Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Israel is 8th Happiest Country on the Globe
Want to be happier? Move to Israel. And no, this isn’t Jewish Agency propaganda. It’s the results of a recently announced Forbes mega-study on happiness around the glob. Gallup surveyed thousands of people in 155 countries, between 2005 and 2009, to find out how happy they were. It asked participants about overall satisfaction with their…
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News At Kosher Feast, Fried Locusts for Dessert
At the Eucalyptus, a restaurant just outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, 250 Orthodox Jews gathered in late July to learn Talmud and to discover what meat-and-milk tastes like. The meat had been marinating in milk for, well, almost a lifetime. The dish was udder of cow, which, as the many rabbis in attendance pointed out,…
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Culture With Fewer Objects but Grander Vision, Israel Museum Opens Anew
After three years and $100 million worth of renovations, the Israel Museum threw open the doors of its renewed campus for an elite opening party July 25 and to the public July 26. The museum, Israel’s largest cultural institution, has suffered in the past from a reputation as inaccessible. Exhibits were dense and difficult to…
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The Schmooze 40% of Israelis Break the Law While Driving
Israel’s roads are scary places. Okay, the old joke is an exaggeration – drivers in this hot country don’t stick to the left-side or right-side, but drive in the shade – but even the US State Department comments on Israel’s aggressive driving tactics on their Israel page: “Aggressive driving is a serious problem…Drivers are also…
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News Upset Over Uproar, Some in Israel Wonder What All the Fuss Is About
Under the current system, Israelis who wish to convert to Judaism must go before a state-run Conversion Authority, which operates under the supervision of the country’s avowedly Orthodox Sephardic chief rabbi, Shlomo Amar. Amar appoints the members of the authority — only male rabbis, of course — and has the final say on all matters…
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The Schmooze Musical Hasbarah, The New In Thing
It seems that musical hasbarah — Israel advocacy — is the new in thing, after the flotilla “We Con The World,” an angry — and some say offensive — caricature of the flotilla activists, went viral on YouTube. It’s still online here and has received more than 2 million hits. Now, a composition student at…
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News IDF Recognizes Help From Israeli Human Rights Group
When Israeli human rights groups accused the Israel Defense Forces of wrongdoing in the Gaza operation of 2008–9, many Israelis angrily defended the army and accused the critics of betraying their country. But the army has just voiced gratitude to one of the groups. In early July, the military advocate general, Avichai Mendelblit, said that…
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The Schmooze Israeli Couple Arrested for Loud Sex
Israeli satirist Ephraim Kishon once said Israel is surrounded by enemies “yet its inhabitants’ ulcers are caused by the neighbors.” In a country of extremely opinionated people, disputes and yelling matches are common-place. Though, they’re usually about wild pets and teenagers drumming, not loud moans coming from the neighbor’s bedroom. But at 5am last Thursday,…
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