Weekly Highlights: My name is Abdol and I care about Israel * Dear AOC, not everything is the Holocaust * Sexual predators thrive in our midst

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, June 20, 2019 [Do you have info about Holocaust hero Martin Bercovici?]( By [William Echikson]( [The Romanian electrical engineer saved hundreds of fellow Jews. His daughter is hoping you can help her tell his story]( [Ksenia Svetlova]( [1,500 Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ live in Israel. They are appallingly mistreated]( [A 2001 law promised housing, medical care to this group of heroes, but scandalously has never been implemented. Maybe interest sparked by the remarkable TV series will change that]( [Abdullah Abed al-Rahman]( [My name is Abdol, and I care about my country, the State of Israel]( [Israel’s Arab citizens have suffered doubly in each war, and we win doubly with every step we take toward peace]( [Calev Michael Myers]( [Trump’s new Heights of popularity in Israel]( [Even the Israeli left knows naming a new town for the US president is a smart move — may it bring blessings of prosperity]( [Sam Feldman]( [Dear AOC, not everything is the Holocaust]( [Comparing atrocities is never useful, and this comparison undermines the horrifying nature of the Holocaust]( [Sexual predators thrive in our midst]( By [Daniella Levy]( [This country protects child sex abusers and silences their victims — and the vast majority of perpetrators are not Arabs, but Jews]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Every question-and-answer session at every Jewish event ever]( [I’d like to now give a fairly lengthy explanation about that, while ignoring the large number of hands being raised in the room]( [Adam J. Raskin]( [The Conservative movement isn’t living up to its potential]( [When you try to be all things to all people, you dilute the unique approach to tradition and modernity that makes you worthwhile]( [Miriam Herschlag]( [Blame it on the boogie: Stories in the key of listen up]( [Pull up a chair and press play to hear the WhyWhyWhy! podcast. Then come to a live performance, or maybe even tell a story yourself]( [Bazy Swirsky Rubin]( [One more ‘niggun,’ please]( [Sing with your eyes shut tight and your heart wide open — that’s what my grandfather Velvel Pasternak did. Join me in honoring his memory]( [My sister and the grief she left for me]( By [Bracha Goldstein]( [It is June two years ago and I am walking on broken glass. My mother calls. ’She’s ready.’ Okay, I say calmly. I’ll be right there]( more Choice voices [Yael Unterman]( [Does the story of Moses’ wife encourage racism?]( [When Miriam and Aaron slandered their brother, what were they saying? And what really set Moses apart from his siblings? (Behaalotcha)]( [Dan Perry]( [Israel’s liberal democracy under attack by ‘democracy’]( [As once-fringe notions go mainstream, preserving democracy may require a battle against the instincts of the majority]( [Tamar Ariav]( [Consolidate Israel’s institutions of higher education]( [A glut of universities and colleges now compete for scarce students and resources — the crisis needs a comprehensive solution]( [David Sass]( [50 years later, I’m eulogizing my dad at last]( [I will no longer avoid the story of how he was senselessly murdered]( [Mark Lavie]( [Egypt’s Morsi never had a chance]( [Why the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring failed their followers, and other lessons from the blunder of a democracy in a society not set up for it]( [Amir Fuchs and Ofer Kenig]( [Knesset in limbo]( [Everything you wanted to know about Israel’s transitional government, but didn’t know whom to ask]( [Udi Dekel]( [The Trump peace plan sounds a lot like the Israeli peace plan]( [If there’s no evacuation of Jewish settlements, what sort of border could be drawn between Israel and the Palestinians?]( [Amichai Cohen]( [In the do-over elections, and forever, we’ll all be smarter]( [Voters got to see how parties behaved after elections, and parties now know the real risk of a hardline negotiation stance]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved