Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Yoni Sherizen http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 21:40:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 10 unusual Passover traditions http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/10-of-the-darndest-passover-traditions/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/10-of-the-darndest-passover-traditions/#comments Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:26:44 +0000 Yoni Sherizen http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=112380 All year round, differences between Jews creates endless trouble. But on Passover we somehow come to the table together and that diversity can actually be a bonus. In fact, an impressive 94 percent of Israelis will join a seder of one kind of another and most Jews around the world will join others to celebrate. [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/10-of-the-darndest-passover-traditions/feed/ 6 Can our social cohesion outlast the rockets? http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/can-our-social-cohesion-outlast-the-rockets/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/can-our-social-cohesion-outlast-the-rockets/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2012 06:57:15 +0000 Yoni Sherizen http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=80578 As I lay sprawled along the shoulder of Tel Aviv’s Ayalon Freeway last night I couldn’t help wonder if this could really be the end. Where would the rocket land? What other options are there? Am I really going to lay here like a sitting duck? After a few seconds, I made the dash for [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/can-our-social-cohesion-outlast-the-rockets/feed/ 2 Modi’in Haredi clash set for Sukkot http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modiin-haredi-clash-set-for-sukkot/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modiin-haredi-clash-set-for-sukkot/#comments Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:07:03 +0000 Yoni Sherizen http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=68344 MODI’IN, Israel – Relations between this Tel Aviv suburb and ultra-Orthodox neighbors in Kiryat Sefer (Modi’in Ilit) are heating up quickly and it seems that only the city’s two mayors can stop the escalation before it is too late. Tensions increased dramatically this week after the city of Modi’in announced it would be closing its [...]

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]]> http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/modiin-haredi-clash-set-for-sukkot/feed/ 22 Is anyone listening? Replacing Israeli draft laws with dialogue http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-anyone-listening-replacing-israeli-draft-laws-with-dialogue/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-anyone-listening-replacing-israeli-draft-laws-with-dialogue/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:18:06 +0000 Yoni Sherizen http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=45888 The drama in Israel surrounding a Haredi draft is rapidly approaching a boiling point. If a new law is not passed by July 31, tens of thousands of Haredi yeshiva students will either turn up at IDF bases or face the law. And with protests here growing each week, one can’t help but fear that [...]

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