Weekly highlights: Sacha Baron Cohen got it wrong * My multicolored family * A blessing over cancer pills * Stop saying ‘conversion’ * Rekindlin g Black-Jewish solidarity

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Friday, November 29, 2019 [Biranit Goren]( [It’s not Facebook, Sacha, it’s humanity]( [Hitler and Stalin were horrifically successful without social media, or: where Mr. Baron Cohen went wrong]( [It’s time to regulate the greatest propaganda machine in history]( By [Sacha Baron Cohen]( [If Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ’solution’ to the ’Jewish problem’]( [Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler]( [We need to talk about cameras right now]( [They are everywhere, argued the PM after pushing to install them in polling stations. He’s right, and that’s exactly the problem]( From the blogs [My client Naama Issachar should be free]( By [Valery Zinchenko]( [We will do all we can to reverse the unfounded drug smuggling guilty verdict and fight the outrageous 7.5-year jail sentence]( [Frimet Roth and Arnold Roth]( [A tribute unfit for a king who harbors our child’s killer]( [OP-ED: Jordan’s monarch won’t extradite the woman behind the horrific Sbarro massacre. Why is he getting the royal treatment at a New York gala?]( [Maurice Hirsch]( [When the Dutch stopped funding the PA’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’]( [If the international community covers the needs of the Palestinian population, the PA can use its own funds to reward terrorism]( [Richard Ferrer]( [Corbyn’s catch 20-Jew]( [British Jews want the Labour Party that once seemed the only moral choice — but not this version of the party that appeals to so many anti-Semites]( [An IDF reservist at York University: Dialogue? Not a chance]( By [Corey Feldman]( [In one of the skirmishes that evening, I was shoved sideways, and as my head was contorted down towards the ground, I saw a book]( [Miriam Schler]( [Sexual assault: Don’t look away]( [The numbers are staggering, the stories devastating, the long-term damage crushing: it would be easier to ignore it. We mustn’t]( [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [A five-year cancer blessing]( [Every day, I took my Tamoxifen, and confronted my fear that I could be diagnosed with cancer again]( [Chana Voola]( [Seeing beyond the skin color of Jewish families]( [My husband is noticeably dark, I am noticeably not, and our kids, who are somewhere in between, see themselves as ’different’]( [Ariel Fisher]( [In Senegal, the man stopped us and asked ’Are you Jewish?’]( [My wife says I am probably the only person with tzitzit and a kippah in this entire country of 16 million people]( [Joshua Washington]( [It’s time to rekindle Black-Jewish solidarity]( [The Black and Jewish struggle have always been intertwined and it’s time for Black Americans to stand up and return the support]( [Abundance is a table overflowing with loved ones]( By [Sally Abrams]( [How those long-distance collect calls from Dad that my mother actually answered shaped my Thanksgivings forever]( more Choice voices [Daniel Geretz]( [Remembering my Sabta Dina z”l]( [When we quote those who are no longer with us, we must represent them accurately, or we hijack the conversation and diminish their greatness]( [Jeremy Burton]( [Can we retire the concept of ‘conversion’ to Judaism?]( [Judaism as a religion has come to be weaponized by those who seek to deny our legitimacy as a nation with the right to a state of our own]( [Ami Eden]( [Bloomberg or Bernie: Which Jewish candidate do American Jews want?]( [One, a billionaire, promises a course correction, while the other, a socialist, wants a revolution]( [Oded Eran]( [At 52, UN Resolution 242 needs a facelift]( [The ‘Land for Peace’ document bundles intractable issues with easily solved ones, harming both Israeli and Palestinian interests]( [Gideon Remez]( [I’ve seen that mega-rocket fired from Gaza somewhere before]( [The weapon that left a massive crater in a southern community replicates an Israeli development from the 1960s War of Attrition]( [Ory Sandel]( [The EU’s settlement products labeling rule could be great]( [There’s no reason a label stating a product comes from ’occupied territory’ can’t also explain legitimate Jewish claims to that territory]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved