God prefers worshippers who are alive * Two-state solution is a Catch-22 * Hannah Senesh’s last note * Effi Eitam is the wrong choice for Yad Va shem

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, December 3, 2020 [God prefers parishioners who aren’t dead]( By [Joshua Hammerman]( [The most essential service we clergy can provide is to help people survive until next Shabbat — or to whenever the vaccine brings immunity. Nothing else matters]( [Efraim Zuroff and Yossi Klein Halevi]( [Effi Eitam appointment would negate Yad Vashem’s core message]( [OPINION: The former brigadier general’s public record renders him unfit to do battle in the fight against trivializing the memory of the Holocaust]( [Avidan Freedman]( [They can’t send us to elections if we refuse to go]( [With a million unemployed and many more struggling, an election now would be criminally wasteful — and likely return us, battered, to the same deadlock. We need a new way]( [Omar Dweik]( [Breaking free of the two-state solution catch-22]( [In today’s era of softer borders, Palestinians should let go of the 1967 mantra and seek a creative, rights-based solution]( [Kenneth Jacobson]( [Stoking Palestinian delusions of a zero-sum victory]( [November 29 is the anniversary of the UN decision in 1947 to partition Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. The date is remembered by the Jewish people as the recognition by the international community of the rebirth of the historic home of Jews in the land of Israel. The same date, November 29, is remembered by Palestinians as the beginning of the Nakba, the catastrophe for the Palestinian people. Two diametrically opposed reactions to one historic event, understandably different narratives at the time, but do they have to...]( [CRM]( From the blogs [We’ve established a new alliance for the Jewish people]( By [Charles Bronfman and Irina Nevzlin]( [OPINION: ‘Enter,’ our new initiative, aims to ensure that Jews in Israel and the Diaspora continue as a dynamic, diverse, global community that is united, secure, and inclusive]( [Ori Wertman]( [November 29, 2020, the day the Labor Party died]( [The party must ditch its current chairman who is leading it into oblivion and find a new chair who will be able to bring center-left voters back home]( [Michael Feldstein]( [The empty pages of our guest book]( [It’s not Shabbat services I miss most these days; it’s the fact that we have not hosted any Shabbat guests for the past nine months]( [Michael Laitman]( [The fountain of eternal youth? No thanks]( [People age; it happens naturally. The question is whether we as a society understand how much we need senior citizens]( [My Holocaust museum’s fitting exhibit on response to George Floyd]( By [Lisa Bachman]( [The photos following Floyd’s killing by police invite visitors to explore their own reactions to any injustice. What if we’d had such images in Nazi Germany?]( [Amit Naor]( [Hannah Senesh’s last note]( [The parachuting hero was always writing, even after embarking on the mission from which she never returned, even until her final moments in her prison cell]( Choice voices [Emily Kirschenbaum]( [Making Hanukkah about giving, not getting]( [I want my kids to be grateful they can take the privilege in their lives for granted, so this year here’s what we’re doing]( [Naomi Chazan]( [With Trump a lame duck, Bibi is moving fast]( [Stoking a volatile regional situation and ignoring Israel’s shared values with the US, Netanyahu puts the lasting strategic partnership between the two countries at risk]( [Danny Citrinowicz]( [Hezbollah’s deadly precision]( [Israel must exploit Lebanon’s political crisis and demand the dismantling of Hezbollah’s advanced missile capabilities]( [Boaz Dvir]( [The Partition Plan in perspective]( [A snapshot of the UN in 1947, when 6 Arab nations walked out of the assembly and the world didn’t know that the US would vote in favor of dividing the land between Arabs and Jews]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2020 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved