Multiple Jewish students attending New York University’s study abroad program in Tel Aviv, Israel were disheartened that it was boycotted by a department at the school. Hundreds of the school’s faculty members as well as members of NYU’s general administration joined in expressing their disapproval.

On May 2nd, the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA) at NYU announced that it passed a resolution of non-cooperation with the school’s study abroad program in Tel Aviv. The SCA accused the Tel Aviv program of operating “in the shadow of racial, religious, and political profiling.” The SCA’s statement said that it passed the resolution “by a majority vote,” in response to Israel’s “longstanding practice of barring entry to persons of Palestinian descent, and its recent amendments to the Law of Entry prohibit entry to members of groups that are critical of government policies.” The SCA resolution’s five identified authors are known to be supporters of the BDS campaign.

As reported by The Algemeiner, while Israel’s entry law does bar access to foreigners who are identified as key proponents of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign, NYU’s spokesman confirmed that “no NYU student has been prevented from going to Israel.” NYU’s administration also pushed back against the SCA decision by stating that no SCA faculty were even involved with the Tel Aviv program, implicating that there was no “practical effect to the vote.”

The timing of the SCA’s announcement was also offensive. The measure was passed on Yom HaShoah, Israel’s national Holocaust remembrance day. “How am I as a Jewish student supposed to feel when an academic boycott of the Jewish state is declared … on the day in which we are meant to reflect on the tragedy and crimes committed against our people by the Nazis,” said Javier Cohen, a sophomore who attended NYU-Tel Aviv this past fall semester. “Anti-Zionist groups on campus love to criticize the ease with which pro-Israel students ‘pull the antisemitism card,’ but the obsession that we see on campus in targeting the one and only Jewish state while defending just about any other can’t be explained otherwise,” he added.

“Jews, non-Jews, pro-Palestinian students — we were all able to go to Tel Aviv for a semester,” said Ilan Bassali, a senior at the University, who attended NYU-Tel Aviv in spring 2017. He said his program included roughly 20-30 students who held extended discussion where “we both opened each others eyes to the other side, which is very valuable and doesn’t happen enough.” That a department at “the university I go to, pay tuition to, and spent four years of my life at is doing something like this” and is pursuing non-cooperation with the Tel Aviv program is “offensive and sad,” he said.

“The rising anti-Israel sentiment on campus has made Jewish students the targets of discrimination, and even harassment, regardless of their political affiliations,” said another undergraduate student, who wished to be identified only by her first name, Shai. “This is a problem that the administration needs to tackle with more than just an ‘institutional statement.’”

NYU spokesperson John Beckman responded, pointing out that the general administration does not agree with the position of the SCA. He said the administration “has unwaveringly supported NYU Tel Aviv and publicly criticized its opponents.” “The University will not allow the SCA vote to have any impact on NYU Tel Aviv, to prevent any students from studying there, or to disadvantage any student who chooses to study there,” Beckman asserted. “NYU has a firm, established track record of opposing BDS, of opposing ostracism based on support of Israel, of rejecting calls to close NYU Tel Aviv, and of supporting its Jewish community; it’s unfortunate that there are those who choose to ignore that,” he added.

For four years the LIRR, managed by the MTA, together with local and state officials planned the ambitious South Fork Commuter Connection. Beginning in March, a single train car heads to and from eight towns in the Hamptons, staffed with up to three employees. State-financed shuttle buses await at each stop at the posh Hampton towns, as part of the endeavor geared towards attracting commuters out of their cars, thereby easing traffic on the congested East End.

As reported by the NY Post, residents are saying the trains are a striking example of waste, with only several riders per train, at $4.25 per ride. “It’s not working,” said Jay Fitzpatrick, an architect and longtime resident of Southampton. “Nobody’s taking it.” Last Thursday, he said he counted a total of six passengers get off an early-morning train in Southampton. Four of them then boarded one of two shuttle buses.

The Hampton Hopper buses are provided by the state Department of Transportation to the towns at a cost of $1 million a year. The routes are designed to transport passengers to local hospitals and schools. Thomas Neely, the transportation and traffic director for Southampton Town, confirmed that “very few people are taking the shuttle buses”. He said local Hamptons officials have already reduced the buses at each station down from four to two.

As though to ratify the low usage of the trains, the LIRR has decided to cut the five-day-a-week shuttle-train service, to four days, eliminating service on Fridays. The LIRR said it will make better use of the train, adding the trains to Penn Station to accommodate summer crowds arriving from the city. The few commuters who rely on the South Fork Connection will be forced back onto the congested roads on Fridays. Ironically, the Hamptons train, if needed at all, would be most necessary on Fridays, when merchants, and employees usually commute in time to serve the weekend crowds during the summer.

“This just wasn’t thought through well enough,” said Lin Restivo, a Hampton Bays resident who in March began commuting with the train, but will now go back to driving on the jammed County Road 39.

Neely expressed sympathy for the commuters of the South Fork Connection , but said there is little that can be done, as the LIRR lacks the infrastructure to run both the shuttle service and add summer trains at Penn Station. A Spokeswoman for the LIRR said, “We’re open to amending the schedules depending on customer demand, whenever and wherever we have the cars and track capacity to do so.”

Another weekend goes by, another anti-Semitic incident to report.

Over the weekend, a car filled with hooligans hurled anti-Semitic insults at two Jewish teenagers who were walking through Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood. As reported by the NY Post, the 13-year-old and 16-year-old boys, dressed in traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing, were walking by 51st Street and 12th Avenue sometime between 1 and 1:30 a.m. on Saturday. According to the police, the boys heard people from a car shouting, “Allahu Akbar!” and, “Do you know Hitler? We love him, he did a good job!” The car then drove away. The boys informed the police, saying they saw four people in the car. The police have yet to confirm the number of people in the car. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is looking into the incident.

The news no longer invokes shock. A little over a week ago, an Orthodox Jewish man was punched in the head by a stranger on the streets of the same Williamsburg neighborhood, near Rodney Street and Marcy Avenue. Three days prior to that attack, there was a different occurrence in Williamsburg, in which a group of men punched a 42-year-old wearing religious attire in the face while screaming anti-Semitic profanity.

In the beginning of May, the NY police department reported an 82 percent increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the Big Apple this year. There were 82 incidents reported to police from January 2019 till the end of April, versus 45 incidents during the same time frame last year. Overall index crime in NYC is lower by 6.7 percent this year compared to last year. Anti-Semitic incidents now account for over half of the overall hate crimes reported this year. “When you drill down on the anti-Semitic hate crimes we are seeing approximately 80 percent are drawing of swastikas in some way, shape or fashion throughout New York City,” said NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.

The data “should serve as an important reminder to all of us that we must continue to be vigilant in the face of hate,” said Evan Bernstein, the NY/NJ Regional Director for the Anti-Defamation League. “No one should ever have to live in fear that they will be attacked, harassed or targeted because of their faith. New York is no place for hate.”

“While the scourge of anti-Semitism is growing at an alarming rate across the country and around the world, we must face the reality that here at home in New York City we have a serious problem of anti-Semitic attacks on identifiably Jewish members of our community,” said Rabbi David Niederman, President of the UJO of Williamsburg. “People merely walking on the streets here feel like sitting ducks, worrying that they must look over their shoulder in fear of being hurt because of their faith.”

The New York State Attorney General has apparently begun an inquiry into the lending practices – spanning than 10 years – involving immigrant taxi drivers.

Beyond that, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has himself put into motion his own investigation into the brokers behind those loans.

Both moves, reported the New York Times, “marked the government’s first steps toward addressing a crisis that has engulfed the city’s yellow cab industry. They came a day after The New York Times published a two-part investigation revealing that a handful of taxi industry leaders artificially inflated the price of a medallion — the coveted permit that allows a driver to own and operate a cab — and made hundreds of millions of dollars by issuing reckless loans to low-income buyers.”

The investigation also found, the Times continued, that “regulators at every level of government ignored warning signs, and the city fed the frenzy by selling medallions and promoting them in ads as being “better than the stock market.”

“Today I ordered a joint investigation by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, Department of Finance and Department of Consumer Affairs into predatory practices by brokers in the taxi industry,” said de Blasio on Monday. “The 45-day review will identify and penalize brokers who have taken advantage of buyers and misled City authorities. The review will set down strict new rules that prevent broker practices that hurt drivers. It’s unacceptable to prey on hardworking New Yorkers trying to support their families and we’ll do all that we can to put an end to it.”

The investigations are “the government’s first steps toward addressing a crisis that has engulfed the city’s yellow cab industry,” noted governing.com. “They came a day after The New York Times published a two-part investigation revealing that a handful of taxi industry leaders artificially inflated the price of a medallion — the coveted permit that allows a driver to own and operate a cab — and made hundreds of millions of dollars by issuing reckless loans to low-income buyers.”

The investigation also found that regulators at every level of government ignored warning signs, and the city fed the frenzy by selling medallions and promoting them in ads as being “better than the stock market,” Governing magazine also reported. “The price of a medallion rose to more than $1 million before crashing in late 2014, which left borrowers with debt they had little hope of repaying. More than 950 medallion owners have filed for bankruptcy, and thousands more are struggling to stay afloat.”

“They bled, he fled” is how the New York Post began its story about Dr. Amnon Eric Sadeh, a Manhattan plastic surgeon some are saying has left the United States while – as the newspaper put it – “leaving a trail of patients upset about botched tummy tucks and liposuctions and unable to get their medical records.”

Sadeh’s license to practice medicine was reportedly revoked early in May for allegedly failing to supply requested patient medical records and no-showing a hearing.

Authorities have been looking for Sadeh since 2016. Last August, according to state Health Department documents, his mother reportedly told officials her son was in Israel.

“Ana Kardashian said she never got records for her daughter’s 2015 nose job despite complaining to the state. She said her daughter landed in the hospital after Sadeh overprescribed pain medication after surgery,” the Post reported. “The New York Department of Health — that’s the most upsetting,” the mom said. “I would assume they would do something more efficiently, but they made us wait for a very long time and then … they said the guy cannot be located.”

The doctor’s web site, http://sadehsurgery.com/, describes Sadeh as a board certified plastic surgeon specializing in aesthetic plastic surgery of the face, breasts and body. “His primary focus and areas of expertise are breast enlargement and reduction surgery, body contouring procedures, nasal surgery and facial rejuvenation including face/neck lifts combined with eyelid surgery.”

Sadeh graduated with a BS Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University School of Engineering, and received his M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine with honors in surgery and psychiatry, the site relates. He did a year of neurosurgical training before completing his general surgical training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. He then completed his plastic surgery residency at the State University of New York with additional fellowship training in reconstructive surgery at the prestigious University of Pittsburgh.

“In private practice since 1996, Dr. Sadeh’s primary office is in Manhattan and he maintains attending privileges at several New York Hospitals,” the description continues. “He is involved in training the new generation of plastic surgeons at Lenox Hill Hospital and the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Dr. Sadeh has lectured and presented on topics ranging from reconstructive breast surgery and innovative new techniques for breast reduction surgery to endoscopic craniofacial surgery for facial rejuvenation. He has been featured in numerous publications including Cosmopolitan, Allure, Gotham, Hamptons, New York Post, New York Observer, OK Magazine and US Weekly and continues to be a sought after expert on various topics in plastic surgery.”

A rally and press conference followed by a billboard launch took place on Monday afternoon at Times Square in New York City demanding the removal of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing anti-Semitism and an anti-Israel, pro-Islamist agenda.

According to a report on the United With Israel web site, many Americans have been shocked by comments she has made over the years that attacked Israel, included anti-Semitic tropes and questioned her loyalty to the United States of America.

In demanding her removal, the rally organizers cite her “gross anti-Semitism” and “cavalier dismissal” of the victims of 9/11, as well as her “blaming the criminal socialist debacle and collapse of Venezuela on America,” her “specious accusations against dedicated US officials, and her disdain for America, which saved her from Islamist terror in Somalia.”

Indeed, in February, Ilhan called to completely defund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, tweeting: “#Not1Dollar for DHS.”

Also that month, in an attack on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), she tweeted, “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” a reference to the $100 bill featuring Benjamin Franklin.

In an interview in January with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, the Somali-American congresswoman, an active supporter of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, defended a 2012 tweet in which she said that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.”

Omar blamed Israel for the round of airstrikes in which Hamas and Islamic Jihad shot some 700 rockets into the Jewish state earlier this month, killing four and wounding dozens, with Israel hitting over 350 Gazan targets in return.

Several hundred people gathered for the rally and billboard launch in Times Square, as one speaker after another cited the existential danger in the vitriolic Jew hating and Israel bashing rhetoric that is routinely spewed for by Rep Omar.

One of the speakers was Guardian Angels founder, Curtis Sliwa, who said that “if Jews do not learn from their past, they are doomed to repeat it” as he made an oblique reference to the years of anti-Semitism that preceded the Holocaust.

One of the organizers of the rally was the indefatigable Helen Freedman, the longtime chairwoman of Americans for a Safe Israel. AFSI brought powerful protest signs and urged demonstrators to spread the word about the danger of Omar to their family members, friends, co-workers and neighbors as a campaign is built to spotlight Jew hatred across the country.

Brooklyn residents are increasingly escaping – to the Rockaways and its inviting beaches.

“For decades, the Rockaways has been hyped to the hilt for its distinct summer scene, which has consistently appealed to throngs of sun-loving day trippers craving a bit of beachside revelry along the area’s 5½-mile boardwalk,” the New York Post recently reported. “Now the southwest Queens ’hood is seeing a surge in folks who call the Rockaways home year-round, thanks in part to a dedicated ferry, a robust surfing scene and a renaissance in food and the arts.”

It was what the Post referred to as “easy access to the sandy playgrounds and the bliss of surfing at daybreak ahead of a grueling workday in downtown Manhattan” that has people contemplating relocation. “Yet it was the palpable sense of another Rockaways resurgence not felt since before 2012’s Superstorm Sandy that sparked something more profound” in the case of at least one of the people interviewed.

Nor could the timing have been any better. Mayor Bill de Blasio and a phalanx of other elected officials held a press event at Beach 94th Street just last week to officially recognize the completion of the sand restoration operation carried out by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“For New Yorkers, summer means Rockaway Beach. That’s why I could not be happier to announce we will have the entire beach open in time for the Memorial Day weekend,” de Blasio said. “I want to thank all the stakeholders who came together to make the hopes of so many New Yorkers a reality. We could not have done it without your partnership.”

“Getting tons of sand onto Rockaway Beach in time for summer, and avoid a repeat disaster of prime time beach closures, required every level of government to dig in deep,” Senator Charles Schumer said. “And using the sand from the East Rockaway dredge was a win-win plan because it keeps open a vital channel and all of Rockaway Beach.”

One of the things that transplanted Brooklynites are finding in the Rockaways is the arts. For example, the Rockaway Film Fest offer some artistic benefits. As its website the describes, “Rockaway is the biggest cinema desert in all of New York City with 150,000 people and no movie theater. Like the Rockaway Peninsula itself, this program of movies represents a broad spectrum of personality and culture. There are old films and new films, never seen before films and classics. Many filmmakers will be in attendance to present and discuss their work (some of whom are Rockaway residents!). More than anything else, this Festival is about bringing Cinema to the film lovers of Rockaway Beach.”

Among the films set to be shown is The Princess Bride (June 8); Spirited Away (July 13); and The Dark Crystal (August 10).

Real estate tycoon Aby Rosen likes pairing fancy buildings and restaurants – and he’s doing it once again.

Rosen is working with respected restaurant group Invest Hospitality, LLC, and will launch Le Jardinier, which is being describe as a “vegetable-driven” eatery. Running it at the new and decidedly swanky building located at 100 E. 53rd. Street will be superstar chef Alain Verzeroli.

The plan originally called for the renowned French chef and restaurateur Joël Robuchon to take it on, but with his death last year the baton has been handed to Verzeroli, his protégé for more than two decades.

Le Jardinier is scheduled to debut later this week, to be followed by Shun, another restaurant in the same building, in June.

Rosen is a German-born American real estate tycoon living in New York City. He is the co-founder of RFR Holding, which owns a portfolio of 71 properties in United States cities including New York, Miami, and Las Vegas; and Tel Aviv, Israel.

“Restaurants are an important part of our buildings,” Rosen told Side Dish. “People come and go. Restaurants are a constant. People keep coming back. They have soul and they are a great way to showcase art and design.”

The 62-seat ground-floor Le Jardinier “has the feel of an indoor garden, with green-marble walls and floors and a vegetable-driven menu to match,” the Wall Street Journal Magazine recently noted. “Upstairs, in a more intimate space influenced by the American art deco movement, Verzeroli will offer French food with Japanese accents. “Everything here will calm the senses,” Verzeroli says. As for the second-floor restaurant’s name, Shun, “imagine the season of the peach,” the chef says. “There are only a few days when the peach is at its actual peak. Shun is the definition of that moment.”

But fame and buzz can prove fleeting. Three years ago, Rosen made headlines by giving the world-class Four Seasons the heave-ho from the Seagram Building. In its place, Rosen installed Major Food Group’s The Pool and The Grill.

“It’s another angle for marketing,” Rosen told the New York Post. “People can stay home and order in. Tenants always have priority. But the building needs to be good — a good restaurant can’t help a bad building.”

The Financial Times recently asked in print why Rosen chose to buy the Chrysler building. It answered, “In his quest to make Chrysler pay off, Mr. Rosen may have his work cut out. The sprawling ceiling mural in the pink marble lobby still has the power to make tourists tilt their gazes skyward in awe. But on the arcade floor below, many of the storefronts are shuttered. On a recent afternoon, in one of the few that was open — a dry cleaners — an old woman was leaning over a sewing machine under pale fluorescent light.”

A new book, Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption” (Flatiron Books), includes the story of twin brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and their adventures in the land of crypto-currency.

Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, writes about the fascination and frustration that has accompanied the Bitcoin phenomenon.

One of the people the twins met was Charlie Shrem, the founder of BitInstant, one of the first firms to buy Bitcoin for clients. “In his Midtown office, with weed paraphernalia on every shelf, he kept three bongs on his desk — and was toking from one as he met the millionaires,” reports the New York Post.

“Welcome to the ‘Bakery,’ gentlemen,” said Shrem, according to the book. “If these walls could talk — well, they’d sound pretty f–ked up. There’s been a lot of secondhand smoke in this room.” The twins eventually became Bitcoins first billionaires back in 2017, after investing $800,000.

Just over a month ago, the brothers settled their lawsuit against Shrem, whom they had previously said owed them $26 million worth of the cryptocurrency.

“In an April 5 court filing, Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the case, explaining that the parties had informed the court they had reached a settlement,” according to coindesk.com. “However, both parties have the right to reopen the cause and proceed to trial within 30 days, or by May 5, “if the settlement is not fully effectuated,” the judge wrote. The terms of the settlement are confidential, Brian Klein, Shrem’s lawyer, told CoinDesk.”

Interestingly, entrepreneur, investor, and Bitcoin advocate Shrem recently announced that he will host Untold Stories, a new podcast from BlockWorks Group, a digital assets events and media company.

Shrem was one of the industry’s earliest advocates, having originally invested in Bitcoin as a college student in 2011, according to a press release. “He believes new users, investors, and builders must understand the history and intent of blockchain and cryptocurrency for the sector to properly progress.”

“Every day, more people enter the crypto space. It’s imperative that these new builders and investors understand how the crypto movement truly came to be and what we’re trying to accomplish,” said Shrem. He will also serve as an executive producer on the project, and work with BlockWorks Group to develop themes, choose featured guests, and manage production.”

In each episode, the release continues, Shrem “will speak with digital asset movers and shakers to uncover the stories of the movement that have never been heard before. These unique “untold stories” provided the inspiration for the show’s name.”

“Charlie is uniquely positioned to explore the early days of cryptocurrency with the very people who built it, said BlockWorks Group’s Co-Founder, Jason Yanowitz. “Untold Stories recognizes the trials and tribulations that went into building the movement that has grown into a multi-billion dollar sector.”

Samsung has announced that it has repaired what some had been calling design flaws on its foldable phone, which sells for $2,000.

Some said the phones, which are of relatively recent vintage, were already breaking. The change: extending a protective layer covering the screen so it can be placed behind the display area, according to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

The relatively easy change, together with shrinking the hinge on the folding phone, should mean the end of glitches responsible for Galaxy Fold’s planned introduction in April, the Korean news agency noted.

“The phone, which made waves when it was unveiled in February, features a tablet-size, 7.3-inch display that bends, allowing it to fold to the size of a regular smartphone with a 4.6-inch screen,” the New York Post reported. “Techies who peeled off the plastic layer reported blacked-out or flickering screens.

Other reviewers said the phones were breaking at their hinges, which will now be made smaller to minimize gaps, Yonhap reported.”

When Samsung’s Galaxy Fold hit the market, “it didn’t just announce another phone — it kicked off a revolution in the way we interact with mobile devices,” cnet.com reported. “But the Fold soon suffered screen breakages and other glitches, and the revolution stalled.

It’s been nearly four weeks since we’ve heard any details from Samsung about the Fold. An AT&T email to customers suggested that the phone would come next month. Samsung mobile CEO D.J. Koh said it “will not be too late.” And a Samsung spokeswoman told CNET only that the company plans to announce the release date “in the coming weeks.” Consumers, industry players and reviewers alike are waiting with bated breath.”

According to Yonhap, Samsung handled some other problems – for example, dust and dirt caught under the phone’s hinge — by making subtle changes in the design, such as making that part smaller.

“The Galaxy Fold was originally set to launch on April 26, but was delayed after the reviews. Yonhap sees the phone getting a U.S. release quite soon,” reported USA Today. “This isn’t Samsung’s first experience with a yanked phone. In 2017, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had a battery that exploded into flames, and was pulled from the market, and never returned.”

“The South Korean tech giant had postponed the handset’s launch for an unspecified period of time while it investigated several hardware-related flaws pointed out by reviewers,” said firstpost.com. “It said initial findings showed the issues could be associated with impact on exposed areas of the hinges.”

Wall Street is losing its affection for Elon Musk.

Musk’s company, Tesla, saw its stock drop to its level point in nearly 30 months. Part of the reason was an analyst’s conclusion that the entrepreneur’s “sci-fi projects” were proving to be a distraction, and had placed the firm in what he termed a “code red situation.”

Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities’ slashed his price target for Tesla shares from $275 all the way down to $230. He also advised some cost cutting, citing drooping demand in the United States. Noted Ives, “With a code red situation at Tesla, Musk & Co. are expanding into insurance, robotaxis, and other sci-fi projects/endeavors when the company instead should be laser focused on shoring up core demand for Model 3.”

In a memo sent to his employees last week, Musk charged that cost cutting will be the order of the day for at least the foreseeable future. “Going forward, all expenses of any kind anywhere in the world, including parts, salary, travel expenses, rent, literally every payment that leaves our bank account must (be) reviewed.”

“With a code red situation at Tesla, Musk & Co. are expanding into insurance, robotaxis, and other sci-fi projects/endeavors when the company instead should be laser focused on shoring up core demand for Model 3 and simplifying its business model and expense structure in our opinion with headwinds abound,” Ives wrote in a letter to investors.

The so-called “Sci-fi” projects to which Ives alluded include the rocket company SpaceX and the Boring Co., which digs tunnels for below-ground transit systems.

“Tesla is facing a quagmire as the company is in the midst of building out its next flagship factory in Shanghai with Giga 3, in the early stages of tooling/blueprinting its next Model Y for production slated for 2020, and ramping production of its mid-range and base Model 3 in the US, all while facing a growing cash crunch and high expense structure issue,” Ives also wrote.

Tesla’s shares have fallen about 38% this year, the Wall Street Journal reported. “T. Rowe Price Associates Inc.—for years one of Tesla’s biggest investors—sold roughly 81% of its holdings over the first three months of 2019, leaving the firm owning the smallest amount of Tesla stock since 2013. In April, Tesla reported one of the worst quarterly losses in its history as revenue declined 37% from the prior quarter to $4.54 billion. Vehicle deliveries in the period fell 31% from the fourth quarter.”