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The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, March 26, 2020
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From the blogs
‘We will guard and protect you’: Our forgotten promise to Israel
By
Daniel Gordis
Why are so many of us – rabbis, backpackers, politicians, with their recklessness during a pandemic – willing to endanger the extraordinary Jewish life we’ve built here?
Yedidia Z. Stern
Digital tracking of citizens is too high a price to pay
Even a life-saving measure must be weighed against the threat it poses to democracy — we do it all the time
Noa Hirsch Choritz
When ‘Do no harm’ becomes ‘Do the best you can’
Everything I learned in nursing school has been abandoned in favor of rationing, creativity, and the need to adapt to this new reality
Tanya White
The radical irresponsibility of the Israeli Rabbinate
The greatest, holiest religious act of moral responsibility we are called to do today is simply to sit at home and do nothing — it really isn’t that hard
David Meyers
From a Bush West Wing staffer: Trump is endangering lives
How will the supporters of this president live with themselves when people they know begin dying due to his reckless decisions?
The men in the white suits
By
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
This insidious fear for myself and my loved ones is unrelenting, and the people who don’t take social distancing seriously are making it much worse
Talli Rosenbaum
Sex and intimacy in lockdown
Deprived of routine and privacy… what’s a couple to do? How to sustain emotional and physical relationships through vitality and resilience
It sucks right now. And I’m so happy that I’m here
By
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Stuck at home, bored, tuned out — I’ve been there before. Coronavirus is giving me a second chance, but this time, I’m tuning in. Way in.
Jason Fredric Gilbert
10 people worse off than you during the crisis
Feeling sorry for yourself? Give a thought for medical workers, house robbers and Benjamin Netanyahu. Then go chat with a bot
A blog for kids
Ms. Spaghetti Head
By
Miryam Howard-Meier
The town is full of coughs and sniffles, with moms and dads and city officials warning all to wash their hands! — A read-out-loud poem for these times
Shana Schick
Joe Biden and me
Knowing that the candidate copes with the same speech disorder I struggle with has been a revelation for me
Can Kaddish be said in a virtual minyan?
By
Benjamin Lau
Guidelines to enable those who are reluctant to give up communal daily prayer to fulfill their prayer needs, by remote connection
Zimra Vigoda
My hero — the cashier in Omer
These low-paid workers on the frontlines of the health crisis perform their duties with a smile and a bewildering level of dedication
Sally Abrams
What does a ‘good sendoff’ look like now?
There is no online equivalent for holding a hand. There is no technology that equals simply showing up, arms open, to comfort mourners.
Yossi Klein Halevi
David brought us all together. In his death, we are isolated and desolate
Co-founder of Jerusalem’s landmark Tmol Shilshom bookstore café, David Ehrlich, created a home for writers and everyone else
Francis Nataf
Maybe God is angry at us
The panic corona has created in wealthy countries is an important wake-up call about the worth of human lives, wherever they are
Top Ops
Seth Farber
The Jewish lesson from my new WhatsApp groups
The ’Corona Rabbis’ focus on the challenge of minyan in a pandemic is legit, but it distracts from the needs of vulnerable people that the ’Corona Volunteers’ address
Amy Dover
‘You were the only one who stopped to help me’
When the widowed father flagged me down, it was a reminder that in times like these many of us need an extra kindness
Alon Tal
The disconcerting association between overpopulation and the COVID-19 crisis
Overcrowding and population density are indirect factors in a pandemic’s reach, and they are as important to its impact as its pathology
Avi Tilonsky
Saying goodbye to my seat in shul
I don’t know how to say this, but this Shabbat, I won’t be at our meeting place — don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me
Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
Beyond protection and sacrifice: Talk to the elderly
Seniors are neither incompetents needing protection nor martyrs for the greater good; all ages must work together to get everyone through this
Suzanne Patt Benvenisti
Distance learning must be accessible for all
Every Israeli child in the public education system needs a laptop or tablet, to ensure that even the lowest-income children can continue their studies during this challenging time
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
Flower days
I took my children biking, and a man walking a giant dog stepped to the side to avoid us — the kids used to step aside to avoid dogs, but we are scarier than dogs now
Allison Darcy
The coronavirus has made me more Jewishly connected than ever
We young people want to be more involved than you think — this scary time of isolation has given me exactly what I need, from connection to ritual to community
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