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Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann Gives Voice to His Lifelong Love Affair with Shabbat 

By: Simon Apfel From November 15-16, the 7th annual international Shabbat Project is expected to exceed last year’s participation of more than 1 million people in 101 countries across 1,511 cities and towns. In advance of this year’s global initiative, Shabbat Project writer/editor Simon Apfel spoke with renowned Israeli-American game theorist and Nobel Laureate Professor […]

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Israeli Researchers Develop Treatment that Targets Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Edited by: TJVNews.com Israeli researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) found a molecule that can induce the self-destruction of pancreatic cancer cells. The research was conducted in human pancreatic cancer that was transplanted into mice. The mice were treated with a molecule called PJ34, which affects human cancer cells. This molecule causes an anomaly during […]

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JV Editorial News Opinion

2020 ConEd Rate Hike is Outrageous!!

If you’re a Consolidated Edison customer, be prepared for pricier gas and electricity bills come the start of the new year. The company has proposed rate hikes starting January 1, with additional increases in 2021 and 2022. On average, electric rates will go up by 13 and a half percent in that time. Electric bills […]

Arts & Culture News

The Bridge Multicultural Project Unites the Caribbean & Jewish Communities in Fostering Economic Growth

By: Fern Sidman A major “Unity in Action” event was jointly sponsored by the Caribbean-Israel Leadership Coalition and The Bridge Multicultural and Advocacy Project on July 23rd and 24th at the latter’s Flatbush Avenue offices. This vibrant and diverse conference attracted hundreds of participants including prominent civic, religious and business leaders from the Jewish community […]

Local New York News News

Zang Toi Goes to Town for Thirtieth Anniversary

By: Lieba Nesis “We were invited to Buckingham Palace and needed attire three days before the big event and guess who we turned to,” remarked Donald Trump Jr. as he spoke about the auteur who has catered to the Trump family for decades. Zang Toi who has been dressing Ivana since 1995 with Ivanka walking […]

Israel News News

A Personal Look at the Yom Kippur War

By: Moshe Phillips As we approach the 46th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, I have chosen to look at a book that illustrates the revolution that took place in the short time between the 1967 Six Day War and 1973 war. That revolution was in the way that Jews from all over the […]

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Op-Ed Opinion

German Jew-Hate Manifests Itself in Business Dealings with the Mullahs

By: Joseph Puder When a synagogue is attacked in Germany, it is doubly disturbing. It has more gravity attached to it than if it occurs elsewhere. Similarly, when the genocidal Iranian regime official, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami, threatens to “wipe the sinister Zionist regime off the map,” and German Chancellor […]

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News Special Features

Tragedy and Resolve: 11 Years After Mumbai Terror

Remembering the murder and legacy of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg By: Dovid Margolin Editor’s Note: Eleven years ago, on Nov. 26, 2008, the city of Mumbai, India, was rocked by a coordinated attack in which Pakistani terrorists murdered 164 innocent men, women and children in hotels, cafes and on the street. Targeted with a […]

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