Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 My son’s letter http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-sons-letter/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-sons-letter/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:44:01 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=79006 My son Nadiv is a student at Ben-Gurion University in Beer-Sheva. His studies were disturbed too many times by rockets sent from Gaza. When the current hostilities started, he felt compelled to share his thoughts with his friends, particularly those residing overseas. I want to share them with you. Dear Brothers and Sisters, At around [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/my-sons-letter/feed/ 1 Time to choose the next US president http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-to-choose-the-next-us-president/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-to-choose-the-next-us-president/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:22:36 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=73626 Now that the debates are over, unaffiliated voters and procrastinators who had deferred their decision on who to vote for as the next President of the United States, have run out of excuses to delay their decision. Voters have already received enough information to make an informed choice, and shouldn’t delay merely to watch more [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/its-time-to-choose-the-next-us-president/feed/ 2 Same old Bush? Romney’s tired domestic solutions http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-so-far/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-so-far/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:44:42 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=72532 The American presidential election this year has shown all of the resiliency and pugnacity of a beauty pageant cum boxing match. Both contestants had their moments in the spotlight, particularly at the conventions, where they sparkled alone. Both have sparred against each other in their two previous debates. Each is preparing for that day in [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-us-election-so-far/feed/ 1 The Republican Party – An Idea Whose Time Has Passed http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-republican-party-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-republican-party-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed/#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:10:12 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=66376 The Republican Party, in statements by its presidential candidate and in its platform, has stated its basic tenets, principles that have not changed over the years. It believes that government is inefficient and should withdraw as much as possible from involvement in people’s lives. Government should be involved only minimally with the market system, with [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-republican-party-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed/feed/ 1 If they can’t beat you, join ‘em http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-they-cant-beat-you-join-them/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-they-cant-beat-you-join-them/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:31:23 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=62660 The Republican primaries offered the amusing spectacle of the conservative poobahs searching for a hero who could defeat Mitt Romney. These power brokers switched their support between Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum in the hope of finding a conservative candidate to lead the party instead of Romney, who was perceived to [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/if-they-cant-beat-you-join-them/feed/ 11 ‘These are my principles, and if you don’t like them, I’ve got others’ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/these-are-my-principles-and-if-you-dont-like-them-ive-got-others-groucho-marx/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/these-are-my-principles-and-if-you-dont-like-them-ive-got-others-groucho-marx/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:30:00 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=56400 Mitt Romney has abandoned any pretense to being a moderate candidate, and has wedded himself to political conservatives when he accepted Paul Ryan as his running mate. Ryan, a voice of economic extremism, is a leading proponent of the type of economic policies that were practiced by the Republicans during their recent 8 years of [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/these-are-my-principles-and-if-you-dont-like-them-ive-got-others-groucho-marx/feed/ 0 Romney: Not my cup of tea http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/romney-not-my-cup-of-tea/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/romney-not-my-cup-of-tea/#comments Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:22:15 +0000 Sheldon Schorer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=55474 On a recent trip to Israel, voters got a chance to see the candidate up close. Small joke; actually, only the 47 millionaires who could and would part with $50K for breakfast got to see him up close. The rest of us got to see him through the media, much like the folks in Trinidad [...]

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