Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Tel Aviv Mayor Wants Illegal Immigrants To Feel at Home — Diplomats, Not So Much
He’s the budget-conscious, business-friendly mayor of his country’s most cosmopolitan city. Amid a building boom that has transformed the city’s skyline, critics accuse him of abetting gentrification and pricing out lower-income residents. Meanwhile, at a time when concern over illegal immigrants is playing out in a big way on the national political stage, he has…
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The Schmooze Israel Electric Corporation Leaves Moses in the Dark
“From Moses to Moses, there was none like Moses,” goes the rabbinic saying on the Biblical Moses and his namesake, the twelfth century philosopher and halachic authority Moses Maimonides. Author of the “Guide to the Perplexed” and other famous works the latter Moses brought enlightenment to the masses. But the Israel Electric Corporation has left…
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News In Israeli Hospitals, Laughter Is Good Medicine
Some may view it as a double life: By night, she works in the most stereotypical of Orthodox women’s professions; by day, she’s a clown. After dark, Freda Kaplan, a rebbetzin and wife of Dov Kaplan, chief rabbi of Israel’s Caesarea, heads to a local ritual bath, where she is the mikveh lady, supervising women…
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The Schmooze A Tour To Be Paid for in Psalms
Sometimes when green ideals and zealous Orthodoxy meet, the results are a little bizarre. The Haredi media is reporting that Eliezer Zahavi, a green-inclined resident from the coastal Israeli city of Bat Yam, has been salvaging reusable items from people’s trash for months — wooden boards, scraps of plastic, bits of metal. He has constructed…
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The Schmooze Campaign To Free Pollard Just Gets Odder
The campaign to free Jonathan Pollard just gets odder, and more disturbing. Pollard started serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison in 1987 for passing military secrets to Israel while working as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Navy. The Shmooze reported back in December that his wife Esther Pollard claimed that the enormous…
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News Is J Street a Threat? Not to Most Israelis
In the three years since its founding, the dovish lobby J Street has become a household name across Jewish America. But ask Israelis about it, and they are more likely to think you are asking for directions to some thoroughfare they haven’t heard of. In polling commissioned by the Forward, only 14% of Jewish Israelis…
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News Despite Resignation, Longtime Peace Negotiator Erekat Carries On as Before
When representatives of the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — known collectively as the Middle East Quartet — arrived here for crucial meetings in March, they met, as usual, with the Palestinians in Ramallah. And, as usual, Saeeb Erekat, the indefatigable Middle East negotiator who has led the Palestinian side…
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The Schmooze Bob Geldof Awarded Honorary Degree from Ben Gurion University
If there’s one thing that most people know about British singer Bob Geldof, it’s that he doesn’t like Mondays. “Tell me why I don’t like Mondays / I wanna shoot the whole day down,” he famously sang in 1979. Well he might have just changed his mind. Ben Gurion University of the Negev chose today…
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