Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News British Day Schools: More Students, Fewer Pounds
London — As the school year begins, new research out of Britain is shedding light on the resurgent effort to create successful Jewish schools. On the one hand, a study that was released this summer by a Jewish organization suggests that British schools are in the midst of a decade-long expansion, with 8% growth since…
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News In Boost for McCain, Ultra-Orthodox Push Israelis to Vote in American Elections
Haifa, Israel — As the American presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain heads into its final stretch, a group of leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel is preparing to release a statement that urges the country’s American expatriates to exercise their voting rights in November by casting absentee ballots. The statement comes on the…
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News Building Prompts Cries of ‘Apartmentheid’
Tel Aviv — Israel’s latest fair-housing campaign is not aimed at changing the fact that some towns are considered Jewish and others Arab, nor that some neighborhoods are religious and others secular, or some streets Sephardic and others Ashkenazic. It is out to halt a new phenomenon: apartments exclusively for high-tech workers. Under construction in…
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News Government Aid For Liberal Shuls Breaks Orthodox Israeli Monopoly
Modi’in, Israel — Israel’s Reform and Conservative movements have been allotted government land for synagogue construction, marking the first time in the Jewish state’s history that the Orthodox monopoly on public support for prayer facilities has been broken. These movements are heralding the development as far more than a financial coup: They describe it as…
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News Settlers Appear To Be Ramping Up Violence in West Bank
Tel Aviv — Incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank have surged in recent weeks, according to several new reports, prompting unusually sharp complaints from senior Israeli army field commanders as well as from villagers and human-rights groups. Settler leaders told the Forward that the incidents are part of a new…
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News Israel’s Powerhouse Paralympics Squad Hamstrung by Dearth of Government Support
Haifa, Israel — In what should be the final push of preparations before its departure to Beijing, Israel’s Paralympics delegation has been forced to halt training for some sports because it has run out of money. Given that it took Israel 52 years of competing in the Olympics before it struck gold at the 2004…
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News Israel Ponders Possibilities for Future Government as Elections Near
Haifa, Israel — Now that Ehud Olmert has put an end to the guessing game about his future, Israel has a new favorite topic of speculation: what, exactly, will happen in the coming months. Since Olmert’s July 30 announcement that he plans to step down as prime minister, public attention has shifted to the leadership…
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News Religious Zionists Enshrine Gaza Pullout In Mourning Ritual
Haifa, Israel — In Avi Ben-Shimon’s home in the West Bank town of Emmanuel, a memorial candle will burn throughout the fast day of Tisha B’Av, which begins at sundown August 9. It will not, however, commemorate the main theme of the 25-hour fast, which is the destruction of the two ancient Jerusalem temples. Rather,…
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