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This has nothing to do with Sheikh Jarrah
By
Bassem Eid
It’s about Hamas seeing a chance to seize the narrative and increase its own influence and control over Palestinians in Jerusalem
Yael Shahar
Proportionality of response: What it really means
How much force should the IDF use to stop rocket fire from a given location in Gaza? What if there are civilian casualties?
Israel must establish the rules of the game
By
Udi Dekel
Hamas’s long-planned attack is an effort to position itself as the defenders of Jerusalem. Israel must shatter the terror group’s assumptions
Donniel Hartman
I cannot just put my anger aside until things are quiet
No question Hamas is a repulsive, immoral enemy. And yet, Israel, enamored by its own power, has failed its duty to strive to be smarter, more just, more visionary
Leah Solomon
We’ve been here before, often, and the children on both sides pay the price
It is the most important responsibility of our generation: a just and durable resolution to what we call the ’Israeli-Palestinian conflict’
Michal Lashansky
Rockets are flying, and we’re supposed to carry on as usual?!
What if the siren sounds while my 10-year-old is outside by herself? I think I’ll pick her up today…
Tamar Weissman
Betrayal in the Galilee
I’ve lived in beautiful, quiet northern Israel for almost 3 years, and my Arab Israeli neighbors had earned my trust. Now I’m mad… and oh so disappointed
Sharon Weiss-Greenberg
I spent the night in a bomb shelter with my kids before. Last night was different
My family moved to Israel for many reasons, but certainly, this was not one of them. I do not want such violence to be the reality here
David Harris
Israel and Gaza: Moral clarity, moral fog
The genocidal, death-celebrating Hamas terrorists drag Israel into reluctant confrontation, yet somehow the two sides are painted as morally equivalent
Andrew D. Lappin
The Arab street is quiet – and the reason is Iran
With Tehran’s fingerprints on Hamas rockets, countries in the region know they may be next. So why is Biden so keen for a rapprochement with Iran?
Gilead Sher
I grew up in a divided Jerusalem. I’d like to live in a shared one.
Saving the Zionist enterprise while respecting the Palestinian right to self-determination requires courage and leadership – which are sadly lacking
Simeon Cohen
A prayer for my daughter
May she grow up to see the day when Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians see each other as brothers and sisters
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
In Jerusalem, I’m holding onto hope
Ours is a long and ancient story that whispers though the stones and streets and ancient hillsides. It will carry us through
David Bryfman
If you’re a Jewish educator this week…
You prepared your lessons, and then news from Israel changed everything. So you redid your lessons and comforted your students. What about yourselves?
There are more American Jews – and they’re staying Jewish
By
Leonard Saxe
The latest Pew survey shows double-digit growth in the American Jewish population and finds intermarriage is having a net positive effect
Gary Rosenblatt
What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?
Are we just lazy or fearful of becoming sick? Or have we become dependent on the safety and security of keeping close to home?
Minna Bromberg
Take it from a fat rabbi: Nobody needs your dieting advice
I yearn for a world in which our Jewish communities can be places of belonging for bodies of every size – our fatphobic culture makes that difficult
Sara Himeles
The best antisemitism definition is one that goes deep
A new definition of antisemitism asks whether a given expression is antisemitic ’on the face of it,’ but anti-Jewish hatred is frequently found beneath the surface
Manya Brachear Pashman
What’s ‘Jewing down’? What’s a globalist?
Not everyone knows antisemitism when they hear it, especially the more banal terms. Luckily, there’s a quiz for that.
From the blogs
Eyewitness: All I could see were faces of agony
By
Josh Vlessing
We went to Mount Meron expecting an unforgettable cultural experience. Then we got trapped in the crush. We’re still processing what we saw there.
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
Praying together in the depths
It’s tempting to jump to accusations. Instead, while the dead remain unburied and we reel in pain, I think of those in need of healing, and I pray
Shmuel Rabinowitz
After Meron: We must never forget that we are brothers
My nephew perished in the crush, and I see first-hand: the divisions among us do not matter. We are all in pain together
Sally Abrams
The Minneapolis bridge collapse, Mt. Meron, and the time I was hit by a truck
We ask why one person is so lucky, when many others are not, but that answer is simply unavailable to us. We are better off asking other questions
Ysoscher Katz
At Mt. Meron their dancing turned into mourning
Like so many other righteous souls seeking healing and relief, my late father went every Lag B’Omer for 12 years following his cancer diagnosis
Catriella Freedman
110 years before this tragedy, my great-grandfather died at Mt. Meron
Just as his death at a 1911 Lag B’Omer disaster changed the course of my own history, the families mourning today will never be the same
Analysis
Robyn Frisch
My Haredi son was at the Mt. Meron disaster
With a Reform rabbi for a mother, our family is very different from those of my son’s peers. Now, I can’t stop thinking about how similar we are
Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Sitting in the darkness, together
Disaster at Mt. Meron: Right-wing, left-wing. Jewish. Arab. Religious. Secular. It all just blurs when tragedy happens in Israel
Nili Bresler
From bonfire to memorial flame: The teacher learns a lesson
The sad fact is that I am prone to prejudice against the ultra-Orthodox. It took this tragedy to set me straight: these people are my people
A harsh assessment of the catastrophe at Meron
By
Uri Pilichowski
When Jewish leaders abandon the ways of the Torah and resemble charlatans, it’s up to other rabbis, even know-nothings like me, to call them out
Top Ops
Gerard Heumann
Jerusalem’s monstrosities of urban renewal
Economic urban densification is most certainly necessary, but nothing like this. Major reforms to our planning and building bureaucracy are needed urgently
Anne Rothenberg
UNRWA feeds Palestinians a steady diet of Jew-hatred
Hadassah urges the US Congress to insist on reform and oversight to rid the UN agency of curricula demonizing Jews and Israel
Yael Leibowitz
The underdogs who changed Jewish history
What does it take for those ’least likely to succeed’ to achieve greatness? Maybe it’s divine intervention; maybe it’s something more
Sivan Rahav Meir
Jerusalem is a prophesy being realized in our generation
After millennia of yearning and destruction, we received a gift and it is up to us to show we are deserving of it
Alan Kaufman
Israel forgot herself
PM Netanyahu and his government were blindsided, having left the country vulnerable to a shabby, terrorist militia of fundamentalist fanatics
Jeremy Kalmanofsky
I buried hundreds of old Jewish books. Inside each was a Jewish heart
As the boxes were placed in their graves, I tried to conjure the hands that held these texts, the eyes that read their print, the lips that said the words aloud
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