Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Mimouna Revelries Mark End of Passover
‘My Ashkenazi friends think I am crazy,” said Malka Joseph, a 35-year-old teacher from the Israeli city Ashkelon. “They tell me that preparing for Passover is hard enough, but preparing for two festivals back to back is unthinkable.” Joseph will host 12 guests for a Seder on April 6. A week later, a day after…
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Israel News Immigrants Celebrate Special Israeli Seder
Why was the night of April 4 different from all other nights in Tel Aviv? Because the illegal immigrants who ordinarily collect the city’s trash, wash dishes in its restaurants, and clean floors in its hotels, sat as Israelis served them dinner. For Africans who have come to Israel — some 50,000 since 2005 —…
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The Schmooze An Elvis-Themed Israel Tour, For Only $4,000
Elvis Costello shunned Israel a couple of years ago, cancelling a gig on grounds of conscience. But it seems that Israel is just the destination to celebrate the mightier, even more famous Elvis. On Thursday, tickets went on sale for a $3,995 Elvis Presley themed tour of Israel. No kidding — check it out for…
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The Schmooze Pretty Women Can’t Get Jobs?
Beautiful women don’t really get all the breaks, new Israeli research suggests. Bradley Ruffle at Ben-Gurion University and Ze’ev Shtudiner at Ariel University Center found that if you’re female and searching for a job, good looks could actually be a liability. They applied for 2,500 jobs using fake identities. For each job, they sent an…
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The Schmooze Israeli April Fool’s Jokes Went Too Far
Coming soon after the Purim prank season, April Fool’s Day didn’t used to be such a big deal in Israel. But every year it becomes more popular — and more chaotic. Israelis, it seems, aren’t always great at knowing where to draw the line. Three youngsters from Beit Shemesh have just spent three days in…
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News Israelis Divided Over Changing Anthem
When an Arab Supreme Court justice stood silent instead of singing the national anthem at a public ceremony in late February, it sparked a furor on Israel’s nationalist right. Some lawmakers said that the judge, Salim Joubran, should be dismissed, and Yisrael Beiteinu’s David Rotem went so far as to claim that he “spat in…
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The Schmooze Eliezer Melamed Criticizes Netanyahu’s ‘Inflated Ego’
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accustomed to mockery from the left for his conviction that Israel is on the brink of grave danger from Iran. But now he faces harsh words from one of the far right’s most renowned ideologues. Eliezer Melamed, the very same rabbi who caused furor and state sanctions against his…
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The Schmooze Orthodox Top Model Now an IDF Tank Instructor
The Shmooze hasn’t heard much about Esther Petrack since she was eliminated from “America’s Next Top Model” 18 months ago. Before then, she sent a flutter of excitement through American Jewry at the prospect of having a Jewish — and Orthodox noch — winner of the show. Now, Israel’s Channel 2 has reported, she is…
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