Joshua Levitt
ARTICLES BY: Joshua Levitt
Jewish Actress Mayim Bialik Draws Online Praise, Criticism for Posting Picture With IDF Cousin
Jewish-American actress and parenting blogger Mayim Bialik drew praise and criticism online on Friday after posting a seemingly innocent photograph, showing her visiting her Israeli...
Recently Freed Khodorkovsky Visits Israel; Reportedly Meeting Former Partner Nevzlin
Freed Russian-Jew Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the country's richest man, was in Israel on Friday, meeting with former business partner Leonid Nevzlin, Israel's Calcalist business website reported. Khodorkovsky was...
ADL Praises France for Crackdown on Anti-Semitic Comic Dieudonné
The Anti-Defamation League on Friday praised the decision by France's Council of State, the country's highest administrative law appellate court, to uphold local government bans...
U.S.-Israeli Prof. Slams MLA Conference as Assault on Academic Freedom (INTERVIEW)
An American-Israeli professor, addressing a counter-conference on the sidelines of a polemical Modern Language Association annual meeting in Chicago, on Thursday said the MLA resolution seeking...
Actress Meryl Streep Blasts Walt Disney as Anti-Semitic; ZOA Condemns Actress Emma Thompson
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep blasted Walt Disney as an anti-Semitic misogynist in an unusually long and scathing speech at a film awards dinner on Tuesday...
Hussein Ibish Bashes Columnist Jeff Jacoby as He Searches for Missing Son
Twitter was alight on Thursday with angry reactions to American Task Force on Palestine Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish, who bashed Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, as the writer...
Kerry Frustrated by PA Refusal to Recognize Israel as Jewish State
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is getting frustrated by Palestinian Authority leaders who are refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, creating the...
Tamar Natural Gas Field Worth $52 Billion to Israeli Economy – Ernst & Young
The natural gas in Israel's Tamar field is worth some $52 billion to the Israeli economy, accountants Ernst & Young Israel said in a new...
Israeli High-Tech Exits Reach $6.64 Billion in 2013; 10-Year High for Venture Capital Investors
The combined value of Israeli high-tech start-ups that were sold in 2013 reached $6.64 billion in 2013, with the component from venture capital-backed companies, $4.21...
U.S. State Department Says Won’t Respond to PA Incitement Publicly
U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesman Marie Harf told reporters that she would not comment directly on Israel's report of incitement from Palestinian Authority leadership, but...
Canada’s Attorney General Urged to Give Tougher Sentence in ‘Burn the Jew’ Anti-Semitic Assault Case
Canada's Attorney General was urged on Wednesday to review its guidelines for imposing tougher sentences for hate crimes after a controversial ruling that disappointed many...
‘Quenelle 4 Ever’ – From ‘Fight the Power’ to an Anti-Semite’s Cry
'Fight the Power' was a hit song for rap group Public Enemy in 1989, when San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker was seven years...
Ex-British Footballer Collymore Calls for Police Response to Online Anti-Semitism From Football Fans
Stanley Collymore, a popular former British footballer and now sports broadcaster, called for police and Twitter to take action against online hate speech targeting Jewish...
Lawyers Challenge ASA Non-Profit Tax Exempt Status After Israel Boycott
A group of lawyers led by William A. Jacobson, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic, at Cornell University Law School, have...
