Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Rabbinic Ruling to Deter Nosey Teachers
Sometimes they contain gossip, sometimes they are romantic messages, and other times they are nasty jokes at the expense of the teacher. There can’t be a classroom in the world where kids don’t pass notes to each other during lessons. When teachers see this happening, they tend to seize the notes, read them, and if…
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Life Peres Recommending To Expunge Lawless Settlers’ Records
This newspaper has written a lot in recent months about the upturn in lawless conduct by settlers. In this context, you may think that the state would take a zero tolerance policy towards such actions. But it seems that a very different approach is being taken. The upturn in settler lawlessness, or more correctly lawlessness…
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Life Israeli Youth Out Younger, Haredi Fertility Treatments
Tel Aviv’s 11th annual municipality-funded Gay Pride Parade took place today. Timed to coincide with this, research was released showing that Israeli homosexuals are coming out of the closet younger. At the end of the 1990s the average age was 22; now it is 16. The research was carried out by Guy Shilo, a recently-graduated…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Polling Israelis on Obama and Settlements
Every month, Tel Aviv University pollsters gauge Israeli public opinion, and the Bintel Blog closely follows the results. The latest poll, which was conducted last week just before Barack Obama’s speech, found that 55% of the Israeli public felt that the American president leans in favor of the Palestinians. Few Israelis, 5%, said that he…
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Life Stolen Jerusalem Stone Returned, Accidental Thief Forgiven
Who says that there aren’t honest people around today? In 1997, a 46lb fragment of a marble column disappeared from one of the excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) was conducting south of the Temple Mount. It has now been returned. Several weeks ago, the IAA received an unexpected e-mail from a Christian clergyman in…
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News Pollsters Find Israeli Public Less Supportive Of Settlements
In previous decades, an American president who pressured Israel to freeze settlement growth, as President Obama has done, would have riled large sections of Israel’s Jewish population. But public sympathy for settlers and the settlements is currently at an all-time low, adding a new dimension to the sometimes tense relationship between Washington and Jerusalem. Pollsters…
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News Good Old-Fashioned Discipline
It was clear that something unusual was going on in the Orthodox-only village of Nof Ayalon, in central Israel, when residents spotted a bikini-clad teenager strutting her stuff. Nof Ayalon, near Modi’in and not far from the Green Line, very much bears the imprint of its founders. It was set up in the mid-1990s by…
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Culture Offbeat Israel: Why Is the Jerusalem Post Producing the ‘Boringist’ Video?
Israel practiced for war on Tuesday As part of a week of nationwide drills that have taken simulations of wartime civil defense operations to every town and city in the country, bomb sirens sounded at 11 a.m. Civilians, including school and kindergarten children, made their way in to bomb shelters or reinforced rooms, in a…
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