Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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The Schmooze Polls Ask: How Much Do You Think Obama Loves Israel?
It’s the million dollar question here in Israel – what, exactly, does the public think of President Barack Obama? A Jerusalem Post poll in March indicated that just 9% of Jewish Israelis think that his administration is more pro-Israeli than pro-Palestinian. Now, figures from Tel Aviv University’s monthly opinion poll paint a very different picture….
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News Rabbi David Forman, 65, Leading Human Rights Activist in Israel
Rabbi David Forman, 65, founder of the Israeli group Rabbis for Human Rights, died on May 3 in Dallas while awaiting a liver transplant. Forman, an American-born Reform rabbi, founded Rabbis for Human Rights in 1988, after the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada. The organization runs educational programs to highlight Judaism’s teachings on human…
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News Kadima Bill: NGOs That Assist in War Crime Accusations Should Be Illegal
A little more than a year ago, the Israeli government announced that it would refuse to provide information to the United Nations for its Goldstone Report. Now, some Israeli politicians want to enact legislation that, were it in force then, would have made it illegal for civilian organizations to do so. Some 17 lawmakers from…
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News A Lady in Word and Deed, Lady J Was Grandmother to All Britain’s Jews
In late April, my mother’s cell phone rang, and at the end of the line was a woman to whom she had never before spoken. This woman had heard my brother give a speech in a London synagogue and was impressed, so she simply “had” to track down my mother, call her and give her…
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The Schmooze Rapping Herzl’s Birthday
Last Sunday was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl. Jews around the globe marked the occasion with ceremonies, tributes… and at least one of them did it with a rap. It went something like this: “Shut up and listen, to my hip hop schooling/ We talking freedom, emancipation/ A home, a land…
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News Bereaved Want Space Between Memorial and Independence Days
Israelis have just taken their annual national ride on an emotional rollercoaster. As per the yearly routine, on the morning of Memorial Day, or Yom HaZikaron, April 19, cemeteries across the country filled up for commemorative events, and the country ground to a halt for two minutes of silence to pay respect to fallen soldiers…
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The Schmooze The Upside of Volcanic Ash: Dirt-Cheap Flowers in Israel
In every international crisis, natural or man-made, there are winners. Often they are cynical self-serving business folk who profit from the misery of others, but here in Israel, those benefiting from the recent grounding of flights due to volcanic ash are members of the general public. You may know that on a daily basis Israel…
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News On Lag B’Omer, Kabbalah’s ‘Patron Saint’ Inspires Pilgrimage, Donations
As millions of people worldwide — celebrities like Madonna among them — turn to Kabbalah in hopes of solving their problems, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are going one step further by appealing directly to the man some consider to be the author of mystical Judaism’s most important text. In early May, Rabbi Shimon Bar…
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