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CBS News Veteran Dies

News Videos | The Huffington Post | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Rosenbaum, an award-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel,...

World's first nationwide electric car network gets its first roll-out in Israel

World | FoxNews.com | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network.

World Briefing | Middle East: Bahrain: Unity Plan Denounced

Middle East | The New York Times | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed onto a major highway on Friday to criticize a proposal by Saudi Arabia for a closer union with Bahrain.

News Analysis: The Fight Over Who Fights in Israel

World | The New York Times | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

A question of exemption from army service for the ultra-Orthodox has come to a boil.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews plan huge NYC meeting on internet risks

News U.S. | USATODAY.com | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Ultra-Orthodox Jews have rented the New York Mets' stadium for a gathering on how to use modern technology in a religiously appropriate way.

Latest in Business and Finance

Electric car network gets first test in Israel

Business News | The Miami Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?

Electric car network gets first test in Israel

Business News | The Miami Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?

Electric car network gets first test in Israel

Business News | The Miami Herald | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi has begun rolling out the world's first nationwide electric car network. Now, will the drivers come?

Michael Rosenbaum, CBS Producer, Dies at 64

Business News | The New York Times | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

The former Tel Aviv bureau chief for CBS News produced shows for “60 Minutes,” including the first television interview with the family of the Unabomber, Theodore J. Kaczynski.

Mellanox Avoids Flaws Seen In Many Israeli Stocks

Business News | Investors.com | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

Mellanox Technologies makes sure that its customers' servers and data-storage systems all get along, even if those systems weren't made to work with each other. Mellanox's clients need to connect...

Latest in Science and Technology

VIDEO: Barn owl love knows no borders

Technology | BBC | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

Barn owls used to catch mice and rats in the fields of Jordan and Israel are breeding in specially set-up nesting boxes.

Israel May Be Dropping Spies In Iran Using Secret American Stealth BlackHawk Helicopters [Aircraft]

Technology | Gizmodo.com | Thursday, 17 May 2012 | Comments

Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims that Israel is using the same ultra-secret stealth H-60 Blackhawk helicopter that...

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PopSci Q&A: NASA Just Gave You A Telescope. What Will You Look At First?

Technology | PopSci.com | Thursday, 17 May 2012 | Comments

!--paging_filter--For the first time, NASA turns over the reins to a functioning spacecraft If you follow NASA at all, you know the agency has had some funding troubles of late, forcing changes...

Abraham’s genetic threads | Gene Expression

Technology | DiscoverMagazine.com | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | Comments

Every few days my Google Alerts have been dropping in my inbox reviews of Harry Osters’ Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People. The latest, is in the The Tablet, A Case for Genetic...

Abraham’s genetic threads | Gene Expression

Technology | DiscoverMagazine.com | Wednesday, 16 May 2012 | Comments

Every few days my Google Alerts have been dropping in my inbox reviews of Harry Osters’ Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People. The latest, is in the The Tablet, A Case for Genetic...

Jewish Life and Style

How Aharon Appelfeld chronicled the Holocaust

Jewish Books | The Independent | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

Blooms of Darkness, in Green's graceful, grave and irresistibly readable English version, tells the story of Hugo, a young Jewish boy in an occupied town in eastern Europe who loses his parents...

Terror survivor's show takes swing at conventions

Art & Culture | YnetNews.com | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

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Haggai Leffler, who survived one of the most gruesome terror attacks to hit Tel Aviv in 1990s, channels horrific experience into creating a unique exhibition following the escapade of a...

Introducing: The Jordanian Talmud

Art & Culture | YnetNews.com | Saturday, 19 May 2012 | Comments

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More than 90 Jordanian researchers have spent six years translating the Babylonian Talmud into Arabic. In Amman, a set of Shas sells for $750 – and there's strong demand for copies in other Arab...

The Innocents, By Francesca Segal

Jewish Books | The Independent | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

In a humorous and touching re-working of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence, debut novelist Francesca Segal substitutes for 1870s New York a tightly-knit Jewish community in present-day...

Just Send Me Word, a True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag, By Orlando Figes

Jewish Books | The Independent | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

The gulag has never won the public profile of the Nazi concentration camps. Some 18 million people passed through the Soviet Union's labour camps. Millions died. But, for Russians and foreigners...

Jewish Entertainment

Former CBS News producer Rosenbaum dies at 64

Celebrities & Entertainment | The Miami Herald | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

Michael Rosenbaum, an award-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, has died. He was 64.

Sacha Baron Cohen stoned by angry mob

Celebrities & Entertainment | Daily Express | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

Comedian SACHA BARON COHEN fled for his life when he was targeted by rock-wielding protesters in Israel after angering them with his antics as camp fashionista Bruno.

The Dictator review: The Mail's critic salutes Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic creation

Celebrities & Entertainment | Daily Mail | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen's funniest film. It tells the story of a North African dictator who tortures and executes his people and is building weapons of mass destruction with which he...

David Wild: A Chart Topping Playlist For "The Billboard Music Awards"

Celebrities & Entertainment | The Huffington Post | Friday, 18 May 2012 | Comments

I started reading Billboard well before my Bar Mitzvah, so I always enjoy being a writer for the Billboard Music Awards -- a show that's...

Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story

Celebrities & Entertainment | NYPost.com | Thursday, 17 May 2012 | Comments

Reverential to a fault, this documentary celebrates the heroism of the only Israeli officer killed during the 1976 raid on Palestinian terrorists holding 103 hostages at the terminal of the...

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