Whoopie was almost right * Raunchy TikTok Talmud isn’t profane * I’m a reluctant dish heiress * A college basketball player can observe Shabbat? * Saving Israel’s coast

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, February 3, 2022 From the blogs [Confessions of a reluctant dish heiress]( By [Ruth Efroni]( [My mother’s demand that we all decide now what we want to inherit goes against my religion of denial – but I’ll take the pink set]( [Raunchy, sarcastic TikTok Talmud commentary isn’t profane; it’s Torah]( By [David Zvi Kalman]( [Miriam Anzovin is funny, fresh, millennial and no, she’s not mocking Judaism – she’s showing that rabbinic sermons aren’t the only way to treat sacred texts]( [You can’t just swap out ‘Maus’ for another Holocaust book]( By [Jennifer Caplan]( [The pictures teach what loss and grief and horror felt like to a child of survivors, showing readers a range and depth of emotion that words cannot convey]( [Stephen Bush]( [Whoopi Goldberg is almost right, while being so entirely wrong]( [If you take her claim to its logical conclusion, racism against Jews is based on lies and racism against black people based on truth. That’s worrying (and incorrect)]( [What I learned in my first month as an observant Jew on a Division I basketball team]( By [Mia Raskin]( [I always thought keeping Shabbat would get in the way of my playing college ball. Then I hosted the whole team for a traditional Friday night dinner]( [Russell Miller]( [I called Josh Gottheimer a Jew – it wasn’t a slur]( [In chiding the Congressman for his opposition to Biden’s economic rescue plan, I used a rebuke that both our grandmothers would likely have understood]( [Alon Tal]( [Drawing a line in the sand: A new law to save the seashore]( [One idealistic high school student prevented development on Palmachim Beach. Who will protect the rest of Israel’s coast?]( [Sex and the holy city]( By [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [’Just smell the air in the Old City: Bread and spices and sh*t when the pipes burst. And behind the walls, you can hear everything – I do mean EVERYTHING’]( More choice voices [Whoopi’s apology]( By [David-Seth Kirshner]( [Whoopi’s fallacy]( By [Ellen Ginsberg Simon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved