Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Michael C. Kotzin http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 18 May 2013 17:20:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Getting past the polarizing toxicity of the US elections http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-get-past-the-polarizing-toxicity-of-the-us-elections/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-get-past-the-polarizing-toxicity-of-the-us-elections/#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:08:27 +0000 Michael C. Kotzin http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=77522 While much of the commentary on the results of the just-completed American presidential election has focused on the demographics of the electorate, very little has been said about the “Jewish vote.” As far as minorities go, it is the Latinos who are getting most of the attention, along with African-Americans and Asian-Americans, and understandably so, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/time-to-get-past-the-polarizing-toxicity-of-the-us-elections/feed/ 0 The state of anti-Semitism — Yom Kippur musings http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-state-of-anti-semitism-yom-kippur-musings/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-state-of-anti-semitism-yom-kippur-musings/#comments Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:43:50 +0000 Michael C. Kotzin http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=68128 While sitting in my synagogue in a Chicago suburb on Yom Kippur, my thoughts turned to another synagogue, in Malmo, Sweden, where I had been a bit over a year before. My wife and I had stopped in Malmo for a day and a half while visiting Scandinavia during a trip that had started in [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-state-of-anti-semitism-yom-kippur-musings/feed/ 1 A call to forge a Zionist narrative for our time http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-call-to-forge-a-zionist-narrative-for-our-time/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-call-to-forge-a-zionist-narrative-for-our-time/#comments Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:28:25 +0000 Michael C. Kotzin http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=59352 One hundred and ten years since Herzl’s “Altneuland” was published, nearly 65 years since the founding of the modern State of Israel fulfilled its key prophecy, and some two decades since the notion of post-Zionism became fashionable, Zionist ideas are getting a new look in locales ranging from think tanks to education centers to the halls [...]

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