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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, April 30, 2020
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American Jews are suffering. Can Israel help without patronizing?
By
Adam S. Ferziger
With the pandemic’s devastating and disproportionate toll on centers of US Jewish life, a historical dynamic of aid-giving is reversed
From the blogs
Yossi Klein Halevi
How Hebrew music made me an Israeli: 12 seminal songs for Independence Day
From ballads of war and peace, to the mix of west and east, and the way it treats a secular Hebrew ethos and re-Judaizes culture… Israeli music is simply extraordinary
From the blogs
Only here
By
Daniel Gordis
As we heard our Jerusalem neighbors’ Sabbath prayers, I thought: we are locked down in the one place Jews would want to be locked down
Adina Gerver
Saving my own life (with lots and lots of help)
I live in Manhattan and I just nursed myself through an 11-day bout of moderate COVID-19 with pneumonia. I’m writing in case what I did helps you
Aliza Lipkin
Why do you deserve a minyan?
The outdoor prayer services, now permitted with distance guidelines, inevitably cause a disturbance to the general public
The cold crown of corona
By
A Hasidic Woman in Israel
Our pride in belonging to the Haredi community is on the wane – and our desire for the internet is rising
David Breakstone
‘We only think we’re Americans’ – a piece I never imagined writing
The worrying spike in anti-Semitism begs the question: Will the latent antisemitism depicted in Philip Roth’s Plot Against America prove to be fact or fiction?
Ronald S. Lauder
The Jewish imperative for the post-corona world
Globalization will wane, nationalism will rise: we must act now to re-embrace our age-old ethos of mutual responsibility and love-of-Israel
Irwin Cotler
The pandemic and asylum seekers: Threat and response
African asylum seekers are more of an asset to Israel than a burden; when the country ties up their funds with the Deposit Law, it penalizes the very people it should be helping
Joshua Berman
When Satmar met Wellhausen
5 Hasidim read my book on biblical criticism and wanted more; when we met on Zoom, I found like-minded thinkers in an unexpected quarter
Shayna Goldberg
Coming home and zooming out
While sheltering at home, I’d expect to long for elsewhere, but I find that there’s adventure to be had here in our homeland, and this extraordinary project of nation-building
From the blogs
Tzur Goldin
My brother’s body must not be left behind
Hamas can and should be made to realize that the kidnapping of soldiers or civilians, dead or alive, is a liability for them, not an asset
David Matlin
An Israeli soldier: Dispatches from the front
Being yanked from civilian life to the front of a breaking war within 5 hours: That — and so much more — is how we help ensure Israel is here to stay
Ben Mendes
How I came to meet fallen soldier, Yaakov Menashe
Assigned during my army service to visit his grave, I found I was his only visitor. I have gone back every year since then
From the blogs
Inscribed for generations
By
Naftali Moses
When the terrorist entered the Mercaz Harav library, there was barely a place to hide. My son and his study partner, both 16, huddled between the stacks
Mick Davis
Sir Mick Davis: Israeli politics violate Diaspora values
Writing in the Jewish News, a major UK donor to Israel says the breakdown of its democratic values is an existential challenge to ties with the diaspora
Top Ops
Chen Malul
The only known original copy of ‘HaTikvah’
The song that became Israel’s anthem led quite a romantic, well-traveled past, with several towns each claiming it was composed there — its sweet-talking author had said the same
Ilana Spitz Epstein
My first real Yom HaAtzma’ut
After 3 months in Israel we thought we knew how to celebrate. Then we saw our neighbors dragging sofas and dining room tables to the park
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
When Israel’s fallen are in lockdown
We watch our TV screens, curse this virus, and long for the day when we will again be able to inch our way to the military cemetery, and stand together in our mourning
Yoel Glick
Holy chutzpah: The spiritual optimism of Israel
We have a sacred mission to create harmony and balance in our land and people, and offer a model of holy living to all of humankind
Laura Ben-David
Of flags, masks and what really matters
Sheltering at home meant I was missing the blue-and-white trappings of the season, so I set off to find the kids who hawk flags for our cars — and got a mask instead
Channa Lockshin Bob
The four children of distance learning
Many teachers keep order in class by making sure everyone does the same thing at the same time; at home, the kids pace themselves and some are succeeding for the first time
Dan Perry
Israel courts needless disaster with annexation
To assume the current calm will continue forever following such a provocation is to forget the nightmare of the Second Intifada
Tanya White
The siren in our time of solitude calls to life
The siren’s call makes me sorrow for a nation on the brink of extinction — before it reverses course to rise up like a phoenix, with its iridescent colors of survival
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