Weekly Highlights: That church at Auschwitz * Impeachment in the Talmud * Would MLK be pro-Palestinian?

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 23, 2020 [The Talmud’s take on the Senate impeachment trial]( By [Jason Rubenstein]( [Irwin Cotler]( [The ‘Never Again’ Declaration: A model for remembrance and action]( [The text enumerates the lessons of genocides past and lays out a path toward preventing the evil that can lead to mass atrocity]( [Andrzej Duda]( [The truth that must not die]( [German Nazi concentration camps built in occupied Poland stand in a stark contrast with the Polish spirit of freedom, tolerance and solidarity]( [Theophilos III]( [The peacemakers will be called children of God]( [On the lessons of the Holocaust; the call to bear witness through love of neighbor; and hope of reuniting Naama Issachar with her family]( [Avi Weiss]( [Why is a church holding services at Auschwitz-Birkenau?]( [The church, operating in a building where Jews were tortured and raped, represents an imminent threat to the integrity of Holocaust memory]( [Dexter Van Zile]( [President Macron, about that smackdown at St. Anne’s Church]( [Why does France allow its sovereign territory in Jerusalem to be used as a staging ground for attacks on Jewish sovereignty in Israel?]( [Pinchas Goldschmidt]( [Lithuania wants to erase its Holocaust role. That’s deplorable]( [Proposed legislation would whitewash the extent to which Lithuanians helped Nazis murder 90% of their country’s 220,000 Jews]( [Israel knows what to do about flooding. It’s not doing it.]( By [Sinaia Netanyahu]( [Government must focus on building resilience for climate change, and it can start by implementing a report it adopted in 2018]( [Shuki Friedman]( [The Chief Rabbinate of Israel vs. the Jews]( [Turning 1.2 million Israelis with FSU origins into a state-sanctioned punching bag is intolerable, and calls for radical and immediate change]( [Naomi Chazan]( [We need a real conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]( [The elections promise to be personal and ugly unless the debate shifts to truly addressing Israel’s place in an increasingly volatile Middle East]( [Reading Exodus in Senegal]( By [Ariel Fisher]( [The Israelites ultimately experienced redemption, but what about the millions of Africans who were sold into slavery and lost everything?]( [Martin Kramer]( [Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now]( [Would the civil rights leader have taken up the Palestinian cause?]( [Rebecca Kowalsky]( [Kaddish through a screen darkly]( [I felt saying the mourner’s prayer would be comforting to my mother, but were the men on the other side of the mechitza hearing me?]( [Michael Harvey]( [Why keep kosher?]( [When you know that the Torah is biologically inaccurate – an approximation only – then why keep the dietary laws?]( [Reading my last book with my children]( By [Todd Berman]( [We hope and pray our children will grow up, but we know that when they do, something will be lost forever]( more Choice voices [Atara Solow]( [A society that neglects its children]( [The poverty and abuse statistics should shock all Israelis into action to realign the nation’s priorities and find solutions]( [Batsheva Neuer]( [Why intersectionality fails the Jews]( [Relating to Jews as white is a perversion of Jewish history; it also blinds too many to the pernicious impact of anti-Semitism]( [Gilad Cohen]( [International Holocaust Remembrance Day almost didn’t happenÂ]( [The European UN rep said they wouldn’t support the initiative because of Arab opposition. I felt a sense of fury washing over me]( [Grant Arthur Gochin]( [Lithuania and Russia: Two peas in a pod?]( [While hurling charges of history distortion, the Lithuanian president, would do well to stop whitewashing a WWII war criminal]( [Robert Rozett]( [Holocaust remembrance without politics]( [Poland’s decision to skip this week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem over not being invited to speak is most regrettable]( [Ronald S. Lauder]( [#WeRemember]( [A social media campaign that brings people together for a conversation about the critical need for Holocaust education]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved