Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Becky Rowe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:51:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A Delusional State http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-delusional-state/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-delusional-state/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:26:26 +0000 Becky Rowe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=95224 Working at a large interfaith not-for-profit in the US a little over 20 years ago, I coordinated a conference for clergy on the topic of Israel. We invited a priest, two ministers (an evangelical and a progressive), a Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi as speakers. Each was to present their relationship to Israel as [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-delusional-state/feed/ 22 On Hanukkah: confessions of a closet Hellenist http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hanukah-in-a-new-light/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hanukah-in-a-new-light/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:56:45 +0000 Becky Rowe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84226 I love Hanukkah; parts of it. The candles, the songs, the games, the gelt, the latkes. But something about this festival makes me queasy. I know why and I have to fess up; I am something of a Hellenist. Yes, the Hellenists we railed against in Hebrew School, decried in Young Judaea and curse every [...]

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