Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » John R. Fitzsimons http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Mon, 20 May 2013 18:32:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 More interfaith soup: A tale of two audiences http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-priest-the-rabbi-and-ronald-reagan/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-priest-the-rabbi-and-ronald-reagan/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:18:57 +0000 John R. Fitzsimons http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=74272 It was a fairly typical day off from school for me: a lunch meeting with Father Ed to discuss the upcoming senior retreat, a quick meeting with Becky about her “Being Christian” talk for the retreat, and then off to the Jewish Federation. Rabbi Hal and I got a chance to catch up on politics, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/did-you-hear-the-one-about-the-priest-the-rabbi-and-ronald-reagan/feed/ 8 Interfaith soup, or birthright for Catholics http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/interfaith-soup/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/interfaith-soup/#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:49:09 +0000 John R. Fitzsimons http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=71004 I had just finished explaining exactly what a birthright was, and the significance of Esau giving it up to Jacob, when one of my ninth grade boys raised his hand. “Wait…he sold his birthright for some soup? Who does that?” I couldn’t stop laughing. Twenty-three years of teaching scripture in a Catholic high school and [...]

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