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The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Sunday, June 28, 2020
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Criticizing Israel with anguish and love
By
Yossi Klein Halevi
An unprecedented letter from US Reps Ted Deutch and Brad Schneider opposing unilateral annexation is a model of healthy Jewish discourse
Jason Isaacson
We’ll defend annexation if needed – but here’s the thing
If the new Israeli government, despite nearly universal objections from governments near and far and the warnings of many of Israel’s supporters in the Diaspora, follows the path promised by Prime Minister Netanyahu and in the coming weeks applies Israeli sovereignty unilaterally to a portion of the West Bank, AJC will do what it has always done: explain Israel to the wider world. We will make the point that Jews have lived in the West Bank – biblical Judea and Samaria – for thousands of years, and that applying Israeli...
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Julio Messer
Annexation will not end Israel’s peace with Jordan
King Abdullah knows canceling the treaty might be popular now, but the long-term impact will be more poverty and, potentially, destabilization
PHOTO ESSAY: Societal collapse during the coronavirus outbreak
By
Guy Shilo
As I felt the struggle of unemployment myself, I went out to the streets to document the stories of others who were facing the same situation, each with their own story
Paula Weiman-Kelman
Rachel Cowan’s wisdom on dying – and living – could help us now
The late rabbi, an influential mindfulness teacher whose final months I documented in a film, showed how despair is a luxury we cannot afford
Aaron Fruchtman
I tested positive for the coronavirus yesterday
I wasn’t feeling well, and I’d been exposed, so the results weren’t a shock, but I can’t figure out why my HMO told me to take the bus to get tested (I didn’t)
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Coronaspection: Religious understanding in corona times
The combined wisdom of dozens of diverse spiritual leaders offers a unified vision of the potential for growth, hope and optimism
Aviva Yoselis
How far do we go to protect our parents from COVID-19?
It’s a real challenge to maintain the social distancing measures without making those who keep them feel like unhinged germophobic zealots
My mom is white and my dad is black. Don’t call me a ‘Jew of Color.’
By
Kylie Unell
I have always felt at home in the Jewish world, and I choose not to define myself by the few negative moments in my life
Eunice G. Pollack
Yo, celebs: To Farrakhan, the enemy is the Jew, not the Blue
In an old Donahue interview that garnered likes from pop stars, the Nation of Islam leader shames Blacks and blames the Jews
Today was meant to be my wedding day
By
Yaffa Abadi
But instead, celebrations are on ice due to coronavirus, and I’m sitting in bed writing this with an emptiness in my belly
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Dana Gur
’The captain has turned on the Face Mask sign’
Wearing corona protection on flights should not be optional. It’s time for governments to pass laws making it compulsory
Eve Young
You bet my prayer is political
We always pray for a better world – and politics should be the way we make it happen
Naomi Chazan
Israel too must wrestle with memory, monuments and history
What does BLM activists’ toppling of Confederate statues in the US have to do with Israelis and Palestinians? Everything
Lisa Kainan
Homeschooling
Has your recent stint teaching your children at home made you reconsider the value of their school system? You have options
Ariel Finkelstain
Turning back the clock on religious services
The Israeli religious courts are being handed back to the religious parties — what are the odds that they’ll rise to the challenge of professionalism this time?
Diana Barshaw
I’m a racist, or the perversion of language
If these days it’s racist to think a white person has as much right as a black person to quote Martin Luther King Jr., then that’s a label I’ll wear with pride
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