Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Leor Sinai 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 What would Martin Luther King say today? Dream on… http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-this-day-what-would-dr-martin-luther-king-say/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-this-day-what-would-dr-martin-luther-king-say/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:59:33 +0000 Leor Sinai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=96586 In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream that “…this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: …that all men are created equal.” Dr. King’s dream extended beyond healing African-American suffering; his vision included “…all men…” society as a whole. Seventy years earlier, in 1895, Theodor Herzl [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-this-day-what-would-dr-martin-luther-king-say/feed/ 4 The world as it should be? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-world-as-it-should-be/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-world-as-it-should-be/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:30:01 +0000 Leor Sinai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=82314 The world as it should be? Now how you gonna do that? Last week’s Torah portion describes Jacob’s dream (you know, the one with the ladder): And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of Gd ascending and descending on [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-world-as-it-should-be/feed/ 3 A Case of Mistaken Identity II? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-case-of-mistaken-identity-ii/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-case-of-mistaken-identity-ii/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:34:59 +0000 Leor Sinai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=50092 Not quite. It turns out that many Jews regardless of their citizenship identify with the People of Israel/Jewish Peoplehood. For some the relationship is prompted by threats against Jews and the state of Israel generating a tremendous amount of talk-back and interest. The recent attack on Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria, the rise of anti-Semitism [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-case-of-mistaken-identity-ii/feed/ 0 A ‘Stiff-Necked’ People? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-stiff-necked-people/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-stiff-necked-people/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:50:35 +0000 Leor Sinai http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=16470 Exodus describes the Israelites as a “stiff necked people”; I prefer a “Resilient People”. Resilience is an individual’s tendency to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual “bouncing back” to a previous state of normal functioning, or using the experience of exposure to adversity to function better than expected. Resilience [...]

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