Photo Credit: NIF.org The New Israel Fund has announced the creation of a fundraising avenue to enable philanthropic contributions to organizations, including anti-Israel ones such as IfNotNow, that are excluded by major American Jewish organizations and local federations. The Progressive Jewish Fund (PJF) was launched on Oct. 23 to allow donations to groups that mainstream […]
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LAS VEGAS (JTA) — Congregation Ner Tamid is located a half an hour drive away from the Las Vegas Strip, where each luxury hotel seems more extravagant than the next and even on a Sunday morning people can be found crowding around blackjack tables and sitting in front of slot machines in the glitzy casinos. […]
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By Contributing Author Area codes may nowadays not be the things everyone is talking about, but they become important when, all of a sudden, you move to a different country or region. In fact, nobody seems to care two straws about which code is given to their region. However, we often need to know area […]
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U.S. President Donald Trump waited on the phone for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani who refused to join the call, the New York Times reported Monday.The call was to take place last week on a secure line set up by French President Emmanuel Macron who was on hand to wait for the Iranian leader who refused […]
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The world’s Jewish population has not yet grown to be as large as it was before the Holocaust. Most of them live in Israel and the United States, the fewest in Yemen On the eve of the year 5799, the number of Jews in the world stands at about 14.8 million. The largest Jewish community, […]
Continue ReadingJohn Wolpert leads Web3Studio, a unit of ConsenSys. Before joining ConsenSys in 2017, he served as the global product executive for IBM Blockchain and co-founder of Hyperledger. In 2015, the Ethereum public mainnet launched, followed by a raft of private blockchain offerings targeting the enterprise. This opened the floodgates on companies prioritizing collaboration, funding long-overdue […]
Continue ReadingScott A. Shay is co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank of New York and the author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism (Post Hill Press, 2018). Allowing Facebook to mint its own coin, the Libra, would turn it into the greatest anti-competitive trust case in history. It would make the early 20th century Morgans or Rockefellers seem […]
Continue ReadingIn the relentless cat-and-mouse game between regulators and cryptocurrency developers, the cats are about to add some serious firepower – this time in the form of a global alliance. But if you think the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force’s forthcoming know-your-customer (KYC) compliance standards spell the end for the mice, think again. If anything, the […]
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Since ones started to deceive, the others started to develop methods for detecting deception and determining the truth. These methods in various aspects involve interviews and interrogations in attempt of making the deception visible and revealing the facts the deceiver cannot freely confess. In the 20th century, the discovery of lies acquired scientific dimensions regarding […]
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Crypto exchange Binance, the world’s largest by volume, suspended withdrawals of the tether (USDT) stablecoin Monday morning during what it called a period of heightened activity. Withdrawal functionality has since been returned, according to Binance’s website, which previously stated “wallet maintenance, withdrawal suspended” on the page for USDT. A customer service administrator on the platform’s […]
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