Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Ben Goldman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 10:51:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 In Loving Memory of Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg, Director of Chabad of Harlem http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-loving-memory-of-rabbi-shaya-gansbourg-chabad-of-harlem/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-loving-memory-of-rabbi-shaya-gansbourg-chabad-of-harlem/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:46:56 +0000 Ben Goldman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103438 The last time I saw Rabbi Shaya Gansbourg was on the second night of Chanukah, a few months ago. I had just completed my army service in the IDF, and my wife and I were on our last night in New York City after traveling abroad for several weeks. The next morning, we would be [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-loving-memory-of-rabbi-shaya-gansbourg-chabad-of-harlem/feed/ 15 Breaking in Israel at Ulpan Etzion: Life inside Israel’s most famous ulpan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/breaking-in-israel-at-ulpan-etzion-life-inside-israels-most-famous-ulpan/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/breaking-in-israel-at-ulpan-etzion-life-inside-israels-most-famous-ulpan/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:35:50 +0000 Ben Goldman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=102992 Ulpan Etzion is a microcosm within a microcosm, a bizarre cross-section of the planet that could only exist in Israel. Famously billed as “Israel’s first ulpan,” the program has been around since 1949 and has since welcomed “thousands of new immigrants,” according to the Jewish Agency’s website. It serves both as a Hebrew language institute [...]

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