Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 02:38:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Women of the Wall, Orthodox stagnation http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/about-the-reform-women-of-the-wall-and-orthodox-stagnation/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/about-the-reform-women-of-the-wall-and-orthodox-stagnation/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:30:34 +0000 Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=116756 ‘Be strong and zaye gezunt to all of you”, said Anat Hoffman, head of the Israel Religious Action Center, in her letter to a number of former paratroopers who joined the most recent Women of the Wall act of remonstrance. The analogy is quite simple: those who took part in the near-mythical act of liberating [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/about-the-reform-women-of-the-wall-and-orthodox-stagnation/feed/ 1 TWISTED MIND: French city gave Palestinian murderer honorary title http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/twisted-mind-french-city-gave-palestinian-murderer-honorary-title/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/twisted-mind-french-city-gave-palestinian-murderer-honorary-title/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:10:04 +0000 Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=109042 Shame, it seems, no longer exists in the French city of Bezons, a 28,000 citizens’ commune located few kilometers from Paris. This city municipality has announced few weeks ago it has decided to grant the terrorist Majdi al-Rimawi “honorary citizenship” of Bezons, twinned with Rimawi’s town of Bani Zeid Al-Gharbiyya in 2008. For what, you [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/twisted-mind-french-city-gave-palestinian-murderer-honorary-title/feed/ 1 The Unreliable: Haaretz in the service of hypocrisy http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-unreliable-haaretz-in-the-service-of-hypocrisy/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-unreliable-haaretz-in-the-service-of-hypocrisy/#comments Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:00:23 +0000 Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=106894 Three weeks ago, a report of “the independent international fact-finding mission” on behalf of the Human Rights Council of the UN was published. Members of the mission were out to examine the “implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-unreliable-haaretz-in-the-service-of-hypocrisy/feed/ 2 Cruel joke: an Iranian on UNICEF’s board http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-cruel-bad-joke-putting-an-iranian-on-the-unicef-board/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-cruel-bad-joke-putting-an-iranian-on-the-unicef-board/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:22:24 +0000 Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103112 UNICEF is an organization which aims to help children around the world, also by creating a special awareness to the problems of education, malnutrition and medicine, especially in third world countries.  Last month, Mohammad Khazayee, permanent ambassador to the United Nations on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was appointed as a member of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-cruel-bad-joke-putting-an-iranian-on-the-unicef-board/feed/ 2 The invention of ‘The Invention of the Jewish People’ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-invention-of-the-invention-of-the-jewish-people/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-invention-of-the-invention-of-the-jewish-people/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:22:44 +0000 Elad Uzan http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=66506 Shlomo Sand is not an interesting researcher. Neither is he a fascinating political theorist. His new book, covering an area beyond his expertise, should raise ridicule among educated readers in general, and by experts in particular. But even if Sand’s book is uninteresting for academic research, it can certainly be marked as an important political [...]

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