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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, September 10, 2020
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Israel is a hot mess
By
Molly Livingstone
There are so many better ways to handle this situation that don’t involve inconsistency, hypocrisy, randomness, or illogical busy-work
Avidan Milevsky
Why school is not important now
What’s more important than education? Addressing the mental health upheaval created by this pandemic and tending to children’s basic needs
Jim Shalom
The day our nursing home stopped being COVID-19-free
We sealed off the home, curtailed visits by family members, and multidisciplinary team members like me switched to working remotely. But would it be enough?
Tal Bar Or
How we flattened the curve among the ultra-Orthodox flip-phone users
Once we had tracked a population that doesn’t use the internet and dramatically reduced its large number of seriously infected cases, I knew we could manage it anywhere
From the blogs
Misunderstanding AIPAC and American politics
By
David E. Bernstein
The director of a film that slams the pro-Israel org holds the erroneous view that any group that’s not explicitly left-wing is the right-wing enemy
Kenneth Jacobson
The UAE breakthrough could spread tolerance across the region
Will the Arab country’s push for a more pluralistic Mideast challenge the radicalism and anti-Semitism that have poisoned the region for so long?
Ali Drabu
My journey from BDS activist to Israel educator
I grew up hearing in mosque and elsewhere about the need to support the Palestinian struggle. I had a notion of Israel as all-bad. That changed.
Laura Shaw Frank
Seth Rogen is wrong about Israel education in America
As an Israel educator, I have seen the sea-change in the way Israel is taught; his critique may have once been on-target, but it is no longer legitimate
Vilhjálmur Örn Vilhjálmsson
How is fighting circumcision Denmark’s priority in 2020?
The revived push for a ban on brit milah, much of it coming from politicians who simply hate Jews and Muslims, is a stain on Danish history
Cheng Xu
The forgotten Olympic weightlifting hero of the Munich massacre
I never knew him personally, but I learn from Yossef Romano, a weightlifter like me, who sacrificed himself to give his teammates a fighting chance
From the blogs
My date with history… and hope
By
Yosef I. Abramowitz
Scientists on a desert kibbutz coaxed fruit out of 2,000-year-old seeds found at Masada. It tastes like honey mixed with inspiration
Top Ops
Robby Berman
WATCH: Sneaking into Israel
A single mother of six is one of thousands of Palestinians who illegally enter the country to find work every day. The 1-hour journey starts at 4:30 am
Alan Abrams
Elsa freezes Anna
We know that superheros don’t always save the day in real life; what we need to learn is that we all have superpowers – our own unique gifts – that we are called to use
Chaya Lester
This is your brain on Elul
It’s a month of hardcore training for the metaphysical marathon of the High Holidays: Do the work, and epiphany can be the reward
Marla Cohen
Sign up for shul — it’s the new normal
Since I can’t take shul for granted anymore, I ask: what else do we change? Do we shorten the service? The Torah reading? Welcome to the brave new world of COVID-19 worship
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