Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Mark S. Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 09:25:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Rabbis married to gentiles? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-married-to-gentiles/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-married-to-gentiles/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:25:34 +0000 Mark S. Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=112752 Sitting next to a Chasid on an airplane, our conversation turned to matters of faith and practice. Toward the end of the flight he asked me, in wonderment and exasperation, “Is there any line that cannot be crossed in Reform Judaism?” As a Reform Rabbi, I answered that there were only two left: a Reform [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/rabbis-married-to-gentiles/feed/ 82 Better a closed mouth than an open letter http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/better-a-closed-mouth-than-an-open-letter/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/better-a-closed-mouth-than-an-open-letter/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:08:31 +0000 Mark S. Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=91542 A commenter to my recent post, upbraiding those Jews who seek to rescue Israel from itself through public criticism, chastised me and those of my “ilk.” I was both surprised and pleased to learn that I have an “ilk!” I hope that fellow members of our ilk join me in condemning the position of my colleague, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/better-a-closed-mouth-than-an-open-letter/feed/ 2 When evil is in the eyes of the beholder http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-evil-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-evil-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:55:25 +0000 Mark S. Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=90008 I was invited by a friend to address his Political Science class at a local university on the subject of Israel. Following my talk, I was thunderstruck by the comment of a female student. Fingering the large cross that she wore, she exclaimed: “Palestinians have every right to employ terror because they are oppressed. Terror [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-evil-is-in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/feed/ 25 How dare you tell Israel to take a chance on peace http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-dare-you-tell-israel-to-take-a-chance-on-peace/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/how-dare-you-tell-israel-to-take-a-chance-on-peace/#comments Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:11:53 +0000 Mark S. Miller http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=87076 Yoni Netanyahu lamented: I see with sorrow and great anger how a part of the people still clings to hopes of reaching a peace settlement with the Arabs. Common sense tells them, too, that the Arabs haven’t abandoned their basic aim of destroying the state; but the self-delusion and self-deception that have always plagued the [...]

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