Sovereignty begins at Homesh * What to eat during Armageddon * Weeping for 4-year-old Ammar * What we learn from sexual abuse survivors

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, January 13, 2022 [When I was 7, Aliza was my savior. I just learned who she really was.]( By [Ori Golan]( [I was about to switch off the clip after watching the horrific story of a Holocaust survivor from Lodz, Poland, but decided to read the credits]( [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.]( [Yitzhak Santis]( [When fathers weep]( [A Bedouin child’s violent death. His family’s extra bitter coffee of mourning. And my effort to share the pain in an embrace that said what I couldn’t in words]( [Sovereignty begins at Homesh]( By [Jonathan Ariel]( [By not enforcing Israeli law for illegal West Bank outposts and other de-facto separatist communities, Israel is steadily turning itself into a shtetl with an army]( [Steven E. Zipperstein]( [How not to make the case for Palestinian statehood]( [With a long history of rejecting offers, making a legal case for sovereignty is a losing battle. The conflict isn’t a legal dispute, it’s an inherently political one]( [Benjamin Porat]( [Israel’s Rabbinate should welcome these kashrut and conversion reforms]( [They do reduce the Rabbinate’s centralized power, but in very different ways, which fundamentally upholds the rabbis’ authority, rather than undermining it]( [What to eat during Armageddon]( By [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [Omicron has made it impossible to plan and impractical not to worry. But my life necessitates both preparation and heavy denial, so how am I to proceed?]( [Michael Oren]( [Israel needs olim]( [First and foremost, Israel shelters oppressed Jews worldwide, so when French Jews facing rampant antisemitism choose Canada or the US, it’s a failure of Zionism]( [Sandra Cohen]( [20 years and counting: My stroke]( [My life didn’t turn out as I expected, which is painful, but on this ’strokaversary,’ I celebrate the blessings made possible by my miraculous medical team]( [What I inherited when my mother died]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [The same knuckles, the same tapered fingers…what is it about our mothers that make us look at ourselves for the sameness?]( Top Ops [Gail Bendheim]( [Fingers with shoes on]( [Our problem is how to get the extra pounds off those seminary girls so we can marry them off. But wait — do the seminary girls even have a body?]( [Dan Perry]( [Not an ‘apartheid state,’ but not good enough]( [Here’s my scorecard rating Israel’s poor excuses for treating the Palestinians like second-class citizens]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved