Weekly Highlights: Corona stranded us in paradise * Ron Lauder on Jews after corona * Yair Lapid: Only the center can hold * Dear schools: Let us parents go

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, April 23, 2020 [Stranded in paradise: How we got home, the grand finale]( By [Hilary Faverman]( [What’s 65 hours of travel through 3 international airports, and lost luggage, when our destination was Israel (quarantine notwithstanding)?]( From the blogs [Chavi Eve Karkowsky]( [At my hospital, we’re hearing a new COVID-19 tune]( [’Happy Code’ gives us a few seconds of respite from the uncertainty, anxiety and sadness at our frontline New York medical center]( [Ronald S. Lauder]( [The Jewish imperative for the post-corona world]( [The COVID-19 virus has created an unprecedented global crisis. Hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been sickened, and billions have been quarantined. Healthcare systems have been stretched, economic systems have been strained, and many nations are facing a test the likes of which they have not encountered since 1945. For many weeks now, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our civilization. Life seems to have stopped in its tracks. The whole of humanity has found itself contending with a common threat to life as we know it. But even as...]( From the blogs [Only the center can hold: Democracy and the battle of ideas]( By [Yair Lapid]( [Neither the left’s radical universalism nor the extreme nationalism of Netanyahu’s right: A manifesto for a shared Israeli future]( [Irwin Cotler]( [The pandemic and asylum seekers: Threat and response]( [African asylum seekers are more of an asset to Israel than a burden; when the country ties up their funds with the Deposit Law, it penalizes the very people it should be helping]( [Pamela Laufer-Ukeles]( [Women and public prayer, or why I nearly lost my mind on Saturday night]( [It is one thing to count only men to create a minyan; it is quite another to make a law that restricts public prayer to only men]( [Daniella Levy]( [Dear schools: Let us parents go]( [Ideally, every child would have a device loaded with educational apps; absent that, missing some months of school won’t turn the entire generation into illiterate good-for-nothings]( [An Earth Day like no other]( By [Akiva Gersh]( [Even as we grieve and rage over the death and destruction that this virus has wreaked, it is impossible not to notice the drastic benefit to the environment]( [Allan Jacob]( [How to re-start the start-up nation (for real)]( [The plan to keep everyone safe, and also let people resume their lives begins with full quarantine for the vulnerable, and ends with intense testing to know who that is]( [The day I left Bergen-Belsen]( By [Eddy Boas]( [They were shipping us to Theresianstadt, but when my 9-year-old brother jumped from the train to find food, he discovered the Russian army]( [Jeremy Kalmanofsky]( [Yeshivas that refuse to teach math, science…or the Holocaust]( [New York ultra-Orthodox schools must open up their curricula to secular studies, including history — especially the history of the Shoah]( [Izzy Posen]( [‘Unorthodox’ overlooked the humanity of my old Satmar community]( [Instead of accepting the view of one who felt trapped and left the Hasidic world, what if we try to understand how it feels to be part of it from the inside?]( Choice voices [Laura Kam]( [‘Everything boils down to luck’: A Holocaust lesson for today]( [’One day my father went to Brussels and got caught by the SS. One day you go to the supermarket and you get caught by the virus’]( [Florence Berkowitz-Siegelberg]( [Germany’s remorse]( [I believe the reparation payments to Holocaust survivors like my parents helped us take a step on the long path to healing]( [Betsalel Steinhart]( [The Torah scroll in Tarnogrod]( [I spotted four columns of Hebrew text on parchment full of holes and blackened with age and dirt hanging up upside-down in a Polish library. What was I to do?]( [Naftali Moses]( [Of memory smashed and made whole]( [It was a night of blood and a brutal attack on a woman that provoked an entire clan to pick themselves up, cross the ocean, and make a new life for themselves in the West]( [Melanie Landau]( [I didn’t realize how much my grandmother’s trauma affected me]( [What do you say when your child asks what a gas chamber is? I had hoped to ease my children into the family history, and keep away from the ’victim narrative’]( [Rena Magun]( [Before the Corona and after the Corona]( [My parents’ rules when I was growing up have taken on a whole new meaning: they lived in fear of infectious disease when they were eluding the Nazis, and I get it now]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved