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Choice Voices for the Week of
Thursday, April 27, 2023
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Eilon Schwartz
At 75, there’s hope – if we’re willing to see it
In an Israel dangerously divided into two camps, there has been a move from both sides to the empathetic center
From the blogs
I never thought it would be my family
By
Tali Dee
There is a black hole inside me. In another five years or another 10 years – even at my wedding – this hole will be there
Sarah Raanan
The man in the blue polo shirt
Just in our little town of Raanana there are 265 names of the dead to be read out loud. We listen to every single one of them
Didi Nachshon
Absently present: We will not be at Yossi’s graveside this year
We are out fighting on your behalf to make sense of the most senseless loss. We are defending the soul of our nation
Israel at 75: From the blogs
Exclusive Independence Day excerpt
When did you know you were Israeli?
By
Joel Chasnoff
and
Benji Lovitt
For those still struggling to roll their reshes, this excerpt from the new book ‘Israel 201’ offers 75 answers for 75 years of statehood
Ron E. Hassner
Israel at 75 should learn from the US at 75
The United States was a mere 85 years old when civil war tore the nation apart. On its 75th birthday, is Israel at risk for the same?
From the blogs: Israel at 75
Yossi Klein Halevi
The song that made me an Israeli
Here was a vision of our future; an Israel in which I, an American Jew with Bob Dylan as my soundtrack, might also find a place
The Israel I know
By
Talya Woolf
The people I meet along the way support this land, our land of soil, sand and gravel; blood and tears; and milk and honey
Analysis
Marshall Brinn
Ani Ohev: The things we love
The song modulates and layers as it goes on. It seems to capture something lovely and true about parenting
Kobi Oz’s song to his grandfather is a prayer for Israel
By
Noah Efron
As the singer performs for us on a Tel Aviv rooftop, I look around me, and people’s cheeks are damp with tears
That Song
Rachel Sharansky Danziger
‘Hallevai’: Declaring war on despair
Hope is not merely something we feel – it’s something we create by holding onto the feeling
Analysis
Bradley Burston
‘A Song for Peace’: The dangerous anthem
Written 25 years earlier by a young man who had lost a leg as a soldier in the 1967 war, the song was still a revolution in seven verses
Bitter to better
By
Rivka Herzfeld
With my ’feet of clay,’ my scooter is a blessing that I hate that I need – but that I am lucky to have
Top Ops
Shana Strauch Schick
Stern College should not cut opportunities for women to study Talmud
My alma mater is cancelling the very classes that started me on my path of Talmud scholarship. Here’s why they should not
Elchanan Poupko
A letter to Israel’s demographically intoxicated
You’re right. You do have many children – more than anyone else in Israel. But guess who has even more children
Martin Kramer
Israel from 25 to 75: The lesson is perpetual vigilance
Five months after the hubris of a giant military parade, the country faced an existential war: Today’s pensive mood is reassuring
Susan Subak
In Transatlantic’s Varian Fry story, Jews are not helping their own
The Netflix WWII drama leaves out Jewish organizations’ vital support and paints religious Jews as too inept to survive
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