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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, November 29, 2018
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‘My rabbi didn’t make the Rabbinate’s list. Now what?’
By
Seth Farber
The Chief Rabbinate’s ’whitelist’ demonstrates its disdain for most Jews, and its departure from Judaism’s love of the convert
Analysis
Zimra Vigoda
The shot glass and other Budapest secrets
It took 1,500 forint for the Hungarian clerk at the Christmas bazaar to reveal himself to me
Analysis
Yoseph Haddad
The missile missed me… barely
What others call ’post trauma’ is what I call life
Analysis
Inna Yoffe Veytsman
My kids are not deficient, they’re bilingual!
The teacher thinks my kindergarten kids should have Hebrew as their mother tongue, but our Russian home is the best gift we could give them
Analysis
Donniel Hartman
The dire effects of playing the fear card
The government’s false claims of ’threats from within’ unravel Israel’s social cohesion and degrade its moral bedrock
Analysis
Edna Harel-Fisher
No, democracies don’t have ‘cultural loyalty’ laws
The truth is that Miri Regev’s bill was designed to castrate expression and creativity, and induce self-censorship by artists and cultural institutions
Analysis
Ada Perlman
After Parkland, I said, ‘It could’ve been me.’ Now it is
’That afternoon was a blur. Visitors came all day. We had news that congregants were dead. It was surreal.’
Analysis
Beth Kissileff
When they ‘go low,’ we go to shul — Pittsburgh, a month later
I’ve learned that I have to keep terror from overwhelming and defeating me, especially when it happens in my own turf
Analysis
Dan Perry
Frequently wrong, Trump may be right for Mideast peace
Who you gonna call when you need a guy to bully Israelis and Palestinians into a compromise neither side will like?
Analysis
Sheldon Gellar
Migrant crisis: Is it the economy? Stupid!
Eritrea’s brutally repressive regime — not a money quest — is what drove so many Africans to seek safety in Israel
Top Ops
Shaiya Rothberg
The lost Jews of Umm Zuka
A little-known branch of Judaism touts violent Jewish supremacism; it is the true face of Israeli state policy over the green line
Tamar Ben Porath
Good enough to vote; not good enough to run for office
Recent elections show that the ’cultural norms’ of ultra-Orthodox women should stop getting in their way on the Israeli political scene
Alex Pomson
Hugging Israel seriously, and then some
Day schools struggle to cultivate a love of Israel and a real understanding of its issues in their students. We can do better
Sharon Galper Grossman
’Whoever isn’t vaccinated is a murderer’
I don’t always agree with Haredi rabbis, but their strong statements fighting the current measles epidemic are absolutely right
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