Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Christmas Cheer for Palestinians?
Will it be a merry Christmas for Palestinian Christians this year? The answer is that it depends who you ask. According to some the picture is bleak. Take, for example, this report about Santa having to “ditch his sleigh in Egypt and crawl through a smuggling tunnel to bring a little Christmas joy to the…
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News Mosque Arson Victims Have Low Hopes
The recent arson attack on a Palestinian mosque brought international attention, and solidarity from unusual quarters, to this quiet West Bank farming community. But now that rabbinic visitors have dried up, and Israeli politicians are done condemning the incident, villagers fear that the crime will go unsolved, much like the crimes they say preceded the…
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Life Plenty of Israelis Support Right-Wing Insubordination, Poll Shows
So, Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the settler rabbi who was encouraging soldiers to disobey orders to dismantle outposts, appears to have backed down. But according to a surprising new poll, there are plenty of Israelis who think that insubordination in the army is okay. Jewish Israelis were asked if they deny the right of right-wing soldiers…
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News Abuse of IDF Exemptions Questioned
A growing gap between the size of the Orthodox Jewish population in Israel and the number of women who are receiving exemption from military service on religious grounds has prompted a move in the Knesset to clamp down on those who may be lying about their beliefs to avoid army service. In recent months, the…
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Fast Forward Guilty Verdict for Federation Gunman Called a ‘Hanukkah Miracle’
Naveed Haq’s shooting spree in the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle offices was a nightmare for those trapped in the building. More than three years later, the survivors of the attack are hailing his conviction as a “Hanukkah miracle.” “This guilty verdict will provide some closure for many in the Seattle Jewish community,” said Richard…
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Life Aftermath of Mosque Arson Attack — Condemnations and Settler Rabbi Dance and Chant
This weekend the “price tag” policy of extremist settlers got well and truly out of hand. Price tag is an attempt to demonstrate to law enforcement bodies that any action which interferes with settler interests will result in vandalism on highways and in Palestinian villages — and sometimes also harm to individual Palestinians. On Friday…
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Life YouTube — The World’s Direct Line to Technophile Peres
“Greetz from US Peres! Good luck mr. president!” writes PivotStorm, a US bank clerk with a penchant for using the F-word. Kigbfre, a woman whose comment is accompanied by a picture of her showing cleavage, posts: “Hello, I like your video.” YouTube users have found what political lobbyists across Israel are dying for — a…
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News Gender Segregation Plan Stirs Anger
Israel’s medical establishment is reacting angrily to revelations that the country’s Health Ministry is working on a plan to make Jerusalem’s two largest psychiatric institutions single-gender. The controversy marks the latest in a series of dust-ups over the place of religion in the health care system since the United Torah Judaism party took control of…
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