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■ TWELFTH-GENERATION Jerusalemite Yehoshua Matza, who is winding up a nine year period as president of Israel Bonds, was awarded the Herzl Medal by…

NEW YORK — Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have both held low-level talks with Twitter Inc. about purchasing the privately held social networking…

NEW YORK-- America’s most generous citizens gave less in 2010 than they have over the past decade, but Jews remained among the top givers, according…

Taking advantage of the Web to teach kids about Jewish environmental values, Sviva Israel has recently launched an online Eco Campus. The idea is to…

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama lavished the grandest of White House welcomes on Chinese President Hu Jintao as the leaders of the two powers…

Last year’s fiscal deficit beats target • By ADRIAN FILUT The government deficit totaled NIS 30.2 billion in 2010, or 3.73 percent of gross domestic…

Social networking behemoth Facebook has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investment firm in a deal that values the company at $50…

Platinum Equity LLC is currently the leading candidate to acquire Comverse Technology Inc. Platinum Equity has submitted an offer of $9- $10 per…

Forbes released its list of "The World's Most Powerful People" on Wednesday, ranking the top 68 people who, according to the magazine, "matter."…

As the wild ride in financial markets continues, investors are looking for ways to stabilize their portfolios. One way of accomplishing this is…

WASHINGTON – Eric Cantor has spent a lifetime relishing in wearing the other hat. Among Jews, the Republican congressional whip from Richmond, Va.,…

WEEKS AFTER THE disclosure of controversial contributions by Hungarian-American mega-billionaire George Soros to the pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby J…

“GOOD NIGHT, MRS. CALABASH, wherever you are!” That’s how American comedian Jimmy Durante (The Shnozzola) signed off his radio and TV programs for…

You can’t get higher in the ranks of European aristocracy than Marie Antoinette – more correctly, Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, scion of the…

1. Larry EllisonAge: 66. Net worth: $28 billion. Lawrence Ellison, today ranked sixth on Forbes list of the world’s richest people but for a time at…

Yesterday, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England both announced that they were maintaining interest rates at their current very low…

Three weeks ago, this column’s headline was “Nowhere to go but down.” It highlighted the consensus among independent technical analysts (i.e., those…

SINGAPORE — Oil prices fell to near $77 a barrel Tuesday in Asia as investors mulled whether the global economy is strong enough to justify extending…

With so much information available on the Internet and around-the clock business TV, the rallying cry from these media sources has been for investors…

Fate inserts assorted unexpected subplots into our lives. Some months ago, a reader from Germany responded to a column of mine in so insightful a…