Oberlin College’s failure to address the concerns of Jewish students who face a “persistent hostile campus atmosphere” threatens to “compromise its legacy of academic rigor and social justice,” Melissa Landa, president of the Oberlin chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, wrote in the Oberlin Review on Friday. Concern over reports of anti-Semitic incidents on campus...

A small Tel Aviv distillery is poised to become the first Israeli producer to tap into the growing international market for single-malt whisky. “We want people who love the land and love whisky to buy our whisky,” Gal Kalkshtein, owner of Milk & Honey Distillery, told CNN. Since there aren’t enough whisky drinkers...

Multinational corporations looking to hire expatriate Iranians to represent them in the Islamic Republic are finding it difficult to find recruits that are willing to endure the poor living standards, corruption, and dangers to personal safety, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Jobs that reportedly pay $250,000 a year are going unfilled, suggesting that many...

App developers in Israel are being given a rare chance to meet some of the top movers and shakers in Asia’s smartphone industry as part of the Asia Smartphone Apps Contest to be held in Hong Kong on June 14-17th. This is the fourth year in a row that the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at a prominent Washington think tank was nearly canceled on Thursday after his security personnel assaulted journalists and protesters, Foreign Policy reported on Friday. Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, told an unidentified Turkish official that he was prepared to call off the...

Two prominent Democratic lawmakers joined a growing number of their Republican colleagues in expressing opposition to the Obama administration’s plan to grant further sanctions relief to Iran, including access to the American banking system and the ability to conduct transactions in U.S. dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported (Google link)...

The legal watchdog group Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center has warned the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) that its support of groups that advocate boycotting Israel could cause the fund to be “considered complicit and as a participant in these groups’ illegal activities.” The letter laid out RBF’s questionable funding: The BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and...

When news of the now-infamous shooting of a wounded Palestinian by an Israel soldier broke last week, Israeli leaders rushed to condemn the incident. The human rights organization B’tselem had filmed the moment in Hebron when an IDF soldier killed a disarmed Palestinian terrorist, lying wounded on the ground, with a...

Playbuzz, a leading platform for online content engagement and social distribution, today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding, led by Saban Ventures with participation from The Walt Disney Company. Existing investors 83North, Carmel Ventures and FirstTime Ventures also participated in the investment round. Playbuzz — used by...

Erste Group bank, a Vienna-based European banking giant, has become embroiled in controversy over services it is providing to the Austrian branch of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign. “The bank should tell BDS Austria to take its business elsewhere,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told...