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Chinese telecommunication company Huawei Technologies Ltd. acquired San Francisco bay Area startup 3Leaf Systems for $2 million back in May, but did not inform the government, a move which has got the company in trouble with the U.S. government. Officials at the Pentagon want Huawei to run the deal by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States retroactively. Huawei has been thwarted several time in the past from making U.S. acquisitions due to concerns over national security.

China Telecom (Hong Kong) Group Ltd., a telecommunications company owned by China, redirected huge reams of Internet data through its own servers, according to a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The information was transmitted during a period of eighteen minutes and included traffic from American business and government sites.

Some legislators believe that China's Huawei Technologies Company Ltd. poses a threat to national security with its operations in the United States. Now, in addition to the telecommunications company, the legislators add ZTE Corp., and say that restrictions should be brought about to curtail the companies' foreign operations.

Some 15 million customers of Verizon Wireless Inc. will receive refunds from $2 to $6 for services they were billed for in error or that did they did not use. The refunds will take place over the next two months and will cost Verizon about $50 million.

The former prime minister's right-wing and religious-nationalist bloc is projected to win as many as 65 seats in the 120-seat parliament. [Extracted from the article]

Chanukah provides a unique opportunity to host a party that veers from tradition. Unlike other Jewish holidays such as Passover or Rosh Hashanah, there is no set of rules or [...]

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Rabbi Yair Altshuler is one of the newest faculty members at the Maimonides School. The new principal for the middle and high school moved from Alon Shevut, Israel, to accept [...]

When Rotem Sehayek came to Brandeis University this summer to study the way that Israeli women protest the actions of their government, she believed that her country was coming close [...]

Mickey Schneider knows luxury. With more than 20 years of experience in the hotel industry, Schneider left his position as the general manager of the Sheraton Tel Aviv Hotel and [...]

Meir Shlomo, the Israeli Consul General to New England, is leaving his post after four years. Although Shlomo was scheduled to leave Boston for Israel earlier this month, his stay [...]

In an attempt to stem a teacher shortage crisis that is affecting Jewish day schools across the country, Brandeis University's Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education created the Day [...]

As the battle between Israel and Hezbollah escalated recently, nearly 400 American physicians stood at the ready to deploy to Israel to work in understaffed hospitals. While the likelihood that [...]

A new exhibition at Boston's Museum of Science using dead bodies to teach about human anatomy has caused a stir with a Jewish man leading the charge, saying it 'shows [...]

Although the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Claim's Conference) criticized many American museums last week for being uncooperative in responding to a survey on Nazi-era stolen art, the [...]

The Russian Jewish community in Greater Boston has been raising funds independently from the rest of the Jewish community in an effort to dispel stereotypes that their community does not [...]

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Steven Greenberg believes that history is best told by those who lived it. As the executive director of the Boston Center for Jewish Heritage, he now has the chance to [...]

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In a high but soft voice, Rabbi Paul Levenson sings a haunting melody to the 'MiShebarach,' a Jewish prayer for the sick. His voice has comforted both young and old [...]