On keeping my JewNose * The Reform Movement is Zionist! * My visit with Sondheim * The coming non-work economy is bleak * Heritage travel and the ‘Dead Jews’ critique

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, December 2, 2021 [Ammiel Hirsch]( [For the love of Israel, we need to say: The Reform Movement is Zionist]( [How could future Jewish leaders write an open, public letter in the middle of a war, missiles raining down on our people, without ever mentioning Hamas?]( From the blogs [One day in the house with Steve]( By [James Inverne]( [Encounters with Stephen Sondheim led me to a deeper understanding of a titan of the theater, the most humane of men, who dealt in contradictions rather than absolutes]( [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [To Rabbi Serfaty on your Spinoza response: Chutzpah!]( [The Amsterdam Sephardi community leader is clearly ignorant of the Dutch philosopher’s work and unaware his excommunication ended with his death]( [Devorah Lynn]( [Hanukkah: A time to celebrate renewable energy]( [That one flask of oil reduced the Temple menorah’s fuel use by 87%. If we can match that for today’s fuel consumption, we just might save the world]( [Without Hanukkah, there’s no Christmas to celebrate]( By [Anastasia Kennedy]( [When Palestinians and their supporters claim Jesus as their own and deny his Jewishness, they help recreate the conditions for atrocities against Jews]( [Ronnie Katz Gerber]( [A Hanukkah miracle might happen here]( [Before you know it, my doctor is crying. Weeping. I tell him to stop, that I’m going to be fine until I’m not and that that could take a few good years yet]( [Ari M. Solomont]( [When my rabbi took me to the mikvah]( [Listen up educators: Back when sexual abuse was more hidden and we all had the luxury of naivete, my rabbi did everything exactly right by setting clear boundaries]( [Jack Gottlieb]( [What Horn gets wrong in her ‘Dead Jews’ critique of Jewish heritage tourism]( [The author unfairly slams the motives of those engaged in Jewish historical preservation but offers no viable alternatives to the memorialization of Jews]( [The UAE at 50: Progress, prosperity and, yes, peace]( By [Abakar Manany]( [The Gulf state, now marking 50 years since its founding, rejected religious fanaticism and has stretched its hand out to Israel in genuine friendship]( [Philip Earl Steele]( [Poland’s urban legend about Menachem Begin]( [Where did Poles get the idea that Israel’s Nobel-winning prime minister was once called Mieczysław Biegun – and why does the belief persist?]( [At home in the Jewish body]( By [Loolwa Khazzoom]( [I eventually realized that not only am I beautiful but that my ’JewNose’ is a distinct part of my beauty – and I’m keeping the ’JewFro’ and brown eyes too]( Top Ops [Michael Humphries]( [Hate Israel’s high cost of living? Don’t blame supermarket chains.]( [Like Hawaii and post-Brexit Britain, Israel is expensive because it’s an island economy, located far from its trading partners. That’s not going to change any time soon.]( [Sam Lehman-Wilzig]( [The future of non-work is the robot and AI economy]( [A bleak outlook for an Israel where workers are less willing to take on unsatisfying jobs and employers invest more in replacing them]( [David E. Weisberg]( [Menorahs and abortions]( [The overturning of Roe v. Wade would not be a ruling on freedom of religion; it would simply return to the states full authority to regulate abortions]( [Naomi Chazan]( [The ‘Ugly Israeli’ abroad and at home]( [Widespread verbal and physical violence is driven by deep-seated power inequities, chief among them, the ongoing occupation of lands captured in 1967]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved