Nathan Jeffay
By Nathan Jeffay
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Life Offbeat Israel: The Great-Great Grandfather of Jewish Law
A broad alliance of people, from politicians to market traders, are worried for the heath of Israel’s less well-off, as reported in today’s edition of the Forward. Just as that row brews, we learn that the health of a staggering number of Israelis is suffering due to financial factors. According to research released by the…
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News Proposed Fruit and Vegetable Tax Threatens Healthy Food Culture, Say Critics
While most of the world is fixated on Jerusalem’s take on the settlements and peace negotiations, inside Israel, lawmakers have found time to fight over a very different cause: a plan to tax fruits and vegetables. The plan, not yet implemented, has provoked a storm of opposition in the Knesset, including within Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Life The Polarizing Effect of the Proposed ‘Nakba Law’
So everyone is talking about the two-state solution. Whether you’re on the Israeli side or the Palestinian side, accepting it appears to be the very benchmark of moderation. Apparently that’s not quite how Fatah member Abbas Zaki, Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon, sees it. “With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse,” he says…
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News Conservative Jews Decry Bias in IDF
When Gabrielle Pollack sought to say kaddish for her recently deceased grandmother, the young female soldier found that in the Israeli Army, it can be daunting to be a Conservative Jew. And the army, for its part, found it can be daunting to accommodate one as non-Orthodox Jewish movements increasingly jockey to break the Orthodox…
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News Bibi Backers Push to Rebuild Settlements
It was not only Barack Obama who was bringing demands to bear upon Benjamin Netanyahu. While the Israeli prime minister heard the president press for progress on abandoning the settlements, right-wing activists back home were putting pressure on Netanyahu to do just the opposite. They want him to regress on the issue and turn back…
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Life Impressed by Israel, Not Sold on the Holocaust?
Earlier this month, the Bintel Blog reported that Israeli Arabs were overwhelmingly impressed by the achievements of the State of Israel and keen to continue living here. It’s indicative of the increasingly complex identity of Israeli Arabs that new research out shows that the percentages who are prepared to recognize Israel as a Jewish state…
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Life Offbeat Israel: Posh Tel Aviv Residents Protest Haredi Influx
When the people of Ramat Aviv are taking to the streets in protest, you know the end really must be nigh. The high-life-living residents of this exceedingly wealthy Tel Aviv neighborhood are more likely to be seen corking a fine bottle of wine than waving a banner. So what has happened in the past couple…
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Life Offbeat Israel: She ‘Stole’ What?
In the most remarkable of court cases, an Israeli man yesterday claimed he has been a victim of “sperm theft.” The woman who “stole” his sperm and became pregnant as a result should be forced to have an abortion, he demanded. The 21-year-old man who brought the case claimed that the 26-year-old woman carrying his…
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