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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, June 13, 2019
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A mother’s prayer on the occasion of her daughter’s first cell phone
By
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Please God let this phone be a tool for her to do good in the world and let her never commit the sin of Duck Face
Naomi Chazan
Reelections for change
The upcoming elections are a make-or-break proposition: they’ll either leave us even more profoundly stuck in the rut we’re in, or herald welcome change
Jeremy Ben-Ami
The Trump team is pushing peace further away
The actions of this White House have already exacerbated the conflict and imperiled the long-term future of both peoples
Rebecca Bardach
The racist writing is on the wall
As shocking expressions of anti-Arab hatred go mainstream, a compelling vision of co-existence is needed more urgently than ever
Shuki Friedman
The Rabbinate’s dangerous embrace of DNA tests for Jewishness
The ’geneticization’ of Judaism is not just distasteful, it’s a profound deterioration in how we define peoplehood
Nurit Gil
Be ready to become the mother you have never been
I was Super Mom before we left Brazil, now I’m barely getting by. Have my kids suffered? Yes…and that’s OK
Or Samia
The cost of fertility treatments that don’t work
Israel spends more than half a billion NIS a year on IVF funding — some of which would surely be better used paying for numerous life-saving drugs
Jonathan Sacks
You can’t build a society out of saints alone
You need those who care for family and community and country, even if they are tempted by a life of solitary virtue (Naso)
Yael Shahar
Who’s afraid of biblical criticism?
Just because there may be a human dimension to the multi-layered text of the Torah doesn’t make it any less impressively divine — to the contrary!
Hadassah Levy
How did the Oral Law become part of the Torah?
If Rabbi Akiva had had traditions for every detail of Jewish practice, we would not need an intricate system of logic to derive the laws
Shai DeLuca
‘Pinkwashing’: A failed attempt to demonize the Jewish State
It’s an outrageous description for our hardwon equality in the only safe haven for LGBTQ+ people in the Middle East
Roger Waters claims Israeli fans nixed peace. It’s a lie.
By
David Seidenberg
Waters often tells of 60,000 concert goers pivoting from ecstatic cheers to sullen silence. A recording tells a very different story
Douglas M. Bloomfield
Let Pollard make aliyah
I think he’s a traitor, but one who paid a high price for his crimes, so I support his move to to Israel — as long as he’s not Trump’s pawn in the Israeli elections
Yair Lapid
If you think we’re too quiet, then be our megaphone
Netanyahu has worked to muffle Blue and White in traditional news channels, but today, every citizen is a digital media mogul
Top Ops
Ari Morgenstern
Time for FATF to finally cut Iran off at the bank
After years of idle threats, the banking watchdog must blacklist the regime and stanch its extensive terror financing
Karen Sutton
Of subways and swastikas
Do the supervisors of the New York transit system really think riders need to be told not to draw symbols of hate on the train walls?
Ralph Genende
Aversion to conversion
Why subject would-be converts to a long, arduous vetting process? We should stop shlepping the process out and stop treating them with suspicion
Shayna Goldberg
God has enough angels
Food, sex, alcohol, even friendship — these are all part of the human experience that we use to sanctify our existence
Sean F. O'Brien
Trump plans to label Muslim Brotherhood as terror group. Bad idea
US move could drive moderate Islamists out of the existing political system and into the arms of violent jihadist orgs
Udi Dekel
Beware an Iranian ambush in Syria
Tehran aims to drag Israel into confrontation with Russia — the challenge is knowing when to retaliate and when to stand down
Fred Maroun
It is time for Israel to end the occupation
West Bank annexation means losing the country’s Jewish majority or imposing apartheid; inaction is simply too costly
Arik Rudnitzky
Another chance for the Joint List
Boycotting the elections hurt the Arab parties and the Arab citizens; what they need to do now is get out the vote and be a strong voice in Knesset
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