Weekly Highlights: Resilient settlers * Infant mortality * Nazis, here and there and everywhere * How to talk to adult children who aren’t marri ed

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, December 20, 2018 [To Gideon Levy: You are spreading lies about me]( By [Sherri Mandell]( [Look at how we ’settlers’ who have lost children to terror memorialize them, and rethink your claim of our so-called insatiable ’lust for revenge’]( sharing sorrow [Bracha Goldstein]( [Mourning my son with no name]( [The pain digs a hole and creates a space for all the complexities of broken hearts and loss]( Godwin's law [Daniella Levy]( [Why is it always Nazis?]( [Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, the Hutus, Assad — with so many examples of extreme evil to choose from, make no mistake: this one is about Jews]( tuition crisis [Lindsey Bodner]( [Priced in: Here’s how I took charge of Jewish education]( [When doing Jewish is too expensive — here’s one way you can do it yourself]( women's lives matter [Naomi Chazan]( [25 too many]( [Every day the government delays the funding needed to combat violence against women endangers lives]( personal growth [Miriam Burstein]( [Searching for chametz on the 10th of Tevet]( [If I don’t find that missing sandwich, will it fester, grow mold, and attract ants? And what other decay is lurking beneath the surface?]( Analysis [Michael Boyden]( [Dery and Axelrod should leave the Ramon family alone!]( [Given the tragic manner of Ilan Ramon’s death, taking a hard line against Rona Ramon’s planned cremation is particularly insensitive]( turning the tables [Dan Perry]( [What if liberals had a Trump of their own?]( [Imagine a president just as boorish — but one who could deliver gun control and favorable Supreme Court judges]( jingle bells [Sari Laufer]( [It’s still hard to be a Jewish kid at Christmas]( [After Hanukkah, how much can you do when you’re bombarded by Christmas songs, imagery, ads, and Netflix options?]( [Parents: How to not be part of the ‘shidduch crisis’]( By [Sarah Bronson]( [For starters, don’t assume you have to be married to buy a new set of pots and pans]( more Choice voices [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [There’s more to Judaism than mitzvot]( [Historically, Diaspora Jews needed conformity and protective walls to keep us alive in a largely anti-Semitic world. No longer]( [Nancy Strichman]( [To the Arava Desert or bust]( [I think a tiyul should be a nice, long walk that ends with a cup of coffee, so how did I end up hiking a perilous, unmarked cliff-walk?]( [Miriam Schler]( [Want to help fight sexual assault? Come shop]( [More victims than ever before are seeking help from the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, we need your help]( [Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler]( [Cautious optimism for the established media]( [Trust in Israeli media is on the rise, and that’s a valuable lifeline to those whose job it is to keep the public informed]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved