Toggle Menu
Join our Community
Support ToI and remove
all
ads
Learn more
English
Français
עברית
Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
Sign in
Join our Community
Open Search form
Toggle Menu
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate
Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Community
(members only)
Newsletters
The Daily Edition
What Matters Most Today
Tech Israel
Updates from Silicon Wadi
Real Estate Israel
Monthly Update
The Weekend Edition
The Best Reads of the Week
Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices From The Blogs
Partners
Atlanta
Atlanta Jewish Times
North New Jersey
The Jewish Standard
Pittsburgh
Jewish Chronicle
United Kingdom
The Jewish News
Australia
The Australian Jewish News
For Publishers
Become a Partner
Open Search form
Toggle Menu
search
Input search
Clear search input
English
Français
עברית
Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate
Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Community
(members only)
Video
Newsletters
The Daily Edition
What Matters Most Today
Tech Israel
Updates from Silicon Wadi
Real Estate Israel
Monthly Update
The Weekend Edition
The Best Reads of the Week
Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices From The Blogs
Partners
Atlanta
Atlanta Jewish Times
North New Jersey
The Jewish Standard
Pittsburgh
Jewish Chronicle
United Kingdom
The Jewish News
Australia
The Australian Jewish News
For Publishers
Become a Partner
Community
Join our community
Sign in
About The Times of Israel
Advertise on The Times of Israel
Contact us
Download our App
For IOS users
For Android users
Get the Daily Edition
submit
Follow us
© 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
Terms and conditions
Privacy policy
Your Privacy Rights
Input search
Clear search input
The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, August 15, 2019
Facebook
Twitter
View previous edition
View next edition
What Dvir Sorek’s picture won’t tell you
By
Liel Zahavi-Asa
Don’t judge others by the externals: don’t believe yourself superior, and don’t teach the next generation the hatred that leads to more pain and suffereng
Efraim Zuroff
Israel’s warm ties with nations that duck their Holocaust crimes
Red-carpet treatment for Croatia’s president, whose approach to past war crimes is at best ambivalent, is an affront to victims of former Nazi collaborators
Joshua Hammerman
Russian revolutions
We Jews are old hands at fighting Russian hegemony, and we must defend democracy in the US and in Russia, just as Russian Jews are poised to do in Israel
Daniel Sterman
Counting those ‘lost seats’
Netanyahu blamed right-wing voters for squandering 7 mandates on parties that didn’t pass the electoral threshold. That’s not even close to being true
Shulamit S. Magnus
The Haredi threat to constitutional democracy and equal rights
The sex discrimination against women in public spaces is just the beginning of the havoc the ultra-Orthodox are wreaking on Israeli society
Ziona Greenwald
Shutting down the show
The feminists who sued to stop a Hasidic singer’s separate seating concert stole a night of musical uplift from a crowd that would have attended happily
The Torah demands decisive action against gun violence
By
Shammai Engelmayer
We can do something to stop the devastatingly high incidence of shootings in the US: convince Congress to act responsibly, to protect all of us
Fkadu Kfalleh
I used to want to be a combat soldier
The Israeli police stop me and ask if there’s a knife in my backpack when I’m waiting for the bus; why should I put my life on the line for this country?
Yosef Blau
Indifference increases suffering
When alleged sex abusers like Malka Leifer find a haven in Israel, shielded by the ultra-Orthodox in government, we must ask where is the outrage of our leadership?
Susan Levin
I made sure my husband wasn’t a public safety threat
A 74-year-old who was neurologically impaired enough to shoot and kill a man was driving and carrying a weapon — someone didn’t do his or her job
David Gilad
Optalgin: A tale of medical woe
A pain reliever was banned in the US and elsewhere in the 1970s because of potentially fatal side effects; why is it available over-the-counter in Israeli pharmacies?
David Sedley
Words that last
What would we say if we knew what we were saying would be our last? A unlikely comparison between William Henry Harrison and Moses (Devarim)
4 long distance hiking trails in Israel
By
Erez Speiser
Israel’s National Trail made National Geographic’s top 20 epic hikes in the world — don’t you want to see for yourself?
Top Ops
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
A Tisha B’Av of coexistence
When an Arab family barbecued near our reading of Lamentations in Jerusalem, and the police asked them to move, we asked them to stay
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld
Finding myself as a parent on Tisha B’Av
Sitting on the floor with my brood of 5 is not a stretch, but prayer and reflection have become a challenge, and I know I’m not alone. Here’s my new approach
Paul Mirbach
Why I will not fast on Tisha B’Av
With so much baseless hatred in contemporary society, the symbolic suffering of the day is meaningless
Yael Shahar
Tisha B’Av: Should we still fast?
For 2,000 years, we were in no position to repeat past mistakes; these days, we need the ’national flashback’ to remind us what happens if we fail again
Shayna Abramson
Why was the Third Temple destroyed?
The sages of the Talmud consider terrorism, settlements, the Women of the Wall, and the Pride parade, as they debate the culprit (Tisha B’Av)
Shayna Goldberg
Mourning… again
When it comes to the loss of the Temple, it’s too easy to lose focus; what I can’t ignore is the murder of an innocent teen, five minutes from my home
Andres Spokoiny
Condensing our victimhood (Tisha Be’Av 5779)
Reserving 24 hours to mourn all of the tragedies of Jewish history protects us from the self-pity of a victim mentality contaminating the whole year
Ilana Sober Elzufon
Can we hear each other?
Israelis and Palestinians deny the other’s foundational story, which makes dialogue difficult, but it is essential to reaching any resolution (Tisha B’Av)
View Edition by Date
July
August 2019
September
Mo
Tu
We
Th
Fr
Sa
Su
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
The Times of Israel
Daily Edition
Free to Your Inbox
The email is either missing or invalid.
By signing up, you agree to our
terms
You hereby accept The Times of Israel
Terms of Use
and
Privacy Policy
, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Back to top
Never miss breaking news on Israel
Get notifications to stay updated
Stay updated
No thanks
You're subscribed
close popup
Register for free
and continue reading
Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.
Email address
Please use the following structure: example@domain.com
REGISTER OR SIGN IN
Or Continue with
By registering you agree to the
terms and conditions
. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.
Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition
back
close popup
Register to continue
Email address
Change
REGISTER
Or Continue with
back
close popup
Log in to continue
Email address
Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..
Continue
back
close popup
Sign in or Register
Email address
*
Password
*
Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.
Continue
I forgot my password
/
Send me a sign in link
Or Continue with
back
close popup
Check your email
We sent an email to you at
.
It has a link that will sign you in.
Click the link in that email to complete your registration.
