The Jewish case for freeing Britney * I’d marry Artem Dolgopyat * My friend Jackie Mason * Simone Biles chose life * The problem with ‘The Last Days’ documentary

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, August 5, 2021 [The Jewish case for freeing Britney]( By [Sara Himeles]( [The Talmud has a vision for what a conservatorship system should look like, and Jamie Spears would not meet Judaism’s standards for a guardian]( [Hayim Leiter]( [I’d marry Artem Dolgopyat in an instant – even without the gold medal]( [He has a Jewish father, he threw his lot in with the Jewish state and people, he is a ’seed of Israel,’ and entitled by Jewish law to an easy pathway to conversion]( [Zack Rothbart]( [This Hebrew school teacher was the first world weightlifting champ]( [Strongman, educator, culture critic, civil society leader, journalist, publisher and historian. Edward Lawrence Levy was all of these and more]( [Questionable testimony in Holocaust doc is grist for deniers]( By [George R. Mastroianni]( [The award-winning documentary ‘The Last Days’ was rereleased but there are serious doubts about the veracity of the recollections of a survivor featured in the film]( [CRM]( [Dan Perry]( [A plan for progress on Palestine]( [The least bad option requires a series of bold, unilateral measures by Israel and $100 billion in compensation. The price of doing nothing will be far higher]( [Avi Liberman]( [Show up]( [After a near-death accident, normal acts are scary, but so far I went on stage, drove a car and slept at home. Next step: get back to do comedy in Israel]( [Why we went to the UN Security Council about East Jerusalem]( By [Yudith Oppenheimer]( [The evictions and demolitions have political and moral ramifications far beyond those of standard real-estate disputes and the government has failed its duty to intervene]( [Haviva Ner-David]( [Torah commands both love and vengeance: In Israel, we live that contradiction]( [What if instead of trying to repeat history, we are meant to correct it? The Jews were sovereign on this land twice already, and it did not end well.]( [Leah Solomon]( [We tell ourselves that our soldiers would not shoot for no reason]( [We must fight hatred of Jews as if there’s no oppression in this land, and we must fight the injustices of our own government and army as if there’s no antisemitism]( [Simone Biles embodies the Jewish value of preserving life]( By [Hannah Pressman]( [Everyone expected a different kind of Olympic glory for this most skilled gymnast, but her prioritizing safety and well-being was more powerful than her tumbling]( [Sally Abrams]( [You can only be ‘one traveler,’ living one life]( [An old cabin, a lifelong friend, two places I can call home, and the poetry to put it in perspective – these have made all the difference]( [Kathryn Ruth Bloom]( [’We can’t help you, and you are going to die’]( [How could I tell the West African with beautiful handwriting and a full-blown case of AIDS that the anti-viral treatment he wanted was still in early research phases?]( [Remembering my great friend, Jackie Mason]( By [Aliza Davidovit]( [What I liked most about him was that he didn’t hobnob with the upper crust; Jackie’s favorite hangouts were New York’s delis and diners]( Top Ops [Joanne Palmer]( [Vaccinations, community, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]( [Kudos to the mother who, during a terrifying pandemic, let an old woman ’rip open’ her children’s veins and stick them with ’the best sort of small-pox’]( [Leah Herzog]( [The holiness of complexity]( [It’s tempting to think religion is distinct from the physical world, but Moses taught that even rocks, water, and dirt are possible paths to meet the Divine]( [Sherwin Pomerantz]( [Is US support of Israel slipping?]( [Opposition to the foreign aid bill by Republicans and far-left Dems may be weaponized to support false claims of slippage in support from traditional Israel stalwarts]( [Rolene Marks]( [South African Israelis must lead the fight against the apartheid libel]( [Expats like me who marched for equal rights should be mobilized to stand up to the abhorrent BDS campaign to discredit – and destroy – Israel]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved