EXCLUSIVE: UAE minister’s message of peace * Sharansky’s tribute to a hero * Yair Lapid: Lockdown fiasco * I love Christmas lights (and Sukkot)

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, October 1, 2020 From the blogs [The Abraham Accord is the starting point for radical tolerance and love in our region]( By [Shamma Sohail AlMazrui]( [UAE Youth Affairs Minister: ’May our common humanity unite us and may our common faith in a brighter future heal this wounded world.’]( [Natan Sharansky]( [With Yuri Orlov’s bold vision, we lit a fire under the Soviet regime]( [My fellow USSR dissident, who died Sunday, was jailed and exiled for making sure that the truth couldn’t be buried in the KGB’s dungeons]( [Yair Lapid]( [The Netanyahu failure: A lockdown with no plan]( [With inaction and political bickering and with no clear exit strategy, the government has abandoned its public]( [Yoseph Haddad]( [The other pandemic: Racisim]( [A Jewish settlement blocked an Israeli Arab medic’s entry based solely on his race. When I inquired, I was shocked to learn that I too would be barred]( [CRM]( [Joseph Gitler]( [Lockdown is already wreaking hunger in Israel… again]( [As stomachs rumble across the nation, our food distribution charity is again busier than ever, but it’s hard to ask donors to give yet again]( [Julio Messer]( [When Ruth Bader Ginsburg got it wrong on Pollard]( [Justice Ginsburg’s ruling in an appeal against the spy’s life sentence exacerbated existing divisions within the Jewish American community]( [My Jewish love of Christmas lights]( By [Arella Mayer]( [Sukkot, the most aesthetic, welcoming and creative Jewish holiday, is my seven day antidote to Christmas envy]( [Uri Pilichowski]( [AOC reveals her true colors]( [The congresswoman’s withdrawal from an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin proves progressives and Palestinian activists have no interest in peace]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [Where the streets have no (female) names]( [When ’Anne Frank Street’ was deemed immodest by some local ultra-Orthodox extremists, the mayor compromised, but ’Frank Street’ doesn’t do her memory justice]( [This is unsustainable]( By [Bracha Goldstein]( [Who am I to write of pain? Who am I to air my struggle, when so many cannot inhale? My son turned 10 in lockdown, my daughter 13. Who am I to say this is unsustainable?]( CHoice voices [Jessica Levine Kupferberg]( [Will Ushpiz follow the rules?]( [Weary of everything Covid? Me too, so I helped create a family friendly health campaign, with ’punny’ posters to decorate your sukkah and lighten the mood]( [Pamela Laufer-Ukeles]( [Our treehouse minyan taught me about empowerment]( [With a prayer group of just 20, every person had to be fully present and fully responsible. The same goes for how we each handle the Covid crisis.]( [Sam Lehman-Wilzig]( [The oldest Jewish tradition of all: Protest]( [The good news: Jews tend to be highly ethical, and arguing leads to thinking out of the box. The bad news: in a health emergency, Israelis can’t get it together]( [Yehudah Mirsky]( [On Yom Kippur, what if we can’t forgive our enemies?]( [At this time of rage and rancor, it’s hard not to hate – truly hate – those whom we oppose. Can we just let ourselves off the hook this year?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved