ToI’s weekly deep dive: Kindertransport to the White House * Afghanistan catastrophe * Mounting anger at USY over alleged abuse * Unvaccinated patients’ deathbed regrets

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, August 22, 2021 Interview [From Kindertransport to the White House, a British reporter’s remarkable journey]( By [Robert Philpot]( [In her memoir ‘Invisible Walls,’ Hella Pick describes arriving in the UK knowing one word of English and growing into a journalist who witnessed our era’s most impactful events]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Catastrophe in Afghanistan — for Afghans, Israel, the region… and for America]( [As the Taliban retake power, the imminent 20th anniversary of 9/11 underlines the horrific consequences of the US failing to reckon with this region’s darkest forces]( [Analysis / With US credibility gashed by Kabul fiasco, Israel may be bruised by association]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Michael Oren]( [The Taliban win forces the question: What’s next for the US?]( [More victims, lawsuits and mounting anger at USY after ToI report alleging abuse]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Conservative movement vows probe, suspends 2 staffers, as more alleged victims of longtime official surface; Jordan Soffer, 1st to speak out, says USY, USCJ haven’t contacted him]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: The ‘mad genius’ hypothesis with Dr. David Sasso]( By [TOI staff]( [A musician and psychiatrist, the Yale School of Medicine assistant clinical professor works in the intersection of mental health, music and the arts]( [Report finds US Jewish communities ill-equipped to aid domestic abuse victims]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [A study released by Jewish Women International says that shelter, acknowledgment, legal services and support for survivors of violence are inadequate across all denominations]( Analysis [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [In COVID battle, Bennett discovers governing is a bit tougher than campaigning]( [Neophyte PM vowed he’d do better than Netanyahu, notably in the fight against the virus. He even wrote a book about it. Then came reality, the Delta variant and a lockdown dilemma]( [As boosters open to over-40s, PM gets his: ‘We can beat Delta, it’s up to us’]( By [TOI staff]( [‘I was wrong’: Anguished nurses tell of unvaccinated patients’ deathbed regrets]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli researchers tout ‘breakthrough’ 3D bioprints of active tumor]( By [TOI staff and Nathan Jeffay]( [Scientists at Tel Aviv University boast development of technology will help find optimal treatments for each tumor and accelerate future treatments]( [NYC exhibit of Nazi-looted art tells a tale of Jewish loss and recovery]( By [Cathryn J. Prince]( [Opening Friday, the Jewish Museum’s ‘Afterlives: Recovering the Lost Stories of Looted Art’ is a testament to survival, despite attempts to eradicate an identity and culture]( [Why are we still so obsessed with Hitler? Unconventional docu tries to find out]( By [Andrew Lapin]( [Ecologists worry over ecosystem’s recovery after huge Jerusalem-area blaze]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Hundreds of thousands of small animals feared burned to death, with massive damage to fungi and insects, the basis of the web of life]( [Residents return to stricken homes as Jerusalem area fire brought under control]( By [TOI staff]( [‘We said it’s all over’: Hospital staff describe recall rescue as flames neared]( By [Michael Bachner]( Tokyo 2020 [Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics]( By [Amy Spiro]( [With 33 athletes in 11 sports, the Israel Paralympic Committee is hoping to improve on its Rio medal haul at the Tokyo Games this year]( [CRM]( Interview [How buddies-in-chief sway US presidents, from the Civil War to Israel’s creation]( By [Dave Gordon]( [A new book by Gary Ginsberg reveals how ‘first friends’ can make history over a drink or round of golf – and may have been crucial in the formation of the Jewish state]( [Parlez-who? Lapid’s pick for Paris posting pilloried for being sans French]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Yael German is widely respected, but without mastery of the language and diplomatic experience, many experts question whether she is the right person for the important task]( from the blogs [Nina B. Mogilnik]( [Kaddish for Afghanistan]( [America’s exit from Afghanistan has been messy and embarrassing, but it has not been wrong. How long were we going to pretend we were accomplishing something?!]( [Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll]( [Fundamentalism never dies]( [The political neophyte whipping a Knesset cacophony into coalition harmony]( By [Tal Schneider]( [Working tirelessly to keep MKs from Israel’s diverse and fractious government in lockstep while facing down a powerful opposition, Idit Silman is proving she’s no ‘little girl’]( from the blogs [John L. Rosove]( [Rabbi Richard Hirsch z”l brought Reform Judaism home to Israel]( [He was the driving force pushing the Reform movement to shift its focus toward the Jewish state, beginning with moving its headquarters there]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved