Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Moriel Rothman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 21:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Shamasneh Case: How the Nakba Continues Legally in East Jerusalem http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-shamasneh-case-how-the-nakba-continues-legally-in-east-jerusalem/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-shamasneh-case-how-the-nakba-continues-legally-in-east-jerusalem/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 13:22:36 +0000 Moriel Rothman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=126204 In Jerusalem, there is a family of ten people. They live in a small house on a quiet street, not far from the Jerusalem bustle of cars and tourists and hotels and diplomats, but removed, out of sight. The grandfather and grandmother have been living in the house for over four decades. Their son and [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-shamasneh-case-how-the-nakba-continues-legally-in-east-jerusalem/feed/ 2 Why I am Giving My Vote to a Palestinian http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-i-am-giving-my-vote-to-a-palestinian/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-i-am-giving-my-vote-to-a-palestinian/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:32:39 +0000 Moriel Rothman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=95170 Last month, as the approaching elections began to black-hole virtually all other aspects of political discourse, I wondered out loud (well, out loud on line) whether it might not be correct for me to boycott the January 2013 elections for the 19th Knesset of Israel. My reasoning was as follows: (1) The far-right wing is [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/why-i-am-giving-my-vote-to-a-palestinian/feed/ 10 The obligation to refuse false democratic-discourse http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-obligation-to-refuse-false-democratic-discourse/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-obligation-to-refuse-false-democratic-discourse/#comments Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:02:17 +0000 Moriel Rothman http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=88312 Rabbi Dr Zvi Leshem, whose biography lists him as living in Efrat, recently wrote on this site a piece called the “The Right to Refuse.” Rabbi Leshem’s launching point was the controversy over the far-right wing politician Naftali Bennet’s recently made-and-then-retracted comments ”ostensibly condoning soldiers’ refusal to carry out orders to evacuate settlements.” In his piece, Rabbi Leshem [...]

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