Weekly Highlights: So you think you can Pesach? * Women’s voices at the seder * Notre Dame left a cross-shaped void * Beresheet and my African s pace dreams

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, April 18, 2019 [So you think you can Pesach?]( By [Lisa Silverstein Tzur]( [Passover preparation means a war on ’chametz’ throughout Jewish households in the State of Israel — and there’s nowhere I’d rather be]( [Ariele Mortkowitz]( [A seat at my seder table]( [Add these women’s perspectives — diverse in affiliation, background, and more — to your discussions on leaving Egypt and feel more like you were there]( [William Hamilton]( [15 deep thoughts for a profound Passover seder]( [Every section of the celebration is a learning opportunity: Heschel, Kushner, Ozick, Sagan et al help light the way]( [David Fox]( [Pharaoh and pajamas]( [When we got to the ’we were slaves’ part of the seder, Uncle Baruch reached down and held up a pair of faded pajamas]( [Simcha Scholar]( [One less plague: Preventing the measles]( [I implore all anti-vaxx parents to consider the most vulnerable members of our community with kindness, for they rely on all of us]( [Susan Silverman]( [The Pharaoh within us]( [Does the Rabbinate believe that our redemption from Egypt led only some of us to Sinai?]( [Sholom Rothman]( [The Jordanians asked me to take off my tzitzit. I declined.]( [Each of us needs to draw a red line and say to ourselves ’Beyond this I will not cross’]( [Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame]( By [Erik Ross]( [Today the cathedral is a stinking black trench. But the void is cross-shaped: cruciform. Who can look away?]( [Masimba Musodza]( [Beresheet and my African space dreams]( [Israel can inspire a nation that wanted to ’Bring Down the Moon’ and indulged a crackpot plan to send cats to Mars]( Aliyah Day [Coming home: How Israel became inscribed in my soul]( By [Jeremy Issacharoff]( [Israel’s ambassador to Germany recalls his decisive moment: ‘This was a country that would demand everything of its people.’]( [Amanda B. Dan]( [My baggage: Why I told my teenaged son not to take his purse today]( [He rocks a pair of stilettos like no one’s business. He’s loud and proud – and we’re proud of him too, but, but, but…]( more Choice voices [Sally Abrams]( [If there are still miracles in this universe]( [Netanel Felber’s hospital room is a place where heartbreak and hope align with unwavering devotion and unflagging optimism]( [Dan Perry]( [Resign once indicted? That’s so 20th century!]( [Both leaders have proven they can handle public humiliation, as party hacks toe the line and the public doesn’t mind]( [Naomi Chazan]( [No easy fix for Israel’s left]( [It is high time that we strategize how to achieve an inclusive, democratic, and just Israel — no matter how daunting the task]( [Daniel Staetsky]( [In defence of polls and pollsters]( [Especially in Israel, samples of the electorate do better at predicting the big picture than at delivering the ’winner’]( [Lawrence Witt]( [To March of the Living staffers who wonder if it’s worth it all]( [If you don’t know just how transformative your educational work can be, let me tell you how the experience changed me]( [Maurice Hirsch]( [No, it’s the PA that declared war on Western values]( [Palestinians claim to be innocent victims of financial sanctions even as they vow to spend their last penny on terrorists]( [Yossi Kuperwasser]( [A lie-packed PLO position paper confirms there’s no partner for peace]( [The paper, released in Hebrew, reiterates Palestinian refusal to recognize the state of the Jewish nation or disavow terrorism]( [Mark Kirk]( [Bonds between Europe, Israel are critical to Israeli and Jewish security]( [America will always be Israel’s greatest ally, but Europe is the key to securing the Jewish state’s long-term safety and security]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved