Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Marc Schneier http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 09:51:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Obama’s seder and seeing the Other http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-seder-and-seeing-the-other/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/obamas-seder-and-seeing-the-other/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:01:56 +0000 Marc Schneier http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=113830 Last Monday evening, President Barack Obama gathered with his family, members of his staff and other guests, many of them Jews and African-Americans, to hold his fifth seder since coming to the White House. Many Israelis, who until the President’s tour de force visit to Israel the previous week had tended to think of him [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-shall-we-remember-from-2012/feed/ 3 The making of a miracle: the chief rabbi and the imams http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-making-of-a-miracle-the-chief-rabbi-and-the-imams/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-making-of-a-miracle-the-chief-rabbi-and-the-imams/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:50:48 +0000 Marc Schneier http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87530 Miracles have always played a major role in Jewish history; indeed, the very survival of the Jews as a people, despite nearly 2000 years of exile and persecution, is the greatest miracle of all. Yet in the Talmud, our sages remind us that one must not rely on miracles. Yes, miracles can happen, but one [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-making-of-a-miracle-the-chief-rabbi-and-the-imams/feed/ 19 This Rosh Hashanah, pray for Muslim-Jewish peace http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-rosh-hashanah-pray-for-muslim-jewish-peace/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/this-rosh-hashanah-pray-for-muslim-jewish-peace/#comments Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:12:32 +0000 Marc Schneier http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=64780 Next week, on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish community will gather together to read the Torah portion detailing one of the earliest and most troubling family rivalries in human history – but one whose resolution can provide us all with a measure of hope for a better tomorrow. The Torah reading tells the story of the [...]

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