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The Weekend Edition
The Best Reads of the Week for
Sunday, July 31, 2022
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ToI Investigates
Luke Tress
Jewish communities grapple with addiction as fentanyl crisis ravages US
NEW YORK -- David started dabbling in drugs while he was in college about 10 years ago. He took black market prescription amphetamines to help him stay awake and study, and got into downers like Xanax for his anxiety. A graduate of a Brooklyn yeshiva, David, a pseudonym, had enrolled in New York's prestigious Cornell...
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First person
Sue Surkes
How a Tottenham Hotspur soccer player saved my father-in-law’s life
Israeli immigrants from the UK will likely turn out in force on Saturday night to see English soccer club Tottenham Hotspur play a pre-season exhibition match against A.S. Roma at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa in northern Israel. The north London club has long been associated with its Jewish supporters, as the Jewish Chronicle has detailed, to the extent...
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AS Roma beats Tottenham in Haifa soccer game; Messi and PSG meet Israeli nonprofit
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TOI staff
Interview
'This is how a psychopath acts when someone takes his toy'
Exiled oligarch in Israel: Putin doesn’t want to annex Ukraine, but to destroy it
By
Ksenia Svetlova
His company dismantled and friends imprisoned, Leonid Nevzlin has lived in Israel for 20 years. He hasn’t ceased criticizing the Kremlin – and sees some parallels in his new home
Op-ed
David Horovitz
The perils of our increasingly unequal Israel
An earlier version of this Editor’s Note was sent out Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. A month before the start of the new school year, Israel is short 5,600 teachers. The figure was...
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Electricity prices to rise by 8.6% next month, says electric company
By
TOI staff
Histadrut announces protests, information campaign to fight rising cost of living
By
Tobias Siegal
Education Ministry says 5,600 teaching positions unfilled ahead of school year
By
TOI staff
Facility designed to also meet wartime needs
World’s largest ER opens in Israel, raising bar for tech and scale in emergency med
By
Nathan Jeffay
President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid open new 8,000 square meter Tel Aviv facility boasting self-triage and robots to help you find your way
Can you judge your COVID immunity with an antibody test? Israeli research says yes
By
Nathan Jeffay
Concerned by low iodine levels in desalinated water, Israel starts nationwide study
By
Nathan Jeffay
Inside story
'There's no way we couldn't feel good about this place.'
8 years later, fallen soldier’s family returns to Israel, now with deep connections
By
Jacob Rivkin
The parents of US-born lone soldier Max Steinberg, killed in Gaza in 2014, didn’t know anyone in the country at his funeral; now they are embracing the nation that showed its love
Interview
Matt Lebovic
As the Holocaust raged, US newspapers buried reports on Hitler’s Final Solution
On June 29, 1942, the Chicago Daily Tribune devoted one paragraph to Germany’s “Final Solution” in Europe: “The British section of the World Jewish Congress estimated today that more than 1,000,000 Jews have been killed or have died as the result of ill treatment in countries dominated by Germany,” read an Associated Press brief on...
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‘We have no home’: Undecided former Yamina voters wait for least worst option
By
Carrie Keller-Lynn
Party refugees have the potential to tip election outcome, but many are waiting to see party slates to decide – likely skewing political polls
Analysis
Straddling the Netanyahu question, Zionist Spirit could be kingmaker, if it survives
By
Carrie Keller-Lynn
Despite union, Zionist Spirit leaders still split over cooperation with Netanyahu
By
TOI staff
Beleaguered right-wing leaders Shaked and Hendel unite as Zionist Spirit party
By
Carrie Keller-Lynn
Exclusive
'We were given everything that we need to keep on living'
With pilgrims coming, Uman’s ‘miracle’ refugee shelters will be forced to clear out
By
Lazar Berman
Hundreds of non-Jewish Ukrainians enjoy cholent and discover Shabbat in the city’s kosher hotels, but Hasidic worshipers will arrive in weeks and officials don’t have a solution
Uman’s mayor to ToI: We don’t have enough shelters, can’t guarantee pilgrims’ safety
By
Lazar Berman
In Ukraine’s Uman, locals predict war won’t keep all Jewish pilgrims away
By
Lazar Berman
Top Ops
Joshua Berman
Messengers from the Russian moral abyss
At our Shabbat table, cousins of mine embarking on their new life in Israel shared chilling accounts of a country that resembles prewar Germany
Marjan Keypour Greenblatt
In Iran, we chanted ‘death to Israel’ but dreamed of freedom
When I had the opportunity to tell acting Prime Minister Lapid just one thing about the country of my birth, this is what I chose to share with him
Daniel Landes
Twenty years after Ben and Marla and the Hebrew University bombing
I dream of them every year, remembering his rough veneer and heart of gold, her brilliance and generosity – and how I called their parents with the terrible news
David E. Bernstein
What a ‘MENA’ racial classification would mean for American Jews
Arab American groups are pushing for the ’Middle Eastern and North African category’ in a bid for official victim status. Jews should oppose the change
Interview
'I never knew how much he influenced the early Nazis'
Henry Ford’s ‘ghost’ opens up about his infamous antisemitism in new art documentary
By
Rich Tenorio
A century after the publication of ‘The International Jew,’ filmmaker Andy Kirshner revives the automaker in ’10 Questions for Henry Ford,’ screening at the SF Jewish Film Festival
Biden pressing Palestinians to cooperate on Abraham Accords, but Abbas undecided
By
Jacob Magid
US highlighting how cooperation between Israel and new ally Morocco led to improved access for Palestinians at Allenby crossing between the West Bank and Jordan
Damning report finds systemic intelligence, operational failures in May 2021 riots
By
Jeremy Sharon
Security agencies say reforms already underway after handling of 2021 unrest panned
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TOI staff
Interview
Spoiler alert: There's more than just 'Exodus'
Hollywood and Israel, a love story: How the Jewish state met the silver screen
By
Rich Tenorio
In a new book, authors Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman examine the history of modern Israel’s representation in cinema — with all its ups and downs
Interview
Julie Masis
Relics of a USSR both maddening and sweet emerge in blockbuster Jewish memoir
When she was a girl, Yelena Lembersky lived in a high-rise building on the outskirts of Leningrad, the Russian city today known as St. Petersburg. Her grandfather, Soviet artist Felix Lembersky, died in 1970, when she was still a baby and too young to remember him. But his paintings marked her earliest memories. On special occasions, when visitors came to...
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Maccabiah Games
Once homeless, para athlete Freya Levy finds a home at the Maccabiah Games
By
Ethan Freedman
At a Catskills retreat, Brooklyn Holocaust survivors get respite and a rap show
By
Luke Tress
Elderly Jews enjoy break from the sweltering city at a mountain resort for the first time since the start of COVID, and some improv from rapper Kosha Dillz
Analysis
Emanuel Fabian
Hezbollah hints it’s ready for a war over gas — but knows Lebanon can’t afford one
As Israel prepares for potential conflict over offshore gas extraction, experts say Nasrallah’s threats are mostly an effort to stay relevant, but they also keep him dangerous
Analysis
Israel says IDF’s armed drones can now be talked about, unless it’s to sell them
By
Emanuel Fabian
IDF exposes ‘Hamas sites’ in Gaza civilian areas, in bid to explain future strikes
By
Emanuel Fabian
Israel Travels
If these walls could speak: Hebrew pioneer Ben-Yehuda’s legacy lives on in Jerusalem
By
Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
The capital is rich with historical sites marking the life and work of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and his family, who toiled to give the nascent Jewish state a language of its own
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