Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Opinion ‘Jewish’ Archbishop of Canterbury at Yad Vashem
There was an unusual moment at Yad Vashem today. As virtually all foreign dignitaries do, the head of the Anglican church went to Yad Vashem during his visit to Jerusalem. And there, he encountered his own Jewish heritage in a stark and poignant way. As Archbishop of Canterbury, enthroned in March, Justin Welby leads the…
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Israel News Billionaire Bets on Arabs of Nazareth To Advance Dream for Israel
He’s just made billions selling the company that he started in his backyard to Warren Buffett, so you may think that it’s time for 86-year-old Stef Wertheimer to take it easy. Instead, Wertheimer, one of Israel’s wealthiest citizens, is today putting most of his energy into the Arab town of Nazareth. There, in the presence…
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Israel News Even Middle-Class Arabs Get Cold Shoulder From Jews in Israeli Town
The founding ethos of this town in the Lower Galilee, adjoining the ancient city of Nazareth, hits the visitor upon arrival. The town looks down directly on Nazareth, a large Arab-populated city. The two municipalities are divided by Zionism Street, a road decked with large Israeli flags — the type normally seen on a border…
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Opinion Anti-Orthodox Profiling Let Women Pray at Kotel
At Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, the use of racial profiling is so controversial that it is the subject of a legal challenge by human rights advocates. But what about a different type of profiling — religious profiling — and of all places at the Western Wall? As we reported, the tables were turned at the…
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Israel News Amusement Park Discrimination May Be Tip of Iceberg in Israel
Politicians have voiced outrage following revelations that an amusement park in central Israel segregated students from Jewish and Arab schools by having them attend on separate days. But civil rights activists say this discrimination is more common than many realize. After learning that, for years, Superland in Rishon Lezion has been keeping schools from different…
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Opinion At Women of the Wall Service, Tables Are Turned
The tables were well and truly turned at the Western Wall this morning, as the Israeli Police, which until this spring detained women holding communal prayers, executed a mass operation to protect them and facilitate their worship. Until April 25, the police treated the monthly gatherings by the feminist alliance Women of the Wall as…
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Opinion When Gorgeous Israeli Soldiers Go Bad on Facebook
When Israeli female soldiers get saucy, some Israelis can’t help but applaud. Columnist Halleli Jabotinsky published newly surfaced photographs on her blog, and declared that they actually performed an “important service” by humanizing the Israeli military and also looked “cute.” In the photographs, which went viral in social media, new recruits exposed their thongs under…
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Israel News Israel Chips Away at Orthodox Monopoly on Marriage
The Israeli government has taken a major step in its effort to weaken Haredi control over marriages within the country’s mainstream population. Under a landmark reform, announced by the Ministry of Religious Services on May 19, local marriage registrars affiliated with the government-sponsored Chief Rabbinate will no longer have an exclusive monopoly over registering the…
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