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Miriam Herschlag

Dec 25, 2016, 3:17 PM

The most-read TOI blog posts of 2016

President-elect Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

What did we want to read about this year? Well, Donald Trump of course, but not just Donald Trump

Miriam Herschlag

Feb 15, 2015, 8:00 AM

Blogging in the 'Discomfort Zone'

Marking three noisy years of a platform that is shaping the conversation on Israel and the Jewish world

Apr 9, 2014, 4:19 PM

A mother’s worries (censored)

Most mothers of 19-year-olds deal with the typical stuff: test anxiety, college woes and breakups. The usual worries. As the mother of an Israeli combat soldier, though, my list includes other things: hypothermia, guns, complaints of extreme boredom and...

Miriam Herschlag

Jan 1, 2014, 6:17 PM

10 posts we all read in 2013

Among the more than six thousand blog posts published on The Times of Israel in 2013 were plenty of gems that sparkled. Posts galore that struck chords, tickled funny bones, spun great yarns, challenged assumptions, and expressed ideas more exquisitely than...

Miriam Herschlag

Dec 31, 2013, 3:56 PM

10 posts we all read in 2013

We laughed, we cried, we shared these far and wide

Oct 23, 2013, 5:04 PM

Shit it ain’t

I have a day job. I'm a blogger. I don't get paid to write. I write because the alternative would be to share my ideas with every single person I meet on the bus, on the street, in the elevator, at the...

Miriam Herschlag

Dec 30, 2012, 10:28 AM

Blogsmacked 2012

Word cloud of the top 20 blog-post titles of 2012

A vast chorus of voices singing together in the first-person singular

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