📱 App Amen: The Wall Street Journal reports on the rising popularity of faith-based apps, which have brought in $175 million in venture capital funding this year — more than three times the amount raised in 2020.
📕 Book Shelf: Ann Marks’s new book, Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny, looks at the life of a nanny in a Jewish household whose tens of thousands of prints chronicled New York and Chicago through the second half of the 20th century.
🌊 Under the Sea: Marine archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a gold ring engraved with the figure of the Good Shepherd among treasure recovered from two ancient shipwrecks off the coast of Caesarea.
🤣 Funny Guy: The New York Times spotlights comedian Shaun Eli Breidbart, who traded a job on Wall Street for a career in standup comedy, for the paper’s “It’s Never Too Late” series.
🎤 Wild Words: The executive director of the San Francisco chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is taking a sabbatical following comments made last month in which she referred to pro-Israel Jewish groups as “enemies.”
🔨 Guilty: A jury found Harvard professor and nanoscientist Charles Lieber guilty of lying about payments he received from China.
🏢 Business Boom: Lower taxes and a pandemic-induced influx of finance workers into South Florida are causing West Palm Beach to rapidly expand its business center.
💳 Dynamic Decision: McDonald’s announced that it is selling the Israeli company Dynamic Yield, which it purchased three years ago, to Mastercard for an undisclosed amount.
💵 Cashing Out: SoftBank is finalizing a $4 billion loan from Apollo Global Management, a sign of Apollo’s push into lending.
🇮🇱 Identity Affirmation: In an interview on Tuesday, Ra’am party head Mansour Abbas said that “Israel was born a Jewish state. This was the Jewish people’s decision. The question today is not over the country’s identity. It was born thus. It’ll remain thus.”
🛬 Omicron Politics: Israel is attributing the majority of its suspected cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus to recently returned travelers or those who have been in contact with them, as it defends against criticism over its travel restrictions.
🧨 Houthi Hits: A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies found that Houthi attacks on Saudi targets doubled in the first nine months of 2021, relative to the same period in 2020.
💊 Popping Pills: In Foreign Policy, Anchal Vohra explores Saudi Arabia as the drug capital of the Middle East.
🕵️ New Findings: A United Arab Emirates agency attempted to put Pegasus spyware on the phone of Jamal Khashoggi’s wife, Hanan Elatr, months before his murder, new forensics show, the Washington Post reports.
📰 Next Move: Jimmy Finkelstein, who sold The Hill in August, plans to launch a new media company.
🕯️ Remembering: Roman Kaplan, who owned New York City’s famed Samovar restaurant, died at 83.
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