Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Jason Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 05:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The crime of wearing a tallit http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-crime-of-wearing-a-tallit/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-crime-of-wearing-a-tallit/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:13:52 +0000 Jason Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=101980 Empathy is never easy. As a man, I confess that I have struggled to be empathetic to the cause of the Women of the Wall (Nashot HaKotel). This group of women has been coming to the Kotel Hama’arivi (Western Wall) in the Old City of Jerusalem for close to a quarter century to pray in protest of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-crime-of-wearing-a-tallit/feed/ 73 Modern Day Zionist Brings Thousands to Israel http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modern-day-zionist-brings-thousands-to-israel/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modern-day-zionist-brings-thousands-to-israel/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:04:26 +0000 Jason Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84686 There are Zionists and there are lovers of Israel. Some are both. On a United Jewish Appeal mission to Israel in 1982 Larry Ritter claims he became a full Jew. There was no conversion involved as he was born Jewish and raised in an Orthodox home. However, the Livingston, New Jersey native visited Israel for [...]

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