Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Meridor: Desire To Make History May Keep Obama, Bibi on Track
Judging by the title, sparks were going to fly. A much-anticipated session at the second annual Israeli Presidential Conference, today was called “Jerusalem, Washington, US Jewry — Is the Honeymoon Over?” The honeymoon is over, implied Elliott Abrams, former policy advisor to President George W. Bush, saying that he “had a wonderful honeymoon with Sallai,”…
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Life Channeling Your Mother-in-Law at the Israeli Presidential Conference
The second annual Israeli Presidential Conference has the hopeful title “tomorrow.” But some of the speakers are painting a rather bleak picture of what the future heralds. Discussions are focusing heavily on the global economic crisis and what it means to Israel and Jews worldwide. In a panel discussion on this topic, which brought together…
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Life Peres’ Global Initiative
Jerusalem is buzzing with international visitors here for the second annual Israeli Presidential Conference, which began yesterday and finishes up today. Israel’s President Shimon Peres has long been an enthusiast for the idea that Israel should be a meeting place for Jewish minds and that the Israel’s leaders should take time out of all the…
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News Arms Smugglers Into Gaza Face a New Foe: Egypt
As a consequence of the military action in Gaza and to please a new administration in Washington, Egypt has recently stepped up efforts to crack down on smugglers who use a network of tunnels to transport weapons to Hamas. This assessment comes from Israeli analysts and from informed sources who say that while Hamas is…
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Life A ‘Silent Agreement’ Between Batterers and Their Victims?
An Israeli academic has come up with a theory about domestic violence that is, at once, extremely disturbing and somewhat hopeful. Eila Perkis of the University of Haifa’s School of Social Work claims in a new paper that violence between couples is usually the result of a calculated decision-making process. Her theory is that neither…
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News Elder B’nai Mitzvahs Journey to Israel
In its centuries of existence, the Western Wall may have never played host to two more different prayer services at the same time. As young hippie-ish Hasidim beat on drums, singing ecstatically, nine elderly Americans from a retirement village in Cincinnati, Ohio, celebrated their belated bar and bat mitzvahs before the ancient stones. And history…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Barak’s Paris Spending Spree and a Proposal for Diplomatic Dormitories
Will somebody please teach Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak how to use Travelocity or Orbitz? Barak, leader of the Labor party that has spent decades fighting for social equality, managed to rack up a hotel bill of 96,000 euro for a visit by him and his entourage to the Paris Air Show in the summer…
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News Grassroots Campaign: Shalit’s Freedom Should Not Be Bought With Prisoners
People campaigning for the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit are facing, for the first time, grass-roots efforts against a prisoner exchange to bring him home. Until now, there has been a split between the broader Israeli public, which has generally been united behind the idea of a prisoner exchange with Hamas for Shalit, and…
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