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June 9, 2013
3:57 pm

The Price of Rabbinic Myopia

I am haunted by Rabbi Zekhariah ben Avqulos. R. Zekharia is not a very well known figure in the Talmud. His name hardly appears......

May 17, 2013
5:42 pm

Haredi Leaders are Only Half Right (and Therefore Wrong)

Parshat Naso, which will be read in synagogues tomorrow, deals extensively with the status of the Levites. The Levites (and their priestly cousins) were sanctified by the Torah, and......

May 7, 2013
2:54 pm

Jerusalem’s Heart: For Yom Yerushalyim

Every so often one has an experience that transcends most of what has gone before in one's life. Every so often, if we're lucky, God provides us with a......

April 7, 2013
12:34 pm

Kosher Siren

With Pesach behind us, we again enter the period of national mourning and remembrance limned by Yom HaShoah and Yom ha-Zikkaron. Amidst the somber and painful recollections of both......

February 18, 2013
12:33 pm

Mr Prime Minister, listen to the people!

On this morning after...I see a lot of reason for hope. I pray to God that our newly elected representatives will have the foresight, courage and selflessness to seize......

February 11, 2013
9:32 pm

Outing Mordechai- A Different Take on the Purim Story

What really happened in the Book of Esther? The question, of course, is not new. From Talmudic times to the present, commentators and close readers have grappled with the......

February 10, 2013
4:07 pm

Hartman: A passion for truth

When I first heard this morning of the passing of Rabbi Professor David Hartman ז"ל, I thought of a work by Abraham Joshua Heschel, A......

January 23, 2013
5:05 am

We have a great opportunity here

This morning, the fabled 'morning after,' the media is awash in speculation as to the implications of yesterday's elections. Most observers are focusing on the meteoric rise of Yair......

January 21, 2013
1:57 pm

Election Farce (by Avi Woolf)

I have......

January 10, 2013
3:50 pm

Understand conversion – Israel’s survival is at stake

It was announced Wednesday that the Elections Board has strongly recommended the removal of Shas' insidious video that viciously questions the entire government (and army) conversion authorities, characterizing them as......

December 24, 2012
10:34 am

Israel’s Secret Weapon: It’s Not Personal

For those in the know, last night the Times of Israel hosted a get together of its resident bloggers at a discreet Jerusalem location. The ambiance and the instant......

December 18, 2012
10:39 pm

Asarah b’Tevet: The Power of Disbelief

As we know, while the Jews were still in exile in Babylonia, four dates were set in the Jewish calendar to commemorate the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction......

December 11, 2012
6:32 pm

The kippa controversy: heat but no light on Hanukkah

A colleague of mine, one of the most mild-mannered and likeable people I know, finds himself this morning in the midst of a raging controversy because he ejected......

December 10, 2012
8:12 pm

The Law is in Accordance with Beit Hillel

They were two, very different, men. Each was an outstanding scholar of impeccable integrity and deep piety. One man's name was Shammai. The other scholar's name was Hillel. Both......

November 22, 2012
8:40 am

The Dark Side of the Ceasefire (Co-Author: Yitzhak Sokoloff )

The circumstance is seemingly surreal. After eight days of pounding each other from the air, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was declared today in Cairo. The streets of......

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