Weekly Highlights: Trump’s bribe of the century * My embryos weren’t human * Hosting Farrakhan * Foreskin at the forefront * Want to touch me? R ead my button

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, June 27, 2019 [My (beloved) embryos weren’t human. That’s my sacred truth]( By [Masha Kisel]( [New US laws curbing reproductive choice are robbing mothers of personhood and religious freedom]( [Avi Issacharoff]( [The bribe of the century]( [The Palestinian leadership’s unequivocal refusal to accept any part of the Trump plan dooms the plan to complete failure]( [Jay Tcath]( [‘Fighting’ hate by indulging it]( [The hosting of Louis Farrakhan at a Catholic Church was not, as billed, an effort to ’bring people together.’ Far from it]( [Hara Person]( [Anti-LGBTQ discrimination is sacrilege]( [Discrimination toward individuals because of who they love or how they identify is fundamentally immoral]( [Rebecca Bardach]( [Why Jews and Arabs should go to school together]( [What began with a few simple schoolhouses in the American south ultimately led to a better future for black and white citizens. Israel should try the approach]( [Don’t touch me until you read my button]( By [Elisheva Thompson]( [Post #MeToo, we wanted conference participants to feel included, safe and valued, so we asked them to consent: hugs, handshakes, no contact, or high-fives]( [Gidi Grinstein]( [Moonshot in search of boldness]( [An open platform for designing solutions to assist those with disabilities could scale up to deliver help on a global scale]( [David Sedley]( [A pitfall of wealth]( [If you have the funds to influence your communal leaders, do you serve the greater good or do you settle your own petty scores? (Korach)]( [Of intruding eyes and hidden things]( By [Yael Unterman]( [Ah the irony! The elevated galleries of Orthodox synagogues give women the immodest opportunity to snoop on men in their prayerful intimacy with God]( [Eilleen Eisenberg]( [Spoken like a true Israeli]( [A recent trip to the doctor turned out to be more than just a pain in my ear]( more Choice voices [Hayim Leiter]( [Foreskin at the forefront]( [Anti-circumcision activists use selective, out of context and untrue claims to make a case that is gaining traction in Israel]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Help the children save the children]( [Seventh-graders Lance and John have lived in Israel their whole lives — won’t you join their classmates in protesting their deportation?]( [Jack Rosen]( [Bahrain: A first step forward]( [If this confab convinces the next generation of Palestinians to choose partnership over extremism, then we dare hope for a better future]( [Lila Margalit]( [How not to lift Israel’s state of emergency]( [An anti-terror law that replaces emergency statutes has been used to deny due process Palestinians and right wing activists]( [Matt Matilsky]( [Still waiting for the religious right on a few denunciations]( [We must not let the fraction of Jews wearing MAGA hats politicize the fight against anti-Semitism in 2020]( [Josef Avesar]( [Israeli Palestinian Confederation — It’s about time]( [They have joint markets, roads, and power grids; joint government would be far better than this endless war]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved