Weekly Highlights: Neshama Carlebach on relearning to believe * Soleimani, a death well spent * Talmud for my daughter * The year religious Zionism became irrelevant

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 9, 2020 From the blogs [Learning to believe again]( By [Neshama Carlebach]( [On this new stage of my journey, my father is no longer the center of my healing process; I now know we each have our own inner work to do]( [Lynette Nusbacher]( [Soleimani: A death well spent]( [It is not wrong to kill a professional soldier in a war zone, but it is counterproductive to kill competent senior technocrats]( [Bob Feferman]( [The Middle East is a better place after Soleimani]( [The Quds Force commander was a war criminal whose zeal to obliterate Israel exceeded that of the Iranian leadership]( [Daniel Markind]( [Israeli natural gas: The other event that rocked the Middle East]( [Israel’s emergence as a regional natural gas power forces its neighbors to choose between rejectionism and prosperity]( [Yosef Blau]( [The year religious Zionism became irrelevant]( [Israeli Jews are struggling to define the relationship between being Israeli and being Jewish, and the traditional moral beacon can no longer guide them]( [To Monsey, with love, from Alon Shvut]( By [Avi Ganz]( [Our community has experienced the tragedy of a murderous attack on Jews and we know the value of a consoling gesture]( [Joseph Biden]( [My plan to fight anti-Semitism]( [Gun control laws, anti-terror legislation, and a US Department of Justice that prosecutes hate crimes, for there is no place for such vitriol in this country]( [Jonathan Sacks]( [The keys to understanding American anti-Semitism — and fighting back]( [Tighten security, build alliances, and, whatever the threats, heed Hanukkah’s lesson to always take pride in being Jewish]( [Shmuly Yanklowitz]( [Spiritual resistance: Purge your own prejudices]( [When we are targeted with hate, we must fight it, but we must also ensure that hatred and bigotry do not exist among ourselves]( [Marvin Hier]( [We need a 2020 plan for fighting the anti-Semitism epidemic]( [A special FBI task force must be set up to tackle the rising tide of deadly hate that stems from the double standard Jews face worldwide]( [Tamar Sternthal]( [Beyond levity: The New York Times’s 2019 ethical failures]( [If only goofing the caption of an Israeli political poster was the most egregious anti-Israel error by the paper of record]( [Archie Gottesman]( [We will never JewBarrass you]( [Irreverent and welcoming, JewBelong (’for when you feel you don’t’) offers opportunities to find meaning and connection]( [I thought of my daughter as the women said hadran]( By [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [Women learning Talmud were once dismissed as eccentrics, but who would dare dismiss that crowded stage, and that packed hall?]( [Noam Stein]( [Of course girls should study Talmud]( [This enterprise shapes the way we think, reformulates our experience of the world, directs our behavior, and creates a pathway for our connection to God]( more Choice voices [Christina Lin]( [China might take Iran’s side in a war with US]( [Beijing’s ties with Tehran are crucial to its geopolitical strategies. With Moscow also in the mix, a broader conflagration is a real possibility]( [Jeff Robbins]( [Democrats’ discouraging knee-jerk reaction to Soleimani]( [Dems can and should slam Trump, but they must also show a willingness to take action to prevent evil people from doing evil things]( [Loolwa Khazzoom]( [Why I identify as Israeli]( [It is the thread connecting me to all who came before me – from the nomadic tribe of Israel to my 80+-year-old relatives living in Tel Aviv]( [Claire Trilling]( [Crime and violence in Israel’s Bedouin communities]( [Sensitive issues – revenge killings, violence against women, crime rates among youth – cannot be untangled from the changing and uncertain role of tribes and tribal values]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Yuli Edelstein: Between the devil and the deep blue sea]( [If the speaker of the Knesset does not stand firmly behind the institution he heads, he will be responsible for its effective disintegration]( [Yuval Cherlow]( [Today we fast for a Jerusalem of peace and justice]( [On Tevet 10, the Babylonians invaded. They were able to conquer the city because the Jewish people had — and still has — lost its way]( [Seffi Kogen]( [Wear your Jewish pride]( [Time for us to strut our Jewish stuff: On Monday, every American Jew should rock a kippah, flash a magen david or don a Hebrew T-shirt]( [Rokhl Kafrissen]( [For ‘Fiddler’ in Yiddish, they clap. For Yiddish itself? Gornisht]( [The search for roots and longing to connect has to compete with the toxic effect of centuries of internalized Jew-hatred]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved