Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Daniel Gordis http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:10:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A responsibility to speak http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-the-absence-of-outrage/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-the-absence-of-outrage/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:22:19 +0000 Daniel Gordis http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=82352 It is the nature of Jewish life that its most critical issues have often been debated fiercely, and in public. In the Bible, there’s Korach versus Moses, disputing the critical question of what constitutes legitimate leadership. Millennia later there was the conflict between Spinoza and the Amsterdam rabbis who essentially excommunicated him, over whether Jewish [...]

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