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The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, May 7, 2023

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Hasidic Jews pray near the gravesite of 'Wonder Rabbi' Yeshaya Steiner in Bodrogkeresztur, Hungary, April 24, 2023. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Inside story

‘Wonder Rabbi’ pilgrimage brings feuds, fraud and huge potential for Hungary’s Jews

By Yaakov Schwartz

As some 150,000 Orthodox Jews flock annually to Yeshaya Steiner’s grave in Bodrogkeresztur, the village’s future is at risk even as Budapest seeks to become a top Jewish center

Israeli children look at a damaged car in the southern city of Sderot following rocket fire from Gaza on May 2, 2023 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Op-ed

A reminder from Gaza: Israel dare not be distracted or divided

Israel’s internal cohesion is not a luxury or an ideal. It is a central element in our capacity to resist our enemies, survive and flourish

Britain's then-prince Charles wears a kippah during the funeral of Shimon Peres at Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, September 23, 2016. (Abir Sultan, Pool via AP, File)

Royal Coronation

The Royal Family’s 800-year relationship with Britain’s Jews, in 7 historical tidbits

By Robert Philpot

As the UK’s chief rabbi and Israel’s president attend King Charles’ coronation this Shabbat, a look at the ties that have historically bound the Crown to its Jewish subjects

Britain's King Charles III, left, speaks with President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal during a reception at Buckingham Palace, in London, May 5, 2023 for overseas guests attending his coronation. (Jacob King/Pool Photo via AP)

At coronation reception, King Charles said to praise Herzog for overhaul mediation

Prince Charles, front left, eight-month-old son of Princess Elizabeth of England, left, and the Duke of Edinburgh, is posed for the camera by his mother while his father looks on, July 18, 1949, Ascot, England AP Photo)

1st person to hold King Charles after his birth was a Jewish Kindertransport refugee

Israelis attend a protest against military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students and the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Kol Torah yeshiva in Jerusalem, May 4, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Analysis

‘Day of Equality’ sought to revitalize protests; limited turnout underlines challenge

Demonstrations against Haredi military exemptions, religious and gender inequality were an effort to restore momentum of anti-overhaul movement, but public’s response was muted

Deputy speaker of Ukraine's parliament Olena Kondratiuk in Jerusalem, May 1, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Help us get our kids back from Russia, urges senior Ukraine lawmaker visiting Israel

By Lazar Berman

Deputy speaker of Kyiv’s parliament Olena Kondratiuk is leading a delegation stressing the need for Israeli expertise in early warning systems, shelters

Kyiv begins testing missile warning system developed by Israel

AnalysisFor Israel’s once-potential Arab allies, ties with Jerusalem lose some sheen

By Lazar Berman

Inside storyEU’s Borrell wins over foreign minister during long one-on-one chat

By Lazar Berman

Menachem Bombach

A Haredi call for compromise between religious and secular

As we await Israel’s future Haredi majority, we must commit to dialogue among all citizens to determine the common ground we share

Sharing a bottle of arak for my father’s soul

All the men knew I was at minyan to mourn my dad; clearly, they were saying amen to my prayer in their hearts, if not aloud or consciously

Tomorrow I will be so far away: Like a wildflower

The idea of leaving the kibbutz felt like a colossal failure, like the breaking of a marriage – this song got me through it

‘Whose demonstration was bigger?’ is not necessarily the question

A strong show of support on the street and even a 64-seat Knesset majority don’t make the proposed overhaul right

Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, 12 at the time of his death in 2021, is one of the 45 people who perished in the Mount Meron disaster in northern Israel on Lag B'Omer. (Courtesy of Shimon Elhadad)

'In Meron I feel I’m reunited with him'

On Meron disaster anniversary, relatives of victims connect to the site ‘even more’

By Canaan Lidor

Still processing the loss of 45 lives during 2021 pilgrimage, family members of the deceased say the tragedy has only strengthened their devotion to the event

Native pines are restricted to the crests of hills in the Mount Carmel National Park, to help prevent fires, April 30, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Foresters hope year-round preparations will prevent wildfires this summer

Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren at an event celebrating ToI's 10th anniversary, May 1, 2022. (Ariel Jerozolimski)

ToI podcast'We're the Marvel universe. We have alternative realities'

What Matters Now to veteran journalist Biranit Goren: Media-made parallel universes

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Editor of ToI’s Hebrew-language sister site Zman Yisrael says all of PM Netanyahu’s court cases stem from a desire to control Israel’s media. Now he has Ch. 14, his own ‘Fox News’

Actress Bel Powley as Miep Gies in Gestapo headquarters, 'A Small Light' miniseries, 2023. (Courtesy)

Anne Frank’s best ‘helper’ Miep Gies is center of new National Geographic miniseries

By Matt Lebovic

Set to premiere on May 1, 8-part series centers on anti-Nazi resistance activities of Miep and Jan Gies, whose sacrifices – and heroism – extended beyond the ‘Secret Annex’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet Dutch King Willem-Alexander in The Hague, the Netherlands on May 4, 2023. (The Office of the President of Ukraine)

On Dutch Holocaust day, Zelensky asks Netherlands to also mourn dead Ukrainians

By Canaan Lidor

A sign for a campaign against antisemitism, New York City, August 12, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

NYC council okays annual ‘End Jew Hatred Day,’ though some object

The 2010s was the decade of Netanyahu’s mastery of the black arts of political manipulation and manoeuvring. Despite charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, despite weekly demonstrations in Jerusalem, despite his wife’s loose understanding of the difference between state responsibility and domestic aggrandizement, Netanyahu saw off one opponent after another. (Yonatan Wachsmann, Calcalist December 3, 2020/Courtesy of Colin Shindler)

Interview

From pre-state to present, political cartoons paint picture of a dynamic Israel

By Renee Ghert-Zand

From 'Theodor,' the new original Hebrew opera about Theodor Herzl, premiering May 10, 2023 at The Israeli Opera (Courtesy Israeli Opera)

A tale of two Herzls premieres in Tel Aviv in new opera ‘Theodor’

By Jessica Steinberg

A Hebrew libretto for the ages asks audiences to consider what pushed the Jewish journalist and activist to found the modern Zionist movement

Rabbi Mark Borovitz kisses Harriet Rossetto. (Courtesy)

Film tracks the match made in prison that turned a convict into a rabbi on a mission

Jacqueline Kott-Wolle is the artist behind new exhibition 'Growing Up Jewish – Art & Storytelling.' (Courtesy)

Interview

In new exhibit, artist shows American Jewish life can’t be painted in broad strokes

By Cathryn J. Prince

Volunteer supporting woman dying of tumor in a hospital room. (iStock photo)

Few Israelis plan for end-of-life care. A purple bracelet seeks to change that

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Lilach hopes its brightly colored DNR bracelets will bring attention to the Dying Patient Act, helping spread awareness of choices adult Israelis can make when faced with death

Study: Gaucher disease, common among Ashkenazi Jews, protects against tuberculosis

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tel Aviv researchers use RNA nanodrug tech to stop ovarian cancer cell division

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Sheba Medical Center presents Dr. Anthony Fauci with award for COVID cooperation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

From the exhibit of 'Alberto Giacometti: Beginning, Again,' at Tel Aviv Museum of Art's Eyal Ofer Pavilion, May 6 – October 7, 2023 (Courtesy Yanai Yehiel)

A sculptor’s view of humanity launches reimagined Tel Aviv museum pavilion

By Jessica Steinberg

Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (center, white shirt) excavates the synagogue in Tamanart, Morocco, in November 2021 with her daughter Shoham (left), student Adi Gura, and Mona Naji-Goeury, daughter of researchers Salima Naji and David Goeury. (Courtesy Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli/Yuval Yekutieli)

Archaeology

Abraham Accords allow Israelis to excavate two huge ‘genizas’ found in rural Morocco

By Melanie Lidman

Normalization lets Israeli researchers formalize ties with Moroccan experts to investigate remnants of Jewish life – with aid of Israelis who once lived in those abandoned villages

Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum, shows visitors around the Holocaust Gallery, in Dubai on January 11, 2023. (Karim Sahib/ AFP)

Yeshiva University to hold 1st of its kind Jewish studies conference in UAE

The “Grande Ludovisi” sarcophagus, with a battle scene between Roman soldiers and Germans, in a marble sarcophagus from 251/252 CE. (Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Altemps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

ArchaeologyRoman army may have included kosher-observant Jews 2,000 years ago, study finds

By Melanie Lidman

The Jewish lady who dressed Milwaukee’s kids

In Middle America, in the middle of the 20th century, an anxious new mother took up sewing and changed children’s clothing in all the ways that matter

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