Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Yoel Meltzer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:34:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Get Out Now http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/get-out-now/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/get-out-now/#comments Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:19:25 +0000 Yoel Meltzer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=133860 While reading an article recently in a Hebrew newspaper about the quiet emigration of Jews from France during the last year and a half, I was suddenly overcome with a very uneasy feeling. It wasn’t the alleged trigger for the emigration, namely a marked increase in violent anti-Semitic attacks in France and in other European countries, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/get-out-now/feed/ 3 A Spiritual Examination of the Israeli Elections http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-spiritual-examination-of-the-israeli-elections/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-spiritual-examination-of-the-israeli-elections/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:29:22 +0000 Yoel Meltzer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=103360 A few weeks ago while reading the weekly Torah portion Beshalach I noticed for the first time that the party responsible for taking the Jewish people out of Egypt changes from verse to verse. Thus we find the Torah portion beginning with the words “And it happened when Pharaoh sent out the people ….” (Exodus, [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-spiritual-examination-of-the-israeli-elections/feed/ 3 Considering Likud? Don’t be fooled http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-home-the-right-choice-for-the-right/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-home-the-right-choice-for-the-right/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:46:14 +0000 Yoel Meltzer http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=90328 One of the hottest topics currently being discussed in the broadly defined national camp is whether to vote for a seemingly more right-wing Likud or for a revitalized Jewish Home party in the upcoming January elections. With quality candidates such as Yariv Levin, Tzipi Hotovely and Moshe Feiglin in the Likud versus Naftali Bennett, Ayelet [...]

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