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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, December 30, 2021
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Voices of 2021: The year that boggled our collective minds
By
Miriam Herschlag
When so much seemed to go off the rails, Times of Israel bloggers offered sharp perspectives, wisdom and inspiration to guide us through the uncertainty
Jonathan Muskat
Is ice skating a proper Sabbath activity?
I’m a rabbi and I keep Shabbat differently than Olympic contender Hailey Kops does, but I appreciate her passion, commitment, and the complexity of her approach
In praising Haim Walder, Haredi media told his victims they don’t matter
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Scott Kahn
Giving a hero’s sendoff to a figure widely believed to have committed offenses sends the message that rape and sexual harassment can and will be ignored
Marianne Novak
Resisting the temptation to be God’s secretary
The antiquated precept that suicide equals murder is never appropriate even when the death involves one who committed grave transgressions
Pride, backaches, trauma: Some honesty about IDF combat service
By
Natan Kohn-Magnus
The tendency to lionize combat service risks minimizing the physical, mental and professional toll that former soldiers bear for the rest of their lives
Ariella Nadel
It was 40 years before the siblings reunited
Joseph first went to Israel, but settled in South Africa. Mendel was a dentist in the Nazi concentration camps. And Isadore, my grandfather, went to Seattle
All eyes on Bethlehem
By
Sarah Bernstein
Church leaders in Israel are experiencing harassment from Jewish youth conditioned to be fearful of a community that long ago stopped posing a threat
Steven Windmueller
America has bigger problems than Donald Trump
He exploited the discontent, anger, and worries of millions, but he didn’t create it, and we must reckon with it to heal the profound social disconnect in the US
Top Ops
Andrew Silow-Carroll
Stop fighting about Israel and start listening to each other
When a diverse group of Jewish Brown U. students met to discuss Israel and the Palestinians, everyone felt uncomfortable. That, they say, is as it should be
Shuki Friedman
Local private rabbinic courts undermine the reason they should exist
A private court that is forced on litigants by the ultra-Orthodox community that sponsors it can’t properly serve those who would otherwise seek its rulings
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