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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, July 23, 2020
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The choice is not between Shin Bet surveillance or a lockdown
By
Anat Saragusti
The government’s approach to coronavirus relies on utterly faulty and deeply intrusive solutions that strip away democratic protections
Naomi Chazan
Reaching the boiling point
A truly inclusive emergency government might just navigate a fix for Israel’s many current challenges
Shaul Arieli
Some inconvenient facts for one-state advocates
There are so many Jewish settlers the populations can’t be separated — wrong. The one-state solution is a viable option — wrong again.
The burning Talmud
By
Yoseif Bloch
The case of accused child sex offender Malka Leifer has tarnished the image of Torah and the image of Israel in the world
Martin Krossel
What Eliot Engel’s downfall means for America
The outcome of this New York primary is one more indication that an increasingly totalitarian left is on the rise in the US
Hannah Rosenthal
Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy has found the enemy. Guess who it is.
While Jews are threatened worldwide, special anti-Semitism envoy Elan Carr is targeting the president’s American Jewish critics
Alan Abrams
Bari Weiss and losing our voice at The New York Times
Weiss ensured that we Jews who love Israel in our bones and also deeply believe in representative democracy have a place in the NYT’s storied pages
Mark Pelavin
4 lessons we can learn from civil rights hero John Lewis
Homage to the US Democratic congressman who died Friday: He practiced preaching on chickens and had no patience for patience
Mike Rothbaum
This Trumpian ‘religious freedom’ agenda is against my religion
A US State Department commission is contorting religious principle to limit women’s reproductive freedom and denigrate LGBTQI+ folks
Emily Kirschenbaum
I never wanted to homeschool
I thought OK, she’ll get her assignments and sit in my office next to me and it will be blissful and fun. It was neither blissful nor fun.
The fox in the fields and the wall of cactus around my village
By
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
I can love this place and I can also mourn that my triumph and return caused another people’s suffering and exile
Top Ops
Matt Futterman
How Netanyahu et al violate the Law of the Farm
Genuine leadership through a crisis demands long-term, reality-informed planning. Instead, we’ve got a popularity contest
Paula Jacobs
I read the words of the Hebrew poets, and I dreamed their dreams
How critical a tool poetry is to understanding the diverse voices of Israeli society; how wonderful the unexpected personal connection of online classes
Sari Ellen
Nature wins
Or the way the smallest of creatures can derail us from whatever we had planned
Ilana Spitz Epstein
For the love of babka
I was 6: while the adults spoke in foreign tongues of the old days, I clutched my cake, and took small bites of goodness that it took me years to learn to recreate myself
Chana Tannenbaum
Why 42 is the ultimate answer to life and everything
The Israelites made 42 stops in the wilderness on their way to conquer the Land of Israel; the puzzle is why the Torah lists all of them (Masai)
Joseph Gitler
Cases spike, stomachs rumble: A second wave of need
There are more people in need, and fewer sources of food to nourish them. Worse, it’s going to get worse before it gets better
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