Oreos and parenting wisdom * Truth at the Auschwitz Memorial * Israelis want affordable kosher food * Ben & Jerry’s not-so-sweet surrender * Slow time at Grand Canyon

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, July 29, 2021 [Less water, more Oreos]( By [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [What my household really needs this summer is for me to leave everyone alone]( [Pawel Sawicki]( [At the Auschwitz Memorial, historical truth is our life’s mission]( [Claims that museum tweets underrepresent Jewish victims show a failure to grasp the complexity involved. And as the museum’s social media manager, I take it personally]( [Shuki Friedman]( [What Israelis want: Kosher food at affordable prices]( [The new minister of religious affairs has a plan to provide more reliable supervision and lower food prices – all without harming the Chief Rabbinate]( [The cabinet blinks on an ambitious climate strategy]( By [Alon Tal]( [The government diluted a crucial, carefully vetted proposal to meet the daunting climate challenges. Foot dragging could spell disaster in the coming decade.]( [Lev Stesin]( [The American colossus may crumble]( [A confused and disoriented US population lacks the resolve and unity of purpose needed to defeat a looming new US-China cold war]( [Manfred S. Green]( [I voted against the third COVID-19 vaccine dose. Here’s why]( [Before we introduce shots haphazardly, we need a comprehensive data review to establish clear policy for when, how, and to whom the boosters should be given]( [Anna-Christina Schmidl]( [Germany is no poster child for dealing with the past]( [The country’s official Holocaust reckoning has evaded most citizens, who remain conveniently oblivious to how ordinary Germans enabled the machinery of death]( [David-Seth Kirshner]( [The unspoken problem with BDS]( [The ugly idea of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions has reared its head again. This time in the form of ice cream. BDS has many iterations and forms. Some times it is dangled about on university campuses to get student bodies to divest monies from companies that do business with Israel. Other times it is offered to boycott companies that have its operations in disputed areas of the West Bank of Israel. Some times it is encouraging companies to stop selling products within all of Israel or within these disputed...]( [The world isn’t buying what Israel’s selling in the West Bank]( By [Dan Perry]( [Are Judea and Samaria an integral part of Israel? That depends whether we’re talking about an ice cream boycott or human rights violations]( [Manya Brachear Pashman]( [Ben and Jerry’s not-so-sweet surrender]( [The ice cream company caved to the activists who embrace BDS because they oppose the settlements, but BDS wants more: to eliminate Israel]( [Maurice Silber]( [You’d think BDS (and Ben & Jerry’s) would have learned from SodaStream]( [Singling out Israel for boycott is an ineffective marketing ploy at best, for it won’t sell more ice cream and it risks an international PR nightmare]( [Marc Kornblatt]( [I was boycotted back home in Wisconsin]( [It didn’t matter to my friend’s son that I hate Donald Trump as much as he does or that I favor a two-state solution. What mattered was that I’m Jewish]( [Echoes from the canyon]( By [Will Berkovitz]( [Time slowed as we rowed the Grand Canyon river: the profound immensity around us was measured in eons and millennia – not tweets, hashtags, and 24-hour news]( Choice voices [Leah Goldstein]( [The night Jeremy didn’t make it home]( [If I worried that he was lost and alone and that nobody would help him, a brief Facebook post showed me how wrong I was]( [Steven Bayar]( [Science fiction, fantasy…and resiliency]( [The questions film and secular literature raise about the nature of evil offer a safe way to start talking about loss – including when that loss is my own]( [Aaron Jacob]( [Hezbollah’s defiance and the United Nations’ duty]( [Flouting UN resolutions, the terror group has stockpiled arms, threatened, and attacked along Israel’s border. The Security Council must impose sanctions.]( [Angela Winter]( [Christians should fight against antisemitism]( [If we are to love our neighbors as much as we love our own skins, our spouses, our innocent children asleep on a summer’s afternoon, we must take risks for them]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved