Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Culture Someone To Run With in Israel
It had to be one of the most moving reality TV moments. On September 4, seconds before 18-year-old Holon resident Diana Golbi was crowned winner of “Kokhav Nolad,” Israel’s version of “American Idol,” program makers revealed how she had started on the road to national stardom. They showed a clip of her making a visit,…
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News Women Athletes Are Surging Into the Limelight in Israel
After a 39-year absence, on September 11 the Israeli women’s national volleyball team qualified for the 2011 European Championships. The success seems to tell a story of things looking up in Israeli women’s volleyball, and in women’s sports in general. Since the allocation by the state of an extra 1 million shekels ($275,000) three years…
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The Schmooze Dead Sea Scrolls Hit the Internet
With the Dead Sea Scrolls about to appear online for the whole world to see, what would the religious recluses behind them make of this news? The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced in a statement to journalists that the entire collection — comprised of 30,000 fragments from 900 manuscripts — will be digitized and…
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The Schmooze Reporter Scoops Shin Bet, Interviews Illegal Woman Who Worked for Defense Minister’s Wife
Does the Israeli press have more powerful research capabilities than the Israel Security Agency, Shin Bet? Nili Priel, the wife of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has admitted to employing an illegal foreign worker as a housekeeper. Last week, Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein closed the case as the state, even with the help of Shin Bet,…
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The Schmooze YouTube Video Mocks Gilad Shalit Campaign
Here in Israel, there are stickers and signs everywhere backing the campaign for a prisoner exchange agreement with Hamas to bring Gilad Shalit home. As the Forward has reported in the past, not everyone is so enamored with the campaign. Critics say that releasing prisoners with blood on their hands will lead to further civilian…
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News Bibi’s Tough Choices
All eyes are on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the world awaits his final response to calls for a further settlement freeze. But what happens if he agrees – will he be able to push it through his cabinet and keep his coalition together? Since the final days of Netanyahu’s first settlement freeze in…
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The Schmooze In Israeli Food News…
Is the campaign to boycott settlement produce about to take its toll on one of the world’s best-known heimishe food firms? According to a report in Israeli daily Maariv yesterday, Beigel-Beigel plans to move its Israeli production plant from Barkan, an industrial zone next to the West Bank settlement of Ariel, to a location within…
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News Dyeing To Be Holy
Bathers on a northern Israel beach witnessed a strange spectacle in late September, when a group of Orthodox Jews arrived, discussed a number of talmudic passages, and waded into the water, wearing snorkels, to unravel a biblical mystery. As well as demanding that “the Children of Israel make tzitzit on the corners of their garments,”…
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