A mob destroyed my hotel, my oasis * Dear Trevor Noah * YAIR LAPID: We won’t let violence win * Why Israel lost this war * Keep your ‘complexity ’ give me ’solidarity’

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, May 20, 2021 [Yair Lapid]( [This is your country and we will not let the violence win]( [We will not abandon the country to those who try to exploit our every frustration to turn against each other]( [The world’s immoral, deadly silence on Hamas and Hezbollah]( By [Kenneth Jacobson]( [In leaving Israel to deal alone with terror groups’ assault on civilians, the international community ensures the conflict will continue and become more destructive]( [David Harris]( [An open letter to Trevor Noah]( [We are not in an entirely post-truth society yet, at least I hope not, where facts no longer exist and opinions, even those of a celebrity, rule the day]( [Why Israel lost this war]( By [Donniel Hartman]( [As criticism of the war shifts to a foundational critique of Israel itself, Israel can’t afford to not make its case. This it can do ​only by reclaiming the moral high ground]( [Sivan Rahav Meir]( [3 foreign workers: Remember them too]( [Agricultural workers, caregivers, and more: they are part of the human landscape of Israel, and we must protect them… and mourn them]( [Gary Mason]( [Northern Ireland’s lesson for Israel]( [My work to help end sectarian violence in my country taught me inter-communal conflict can not be resolved from within the comfort zone of absolutist positions]( [Ronnie Perelis]( [Tuning in from afar: I reach across the sea with my radio app]( [I listen to Israel Army radio’s finest, interrupted by sirens warning of incoming missiles, and remember that this news isn’t a far-away abstract story]( [Reuven Spolter]( [Will you please stop lecturing us on ‘complexity’ and ‘nuance’?]( [Those words have come to justify terrorism. I prefer words like ’solidarity’ and ’concern’. Have you been on the road during a rocket attack? I have]( From the blogs [A violent mob destroyed the oasis we created in Acre]( By [Evan Fallenberg]( [Can the people in this sad, beautiful, ravaged land ever learn to respect the differences and distinctions between us and use them for an enhanced joint future?]( [Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya]( [Israel’s mixed Jewish-Arab cities are on fire. Here’s how put out the flames]( [The government can start by allocating funding to boost prospect for Arab citizens of Israel and close the close glaring socioeconomic gaps]( From the blogs [It is dark in Israel tonight]( By [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [What’s been burning in our streets these past few nights is more than property. What’s crumbling, what’s burning, is our ability to trust.]( [Manya Brachear Pashman]( [Do I tell my American child about violence in Israel?]( [Kids don’t appreciate it when grown-ups try to shield them from the facts. They like to make informed decisions.]( [CRM]( [‘Are you religious?’ For American Jews, that’s the wrong question.]( By [Rachel Gross]( [Many young US Jews say they don’t have any religion, which means that Judaism is practiced in creative, innovative ways; it’s not grounds for panic]( [Edieal Pinker]( [Forget ‘outreach’: Pew 2020 tells us to put our money where the people are]( [Investing in aging Reform and Conservative populations is wrong. Instead, fund the Orthodox, and have them engage the non-Orthodox]( [Zack Rothbart]( [Drawing Moses: From the sublime to the ridiculous]( [That moment of divine revelation when God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai? Artists have been trying to show what happened for centuries (Shavuot)]( [Daniel Dorsch]( [Our synagogue does not want your old books]( [We have plenty, and that is the case for just about all synagogues. But this Shavuot, I do have a suggestion for who should receive your books]( From the blogs [Shavuot beneath the shooting stars]( By [Nili Bresler]( [Two years since we last celebrated this beloved holiday together, my family gathered in Ramat Gan, like old times – except for an important difference]( Top Ops [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [Good neighbors]( [The Russian man from next door and I put out a Molotov cocktail fire, as an Arab man rushed after the culprit – a sign of the times, yet one that gives me hope]( [Tomer Persico]( [I grew up in a mixed Jewish-Arab city. Violence there frightens me more than rockets from Gaza.]( [The long process of healing requires an honest attempt at a more equitable relationship between the state and its Arab citizens]( [Ilana Goldstein Saks]( [Err on the side of kindness]( [The Book of Ruth embodies a living Torah, where human practice and divine intent come together, a perfect celebration of the day the Torah was given]( [Lisa Fliegel]( [Sometimes all you can do is stand up for love]( [I can’t afford the luxury of despair, and so I hold onto the memory of those girls in a West Bank village singing a song of hope]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved