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The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, January 21, 2021
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PODCAST: The Daily Briefing – ToI blogosphere weighs in on end of Trump era
A quick 15-minute podcast with ToI editors and reporters to catch you up on what’s important today
From the blogs
Can America inoculate against the dire threat of ‘us vs. them’?
By
Kenneth S. Stern
As false claims of a Trump victory stoke political violence, the US must launch a grand effort to rebuild a society in which disagreement is not deadly
A eulogy for lost truth within the Torah community
By
Chaya Lester
A flood of extreme conspiracy theories is driving painful wedges between us – we have a responsibility to speak out when we see them
From the blogs
Why Jews should wave the Black Lives Matter banner
By
Ed Gaskin
Supporting BLM does not mean signing on to every aspect of the movement, it means standing with the Torah’s teaching that all humans matter
American Yizkor
By
Arnold M. Eisen
The memorial for coronavirus victims, a step toward healing, recalled the Yom Kippur service when we remember those we have lost
Donald Trump as a messianic cultic figure
By
Dennis C. Sasso
In the former president, echoes of another figure in history who left a polarizing trail of broken communities, conspiracies and heresy accusations
Martin Kramer
Quick take: Trump was a dud, but not for Israel
Some of the worst leaders of the American people, at least according to the usual measures of presidential success, have been the most effective allies of the Jewish state
El Mehdi Boudra
The Moroccan exception should become an expectation
My country approached Israel with fairness and reason; now, Israel can do the same for the Palestinians, to achieve another historic compromise
Sharon Galper Grossman
Vaccinate, so that you can be fruitful and multiply
For those who are eligible, the COVID-19 vaccine should be simply one more aspect of the prenatal care that includes special vitamins and avoiding cigarettes and alcohol
Tamar Sternthal
Why doesn’t the NYTimes rely on its own archives?
The ’paper of record’ is getting its Israel-related facts wrong, and it isn’t even correcting the errors that contradict its past reporting
Rachel Aridor-Hershkovitz
WhatsApp’s new terms of service? Kiss your privacy goodbye
With Facebook’s insatiable appetite for personal data, the new requirement for users of its popular subsidiary should be a red light to us all
CHOICE VOICES
Daniel Markind
Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and modern cancel culture
These inspirational leaders, both flawed, and the greats who inspired them, would flunk today’s PC criteria as worthy topics for academic study
Brian Horowitz
A crotchety old academic reflects on the great Russian ‘wave’
Israel owes a lot to the aliyah from the former Soviet Union, but it took time – the new immigrants struggled with poverty, displacement, and the humbling of talented people
Nadav Tamir
Now is the time for female leadership in Israel
Empirical testing shows that women are better equipped to deal with the adaptive challenges of today – just ask Germany, Finland, New Zealand, or Taiwan
Ilana Fodiman-Silverman
Would the real new year for trees please stand up?
Rabbi Akiva insisted that the Jewish calendar be fixed and immutable, and then acted as if the rejected opinions were legitimate. Whatever was he thinking?
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