
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Photo Credit: David Garb Israeli startup TriEye on Thursday announced a collaboration with the German sports car manufacturer Porsche to further improve visibility and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV). TriEye has developed Short-Wave Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology, which enhances visibility in adverse weather and night-time conditions. Porsche plans to […]
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Following August announcement that it has expanded its Series A funding round led by Intel Capital, with the participation of Porsche Ventures, Israeli startup TriEye, announced today a collaboration with the German sports car manufacturer Porsche, to further improve visibility and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV). Even when combining several […]
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The United States has reduced the investor visa to two years while most countries receive five-year investor visas; Relocation reduced by one year Recently, and without prior warning, the US government has changed the regulation for Israelis seeking a visa for investment, work, and study in the US. The change includes significant reductions in time […]
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PM affirms bid for parliamentary immunity, saying it is meant to protect public servants from false allegations; Gantz and Liberman vow to instruct respective party lawmakers to vote against the move Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that he will seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution in the three graft cases against him, mere hours […]
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Photo Credit: Flash 90 Avigdor Lieberman While anti-Semitism is on the rise the world over, its ugliest manifestation may be taking place in Israel itself, where Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party, is using a venomous anti-religious election campaign to convince the non-Jewish, Russian-olim community to vote for his party. Reporting for the […]
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Photo Credit: Screenshot Police monitor the scene in the aftermath of a stabbing attack at the home of Rabbi Chaim Rottenberg in Monsey, N.Y., on Dec. 28, the seventh night of Hanukkah. {Originally posted to the JNS website} The doldrums of December took on new meaning this year—most especially for ultra-Orthodox Jews. Holiday cheer was […]
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Photo Credit: courtesy, Williamsburg Shomrim via NY Post Teenage gang in Brooklyn attacks Williamsburg shteibel while Jews are praying. Bad news for Jews in Gotham: not only were there more anti-Semitic incidents this past year in New York City, there was a massive gap between the number of incidents and the arrests that followed — […]
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