Weekly Highlights: Starving in Gondar * Gordis got my Zionism wrong * I reject identity politics * I refuse to pray

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 17, 2019 [Starving in Gondar]( By [Morris E. Hartstein]( [For the most vulnerable of the 8,000 Ethiopians desperately waiting to reach Israel, one meal a day is not enough]( [Daniel G. Zemel]( [My Zionism: In my own words]( [Small wonder my nuanced position on Israel was misconstrued: Daniel Gordis responded to what amounted to a game of broken telephone]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [I reject identity politics]( [Don’t accept the efforts to pit Jew against Jew, to divide us by color, and force allegiances based on made-up values and newfangled language]( [Alon Tal]( [Benny Gantz may be just what Israel needs]( [It’s important to know what he thinks about the issues, but it’s much more important to know what kind of a leader he is]( [David Sedley]( [The Green Book]( [Those who discriminate against minorities tend to hate Jews, so standing up for minorities is not only morally right, but also the best way to fight anti-Semitism]( [Shivi Greenfield]( [A looming ‘brexit’ for Jewish peoplehood]( [Will the Jewish Agency, the driving force behind Jewish unity, succumb to the same pressures pushing the EU to disband?]( [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [Why I (refuse to) pray]( [I am absolutely not prepared to just go through the motions when I feel that I cannot manage the real thing]( [How my taxi driver’s baby cousin was found]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [There is a quiet scandal about Yemenite children who went missing in the 1950s; here is what one man told me about his family]( [Not drowning but singing]( By [Diana Lipton]( [The Bible’s poetic cheering of the Israelites’ escape and the Egyptian army’s demise reverberates across time and cultures]( more Choice voices [Gabriella Ginsberg-Fletcher]( [Who invited ‘Breaking the Silence’ to Columbia?]( [College campus can be a hotbed of angry anti-Zionist rhetoric, but our discussion around these IDF vets was nuanced and normal]( [Corey Balsam]( [Why we’re taking on the Jewish National Fund]( [A tree I planted as a kid could today be standing on the ruins of a depopulated Palestinian village, and this pains me]( [Rachel Wahba]( [The personal (Jew) is political (Zionist)]( [My father was blackballed in Egypt for being a Jew, and I’ve lost job opportunities in the US for being a Zionist]( [Ofer Kenig]( [The illusion of political stability under Netanyahu]( [Despite a solid decade with the same prime minister, other cabinet posts have switched hands at alarming rates]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Who’s minding the store?]( [We the people become a powerful watchdog when the lame-duck political arena threatens the very essence of democracy]( [Chaim Druckman]( [On the Elon saga, silent no longer]( [If you feel something inappropriate is going on, approach an adult or authority figure who can help, as required by law, Torah, and ethics]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved