Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Boycotting the Boycotters of the Ariel Cultural Center
The Ariel Cultural Center — a 530-seat auditorium for settlers in the heart of the West Bank — opened this week. Much has been written about anger among left-leaning actors, writers and directors, some of whom plan to boycott the venue. Now, we have a boycott of the boycotters. A large stage props firm, Hayik…
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News ‘Social Suitability’ Nears OK As Israeli Housing Criterion
Israel is poised to enshrine in law the right of some villages to handpick residents, following the advance of legislation that some decry as carte blanche for ethnic discrimination. The Knesset Law Committee has approved a bill that protects the right of communal villages of 500 or fewer families to select residents by using the…
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The Schmooze Chilean Miners Headed to Israel for Christmas
When the Chilean miners surfaced, Israel’s tourism minister, Stas Misezhnikov, invited them on an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel over Christmas. “Your bravery and strength of spirit, your great faith that helped you survive so long in the bowels of the earth, was an inspiration to us all,” he wrote, before inviting them to the “Land…
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News Britain’s New Envoy to Israel Is Jewish
The day before his interview with the Forward, Great Britain’s first Jewish ambassador to the State of Israel met with a senior member of the government to discuss Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank — a topic on which London and Jerusalem sharply disagree. “In the course of this discussion he started quoting various…
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News All Conversions Now Under Review in Israel as Crisis Escalates
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has hoisted a question mark over the legitimacy of all conversions performed in the country since at least 1999. This constitutes the deepening of a crisis that began on September 6, when a representative of Israel’s Attorney General raised doubts about the legitimacy of conversions performed under the auspices of the country’s…
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News Stressed Out? Depressed?
You are working on an important assignment for your boss when a message pops up on your computer. “You’re stressed out,” a dialogue box declares. “Time to take a break.” An Israeli high-tech innovation means that as of 2011, shops can begin stocking laptops with special hardware and software that will monitor a computer user’s…
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The Schmooze In College News…
One student at Technion gets full marks for ingenuity. Staying true to the Haifa institution’s tagline, “Israel Institute of Technology,” he put technology to good use when preparing for an examination. Using his lecturer’s computer, he asked the dean to send him the questions. But the dean smelled a rat, and now the 26-year-old student…
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News A Waning Interest in Rabin Memorial
Memories of Yitzhak Rabin and the national trauma of his assassination seemed to be fading as Israel approached the 15th anniversary of his death. Ahead of the anniversary of Rabin?s death on the Hebrew calendar, which occurred on Heshvan 12 (October 20 this year) and the Western calendar anniversary of November 4, Labor Party lawmaker…
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