Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Israel Builds Another Barrier, This One To Bar Illegal African Immigrants
Seven years after starting work on the controversial West Bank security barrier, Israel has decided to build another barrier — along its border with Egypt. In March, the Cabinet approved a plan to seal Israel’s southwest border, which is currently secured only by patrols and monitoring devices. Egypt has not raised any objection. Prime Minister…
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The Schmooze A New Passover Tradition: Desalinated Water
His status in haredi circles is legendary, and for years his kashrut seal has appeared on every kind grocery item. Now, you can get tap water with the seal of Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau, the chief rabbi of Bnei Brak. Though during the year a tiny amount of something non-kosher doesn’t render otherwise kosher food…
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News Amid Legal Battles, More Gay Israelis Are Raising Children
A gay couple from Tel Aviv has petitioned Israel’s high court for the right to have a baby through a surrogate mother, an option now open only to heterosexual couples. The request by Tel Aviv spouses Etai Pinkas and Yoav Arad comes as the gay community in Israel is experiencing a small-scale baby boom. In…
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The Schmooze Arab Bakers Anticipate a Happy Passover, Thanks to Shas
Here in Israel, they say that Passover brings Jews together. Religious and non-religious, Ashkenazim and Sephardim, Tel Avivians and Jerusalemites, the vast majority of Israel’s Jews will sit down to a Seder this evening. Yet few people realize that Passover also spurs a certain unity between some of Israel’s Jewish and non-Jewish citizens. The holiday…
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The Schmooze Bread Masquerading as Matzo
It looks like matzo, it tastes like matzo, but it’s really…. bread. The Chief Rabbinate’s Fraud Division has put out a statement urging all Israeli shoppers to be on the lookout for certain brands of matzo thought to have been baked in contravention of Passover rules, meaning eating it on Passover is, religiously-speaking, the same…
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News What About St. Peter? Galilee Fishing Banned
Israel will soon ban one of the Galilee’s most ancient professions: fishing on the Kinneret. The Kinneret, also called the Sea of Galilee, has always been known for its plentiful stock of fish. “The density of the shoals of fish in the Sea of Galilee can scarcely be conceived by those who have not witnessed…
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News Who Will Make Peace When Palestinians Are Divided?
Whenever he is asked about prospects for a two-state solution, Moshe Elad, who was the first head of Israeli-Palestinian security coordination after the Oslo Accords, answers with a question of his own: “In the West, people see removing settlements as the most effective way of moving things forward. But say we reach a point where…
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Life Israeli Teens Say No to Arab Rights and Compliant Army Service
A new survey of Israeli high school students makes for depressing reading. When the Jewish sample was asked whether Arabs should have equal rights, some 49.5% said no. An even higher percentage, 56%, said that Arabs should not have the right to run for office. Particularly alarming is that a repressive attitude towards Arabs and…
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