Mountain View, CA – Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they’re being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing scrutiny of their data collection practices.. Trouble is, few experts appear ready to celebrate [...]

Miami, FL – An Orthodox Jewish couple from New York has filed a lawsuit against Spirit Airlines, alleging anti-Semitic harassment by a flight attendant on a flight to Florida. Yisroel Sternberg and Chana Beck and their three children boarded the flight to Fort Lauderdale from Newark Liberty International Airport in January. A flight attendant told [...]

Warsaw – The Auschwitz Memorial and Museum has complained to an e-commerce site that was selling miniskirts, tote bags and other items printed with photos of the former Nazi German death camp where around 1.1 million people were killed during World War II. The museum in Poland learned about the products offered on Australian e-commerce [...]

Jerusalem – The Trump administration ended the practice in effect for more than two decades of waiving a law requiring the move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday that the waiver no longer was necessary. President Donald Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem last year [...]

Jerusalem – The victims of the synagogue shooting attacks in Pittsburgh and Poway were honored during The Jewish Agency for Israel’s memorial service for Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day for fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. Marnie Fienberg, the daughter-in-law of Joyce Fienberg, who was murdered in the attack on the Tree of Life [...]

Hong Kong – Hackers stole bitcoin worth $41 million from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the company said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of thefts from cryptocurrency exchanges around the world. The 7,000 bitcoin were withdrawn by hackers using a variety of techniques, “including phishing, viruses and other attacks”, according [...]

Washington – President Donald Trump is invoking executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller’s unredacted report and other documents subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee. The claim would allow Trump to withhold those materials from Congress. The House Judiciary Committee is meeting to decide whether to vote to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt [...]

Beijing – The diplomatic cable from Beijing arrived in Washington late on Friday night, with systematic edits to a nearly 150-page draft trade agreement that would blow up months of negotiations between the world’s two largest economies, according to three U.S. government sources and three private sector sources briefed on the talks. The document was [...]

Jerusalem – For the thousands who made their way to Kiryat Shaul cemetery north of Tel Aviv, Memorial Day isn’t just one day. It’s every holiday, every birthday. Every day. Israel’s Memorial Day commemorates the 23,741 IDF soldiers and security personnel who have died serving the State of Israel and thousands of soldiers are buried [...]

Jerusalem – For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, an official state event was held in memory of the IDF’s Ultra-Orthodox soldiers. Some 1,000 Israelis from the Ultra-Orthodox community gathered on Tuesday to honor the IDF soldiers from their community who served and died during service. Member of Knesset Yaakov [...]