Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Carla Naumburg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:42:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 An answer to a friend http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-answer-to-a-friend/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-answer-to-a-friend/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:36:25 +0000 Carla Naumburg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=81132 A good friend of mine, a kind and decent woman (who happens not to be Jewish), sent me this message today: Help me understand the Middle East, Carla. As I understand it, there are children dying on both sides of this battle. Is Israel more in the “right” because their rockets are shot over in [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-answer-to-a-friend/feed/ 20 I care about Israel, even if the feeling isn’t mutual http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-care-about-israel-even-if-the-feeling-isnt-mutual/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-care-about-israel-even-if-the-feeling-isnt-mutual/#comments Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:45:37 +0000 Carla Naumburg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=60600 I remember sitting on a park bench in Jerusalem, hummus smeared across my mouth. In between bites of falafel, I leaned over to my husband and whispered, “Do you think he’s Jewish?” I looked in the direction of a nondescript man walking across the street. “Yep.” “Well, what about her?” “Carla, they’re probably all Jewish.” [...]

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