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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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What Israelis saw when they saw me: Chinese. Dangerous.
By
April Chan
‘CORONAVIRUS’ someone screamed. I turned around, and saw a teenager snickering at me. What can we learn from this?
Yair Schindel
Israel’s ’overreaction’ to the Coronavirus is actually perfect
The response, including forced quarantine for tens of thousands, will end up saving a lot of lives, as well as a lot of money
COVID-19’s silver lining
By
Daniel Orenstein
Howard Goldsmith
Jewish geography and Cuomo’s New Rochelle mistake
The governor’s arbitrary one-mile containment policy disregards the Orthodox community’s social patterns and endangers local children
David A. Kunin
Letter from Tokyo: Escaping isolation in a time of crisis
As streets — and synagogue — empty out, virtual study and services are replacing those all important face-to-face gatherings
Reuven Spolter
Since when do Israelis follow directions?!
The Purim story is a good example of both the trust required to heed another’s word and the level of responsibility we feel for our brethren — even in quarantine
Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
The Fast of Esther: Standing as one from quarantine
The Jews of Shushan who fasted on Esther’s behalf model supporting one another from a distance — here is a bunch of practical suggestions
From the blogs
Bibi and Bernie: Purim Jew vs. Passover Jew
By
Yossi Klein Halevi
Deep in a Jew’s being is the need to be both distinct from the world and at one with it; these one-dimensional ideologues are demeaning the essence of Judaism
Arye Carmon
Israeli democracy is no longer a given – but there’s hope
While virulent rhetoric by Likud leaders undermines the legal system, Arab-Israelis have voted to be partners in a shared society
Alex Rif
When Gantz told a joke and Liberman made me cry
No party has yet discarded the politics of mutual hatred in favor of the multicultural, cooperation that is relevant to me and my young Russian-speaking Israeli peers
Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Judaism was the loser in these elections
Religious voices in the political discourse backed corruption and division as if the Torah has nothing to say about any of this
Pnina Omer
What will become of the ‘easy’ divorce cases?
Agunah Day reminds us that any woman trying to move on from a failed marriage can get stuck when her husband insists that she capitulate to his will again and again and again
Shimon Fogel
Get this Nazi out of Canada now
Lawyers for this member of a notorious death squad appallingly claim he’s too feeble to be deported. His victims had no such protection
Shira Silkoff
The woman of the quiet rebellion
In the story of Purim, Vashti’s only crime is saying no to a man in a position of power. It’s a tale as old as time
Yael Shahar
The political lessons of the Book of Esther
Mordechai refuses to bow to Haman in protest of the government’s new megalomaniac idolatry that contradicts both the people’s interests and those of God
Tanya White
Purim and the present panic
Our ordered reality is threatened by a super-virus, politics, and our fear of the unknown. I say we embrace that precariousness and rise on up out of the chaos
Homophobia is the real abomination
By
Mike Moskowitz
There is no sin in being gay, just as there is no mitzvah in being straight, because both just are
Top Ops
Molly Bernstein
This weekend, the School of Peace burned down
The school on the Greek island Lesbos, staffed by Israelis, Syrians, Iranians, and Iraqis, was a warm haven for Syrian refugee kids
Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll
Will civil courts be the salvation of chained Jewish women?
When Orthodox rabbis drag their feet and prolong divorce proceedings for what can be years, Jewish women turn to civil law to sidestep the religious establishment
Jennifer Raskas
Taking control of the narrative: Writing in the Scroll of Esther
Through writing, Esther takes ownership of her story and the story of Purim that the Jewish people will tell for generations to come
Kenneth Jacobson
For Jews, the New Delhi riots have a painfully familiar ring
Violent xenophobia fueled by nationalism and scapegoating. Crowds running amok without police intervention. We call it a pogrom.
Joseph Gitler
Charities will get us through Corona — here’s how
Nonprofits should now be radically revising plans and brainstorming creative solutions — and anyone who can should be volunteering
Cherryl Smith
To the brave students who counter ‘Apartheid’ Week
The campus event is performance art whose goal is not a 2-state solution, but rather delegitimizing Israel and, in that process, you
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