Weekly Highlights: An unforgettable Corona graduation * America isn’t just the promised land, it’s also Egypt * Yossi Klein Halevi: Israel needs Gantz to block annexation

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, June 18, 2020 From the blogs [After the protests and statements of solidarity, what’s next?]( By [Stefanie Rhodes and Ruth Messinger]( [As a mother and grandmother of Jews of Color, we, like all whites, still need to confront our implicit biases and the benefits of white privilege]( [Yossi Klein Halevi]( [A plea to Gantz, Ashkenazi: Israel and its friends need you to block annexation]( [Such a step, in any form, will undermine Israel’s commitment to negotiate over disputed territory and betray defenders of Zionism throughout the world]( [Jessica Montell]( [The High Court will not end the occupation, and yet…]( [Boycotting the Court because it props up Israeli policy (and yes, it does) will deny every individual Palestinian a chance for justice]( [Alon Tal]( [Israeli media’s smearing of a devoted public servant]( [Claims health ministry official Prof. Itamar Grotto improperly granted a billionaire a quarantine waiver were entirely unfounded]( [Good marketing can save lives. Get on it, Ministry of Health]( By [Daniella Levy]( [Israel can still stop this second COVID wave, but those masks need better PR]( [Ed Stelzer]( [Okay Corona, we will just bring graduation home]( [I couldn’t let my son depart elementary school with no more than a ’Leave Meeting’ click — so I helped produce a send-off for 86 8th graders that none of us will ever forget]( [Sherry Zimmerman]( [Homebound and stir-crazy]( [I thought I’d at least be doing my own food-shopping by now, but with so many people opting out of masks with impunity, and infections on the rise, I’m aging in place instead]( [Eve Young]( [By keeping women from combat roles, Israel is crippling its leadership]( [A male-centric military pipeline to leadership has dire consequences, and Exhibit A is the absurd makeup of the Corona crisis task force]( [Jason Rubenstein]( [First – listen. Then – entertain heresy.]( [White Americans must learn what Black Americans have always known, that America is not only the promised land, it is also Egypt]( [Jodi Samuels]( [Here’s how we eradicate racism]( [Invite the ’other’ into your home, and you will break down stereotypes and come to live united – just ask my Jamaican friend Susie about her Orthodox Jewish bridesmaid]( [It’s umbrella season again, somehow]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Anyone who knew David knows that especially now in this time of uncertainty, he would be a reassuring voice inside the maw of our own abject terror]( choice voices [Ruthi Soudack]( [The big, small, sea-less world]( [How easily the coronavirus made all of my stomping grounds, from my village to my city and the country and the world, fade from my awareness]( [Nili Bresler]( [The breakfast club: Isolation version]( [Chatting when it’s early in Maine and Israeli tea-time, if all else fails, we annoy Alexa: ’Tell us about Yom Kippur.’ ’Here is a recipe for kippers.’ We laugh: NO, NOT HELPFUL!]( [Susan Levin]( [Life inside the mask]( [My disabled husband is exempt from the coronavirus regulation that requires masks, but I’ve come to realize that he’s cloaked behind one all the time anyway]( [Nicholas Jagdeo]( [Statues and heroes]( [The anger of the masses being mistreated burns hot, but it also burns quickly, and pulling down statues does little, when there are more important things at hand]( [Mark Gardner]( [‘Hate fuel’ firing up online antisemites is too incendiary to publish]( [Yes, there are videos on the web of Jews being murdered. Failing to eliminate these and other horrific content is a green light for more Nazi terrorism]( [Henry Greenspan]( [From knowing to acting on racism]( [The problem is not one of perception, but of doing something to right the wrongs that you can’t help but perceive]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2020 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved