Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Office Workers Face Sex-Segregated Elevators
Lots of people have claimed in recent weeks that gender segregation is reaching new heights. But never before has the charge been so, well, literal. Making your way up in an elevator should be, according to some members of the Haredi pro-segregation lobby, a single-gender affair. According to a press report signs have gone up…
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News Yair Lapid May Wind Up Helping Bibi
Yair Lapid, anchor of Israel’s most popular weekend news show, columnist in the best-selling newspaper Yediot Aharonot, author, screenwriter and one-time actor, is the self-styled voice of what he calls the “42%.” According to his calculation, this is the proportion of the population that is Jewish, secular and Zionist. It’s a political constituency for which…
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The Schmooze Anti-Feminist Remarks From Israeli Activist
She is one of the most successful religious women in the media, but Shulamit Melamed wants everyone to know that she’s no feminist. The director of the pro-settler news network Arutz Sheva, Melamed runs the organization’s news site and oversees the newspaper Basheva, which is distributed weekly in an enormous number of synagogues and community…
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The Schmooze Interest-Free Loans Improve Quality of Life
An American immigrant to Israel received today one of the country’s great honors, the Knesset Speaker’s Prize for Quality of Life. In 1990, three decades after immigrating to Israel, Hebrew University academic Eliezer Jaffe set about taking the old shtetl idea of a free loan society and building it on a national scale in Israel….
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The Schmooze Memo to Rubberneckers: Pray, Don’t Look
It is an international problem, only accentuated here by Israeli curiosity — or what in America is called nosiness. Whenever there is a road accident, traffic slows as people peer to see what’s going on. Everyone knows deep down that it’s unhelpful, but everyone just wants to know what is happening. And nobody has found…
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News Danon Sets Agenda for Rising Right Wing
Lawmaker Danny Danon pauses during an interview to scribble an important note to himself. A question about a derogatory portrayal of him in the left-leaning daily newspaper Haaretz gave him an idea: “I must remember to use this article in my campaign.” In the piece in question, columnist Gideon Levy wrote that Danon “will be…
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Opinion Are Holocaust Images Too Hurtful?
The ongoing protests against the exclusion of women from the public sphere by some Haredim, and counter-protests by Haredi activists who say they are maligned by critics, have everyone in Israel talking. The subject was quite provocative enough. And then came the Holocaust reference to make it even more so. On New Year’s Eve night,…
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News Israeli Circumcision Experts Head to Africa
When hundreds of thousands of immigrants flocked to Israel from the Former Soviet Union, they never dreamed that their absorption process could prove a missing link in a massive plan to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa. At the height of the wave of arrivals in the 1990s, Israeli doctors came face to face with a huge…
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