ToI’s weekly deep dive: Return of live entertainment * Horovitz interviews Lapid and Gantz * Reform conversion ruling fallout * PODCAST: How’s your YidLife Crisis going?

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, March 7, 2021 [‘There’s hope’: Culture buffs celebrate return of music, movies and art]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Jerusalem movie theater sees sparse turnout for socially distanced screenings, but Green Pass holders and others flock to concerts and museums as events come roaring back]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST: Daily Briefing Mar. 1 — World watches as Israelis go to the theater]( By [TOI staff]( Interview [Lapid: My ambitions can wait; if Netanyahu wins, Israel will enter dark times]( By [David Horovitz]( [‘I’ll do everything needed for a change of government,’ Yesh Atid head says. If PM is reelected, he’ll make Israel an ‘illiberal democracy, somewhere between Hungary and Turkey’]( [Interview / Gantz: What does Israel want in its leaders? Integrity or lies and manipulation?]( By [David Horovitz]( [Op-ed / Political dyscalculia in the anti-Netanyahu camp]( By [David Horovitz]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST: Daily Briefing Feb. 28 — Israeli politics’ massive ego problem]( By [TOI staff]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Court ruling for non-Orthodox conversions sets up battle at the heart of Judaism]( [With bombshell decision, justices bring to an end decades of ambivalence regarding the status of non-Orthodox Judaism in Israel. But the final word has not yet been said]( [Analysis / Branding liberal converts a demographic threat, Haredi campaigns get second wind]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST: Daily Briefing Mar. 2 – Reform/Conservative conversion makes legal Jews]( By [TOI staff]( [Noa Sattath]( [One small step for the court, one large step for converts]( Reporter's notebook [After surviving marine oil spill, young turtles heal with fish, mayo and love]( By [Sue Surkes]( [21 sea turtles were brought to the National Sea Turtle Rescue Center, but most were already dead from tar; now the lucky remaining 6 are recovering alongside other injured turtles]( [Analysis / Likud minister’s Iran eco-terror accusations damage Israel’s credibility]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Satellite images of oil slicks off coast show recent spill far from a one-off]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST Daily Briefing Mar. 4 – Pirates deploy Iran’s ‘environmental terrorism’?]( By [TOI staff]( Analysis [Lazar Berman]( [As Biden weighs human rights and security in Mideast, some see peril for Israel]( [Pragmatism is ruling the day for now, but US allies in the region are nervous the new president could over-pressure regimes on need for reform, creating a wedge for Iran to exploit]( [Analysis / With ‘gray zone’ attack on cargo ship, Iran-Israel tensions enter murky waters]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Times of Israel Podcast / PODCAST Daily Briefing Mar. 3 – As Biden stirs pot with Saudis, will Israel pay?]( By [TOI staff]( [Stuck abroad, philanthropist hatches a modern Exodus to bring Israelis back home]( By [Tal Schneider]( [CRM]( COVID-19 [No vaccine? No patients! Hospital relegates unvaccinated staff to paper pushing]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [The Health Ministry has called for non-inoculated staff to be kept away from highest-risk wards; Jerusalem’s Hadassah has gone a step further, barring contact with all patients]( [From Israel with hope: Best data yet suggests vaccines will empty COVID wards]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Sivan Rahav Meir]( [To all the anti-vaxxers who are angry at me]( [Amir Cahane]( [High Court ruling or not, the Shin Bet’s ‘Tool’ will still be watching you]( StartUp Israel [Israelis wire locust ear to a robot, pioneering part-animal part-machine tech]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Many insects see and hear better than any camera or microphone; that’s why a bug-eyed Tel Aviv team is connecting insect parts to circuits and says this’ll be tomorrow’s tech]( [How Israeli tech shares some of its wealth by donating options]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Interview / Take a long-term view to tap business potential in India, ambassador advises]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israeli robotic arms get FDA nod for minimally invasive hysterectomies]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Food, sex, atheism and guilt – Just your typical YidLife Crisis diet]( By [TOI staff]( [Enter the twisted mind of two secular Jews from Montreal as they eat, schmooze and wind up in crazy situations — in Yiddish]( [‘Falastin’ cookbook opens Palestinian kitchen to home chefs]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Interview [Top Holocaust scholar Lipstadt: CPAC Nazi-symbol stage was ‘a very big oops’]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Historian also discusses latest outbreak of anti-Semitism in Congress and how she is helping bring white supremacists to justice in Charlottesville, Virginia]( [Interview / 85-year-old Israeli testifies to Nazi-inspired pogrom that massacred Iraqi Jewry]( By [Lynette Hacopian]( [Interview / ‘Annihilation’ of Poland’s Jewish cemeteries documented in provocative book]( By [Matt Lebovic]( People of the Books [‘My Salinger Year’ catches a woman — and world — on the cusp of metamorphosis]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [New film adaptation of successful coming-of-age memoir by Joanna Rakoff set in storied NY literary agency features sparkling performances by Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver]( [Interview / How a Nobel-winning ‘accidental scientist’ changed the world by saving himself]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Tragic Jewish mother-son story spurs exposé of cruel mid-century adoptions in US]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( From the blogs [Help us bring Koda the Kelev home to Israel]( By [Aleeza Ben Shalom]( [An open letter to ’The Committee,’ that suddenly informed us at the last minute that we have to leave our beloved, four-legged family member behind]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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