Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Natan Odenheimer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Mon, 20 May 2013 00:54:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Palestinian refugees: encountering the faces behind the numbers http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-refugees-encountering-the-faces-behind-the-numbers/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-refugees-encountering-the-faces-behind-the-numbers/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:44:46 +0000 Natan Odenheimer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=95362 Itamar became silent and looked disturbed the moment our cab entered the main street of the Gaza Refugee Camp in Jerash, Jordan. I could only imagine what was going through his mind. Just six weeks earlier, he’d been wearing full combat regalia, ready to march into Gaza during Operation Pillar of Defense. Now here we [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-refugees-encountering-the-faces-behind-the-numbers/feed/ 34 Our disputes must be ‘for the sake of heaven’ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-disputes-must-be-for-the-sake-of-heaven/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-disputes-must-be-for-the-sake-of-heaven/#comments Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:37:48 +0000 Natan Odenheimer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=83082 Rabbi Daniel Gordis says he finds it impossible to understand why Rabbi Sharon Brous writes that he “brought the discourse on Israel to a new low.” In the latest episode in this Star-Trek-long saga of correspondence, he lists examples of many disputes; one of them is that of Korach and company and Moses. Here is [...]

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