Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Thu, 20 Jun 2013 05:40:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 I’ve Had It With Holocaust Day http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ive-had-it-with-holocaust-day/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ive-had-it-with-holocaust-day/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:51:25 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=115752   All of my life, I’ve been pricked, primed and pumped full of the Holocaust. Every year, like picking at a scab we cannot leave alone, we Jews drag ourselves once again through an endless Holocaust overload, maxing out on vivid remembrances of the most degrading chapter of our long and bitter exile. I’m sorry, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/calling-all-armchair-generals/feed/ 1 End of Days for the Likud? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/end-of-days-for-the-likud/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/end-of-days-for-the-likud/#comments Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:43:41 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=94442 Could Israel’s largest political party, Likud Israel Beitenu, be on its way out? With the elections for Israel’s Knesset (Parliament) only five days away, polls indicate a steady drop in support for the Binyamin Netanyahu and his ruling party. Few would deny that the winds of change are blowing strong throughout Israel. If Likud Israel [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/december-twenty-second-the-day-after/feed/ 3 A Call to Action http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sounding-a-clarion-loud-and-clear/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sounding-a-clarion-loud-and-clear/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:15:20 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=84312 Certain websites are broadcasting yesterday’s story of the Israeli authorities demolishing the skeleton of a mosque build illegally in the South Hebron Hills. This, ironically enough, took place smack in the middle of the ancient tribal region of the family of David the son of Jesse, the first king of the United State of Israel [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/sounding-a-clarion-loud-and-clear/feed/ 26 The Arabs Have Awakened – When Will the Jews? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arabs-have-awakened-when-will-the-jews/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-arabs-have-awakened-when-will-the-jews/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:11:53 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=83622 This past Thursday, the 29th of November, the Arabs of the Land of Israel finally woke up. How about the Jewish Nation? When will they awaken to claim what was already given to them – in writing – more than 3300 years ago? —– The Arabs came to the United Nations to ask for what [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/in-god-we-trust-says-who/feed/ 2 Taking a break from the quake and the ache http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-a-break-from-the-quake-and-the-ache/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/taking-a-break-from-the-quake-and-the-ache/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:56:29 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=79570 Many of my friends know that every week, from just before sundown on Friday to just after nightfall on Saturday, my computers and cell phone get badly needed rest. This stretch of time corresponds to the Jewish Sabbath, when Orthodox Jews shut down our normal routine to be with family, go to synagogue for prayer [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/communication-failure/feed/ 0 Day of Forgiveness http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/day-of-forgiveness/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/day-of-forgiveness/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 12:26:41 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=67474 It’s a few hours before Yom Kippur. This is the day that Jews – in Israel and in every corner of the world – congregate around “the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people,” in the hallowed words of Wikipedia. [Check out the link to Mr. Yonatan Razel’s song below. Doesn’t matter if you [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/day-of-forgiveness/feed/ 8 A new cut on circumcision – part II http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-new-cut-on-circumcision-part-ii/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-new-cut-on-circumcision-part-ii/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:26:33 +0000 Yisrael Rosenberg http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=62648 Let the nations of the world outlaw circumcision within their national borders, if that’s what they want. Circumcision was never meant for them in the first place. Should Non-Jews Undergo Circumcision? In a previous article on the subject of circumcision, we asked some questions and arrived at some startling answers about what circumcision is and [...]

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