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Nathan Jeffay

Mar 19, 2021, 12:23 PM

Herring doesn’t taste right eaten outside its natural habitat: the communal kiddush. (iStock)

The COVID-19 crisis stripped us of the kind of lighthearted – and important -- encounters that happen at a typical Shabbat morning kiddush

Aug 20, 2020, 3:47 PM

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Israel forgot 53 COVID deaths. Stats screw-up is devastating — and irrelevant

Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothes, carry the body of Rabbi Avraham Heber who died from complications of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem, on April 23, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Statistics have become our pandemic security blanket, and with its major miscalculation, the government has taken away a source of calm

Aug 9, 2020, 4:26 PM

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How Rabbi Steinsaltz’s whiskey shenanigans changed Judaism for me

Nathan Jeffay (left) interviews Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz in his Jerusalem office, March 2011. (Via Nathan Jeffay)

The late scholar will be remembered for his Talmud translation and commentary, but also for his call to avoid idealizing anyone, including him

Dec 19, 2019, 2:44 PM

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When will Labour be kosher again? When Luciana is back

Independent MP Luciana Berger leaves Milbank Studios near Parliament in London on February 21, 2019. (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

If not for the rabid anti-Semitism unleashed under Corbyn, the noble former MP would be sitting in the UK parliament today

About Me

Nathan Jeffay is the science and health reporter for The Times of Israel. He has been writing for Jewish and Israeli publications since 1997, and lectures widely on the topics he covers.