Category: Israel

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 — […]

Photo Credit: Wikimedia / Adam E. Moreira New York Police Department vehicle A Jewish woman was “physically harassed’ — a technical term that does not address the trauma she experienced in what was actually an attack — by two black teens (male and female) on the final day of 2019 in the Crown Heights section […]

Photo Credit: Hana Levi Julian (illustrative) A Jewish teen was threatened Monday night by a pair of armed anti-Semites in the Bensonhurt section of Brooklyn, according to a report published by the New York Post. The attackers yelled, “Hey Jew boy” as they flashed a knife at the 17-year-old, who was walking on Avenue O […]

Photo Credit: Solidarity Rally No Hate. No Fear. Jewish leaders are calling for tri-state Jews, “our friends in the Black community” and friends and supporters in every other community as well for that matter to “come out and stand with us” in a solidarity march and rally this coming Sunday, January 5, to say “NO […]

Photo Credit: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially presented a request for immunity Wednesday evening in a 71-point letter handed to Yuli Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset, in connection with the indictments he faces in three criminal cases. The letter, written by the prime minister’s defense attorneys […]

Photo Credit: courtesy, Neumann family via Twitter / OJPAC Yosef Neumann’s injuries after an anti-Semitic attacker with a machete stabbed and slashed him seven times at a Chanukah celebration in Monsey, Dec. 28 2019 A 70-year-old father of seven and grandfather of many more, hospitalized in critical condition after a machete attack on a Chanukah […]

Photo Credit: Jewish Press Siyum HaShas in Yerushalayim for English Speakers 5780 The International Convention Center in Jerusalem was packed to the rafters Wednesday night (Jan. 1 2020) as Talmud scholars and regular Jews alike joined to celebrate the conclusion of daily study of the Talmud at the Siyum HaShas for English Speakers. There are […]