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The Blogs Weekly Highlights
Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, January 28, 2021
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This is not my Judaism!
By
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
How dare these apparent representatives of the Haredi Judaism I hold dear so disgrace the very Torah they claim to uphold!
Ephraim Portnoy
Why do I have to be scared to publish this?
I am taking a risk in writing what I want to write. I don't know who I'm writing for. Charedim who read this might get upset at me. Non-Charedim can't do anything about it anyways. The past few days in Israel have seen cases of extremist violence on the part of the Charedi community. Most of it has been in response to police enforcement of Covid restrictions, although there have also been other causes. Today, several Charedi MKs gave speeches at the Knesset condemning the violence, and also emphasizing that the...
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Efraim Zuroff
An 80-year search for ‘the student K,’ murderer of Jewish babies
Her horrific cruelty, described in rare survivor testimony, spotlights Lithuania’s widespread Nazi collaboration. We may have found this killer
Benny Gantz
Benny Gantz: My Holocaust survivor mother made me a better general
She understood that the human fabric of society is what deters people from turning to hateful ideologies as a way of filling the void
David Werdiger
‘My grandfather was a Nazi and I just wanted to say…’
Like the Fawlty Towers episode, when it comes to Germans, I don’t mention the war. But I can’t help wondering
The prophetic charge of Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’
By
Ronnie Perelis
In a moment that calls for a reckoning with the demons of our history, the poet pushes each one of us to ’…step out of the shade aflame and unafraid’
Analysis
Ilan Manor
Know a president by his tweets
Not just for selfies: A transitional Twitter account let the world see the Biden-Harris priorities, and prepare accordingly, even before the new administration took office
Alon Tal
What’s a reasonable emissions target for Israel? Zero
In the shift to renewable energy, a maximal approach is neither radical nor fanciful. It’s paramount for securing our environmental future
Adam S. Ferziger
Fatal liberations – 1945 and 2021
The tragedy of those who survived the camps only to die soon after is a cautionary tale for a time when vaccination promises to end the pandemic
Yona Kobo
Redemption: The orphans Yeshayahu Drucker returned to the Jewish people
After WWII, this Jewish Polish army chaplain brought hundreds of children out of hiding from monasteries, orphanages and Polish families
From the blogs
Marek Magierowski
The rich, forgotten history of Poland and the Jews
The history of our nations is invariably linked with the 6 dreadful years of World War II, yet for centuries, Jews found a safe haven in our country
How we found more family 55 years after Auschwitz
By
Yoni Leviatan
My grandmother never forgot her lost nephew, and my mother searched for years. Eventually, she found out he’d been adopted. That was it. Until suddenly there was more
Top Ops
David Harris
Israel, Palestinians, and COVID vaccines: A reality check
It’s a fact that Israel offered assistance and Palestinian leaders declined, but why let facts get in the way of demonizing the Jewish state
Zack Rothbart
The unsung heroine-artist who helped save Israel’s wildflowers
You may not have heard of Bracha Avigad, but chances are you’ve seen the exquisite illustrations she spent 7 decades creating
Hen Mazzig
Florida State’s anti-Semitic student senator
How does the guy who wrote ’stupid Jew thinks he is cool’ and posts swastikas on Facebook still have a platform on this campus?
Joshua Hammerman
30,000 lies: From Holocaust denial to ‘Camp Auschwitz’
If you’re willing to lie about the greatest moral crime ever perpetrated, everything else is child’s play
Julie Gray
Israel’s street cats are my therapy
I dispense handfuls of comfort to little creatures living short, brutal lives, making what difference I can amid so much that I cannot change
Ari Dembitzer
What sick children taught me about healing in polarized America
At a summer camp for kids with life-threatening illnesses, I’ve seen how vastly different people find commonality without sacrificing who they are
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