Where was that ancient toilet, again? * Facebook is toxic in Hebrew too * A scarf is worth 1,000 words * Israel to prospective immigrants: Just don’t come

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, October 14, 2021 [A scarf is worth 1,000 words]( By [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [If I could just make the right first impression before I open my mouth to speak, I’d convince Israelis that I’m just like them]( [Carra Glatt Ben-Baruch]( [Israel’s message to prospective olim: Just don’t come]( [Making aliyah now comes with the risk of indefinite separation from loved ones left behind, as Israeli COVID policies have been severely limiting entry permits]( [Tamar Sternthal]( [Flushing the Israel out of ancient Israel]( [The AP’s report on the discovery of a First Temple era toilet omits Jewish references, while a NY Times Rosh Hashanah recipe evokes ’Canaanites,’ not Israelites]( [Facebook is toxic in Hebrew too — Israelis must be protected]( By [Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler]( [It’s up to lawmakers to enact privacy protection, outlaw predatory marketing and hold social media providers in Israel accountable for the harm they do]( [Ruth Jolanda Weinberger]( [Comparing vaccine mandates to Nazi experiments is appalling]( [Even the most basic reading of the Nuremburg Code makes clear that Nazi medical crimes simply do not belong in any discussion about Covid vaccine mandates.]( [CRM]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time]( [He raises challenging questions that rabbis and mohels will have to consider seriously when reluctant couples seek their advice]( [The Texas anti-choice law and the Torah’s call to choose life]( By [Joseph R. Black]( [We had a 25% genetic chance of having a Tay-Sachs baby destined for a short, painful life. Knowing abortion was an option made it possible for us to create our family]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Colette Avital: Who owns her story?]( [It’s understandable that the former diplomat kept her experience of sexual harassment quiet, but her speaking out now may just be a game-changer]( [Michael Laitman]( [The just protest of the medical residents will not heal healthcare]( [The problem goes far beyond assembly-line medicine – Everything is motivated by money and it’s time to establish a care-based society]( more choice voices [Efraim Zuroff]( [Too many Nazi criminals are convicted and sentenced, but do no time]( [Even if Irmgard Furchner is convicted of being an ’accessory to murder,’ she probably won’t see the walls of a prison cell, but running away got her a week in jail]( [Chajm Guski]( [A German Talmud translation on Sefaria]( [After so many terrible years of nearly no call for this work, it’s in demand in the digital world – and as a model for Talmud translations into other languages too]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved