Blog Verité

Keepin’ News Real

NBA great Pierce lauds Shabbat in racy video that preceded firing

‘Can somebody invite me to Shabbat? I would love to have a sit-down meal like that,’ says retired basketballer in clip that reportedly caused ESPN to ax him

Read More

Elite US military language school drops Hebrew course after 35 years

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center says demand has fallen below the threshold needed to sustain a course

Read More

How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’ – The Guardian

How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’  The Guardian Breaking down claims about Georgia’s election law: What’s true and what’s not?  ABC News What’s in the Georgia law? Voters can cast mail ballots without photo ID,

Read More

Qualitest buys Israel-based Comply to gain edge in pharma software testing

Deal adds Teva, Merck, Johnson & Johnson to Petah Tikva-based Qualitest’s list of clients; transaction marks its second acquisition this year

Read More

Avant doubles down on digital banking with Zero Financial acquisition

Avant, an online lender that has raised over $600 million in equity, announced today that it has acquired Zero Financial and its neobank brand, Level, to further its mission of becoming a digital bank for the masses. Founded in 2012,

Read More

Pandemic fueled anti-Semitism, with vaccine firm heads likened to Nazis – study

On Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, TAU researchers say that while lockdowns led to drop in physical attacks, conspiracies flourished online about outbreak being Israeli, Jewish plot

Read More

Investment app for millennials Groww raises $83 million at over $1 billion valuation

More than 200 million people in India transact money digitally, but fewer than 30 million invest in mutual funds and stocks. An Indian startup that is attempting to change this figure by courting millennials announced a new financing round on

Read More

Floyd’s passenger emerges as complicated figure in Chauvin trial – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Floyd’s passenger emerges as complicated figure in Chauvin trial  Minneapolis Star Tribune Police use-of-force instructor says Derek Chauvin’s kneeling is not a trained restraint  CNN Man in car with George Floyd the day he died doesn’t want to testify in Derek Chauvin

Read More

Houston Has Been No. 1 Destination For Many Migrant Teens

Hundreds of migrant children are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border every day. Ultimately they will all be placed with sponsors in households around the U.S. until their immigration cases are heard.

Read More

US firm Cofense to buy Israel’s Cyberfish to better detect and avert phishing

Following the acquisition, US cybersecurity firm will open its first R&D center in Israel, led by the Cyberfish team based in Beersheba

Read More