Weekly Highlights: I’m so done with this pandemic * China’s regime did this * Online classes leave poor kids behind * Our gorgeous bare bones we dding

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, April 16, 2020 [I’m so done with this pandemic. How about you?]( By [Beth Steinberg]( [The day I gave up on words and threw a tantrum — and my son with language disabilities came to comfort me]( [Daniel Gordis]( [We need a new era of no double-standards]( [The many Israelis who hold themselves apart from everyone else do no worse than the leaders who exempt themselves from the rules they impose on the rest of us. All to our detriment]( [Naomi Chazan]( [What’s missing from COVID-19 management? Women.]( [Full recovery won’t happen without including gender disparities that reveal women have been harder hit economically and otherwise]( Op-Ed [Xi Jinping’s China did this]( By [Irwin Cotler and Judith Abitan]( [The corrupt, criminal regime wasted 40 days blocking information while it crushed domestic dissent and ensured COVID-19 would become a global pandemic]( From the blogs [This battle is between the virus and all of humankind]( By [Wang Yongjun]( [The vilification of China, out of political motives or plain ignorance, contradicts the facts: Experts have praised our safety measures and scientific efforts]( [Shula Mola and Micha Odenheimer]( [They moved school online and locked the underprivileged kids out]( [Educational authorities have a moral obligation to find solutions for families with limited or no access to computers, internet and tech skills]( [A giant tallit, curtain knobs, and 4 broomsticks – what more do you need?]( By [Susannah Schild]( [My daughter’s official wedding date was days away; the florist had cancelled, as had the hall and the band — but the empty cliffside was the perfect pandemic setting]( [Hilary Faverman]( [Stranded in paradise: A coronavirus oddysey]( [When we left Israel for 7 months of backpacking with the family, we could not have predicted that the coronavirus would extend our stay in Indonesia]( [Nili Bresler]( [I’m a different kind of ‘prepper’]( [I may resemble a Doomsday hoarder, but the opposite is true: I’m busy chopping garlic and getting ready for the New Beginning to come]( [Linda Lovitch]( [My FOMO moved online and boy, am I tired!]( [This is a time to slow down, you say? Become more contemplative? Hell no! I’ve got to get to my Zoom class on ’The Science of Well Being’]( Top Ops [Sander Gerber]( [PA and Hamas try to ‘coronawash’ their own corruption]( [Israel has no role in the Palestinians’ medical supply shortage. The real story is a shortage of leadership — and rampant corruption]( [Dan Perry]( [Winners and losers in the world after corona]( [Out with globalization, liberal democracy and US credibility. In with sustainability, social democracy and Bibi Netanyahu]( [Robert Festenstein]( [Hugs will have to wait]( [With condolence visits out, this pandemic has upended the mourning process. Zoom and WhatsApp will have to do for now]( [Naftali Schiff]( [The Angel of Death visited us this Passover]( [The tragedy is too big to avoid – which means we and our children too can give thanks for the unwanted opportunity to consider what matters in life]( [Alon Goshen-Gottstein]( [Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron – an interreligious appreciation]( [The former chief sephardic rabbi, who died Sunday of the coronavirus, viewed Judaism as a source of peace and worked to build bridges with other faiths]( [Gilad Cohen]( [From the East, good shall come]( [Remember the sparse diplomatic relations and limited trade between Israel and countries such as China, South Korea, Japan, India, Singapore? No longer; now, they come to our aid]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved