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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, May 14, 2020
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Elhanan Miller
How I’m using a Saudi Ramadan TV series to give Jews a human face
The groundbreaking TV drama ’Umm Haroun’ is full of anti-Semitic stereotypes, but it’s still a giant leap forward — and a helpful teaching tool
Annexation now?
By
Donniel Hartman
Making this fateful political move during the Corona crisis is an act of opportunism that would subvert the moral credibility of our leadership
Yedidia Stern
Sanity prevails: 11 to 0
High Court voted unanimously – itself a breath of fresh air – and the public saw for themselves that there was no diabolical plot to undermine the separation of powers
Joseph J. Feit
Black Jewish Lives matter too: COVID-19 and Ethiopian Jewry
14,000 Beta Israel await aliyah in a poverty-stricken country where millions are expected to contract the virus. Israel’s silence is deafening
I know why the coronavirus ward dances
By
Ruth Ebenstein
Hospital staff spurred each other on to create videos of the isolation wards that sparked joy, raised morale, and show how they became more than a medical team
Naomi Chazan
As the coronavirus crisis eases, Israel should restructure
The solidarity and goodwill that developed during the crisis are central to strategic redesign of the old divisive structures and norms
Yuval Cherlow
Read your lips? It’s not possible when you wear a mask
Adaptations such as Zoom conferencing for coping with coronavirus often leave out those with disabilities. As a society, we must do better
Ariel Jerozolimski
PHOTO ESSAY – Mahane Yehuda opens
After the COVID-19 quarantine, the open market is a cleaner, less crowded human mosaic, where contrasts of light, colors, and faces can still stop a photographer in his tracks
Shira Koch Epstein
Bring your own shovel
We need our exhausted religious leadership to inspire transformations of our precious, but outmoded community structures that are suddenly unsustainable
Hershel Billet
When communal prayer is a dangerous violation of Jewish law
Is relaxing our standards of caution worth the risk of the loss of even one life? Judaism is very clear that it is forbidden to take a chance
Zaftig: (of a woman) having a full, rounded figure; plump
By
Ilana Spitz Epstein
Gabriela Cohen
Please exit the water
The loudspeaker’s announcement warning swimmers out of the winter sea gives me pause: the recording is in 5 languages, yet they are seemingly out of order
Celebrating Lag BaOmer in my private cave
By
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
I worry about leaving the safety of home, but I know the real growth happens in the shared spaces where we clash – and learn to live together
Ben Zion Ferziger
The experimental spirit of Hatikvah and The New Colossus
These two iconic texts offer contrasting blueprints for Jewish life, but the twists and turns of their authors’ lives prove nothing is set in stone
Top Ops
David Harris
Dishonoring World War II memory
Americans should be able to express themselves eloquently and forcefully, without resorting to wildly absurd Holocaust references
Kathy Jacobi
COVID-19: What have we learned from Phase One?
5 issues I’ve been thinking about, as a psychologist and person who likes to plan for the future
Frank Domurad
America’s fateful 100 days
I predict that Donald Trump will delay the election or contest its results — call me a false prophet, but I’d rather sound the alarm in error than wake up to a new Weimar Republic
Jack Schwartz
The path to victory: Remembering V-E Day
FDR’s prescience, including over the objections of some of his top generals, included maintaining a policy of Germany first, and his foresight made all the difference
Dov Lipman
A message from slain IDF soldier Amit Ben Ygal
Amit, you wrote of how you think about Israel’s fallen – now you are among them, and we will think of you, and remember a hero who died for his people and his country
Stephen Horenstein
Early morning’s minyan
The birds sing relentlessly, as I stand motionless, breathing in their beauty, calm, and unpredictability – the lone witness of a seemingly random prayer that surely is not
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