Biden finally called * Schindler’s List cured my anti-Semitism * Stop saying ‘she wears pants’ * Hitler this, Hitler that

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, February 18, 2021 From the blogs [In Iran, I was taught to hate Israel and Jews. Then I watched Schindler’s List.]( By [Omid Safari]( [Spielberg’s movie undid decades of lies, inspired me to visit Auschwitz, and taught me that the truth will always, eventually, come to light]( [Donniel Hartman]( [He finally calledÂ]( [Why did President Biden wait so long before picking up the phone? Doesn’t he love us? Doesn’t he know how important we are to America, to the world?Â]( [Todd L. Pittinsky]( [Hitler this, Hitler that.]( [Holocaust analogies for political ’others’ are useless tools of persuasion. It’s time to stop using them and all just call each other wrong]( [Moriah Richman]( [The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism derails our fight against it on campus]( [Codifying this anti-Semitism definition is divisive, just when we must unite, among ourselves and with our allies, against acts of hate]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Surprised by the ICC decision? You shouldn’t be]( [If Israel doesn’t want to be lambasted on the international stage, it should stop doing the very things for which it is being criticized]( [Stop saying ’she wears pants.’ Just…stop.]( By [Noah E Abramowitz]( [It is absurd to talk about a woman’s wardrobe as if this was a modest conversation – as if we men are slaves to our evil inclination]( [Tanya Hoshovsky]( [Guess what? St. Valentine didn’t kill the Jews]( [My teacher lied about Valentine’s Day to steer us away from the secular world; I think she went way too far]( [Facing another school reopening]( By [Rachel M. Roth]( [Requiring (and enforcing!) masks and distancing would protect our children in school, so why are we either sending them back unprotected or keeping them home day after day?]( [Ethan Eisen]( [Day 20: Why are we still not allowed back in Israel?]( [We’re vaccinated citizens willing to get coronavirus tests and isolate. Why can’t we come back home while hundreds of foreign athletes are invited in?]( [Shifra Dukes Livne]( [Israel’s quarantine hotels gone wrong]( [Meet some of the law-abiding Israeli citizens who are suffering the human rights violation of being locked up in a controlled facility against their will]( [Ashira Konigsburg]( [A viable future for Conservative Judaism]( [Our synagogues and other institutions must embrace transformation in order to survive, and we must start by engaging Jews wherever they are]( [6 ways Jews can help Black economic development after the pandemic]( By [Ed Gaskin]( [For true racial equality and inclusion, we must address economic disparity – and to do that, we should listen to the wisdom of Maimonides]( [Aron Heller]( [Israel’s last chance to fix its ultra-Orthodox problem]( [The country’s great Faustian bargain with Haredi citizens has been a colossal failure. The upcoming election may be the last chance to fix it.]( [Mark Cohn]( [Bearing Bruce Springsteen’s cross]( [Context is everything and the rockstar didn’t intend to exclude non-Christians from a sermon that was meant, after all, to bring us together]( [Marianne Novak]( [Hiring! Female Orthodox clergy who are younger than a certain age]( [Capping the age of women applying for rabbinical roles is short-sighted: it blocks the talent and wisdom earned over time, and ignores the community’s real needs]( CHOICE VOICES [Zack Rothbart]( [(Re-)Discovering Zionism in pre-Communist China]( [A 1920 letter from the ’father of the Chinese nation,’ highlights the warm ties between Chinese leaders and Jewish communities near and far]( [Yosef Blau]( [The Religious Zionist party and the significance of a name]( [The new party and its priorities make it clear that the religious Zionism of over 100 years remains relevant in religious terms, but not in political ones]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?]( [Engaging with food is a huge part of Jewish identity — from it we capture nostalgia, maintain community and share stories]( [Shmuly Yanklowitz]( [Support for the Adoption Tax Credit is a Jewish imperative]( [Contact your reps to support this bill enabling families to give vulnerable children safe homes and repairing a society drowning in fear and selfishness]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved