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Zev Farber

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October 19, 2012
3:27 pm

Saying Sh’ma without a License, or, How to Get Strip-Searched by Praying at the Kotel

Anat Hoffman was arrested for singing prayers out loud—the Shma in this case—at the Western Wall during a Women of the Wall get together. Technically speaking, I do......

September 27, 2012
3:28 pm

Reform, Restore, or Rescind: What to do with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel

As an American, I take separation of church and state as a given. The United States has no official church, no state-supported religious institutions, and certainly no chief rabbi.......

September 20, 2012
9:47 pm

Enough Already with the Modesty Police

I doubt the readers of this blog need to hear this message from me; it is too obvious. I also doubt that the supporters of “modesty policing” in Israel......

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September 13, 2012
10:55 pm

Time to not be nice

Watching the various reactions and editorials regarding the mob murder of the American ambassador to Libya, my thoughts turn to an incident twelve years ago. In September 2000, Ariel......

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September 6, 2012
4:21 pm

Three Types of Sex Abuse: Some Thoughts on the Return of Moti Elon to Public Life

Throughout Israel Rabbi Mordechai (Moti) Elon’s shiurim are being advertised. To many readers this may seem rather innocuous, but it actually has great import. For......

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July 27, 2012
5:08 pm

But They are not Citizens – A Centrist’s Response to Dani Dayan

If ever an author tiptoed around an elephant in the room, hoping no one else would notice him, it was Dani Dayan in his recent NY Times op-ed.......

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May 17, 2012
6:58 pm

Revamping the Allon Plan: Some Belated Thoughts on the Beinart-Gordis Debate

In politics, like in most things, the optimal solution probably lies somewhere in the middle. This truism has been weighing on me ever since I watched Daniel Gordis and Peter......