This Black Christian is saying a Jewish prayer for America * Survivors spoke, now what? * Larry David’s hilarious Holocaust shoes * How to fix the world

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, January 6, 2022 From the blogs [On Jan. 6, this Black Christian is saying a Jewish prayer for America]( By [Ed Gaskin]( [Many White Evangelicals supported the insurrection last year based on their faith in God. The Torah teaches something very different.]( [Shana Aaronson]( [The survivors spoke, the tears flowed, now what?]( [The painful stories of rape, incest, molestation, cover-up, intimidation are being told. Our communal safety now depends on magnifying those voices.]( [Michael Knopf]( [Remember, the wolves are still out for our democracy]( [Tyranny may be perpetrated by ’bad guys’ but it is powered by the silence of ’good guys’ who prefer peace and quiet to justice and righteousness]( [What I am telling my 12-year-old students about January 6]( By [Dan Ornstein]( [Jewish tradition offers them a noble, faithful, hopeful vision of arguments and disagreements and challenges us all to treat others as human beings]( [Todd L. Pittinsky]( [Larry David walks in another man’s shoes (kind of)]( [A ’Curb Your Enthusiasm’ gag lampooning the memorialization of Holocaust victims wouldn’t have made it to the screen if wasn’t about Jews]( [Jonathan A. Greenblatt]( [Why I wrote ‘It Could Happen Here’]( [In the 1930s as Nazi Germany was gearing up for war against its European neighbors and starting to implement the antisemitic Nuremberg laws that presaged the Holocaust, the brilliant American author Sinclair Lewis ironically titled his 1935 novel about the threat of unhinged despotism, “It Can’t Happen Here.” That title reflects something all Americans have been told and taught and even convinced ourselves about the American experience. In our history books, our civics lessons, our folklore, and our outlook, as a nation exporting democracy around the world while fighting the...]( [Varda Spiegel]( [Why I’m getting a fourth COVID vaccineÂ]( [Because I’m from the generation that shows up, a generation that today would do almost anything for our kids and grandkids]( [Top 10 steps to fix the world]( By [Nancy Strichman]( [Here’s what to do if you want to change the things you can change – using Elifelet, a nonprofit helping children of refugees, as case study]( Top Ops [Daniel Rosehill]( [Lessons from an Israeli-Palestinian beer-and-burger meetup]( [10 of us braved the rain and, without the lens of international news coverage about our official dispute, began chipping away at our mutual ignorance]( [Talli Rosenbaum]( [When religious leadership fails, it leads to a crisis of faith]( [When your support system falls, you ask: What am I still doing here? But why do I have to leave? I love and believe in God. It’s religion that’s a problem]( [Yedidia Z. Stern]( [The Haredi leadership: Crime and its punishmentÂ]( [The ultra-Orthodox self-segregate from Israeli society, but the Walder affair is revealing major cracks in the ’wall of holiness.’ A day of reckoning is coming]( [Danny Danon]( [We must not abandon Diaspora Jewry in their hour of need]( [Travel restriction exceptions must be made for first-degree relatives, along with property owners and those coming for weddings or funerals]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved