Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Shamed Israeli Soldier Has Friends in High Places
Israeli lawmaker Michael Ben-Ari has just come up with the ultimate harebrained idea. The Jewish nation, he believes, is in need of values, and who better to provide them than the Israeli soldier who just shocked the world with his brutality? There was shame in Israel earlier this month, after a video of Col. Shalom…
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News Israel in Power Struggle With Top Court
Few were surprised when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel’s Supreme Court that his government was unable to comply with the court’s May 1 deadline to demolish a group of illegal, exclusively Jewish apartment buildings in the occupied West Bank. The government petition, which asked the court to delay the scheduled evacuation of 30 homes…
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Israel News Israel Slower To Welcome Converts
For 64 years, Israel has been encouraging Jews, whoever and wherever they are, to immigrate as soon as possible. But today, with increasing regularity, one Jewish demographic is being told to slow down: converts to Judaism. Over the past four months, 15 people who have converted in the Diaspora, through Diaspora rabbinates that Israel deems…
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The Schmooze Shimon Peres’s DNA Could Help You Live Until 120
Whatever Israelis think of his politics, most agree that President Shimon Peres is a national wonder. At 88 he is the world’s oldest de-jure head of state, and seems to have endless energy. Just last night, he stood proud at the state’s Yom Hashoah event and told his own family’s story, movingly, with the energy…
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The Schmooze Big Independence Day Bucks for Israeli Pop Stars
Israel’s Independence Day, coming up next week, is a great day of rejoicing for Israel’s celebrities. Why for celebrities, you ask? Are they the biggest Zionists in the country, the most excited that after 2,000 years of yearning, in 1948 the Jewish People attained political independence.? Er… no — they just make the biggest bucks….
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The Schmooze Israeli Author Shortlisted for Prestigious Prize
Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid has made the shortlist for the prestigious Impac Dublin Literary Award. Sarid, an attorney in his mid-40s and the son of former government minister Yossi Sarid, was chosen as one of the final 10 contenders for the 100,000 euro prize on the merit of his 2009 book “Limassol.” A gripping read,…
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Israel News Should Israeli Science Speak Hebrew?
Israeli scholarship is widely cited the world over. But if state linguists have their way, much of that research will become a whole lot less accessible to those who don’t speak Hebrew. The Academy of the Hebrew Language is asking the Education Ministry to require universities to use less English — the language in which…
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The Schmooze Ahmad Tibi and Michael Oren Duke It Out
Ahmad Tibi, one of the liveliest, not to mention most controversial, lawmakers in the Knesset, is squaring up to Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Oren. Oren penned a piece in Foreign Policy praising Israel’s democratic nature, in which he wrote: Israel has tolerated acts that would be deemed treasonous in virtually any other democracy….
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