Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Passport Crunch Nixes Travel Plans for Expat U.S. Citizens
A passport crisis is forcing hundreds of American citizens living in Israel to cancel travel plans to the United States. Since the summer, the American consulate in Jerusalem and the American embassy in Tel Aviv have ceased providing services to all visitors except those who have managed to schedule an appointment, resulting in an average…
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News In Negev Town Buffeted By Rocket Fire, Wireless Networks Flourish
Free to play the very latest educational computer games on state-of-the-art laptops, the 33 children at Eshel kindergarten would appear to be some of the luckiest around. With Eshel’s teachers able to use a townwide wireless network to plan programs using all the resources the Internet has to offer, the school is among the most…
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News Deal Reached To End Israeli University Strike
Teaching is set to resume in Israeli universities on Sunday, after striking faculty reached a pay deal with the treasury. The 4,700 tenured academics at the country’s seven public universities will see their salaries increase by 24.5% by 2010. The deal will end a 13-week strike that has shut down Israel’s universities. The agreement was…
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News University Strike Threatens Israel’s ‘Natural Resource’ — Brainpower
UPDATE: A deal was reached January 18 to end the Israeli university strike. See our update here. Haifa, Israel – During what was supposed to be the last week of the semester, the Haifa University campus was almost deserted. Students and lecturers were missing, thanks to a 13-week strike by teachers that is causing a…
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News Rabbi’s Incitement Against Olmert Threatens To Split Apart Chabad
In a major blow to a decade-long campaign to play down divisions within the Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-Orthodox movement, the sect’s Israeli leadership appears ready to publicly distance itself from a significant messianic strand within the movement. The unexpected development has been forced on the Chabad leadership by a spreading tide of anger toward the movement this…
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News British Jewry Again Finds Itself Embroiled in a Labor Party Scandal
Manchester, England — When the political scandal that is dominating Britain’s front pages broke last week, the man at the center of it, David Abrahams, was at a charity dinner in London for Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology. Abrahams, a British real estate magnate, is one of the leading British donors to Jewish and Israeli…
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Opinion Reporting for Duty With Britain’s Israel-hating Mob
The first thing I did after I started working as a staff reporter at the London-based Jewish Chronicle was to join the National Union of Journalists. Those dependable union reps, I was told, would safeguard my every interest. Holding on to that belief has become rather hard, now that the organization I had considered my…
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