Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Israel Celebrates the Royal Wedding
Welcome to Modi’in, the Israeli city that is so British that people drink tea at four o’clock, stand in orderly lines at the bus stop (unheard of in this part of the world) and play cricket. Well today, it became even more so. One street in the city is today covered in red white and…
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News Prosperous but Unequal: OECD Report Spotlights Alarming Trend
When Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared it an international “seal of approval.” But a year later, it’s clear that membership in the elite group has brought anything but approval of the country’s direction in one key area: inequality. Israel’s ascension last May to…
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News A Living Lens
It was November 29, 1947, and the United Nations was about to vote on the resolution that paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. The story is well known: The Zionists achieved the necessary two-thirds majority by the skin of their teeth. But some details are still emerging. Recently Suzy Eban,…
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The Schmooze More Israeli Employers Forgo Gifts at Passover and Rosh Hashanah
Bah, humbug! Ebenezer Scrooge seems to have come to Israel this Passover. The big talking point among Israelis during this time of year is what their company gave them. Employers are expected by convention to give employees a gift twice a year, at Passover and at Rosh Hashanah. It’s a longstanding tradition that dates from…
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News Bieber Knocks ‘Em Dead in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv became Teen Aviv last night, as most of the adult population took cover and girls from across the country headed for Hayarkon Park to see Canadian heartthrob Justin Bieber. The 17-year-old sensation sang and danced for an hour-and-a-half as his fans sang along and screamed. They hung on his every word, jumping, chanting,…
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News 300 Goats and Sheep, 20 Slaughterers, One Willful Rabbi
Making Seder for the extended family seems like child’s play compared with Rabbi Yehudah Glick’s Passover preparations. The New York-born Glick is getting ready to lead world Jewry in a Paschal sacrifice April 18, the first night of Passover. According to the Torah, the Children of Israel were commanded “in perpetuity” to sacrifice a young…
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News All Bottled Up
It’s a constant worry to most environmentalists. A plastic bottle discarded today is likely to be intact in a landfill hundreds of years from now. But for Haifa-based industrial designer Hadas Itzcovitch, the durability of those bottles has a silver lining. Itzcovitch, 30, is pioneering the bottles’ use in long-lasting and weatherproof outdoor art, and…
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The Schmooze Did Israel’s Foreign Minister Make a Toilet Faux Pas?
The media in Israel expects the country’s controversial Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, to be indicted by the end of the week on charges including fraud, breach of trust, money-laundering and obstruction of justice. But there’s a more immediate accusation facing Lieberman – transgression of telephone etiquette. Yesterday, the radio station Reshet Bet was interviewing him,…
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