Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Fri, 24 May 2013 05:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 En”Teitel”ed to Punishment? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/enteiteled-to-punishment/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/enteiteled-to-punishment/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:25:06 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103222 Earlier this week, Israeli prosecutors in Jerusalem District Court recommended sentencing for the so-called Jewish terrorist Yaakov “Jack” Teitel — an American-Israeli, former Floridian, and resident of the West Bank settlement Shvut Rachel — following his conviction on charges of first degree murder, attempted murder, and incitement to violence this January. Teitel was found guilty [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/enteiteled-to-punishment/feed/ 17 Ivory tower as battleground http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-iron-dome-to-ivory-tower/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-iron-dome-to-ivory-tower/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:00:27 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=79844 Thank God that today I do not sit in a bomb shelter in Beersheva or huddled in my home in Gaza City experiencing the real war. Here in the United States, we have spent the past week shooting off our mouths rather than rockets, dropping words not bombs, and wielding the pen instead of the [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-iron-dome-to-ivory-tower/feed/ 16 Mr (Greater) Israel: Is this the new face of the Israeli right? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mr-greater-israel-is-this-the-new-face-of-the-israeli-right/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mr-greater-israel-is-this-the-new-face-of-the-israeli-right/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 04:22:50 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=78106 “Radical right wing activist turned bodybuilder!” trumpeted the tantalizing headline in Maariv recently, advertising an unusual story about settlers in the occupied territories. In full disclosure, I wrote my dissertation on Jewish-American immigrants who settled beyond the Green Line, so this seemingly fantastic account was right up my alley. I read with interest the quixotic [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mr-greater-israel-is-this-the-new-face-of-the-israeli-right/feed/ 15 On November 7th, Why I’m Still an Undecided Voter http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-october-7th-why-im-still-an-undecided-voter/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-october-7th-why-im-still-an-undecided-voter/#comments Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:33:07 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=76806 On the anti-climatic morning of November 7, the polls have closed, concession and acceptance speeches were delivered, balloons fell, campaign signs and festive bunting unceremoniously already discarded, and a newly re-elected president returns to the Oval Office. And yet, I am still an undecided voter. Oh, not to fear, I voted. When I informed my [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/on-october-7th-why-im-still-an-undecided-voter/feed/ 1 I Saw You At…Mastercard? Adventures in Online Jewish Dating http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-saw-you-at-mastercard-adventures-in-online-jewish-dating/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-saw-you-at-mastercard-adventures-in-online-jewish-dating/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:11:05 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=71778 “New Year, New Beginnings!” my Jewish mother gleefully suggested, quoting the old Jewish saying of “Change of Location, Change of Fortune” as a good omen for dating with my recent relocation to the East Coast. “And look,” she continued, “unnamed online Jewish dating service is having a holiday promotion — ‘find your besheret starting with [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-saw-you-at-mastercard-adventures-in-online-jewish-dating/feed/ 21 All the single (Modern Orthodox) ladies http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/all-the-single-modern-orthodox-ladies-and-men/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/all-the-single-modern-orthodox-ladies-and-men/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:38:06 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=68684 The hagim are always a wonderful season filled with reflection, prayer, food, community, and new beginnings. However, as a 31-year-old single woman who identifies with the Modern Orthodox Jewish community (on the very liberal-progressive end of that spectrum), this year’s holidays also presented the same old story of feeling totally out of place in my religio-social milieu. [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/all-the-single-modern-orthodox-ladies-and-men/feed/ 138 From Levy to Area C: An opportunity to miss an opportunity http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-levy-to-area-c-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/from-levy-to-area-c-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:16:53 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=44516 This week, a judicial committee empanelled by the Netanyahu government reached a (literally) ground-breaking decision: There is no such thing as the occupation. The eponymous Levy Commission, dubbed for the former Israeli Supreme Court justice Edmond Levy, who headed the three-member committee, not only leveled the playing field by dismissing international legal opinion on the status of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/occupying-minds/feed/ 5 (Capitol) Hill vs. the Palestinian refugees http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/capital-hill-vs-the-palestinian-refugees/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/capital-hill-vs-the-palestinian-refugees/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 05:01:48 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=28654 Yesterday, news broke in the halls of Congress that an amendment to the 2013 Foreign Operations Appropriation bill by my junior senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) that caused a tempest in a (mint) teapot this week in Washington was defeated in Senate subcommittee. According to Foreign Policy magazine’s summary of the proposed modifications, which do not [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/capital-hill-vs-the-palestinian-refugees/feed/ 2 If you whine it, it is no dream http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-whine-it-it-is-no-dream/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-you-whine-it-it-is-no-dream/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 22:37:13 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=25216 Over the past few weeks, Sarah Tuttle-Singer has become the latest Israeli pundit we love to hate as the leader of the internet brat-pack of the “complainglos,” a group of self-proclaimed dissatisfied Western olim who find that the land of milk and honey has left a sour taste in their mouths. (Right, chevreh?) As a [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israel-state-or-settlement/feed/ 12 Who has the monopoly on truth at Migron? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mi-has-the-monopoly-on-truth-at-migron/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mi-has-the-monopoly-on-truth-at-migron/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:55:41 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=13492 Renowned historian Peter Novick, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago (the institution where I will soon receive my own doctorate), who died this month of lung cancer at age 77, had little compunction about challenging conventional wisdom within the historical profession or the Jewish community. In his now-canonical tract “That Noble Dream,” he subverted [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/mi-has-the-monopoly-on-truth-at-migron/feed/ 9 Uri L’Tzedek, where is the justice? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uri-ltzedek-when-a-self-described-orthodox-social-justice-organization-holds-a-summer-program-in-the-occupied-territories-where-is-the-justice/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/uri-ltzedek-when-a-self-described-orthodox-social-justice-organization-holds-a-summer-program-in-the-occupied-territories-where-is-the-justice/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:20:11 +0000 Sara Hirschhorn http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=8918 Despite unseasonably warm weather across the globe, what really raised the temperature among some in the left-leaning constituency of the Dati Leumi (National Religious) community this week was the announcement of a new two-week summer program on scriptural approaches to “Jewish social justice,” to be held at Yeshivat Torat Yosef Hamivtar in Efrat, in partnership [...]

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