The Zionism-racism lie persists * Can South Park’s Cartman make aliyah? * May Nazis live long and be prosecuted * Hug a tour guide today * On Jewish extremist violence

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, December 16, 2021 [The Zionism = racism lie isn’t over]( By [Aaron Jacob]( [Three decades after the UN scrubbed its most anti-Israel resolution, efforts to tarnish the Jewish state are back full steam with charges of Apartheid]( [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [Passport renewal]( [What kind of religious woman would even consider removing her head covering for an ID photo and where’s my bionic chip?]( From the blogs [South Park’s Cartman converted to Judaism, but can he move to Israel?]( By [Andrew Sacks]( [The crudely drawn procedures for aliyah are so replete with baffling bureaucratic delays and reliant on emissaries’ whims that it’s downright cartoonish]( [Haim Sandberg]( [The struggle for the Palestinian judiciary’s independence and why it matters]( [The dramatic erosion of the judicial branch’s powers, despite valiant resistance from PA judges, is a cautionary tale for Israel and any democracy]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [May you live long and be prosecuted]( [At 100, Herbert Wahler has outlived other Germans listed as members of the genocidal Einsatzgruppe C. His age should not shield him from accountability.]( [Reach out, please, to your local tour guide]( By [Betsalel Steinhart]( [I’ve lost count of the many skilled educators who are working menial jobs to feed their families, who are having trouble coping, who are suffering from despair]( [Onnie Schiffmiller]( [Israel needs us tour guides more than it seems to know]( [We’re the ones who dispel visitors’ ’apartheid’ claims by showing them real Israelis – like hijab-clad women studying with kippa-clad men, in a college cafeteria]( [Jacob B. Ukeles]( [Jewish extremist violence against Arabs: End the denial and act!]( [So what if ’only’ a minority of settlers commit acts of violence. Where are the voices of condemnation from Israeli leaders in the territories?]( [Joseph J. Feit]( [7 false statements about the Jews remaining in Ethiopia]( [Given the afflictions of famine, locusts, COVID, and especially war besetting the Jewish community, the least I can do is set the record straight]( [Blending families]( By [Yakov Horowitz]( [Whether we kids were his, hers, or theirs, it didn’t matter, Abba treated us all like his own flesh and blood – but he never tried to replace our father]( [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [The 20 shekel bill that was chased by a dog and hit by a bus on the way to Eilat]( [Israel is a country of people who have been through the wringer — each one of us is torn and wrinkled and crumpled. But, oh, the stories we can tell]( [Jason Fredric Gilbert]( [The Heirs]( [A tale of love, art, crime, trash, rejection, serendipity and an existential crisis of confidence – all told in the wrong order]( [David Sedley]( [Feed the world]( [The chemist who created the gas that led to Zyklon B and the biblical Joseph have a lot more in common than one might think (Vayigash)]( [My son entered the army and his father wasn’t alive to see it]( By [Pamela Becker]( [5 tools that helped our grieving family acknowledge our sorrow, grow our resilience, and function]( Top Ops [Judy Mars Kupchan]( [For the birds]( [The sheer numbers of these migrants coming from the heavens suggested what lies beyond, what happens when our souls join the ultimate Oneness]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Wherefore Israel’s left?]( [Meretz and Labor MKs cannot easily pursue their preferred agenda in the current government, but they can establish red lines to block what they find untenable]( [Michael Laitman]( [We’ve turned ourselves into temporary residents]( [The world will continue to reject Israel until it unites to fulfill its true purpose: building a ’national home for the Jewish people’]( [Andrea Zanardo]( [About those supposed anti-Arab slurs]( [Reports on the attack against Hanukkah revelers on a London bus show how media spread false tales of a worldwide Zionist Islamophobic conspiracy]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2021 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved