Despairing about climate? Have more children! * No more tefillin for me, I’m Orthodox * Rabbi Cordozo on the Divine in sexuality * Linoy shattered the Soviet ethos

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, August 12, 2021 From the blogs [Peter Beinart: ‘The Palestinians are suffering more than the Israelis’]( By [Zvika Klein]( [In the first in a series on progressive US Judaism and Israel, the writer insists the American pro-Palestinian movement is not, by and large, antisemitic]( [Dan Magder]( [After the rockets]( [Of course, Israel doesn’t negotiate with the Palestinians while under attack, but Israel isn’t negotiating with Palestinians now either, even with a ceasefire in place]( [Sarit Zehavi]( [A new reality on Israel’s northern border]( [The 19 rockets Hezbollah fired into Israel Friday did not shake the IDF’s non-escalation strategy, but any Israeli fatalities could tip the scales to war]( [Have more children!]( By [Michael Eisenberg]( [Taking care of the next generation makes us invest time, energy, and resources to make the world a better place; and then the kids will solve the climate crisis]( [Naomi Chazan]( [5 ways Israel’s government ignores the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]( [A value-based approach would lay the groundwork for a lasting political accommodation – if only Bennett and Lapid dared to try it]( [Breaking down in front of the entire world]( By [Ilana Kwartin]( [Dina Averina was raised on the Soviet value of victory at all costs. In beating her for Olympic gold, Linoy Ashram shook up the ethos of an empire]( [CRM]( [Stacey Goldman]( [Why I stopped wearing tefillin]( [I was going to be a Conservative rabbi when I grew up; instead, a stint of intensive Torah study in the Orthodox world set me on a different path]( [Getting to know my Mum, z”l]( By [Naomi Kalish]( [A family history that explains how a rabbi came to put up a crucifix in the room of a dying Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust]( [Adele Raemer]( [Moshe Etzion – On his own terms]( [I never heard my fellow kibbutz member – a Holocaust survivor and bereaved father – say an angry word or raise his voice or even respond with sarcasm]( [Chaim I. Waxman]( [Restore us to You, oh God – but where to?]( [If not for the Delta variant, outdoor prayer services would mostly be back inside, but maybe we should continue them, even when the pandemic is over]( [Rachel Barenblat]( [Rabbis are supposed to offer hope on the High Holidays. What if I can’t?]( [Given the damage we humans have wrought on our health and well-being and the earth itself, I knew I needed inspiration myself before I could help others]( [Encountering the Divine in prayer and sexuality]( By [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [The experience truly cannot be expressed in words. It takes us out of ourselves, and yet allows us to connect most powerfully]( [Kenneth Jacobson]( [100 years of debunking The Protocols: The fight goes on]( [The London Times’ refuted the insidious antisemitic conspiracy a century ago, yet the poisonous message is still spread in Iran, the Arab world and beyond]( Top Ops [Dan Perry]( [Civil marriage now]( [Most Israelis want the state to stop denying hundreds of thousands of citizens the right to marry – and this government might even be able to make the change]( [Alon Goshen-Gottstein]( [The moral challenge of the third vaccine shot]( [The World Health Organization’s call for a freeze on booster shots until poor countries can get their first doses deserves serious consideration in Israel]( [Yirmiyahu Danzig]( [The Igbo Hebrews and their struggle against antisemitism]( [Could it be that Western Civilization’s eurocentric and antisemitic bias has blinded the Jewish world to the existence of an entire community of our own people?]( [Glenn Sacks]( [Shut up and teach? Why labor unions weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]( [My union condemned Israel because an injury to working people in one country needs to be resisted by working people throughout the world]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved