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Choice Voices for the Week of
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
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My Days of Awe discovery: I have a half-sister
By
Sally Abrams
’We told her a bit about ourselves, then moved to the thing Jean most wanted to know. What was he like, the man who had fathered her and raised us?’
Analysis
Erris Langer Klapper
’Operation Finale’ and my grandmother’s obsession
In the midst of bearing witness to human depravity, Israel saw what it means to pursue justice, rather than revenge
Analysis
Roger M. Kaye
My 6-year-old granddaughter is a refugee
OK, I’ll say it: Those UNRWA Palestinian refugees should have attained new skills, languages, jobs — and moved on
Analysis
Sivan Rahav Meir
Trump gets UNRWA better than Israel does
The 5 million fake-refugees are getting in the way of the Palestinians in real need of funds for education and infrastructure
Analysis
Yoseif Bloch
Today, I realized I’m a hypocrite
Or: Why I’m going to protest Israel’s welcome of Pres. Duterte, a mass murderer who endorses rape and emulates Hitler
Analysis
Joshua Hammerman
PHOTO ESSAY: The world through the eyes of children
A story of hope and resilience and innocence reclaimed
Analysis
Nancy Strichman
The story of Israel as told by food
The country is a delectable smorgasbord for anyone with an appetite for cultural diversity, creativity and innovation
Analysis
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
The ship that might have sailed
There’s too late because something’s gone, and then there’s too late because we’ve left it and can’t go back
Analysis
Yael Leibowitz
Twinkle, twinkle, burnt-out star
The Days of Awe force us to seek balance between wonderment at God’s universe and finding a meaningful place within it
Analysis
David Sedley
On the impossibility of space travel
How NASA proved the Rambam wrong
Top Ops
Jason Dov Greenblatt
Donald Trump wants this to be a new year of shalom, salaam, peace
’It is unfortunate that the Palestinian leadership condemns a peace plan they have never seen’
Avi Jorisch
This J-Date brings together Israelis and Arabs
The revival of an extinct plant has sown seeds of hope and collaboration between scientists throughout the Middle East
Bracha Goldstein
The first day of school — a mother’s lament
The kids are out of the house after the long summer break so why am I not ecstatic?
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Rosh HaShanah: What really counts
No small deed goes unnoticed, and no second that passes can be reclaimed
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Too few Jews, Pew! Where are the ‘secular maximalists’? The Sunday brunchers?
The US research center established a new typology of religion with seven categories — wait, only seven?
Jan Zauzmer
Dear rabbis: Please aim to offend us all
We don’t have time to see whether civil discourse alone will solve the slew of problems wrought by racism, greed and xenophobia
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