Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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The Schmooze Israeli Parents Launch ‘Stroller March’ To Protest High Cost of Raising Children
Boy, oh boy — and girl, oh girl — things happen fast in Israel. Just the other week, The Marker ran a big story on the comparatively high cost of raising children in Israel, as compared to other countries. Everything from diapers to strollers to baby clothes and toys seem to cost more in Israel….
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The Schmooze Majority of Israeli 18-Year-Olds Not Drafted Into Army
It is common knowledge that all 18-year-old Israeli males serve in the Israel Defense Forces for three years, and all females for two years. Only that common knowledge is wrong. Israel’s Channel 2 News reports that in an interview with Israel Defense magazine, the IDF’s top human resources commander, Brigadier General Amir Rogovsky, said that…
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The Schmooze Did Jews Invent the Question Mark?
Somehow, it’s not surprising that Jews, who are known to answer a question with a question, may have invented the question mark. Reuters reports that manuscript specialist Chip Coakley of Cambridge University was studying biblical manuscripts at the British Museum in London when he determined that the “zagwa elaya” (two dots resembling a the modern…
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The Schmooze Facebook-Like Site FaceGlat To Serve Gender-Segregated Haredi Population
The term “Glatt kosher” doesn’t just refer to meat anymore. It’s now for social networking, too — at a website that is specifically designed to avoid the meat market aspects of the online world. Ynet reports that there is now a Facebook-type site, aimed at the gender-segregated Haredi population, called FaceGlat. If you are a…
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The Schmooze Israeli Teenagers are Winners at the International Physics Olympiad
The Israeli team at the 42nd International Physics Olympiad returned home from Bangkok, Thailand with some serious bling around their necks. Each of the team’s five members came home with a prize. The teenagers won five medals – two gold, two silver and one bronze – ranking Israel 13th in the world, four places higher…
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The Schmooze Black and Jewish? So Are They!
Funny or Die “Yeah, uh huh, you know what it is. My nose and ass — they’re both big” is the catchy refrain to this outrageous yet endearing Funny or Die parody, celebrating the idiosyncratic joys of being both black and Jewish. It’s hard to be put off by the video’s many offensive Jewish and…
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The Schmooze Prominent Palestinian Prisoner Found With Phone in Jail Cell
The most prominent Palestinian imprisoned by Israel, Marwan Barghouti, is now serving two weeks in solitary confinement for having been caught with a mobile phone in his cell. Israel’s Channel 2 News reports that the phone was discovered during a search by prison personnel in response to tips that contraband had been smuggled to security…
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The Schmooze Hungarian Police Captain, 97, Acquitted of Holocaust-Era Crimes
A sickly, wheelchair-bound nonagenarian who sat in court Monday covered in a blanket and hooked up to an IV was acquitted of Holocaust-era crimes. The scene sounds familiar, but it wasn’t John Demjanjuk on trial again. In this latest attempt to bring World War II criminals to justice, 97-year-old former Hungarian police captain Sandor Kepiro…
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