Business
When Kentucky (whiskey) goes on aliyah
Israel21cSep 22, 2022
Except for the few scattered palm trees you see as you tentatively drive along a bumpy secluded dirt path, you could easily imagine yourself on your way to a moonshine...
Denver Homeland Security agent rescues ancient coin
JNSSep 22, 2022
An extremely rare Judean quarter-shekel coin, minted by Jewish rebels fighting the Roman empire some 2,000 years ago, was returned to the State of Israel in an official...
Then, oil fortunes. Now, it’s complicated.
JTAJul 28, 2022
At the start of the 20th century, Louis Blaustein, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, and his son Jacob drove a horse-drawn wagon through the streets of Baltimore,...
Climate change changes grape growing
Larry HankinJul 21, 2022
The science of viticulture has become the life’s work of Prof. Aaron Fait, a faculty member of the French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of...
Internet poses spiritual dilemmas for Orthodox women and their businesses
Jackie Hajdenberg, JTAJul 07, 2022
Shaindy Braun and her wig business had nearly 40,000 followers on Instagram, amassed over nine years, when she abruptly announced her departure from the social media...
Israel, UAE sign free trade agreement
JNSJun 02, 2022
Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a free trade agreement on May 31 in Dubai. The deal is the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab state.
Big funders face big changes in Jewish life
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTAApr 14, 2022
In a good year, the annual conference of the Jewish Funders Network functions like a Jewish Aspen Institute: The Jewish fundraising elite, from private and family...
Colorado pension fund votes to divests from Unilever
JTAMar 24, 2022
n 2016, Colorado’s state pension fund passed a law pledging economic loyalty to Israel. That law is now being invoked as the state becomes the seventh to punish...
Oligarchs sanctioned
JTAMar 10, 2022
Jewish communities in Ukraine received a $10 million gift from a perhaps unlikely source last month: a charitable organization founded by three Russian Jewish oligarchs...
Israel, Morocco ink economic pact
TPSFeb 24, 2022
Israel’s Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbivay signed an economic-commercial cooperation agreement on Feb. 21 with Morocco’s Industry and Trade Minister...
