Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Are U.S. Students Determining Israeli Corporate Policy?
The Israeli food giant Strauss has found itself caught between a rock and a hard place. Internationally, some customers have been furious at the company’s declaration that it supports the Israeli military. According to press reports, until a few weeks ago in the “corporate responsibility” section of its website it declared: Our connection with soldiers…
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The Schmooze In Israel, Kindness Amid Devastation
Amid all the heartbreak and devastation as a result of the fire in Northern Israel, there have been some remarkable stories of human kindness. Today, many of the members of the moshav Nir Etzion will be starting the Sabbath in their own homes. But this time last week, they were under police instructions to evacuate….
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The Schmooze Woman’s Odd Theory for Why Israel Blaze Happened
It’s been a week since the devastating fire in Northern Israel began, and already we have self-appointed experts telling us the “message” of the blaze. The latest theory is that it’s meant to focus people on… the campaign to free Jonathan Pollard. Pollard started serving a life sentence in a U.S. prison in 1987 for…
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News Israel’s Worst-Ever Fire Destroys Village’s Art and Music
When New Yorker Nisan Cohen moved to Israel 15 years ago, he took along his treasured collection of 200 music boxes, and made it the core of a new museum he opened. On December 6, he sat, woebegone, in his soot-filled museum, his entire collection ruined by the forest fire of the preceding four days….
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News As Fire Burns in Northern Israel, U.S. Groups Plan Help for Aftermath
As the huge fire in northern Israel continues to burn for the fourth day, American supporters are formulating ways to help with the worst natural crisis in the nation’s history. While local volunteers acting on personal initiative are ferrying packages of food from homes and restaurants for firefighters, as long as the flames are still…
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The Schmooze First Female Arab Plastic Surgeon in Israel
For the first time, Israel has a female Arab plastic surgeon. Rania El Hativ, 28, is now operating at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa. She hopes that her decision to enter the field will help to make Arab women less reticent about going for plastic surgery. “While there is growing openness to plastic surgery…
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News Solar Panels To Bloom in the Negev as Israel Embarks on a Green Revolution
Four years ago, on the morning after Boston businessman Yosef Abramowitz arrived in Israel’s Negev desert for some rest and relaxation, he took a walk that changed the face of Israeli energy. “It was 5 a.m. I came out with my skin burning from the sun, and I said, ‘Wow, this place must be running…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Author Defends His Widely Challenged Report on Western Wall
The author of a controversial new Palestinian Authority report says his claim that the Western Wall is not a Jewish historic site does not constitute Palestinian propaganda but is rather an attempt to educate world Jewry. “I want to speak to all Jews and say — this wall is not for you; it’s for the…
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