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The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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From the blogs
Thoughts on Israel at 73 while flying over the Saudi desert
By
Miriam Herschlag
On this, the independence day of an old-new country, our governance may be ailing, but the hallmark ’superabundant force’ of democracy is alive and kicking
When the whole world weeps
By
Haviv Rettig Gur
On Memorial Day, we do not grieve alone. We know, in the old, deep ways of knowing, that heaven and earth grieve at our side
Amit Naor
Israel’s first Independence Day and the parade that didn’t march
In 1949, organizational blunders led to the debacle of an army that managed to conquer everything…except the streets of Tel Aviv
Judi Felber
Yom HaZikaron is a hard day for me
My son is alive, thank God, but now, in rehab thanks to a terrorist’s bullet, he’s not the boy he was, nor is likely ever to be. This week, I mourn his loss
Talya Woolf
73 reasons to love Israel
Lightning-speed vaccination, random acts of kindness, and 7 ways to eat a Krembo – just some of the wonders that make this place thrilling
On this Remembrance Day, I pray and promise
By
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
I think of those soldiers as heroes, of course, but also as the kids in green who sit on buses, and nap on each other’s shoulders, and share crude jokes and happy banter
Elchanan Poupko
Stopping on the road through the Valley of Tears
The debt owed to the young soldiers who gave their lives to defend Jewish life in the land of Israel is both physical and spiritual
Sally Abrams
There was a soldier — he is no longer
My tattered, red book of poems helps me bridge the emotional distance of being a Jew outside of Israel on Remembrance Day
From the blogs
I had a good view of Adolf Eichmann
By
Zevi Ghivelder
As the youngest reporter covering the trial exactly 60 years ago, I heard testimony that showed Jews were not lacking in heroes during the Holocaust
Efraim Inbar
Israel’s political stalemate harms national security
The electoral impasse undermines the power of the IDF, the health of Israeli society and the stability of Israel’s newest pacts with Arab countries
Top Ops
Daniel Goldman
Kahanism returns to the Knesset
So many who voted for ’Religious Zionism’ do not believe in extremism. Don’t they realize they’re supporting it?
Ivy Humbarger
Calling any Jewish woman a ‘JAP’ is offensive — but not for the reason you think
It’s not just a word — it’s a searing symbol of hate. I have tried to gain the attention of Jews online to warn them of this slur, but to no avail
Sivan Rahav Meir
The revolutions of Rabbi Yeshayahu Heber
The trailblazer, who died last year of COVID-19, launched a life-saving initiative after he himself received a kidney transplant
Effie Kleinberg
Israel is in a hurry
A Jew is meant to live with the belief that history can unfold and change in a moments notice, even if it takes thousands of years
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