Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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News Conversions by Israeli Military Called Into Question by Israeli State Attorney
In the latest episode in the saga of Israel’s converts, the state is questioning the legitimacy of every conversion performed under the auspices of the country’s military. For more than three decades, the Israel Defense Forces has offered conversion to soldiers who are not Jewish, but are descendants of Jews — and are therefore entitled…
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News Prospect of Large Israeli Gas and Oil Fields Sparks Furor Over Dividing Profits
News that Israel might be home to an oilfield of its own created great excitement in the Jewish state this summer. But growing concern among citizens about who stands to benefit from the country’s natural resources has cast a shadow over that late August discovery. That’s because the state will see less than one-quarter of…
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The Schmooze Palestinian Boy’s Organs Save Jews, Arabs
As all eyes are on the political differences between Israelis and Palestinians, unnoticed by the international media there has been a remarkable civilian-to-civilian act of kindness that transcended the boundaries of the conflict. A Palestinian 3 1/2-year-old, Abdul Hai Salhut, died after a tragic accident at his East Jerusalem home. The parents donated organs, and…
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News Elul Study Program Combines a University’s Diversity With a Yeshiva’s Passion
It’s prime time at Israel’s yeshivas. Working men who have taken a bit of vacation to study, and full-time bokhers, pore over religious texts to get focused in preparation for the High Holy Days. Intensive Torah-learning is a long-standing tradition during the Hebrew month of Elul, which ends the day before Rosh Hashanah. But it…
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The Schmooze Titanic Discoverer Launches Israel Sea-Floor Expedition
What is the man who discovered the wreck of the Titanic hoping to discover in the waters off the coast of Israel? As well as boasting the discovery of the Titanic wreck in 1985, Robert Ballard, a former US Navy commander and today a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, also found…
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The Schmooze Bereaved Parents Urge Peace Action
As Israel and the Palestinians come together in Washington, talk is cheap. Everyone has something to say for or against the meeting. One of the more unusual groups putting forward a more carefully considered opinion than most is the Parents Circle-Families Forum, an organization that consists of families who have lost a loved one in…
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The Schmooze Printed Food May Make TV Dinners Obsolete
A few decades down the line, today’s youngsters will be telling their grandkids about an old-fashioned item called a microwave meal. If the research of an Israeli-born MIT doctoral student pans out, we’ll have no need for ready meals as we’ll have machines to freshly-assemble our food. Last year Amit Zoran and his research partner…
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The Schmooze ‘Sesame Street’ Goes to Palestine
The American administration is about to jump-start peace talks aimed at the creation of a Palestinian state in the framework of the two-state solution, but it seems that the “Sesame Street” star Grover is way ahead of the game — he’s already visited Palestine. In a segment now on the “Sesame Street” website, Grover and…
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