Weekly Highlights: My co-star Kirk Douglas, Where’s the Palestinian peace plan?, Sex and lobster aren’t the same, Birthright boosted number of A merican Jews

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, February 6, 2020 [My co-star, Kirk Douglas z”l]( By [Gideon Remez]( [The time my company of paratroopers and I stormed Latrun, under the command of one Mr. Demsky, the blockbuster Hollywood star]( [Leonard Saxe]( [Birthright’s measurable impact: More American Jews]( [Two decades after it launched, it’s clear the free trip to Israel helped bring about a 25% rise in the US Jewish population]( [Einat Wilf]( [Trump’s plan won’t work. But it could bolster Arab-Israeli ties.]( [Fed up with prioritizing the Palestinian cause over their domestic interests, some Arab states are more willing to engage with Israel]( [Susie Gelman]( [So, you think the Trump plan is pro-Israel? Think again]( [It’s a one-state non-starter that isolates Israel, undermines its democracy and leaves no viable roadmap for negotiations]( [Dan Perry]( [The Palestinians will demand Israeli citizenship]( [The Trump plan drags Israel toward becoming a binational entity that initially will be undemocratic and eventually will be un-Jewish]( [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [After yet another no, isn’t it time for a Palestinian peace plan?]( [Trump’s deal may not bring peace, but it is forcing both Israelis and Palestinians to confront long-held beliefs in a much-needed reality check]( [David Haivri]( [For settlers like me, Trump’s plan is a losing proposition]( [Small Israeli towns would end up deep in a Palestinian zone — that’s a death warrant for individuals and entire communities]( [Love is in the hair]( By [Shira Pasternak Be'eri]( [When I couldn’t donate a kidney, growing a long braid to help create wigs for women losing their hair for medical reasons was the next best thing]( [Shmuly Yanklowitz]( [The death of Tikkun Olam… the horse]( [The ill-fated horse’s name was an ironic twist that calls us to uphold the Jewish injunction against causing animals to suffer]( [Sarah Bronson]( [Sex and lobster are not the same]( [If you aren’t crying when you tell people that keeping Jewish law means they must remain a virgin until they die, then you are neither a good person, nor a good Jew]( [Sexual Zionism]( By [Leigh Hartzman]( [This virile Israeli archetype fantasy was going to take care of me — until it didn’t and I had to forge my own path.]( more Choice voices [Naomi Chazan]( [Election-eve peace deals never work]( [The Deal of the Century claims to meet both Israeli security interests and the Palestinians’ goal of an independent state, but, in fact, does neither]( [Laurel Leff]( [US Supreme Court upholds law that kept Jewish refugees out during Nazi era]( [Trump administration has resurrected the ’public charge’ clause to limit legal immigration without changing laws]( [Assaf Shapira]( [Wanted: Fiscally responsible political parties]( [Unbridled spending on flashy videos, mass events, strategic consultants, and more, to the tune of more than NIS 300m, is simply wasteful this third election in a year]( [Shimon Sheves]( [The man who incited now rejoices]( [Those who called Rabin a traitor for his peace initiative now cheer one that’s similar – except that this one is doomed to failure]( [Karen Feuer]( [Jewish Heart Party: A call for basic morality]( [The unfettered export of weapons, spyware and military training is a stain on all of us – our party aims to establish oversight of such exports]( [Kenneth Jacobson]( [Lithuania’s misguided Holocaust law]( [Denying having collaborated in the slaughter of Jews makes it impossible to face up to the anti-Semitism that still pervades]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved