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The Blogs Weekly Highlights

Choice Voices for the Week of Thursday, May 18, 2023

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My prayer for the peace of Jerusalem

By Peta Jones Pellach

When we come here, our tribal identities should melt away. Instead of looking sideways to see how we differ, we should look upwards

When Israel gave Hamas something worth not fighting for

The latest clash showed that what’s good for Gaza can be good for us – it’s time to implement game-changing humanitarian plans for the Strip

The Arnona Fund: A calculated assault on Israeli democracy

This anti-democratic strategy ripped straight from Orban’s playbook will undermine local autonomy and consolidate control

The unbearable lightness of discarding Lag BaOmer bonfires

By Shlomo Fischer

The smell, the mess, the inconvenience – is that all leftists see in this unique, culturally deep Israeli tradition?

Evacuation diary: Fear of driving

The earth is a rich, dark brown, and clumpy, like the batter when I make sweet chocolate balls. White Queen Anne’s Lace and purple thistle weeds push up from the earth together with the partially dried green and tan empty field. The sky is full of clouds and instead of the flat, plowed wheat fields ending in the skyline of the Abasan Kabir with the turquoise mosque jutting out, I see a ridge of mountains still partially nestling in the clouds, like a blanket that doesn’t want to be... Continue Reading

A waste of an outfit

Having a key to an elevator somewhere in the synagogue building does not make the building handicapped accessible

The challenges of being an ultra-Orthodox combat soldier

Israel wants Haredi soldiers, but is it prepared to ease their way out of the IDF, post-service, and into society and employment?

Standing up to Big Pita in the holy land

In search of a good explanation for why my local shawarma place won’t plate my meat with veg and hold the bread

To all the apartments I’ve seen before

Seeking a rental flat in Jerusalem? Adjust expectations and whatever you do, don’t ask the landlord why there are no doors

Analysis

Tzipora Lifchitz

Mic drop at the ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ premier

I worried that Netflix would get Orthodox Jewish dating wrong – until I realized that they aren’t the ones in the wrong

My sweet baby girl is in Paris, and I don’t know how she got there

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

She’s the one doing the changing; I’m the one have the growing pains

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Passports, protests, and politics

The massive backlog in providing basic services to citizens is a quintessential lack of governance

A soldier’s love song, a country’s innocence

Crooning in 1968 from the peak of newly-captured Mt Hermon, a soldier offers his love a kingdom dipped in a sea of gold

Meir Ben Shabbat

Israel can nullify the threat of Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Israel must act to continue the success of Operation Shield and Arrow, including deterring Hamas from joining PIJ’s attacks

‘Small Gifts’: About a place where Judaism is in the air

Rami Kleinstein’s song welcoming Sabbath represents my Israel – that beautiful fusion of religious and secular

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