Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Amishai Gottlieb http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sun, 26 May 2013 06:29:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A First Time Voter’s Take on the Elections http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-first-time-voters-take-on-the-elections/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-first-time-voters-take-on-the-elections/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:21:36 +0000 Amishai Gottlieb http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=97604 Whether you like it or not, voting is a privilege  Confession: though I was eligible to vote in the last two elections both in America and in Israel, this was going to be my first time making it to the polls for either. For the past two American elections I had been too lazy to [...]

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