Weekly Highlights: Netanyahu’s, the end * The day the Arabs saved Zionism * About that shofar in Auschwitz * On Rosh Hashanah, learn to let it g o

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, September 26, 2019 [Netanyahu, the end]( By [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [On the overdue demise of a leader who turned power for his people into his only real ideal and who confused their well-being with his own]( [David Breakstone]( [The day the Arabs saved Zionism]( [The Joint List’s surge is a leap toward fulfilling Herzl’s vision of a Jewish state as tolerant, inclusive and democratic]( [Amichai Shikli]( [Tibi’s revisionist strategy: Palestinians as ‘masters of the land’]( [Admittedly, there is nothing new in the statements and demands of the leaders of the United Arab List MKs Aiman Ouda and Dr. Ahmad Tibi as presented at President Reuven Rivlin’s residence. There is nothing new either in the provocative declaration that they, the Palestinians, are “the masters of the land,” as Tibi chose to declare to President Rivlin in Arabic and Hebrew, or in the demands they made, the most important being the cancelation of the recently passed Nation-State Law – which enshrines Israel as the nation-state of...]( [Evie Litwok]( [Needed: A Jewish response to mass incarceration]( [I know what it’s like to get out of jail homeless and penniless — my Jewish values inspired me to help others like me]( From the blogs [Romy Ronen and Michale Schueler]( [Why is Columbia giving the Jew-hating Mahathir a stage?]( [The university’s students, 10,000 of whom are Jewish, have the right to learn in a place where hatred will never be invited in]( [Avinoam Bar-Yosef]( [WATCH: Are Haredi Israelis ‘Zionist’?]( [Most Israelis believe the ultra-Orthodox contribute little to Israel’s success. This, says Daniel Goldman, hurts Haredi Israelis (Video)]( [I pray at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. Here’s how we’re coping this Rosh Hashanah.]( By [Beth Kissileff]( [Nearly a year after the mass shooting, the ’wail’ and ’scream’ of the shofar can be a call to healing and even growth]( [Sally Abrams]( [Gentle waves or a tsunami: what will the New Year bring us?]( [A devastating diagnosis, a ruinous fire — these can sneak up on you. I know, they struck my loved ones, and here’s what I learned]( [Marla Cohen]( [Straight shooting for 21st-century Jews]( [What’s a nice suburban middle-aged Jew like me doing enjoying target practice at the local gun range?]( [Todd Berman]( [Breaking the social media echo chamber]( [Aren’t you tired of hearing the same old tropes? Making the same old arguments? What does it take to refresh, and hear those old sounds anew?]( [Daniel Landes]( [What it meant to sound the shofar in Auschwitz]( [In the camps, every mitzvah was a miracle — done hurriedly, under fear of discovery, as a one-shot deal. Every mitzvah was an act of resistance]( [David Sedley]( [Who needs science, anyway?]( [Or how Christopher Columbus saved his men using a Jewish astronomer’s secret knowledge about a lunar eclipse (Nitzavim)]( [Vivi Kelman]( [The singles are not in crisis]( [Take pride in the engineers, therapists, architects, and all-around thriving community members who rock not being married in a world focused on spouse-finding]( [Bill Slott]( [Ancient giant sea creatures behind my house]( [What was once a coiled mollusk lies in the desert as a limestone rock, making a believer out of the most hardened cynic]( [This year, Rosh Hashanah came early for me]( By [Batya Hefter]( [My mother never downsized; when she died, that job fell to me, and sorting the remnants of her life and our family history became a physical and spiritual labor of love]( more Choice voices [Larry Luxner]( [My crazy week in Uzbekistan]( [Planning SNAFUs aside, the visit offered close encounters with history, culture, and what’s left of an ancient Jewish community]( [Bradley Shavit Artson]( [Holy forgetting]( [If we hold on to each and every offense and slight, we will be consumed in anger, useless, and isolated. Rather, we must cultivate the ability to let it go]( [Naftali Moses]( [The club you don’t want to join]( [When terror leaves a gaping hole of grief, there’s a place we can go to catch our breath, calm down, and try to move on]( [Jill Schulman]( [The year of flames]( [Readying to flee yet another fire, I packed my son’s bar mitzvah suit in our bag of essentials; it had become a symbol of what matters, in the face of too much loss]( [Mark Lavie]( [Let Arab parties into the ruling coalition]( [One day we’ll look back on the old days when Arab parties were automatically excluded from government and wonder why]( [Ralph Genende]( [The still small voice]( [It was a blackout and a dead phone battery that forced me to switch off and remember what really matters]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved