Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Joe Neppe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 00:24:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 A City and a Cat http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-city-and-a-cat/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-city-and-a-cat/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:29:21 +0000 Joe Neppe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=112576 About 20 years ago a tractor appeared on the horizon over the rugged rolling hills overlooking Moshav Matityahu. Inexorably, like a slow moving juggernaut, tilting from side to side and piercing the silence with its gruff engine, the vehicle edged jarringly towards the settlement’s barbed wire fence. Nearby, a lone Arab shepherd tending to his [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/kuf-for-kedusha-2/feed/ 7 Clint, the Chopper, the Hidden Dragon, and the tale of an epic cricket victory http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/clint-the-chopper-the-hidden-dragon-and-the-tale-of-an-epic-cricket-victory/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/clint-the-chopper-the-hidden-dragon-and-the-tale-of-an-epic-cricket-victory/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:52:48 +0000 Joe Neppe http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=90200 Fate, it seemed, had decreed from the beginning that the Saturday night encounter between Gold Insurance of Bet Shemesh and YMCA was going to be a difficult proposition. As the teams gathered, the gate of Modiin’s equivalent of the Lords Cricket Ground was padlocked and securely closed with no way of entry. Undeterred, grown men [...]

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