Weekly Highlights: Behind every man stands… another man * Why we challenged Ilhan Omar * A Bergen-Belsen prenup * Proof we humans have always lo ved puppies

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, March 7, 2019 [This, yes this little moment, is my Jerusalem]( By [Joshua Levinson]( [An Egyptian Jew, two Arab women, a Yemenite Jew, and a guy from the American Midwest went for a bus ride…]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [The drums of extremism]( [When you tolerate the restrictions of the most insular ultra-Orthodox (who would censure a bride on her wedding day), you invite bullies to your table]( [Alona Vinograd]( [Behind every man stands… another man]( [The major parties have been turning a blind eye to women politicians, and their campaigns are the worse for it]( [Daniel Elbaum]( [Why we challenged Ilhan Omar]( [When she claimed Jews buy off members of Congress and questioned Jews’ loyalty to America, the AJC had to respond]( [Naomi Chazan]( [It’s not just about Bibi]( [The PM’s rivals need to eschew the ugly, personal campaigning and articulate policies for seeking peace and healing society]( [Alon Tal]( [Netanyahu’s doubling down endangers Israel]( [The dismissal of dissent as ’anti-Zionist’ or ’unpatriotic’ is catastrophic in a place where national unity is a critical strategic resource]( [Lilly Weisberger]( [What the Knesset needs now is Simply Love]( [We are the voice of unity, respect and understanding, and we need to be part of the political process, not outside protesting]( [Michael Rainsbury]( [As a religious Zionist, there’s no party I can support]( [I believe the entire Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people and also support democracy and equality for all citizens]( [Uri Pilichowski]( [The historic day in US-Israel relations that you all missed]( [The embassy-consulate merger in Jerusalem is a strike against Palestinian efforts to demonize and delegitimize Israel]( [Rachel Gould]( [It’s my son’s school trip, not mine]( [Please stop sending WhatsApp photos from the class hike, my kid can tell me all about it (or not) when he gets back]( [Bill Slott]( [For at least 12,000 years, we’ve been fond of puppies]( [The bones of a woman and her dog highlight how two packs from two different species slowly became one community.]( [What a Bergen-Belsen prenup teaches us about Jewish resilience]( By [Henry Abramson]( [The blood-stopping document conveys the heartbreaking dilemma faced by Jewish survivors who spouses were unaccounted for]( more Choice voices [Arik Rudnitsky]( [How many Arabs will vote in the next election?]( [The Arab parties need to overcome their conflicts or risk their constituencies not going to the polls]( [Elaine Matlow Tal-El]( [Yes they can! Deaf children can hear and speak!]( [Israel should be funding AVT, an innovative method to help parents maximize their deaf child’s language development]( [Rob Scheinberg]( [I interviewed Meir Kahane for my school paper]( [He was charming, but his words were as hateful as any we had heard, and I am glad we sounded the alarm about his toxic ideology]( [William Echikson]( [Holocaust revisionism on the rise in parts of Europe]( [Our study finds Hungary, Poland, Croatia and Baltics minimizing role in WWII atrocities, paving the way for rabid nationalism]( [Shimon Stein and Emily B. Landau]( [When US and Russia withdraw from the INF missile treaty]( [The crumbling of bilateral deals along with the Chinese threat require new multilateral frameworks to maintain strategic stability]( [Daniel Sterman]( [The Knesset electoral threshold — explained]( [What does 3.25% mean? What was all that merging of parties to make the threshold? And what happens if a party doesn’t make it after all?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved