Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Avi Woolf http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 18:48:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Poor Man’s Bread: A Free Market Message for Pesach http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/poor-mans-bread-a-free-market-message-for-pesach/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/poor-mans-bread-a-free-market-message-for-pesach/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:47:36 +0000 Avi Woolf http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=105776 With Purim over, “Pesach season” has officially begun. ‘Tis a season of extremely thorough cleaning, of food shopping, family gatherings and a multitude of homilies on freedom and its many meanings. Most of all, it is a season of charity. Every year, Jewish charities and associations collect money nationwide for the poor and indigent in [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-rabbanut-a-necessary-evil/feed/ 2 Freedom for a free people: On the Israeli Libertarian Movement http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/freedom-for-a-free-people-on-the-israeli-libertarian-movement/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/freedom-for-a-free-people-on-the-israeli-libertarian-movement/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:56:31 +0000 Avi Woolf http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=99474 “Two Jewish traditions seemed to be at war in Israel [when I visited in 1962]: a hundred-year-old tradition of belief in paternalistic socialist government and rejection of capitalism and free markets; and a two-thousand year old tradition, developed out of the necessities of the Diaspora, of self-reliance and voluntary cooperation, of ingenuity in getting around [...]

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