Weekly Highlights: Losing the Jewish right to the land * Religion and state * Out of the fire * Birthright and Bohemian Rhapsody

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 10, 2019 [Jewish terror undermines our right to our land]( By [Benjamin Lau]( [There must be one consistent law in Israel, for Jews and Arabs alike]( haredi v. haredi [Daniel Goldman]( [The ultra-Orthodox vote and its impact]( [When the Haredim break ranks locally, they change the political landscape nationally in unpredictable ways]( bridging the gap [Daniel Gordis]( [The American ‘Zionist’ assault on Israel]( [Less hubris and more interest in why Israelis think what they do would go a long way to helping this relationship survive]( with this ring... [Nechama Goldman Barash]( [Can religious and civil marriage coexist in Israel?]( [The goal is to re-create the system so that women will not be defined as adulteresses and their children will not be labeled ’bastards’]( zionism [Jacob B. Ukeles]( [Is it time to revisit the Law of Return?]( [The great nation-building strategy of the early years of the Jewish state may not be the best plan for 2018]( art of survival [Annie Cohen]( [She performed opera at a concentration camp. 70 years later, I got to meet her]( [The Nazi guards paraded Ela and the other children to perform ‘Brundibar’ before the Red Cross for propaganda purposes]( fireproof letters [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [The night the shul burned down]( [Two synagogues were destroyed by fire; neither was arson, but that didn’t change how much I felt the need to help]( desecration [Arik Ascherman]( [My growing collection of slashed tires]( [Every act of violence defaces the Image of God; every act harming the earth that sustains us is a humanly caused plague]( value systems [David Sedley]( [Parshat Bo: The power of youth]( [In an era when the Spartans disposed of imperfect children, the Torah commands that the young serve God]( practical idealism [Robbie Gringras]( [What Birthright can learn from Bohemian Rhapsody]( [The biopic doesn’t dwell on the seedier aspects of Freddie Mercury’s life, but it does point out the stories it isn’t telling]( peace out [Michael Starr]( [Covering Pink Floyd]( [Where Roger Waters and his followers took to bullying, Israelis embraced the band and the transcendent connecting power of its music]( [Self-consciousness and the camera]( By [Chavi Feldman]( [So you’re having a bad hair day or you’re squinting or you used to look better in that bikini… so what? Are you smiling?]( more Choice voices [Daniel Y. Goldberg]( [It happened to me; it can happen to anyone]( [When I went to say goodbye to a man I knew in passing, he jumped me, forced himself upon me, and walked away as if nothing had happened]( [Shulamit S. Magnus]( [Rank misogyny in the Israeli electoral campaign]( [Tzipi Livni is the rare politician with coherent, and consistent positions — and yet she’s still ’just’ a female]( [Dan Perry]( [The only way to beat Bibi — unite behind Gantz or Lapid]( [The political center has the best chance of getting enough seats to form a bloc against the Likud]( [Ari Z. Zivotofsky]( [No, not a confession at any cost]( [Interrogators who push suspects to confess in order to end their investigations risk the real criminals going free]( [Sheldon Kirshner]( [One state, two states, annexation]( [How will questions of security and the West Bank settlements affect Israel’s 2019 election? A primer]( [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [Why I am controversial]( [Really, my goal is to create great religious and intellectual excitement about a protest movement that challenges the human condition — Judaism!]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved