Religious Jews shouldn’t applaud Roe’s demise * Hiding from terrorists 21 years after my son’s murder * The US must arm Ukraine as it armed Israel in ‘73

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, May 12, 2022 From the blogs [What do we tell the children?]( By [Sherri Mandell]( [21 years to the day after my son’s murder, I am hiding from terrorists in the darkened bedroom with my daughter and her children]( [Nava Anne Grant]( [Religious Jews shouldn’t applaud Roe’s demise]( [Justice Alito and Rabbi Shafran have the same male privilege: relating to abortion theoretically. They should leave it to the women who must be practical]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Another kind of terror: The battle for control over women’s bodies]( [In Israel, as everywhere, the invasion of politicians into the private lives of citizens chips away at the values that uphold free societies]( [The US armed Israel in ’73 – it must do the same for Ukraine today]( By [Philip Handleman]( [The free world’s sole superpower is signaling weakness just as Russia renews its onslaught and commits more atrocities]( Presented by [OurCrowd]( From our sponsor [Affordable lab-grown meat is coming closer to your plate]( [Amy Teibel]( [Israeli startup ProFuse is poised to cut the costs that prevent cultivated protein from reaching consumers]( [Paint that cools buildings, concrete that absorbs water]( By [Gideon Behar]( [The climate crisis demands we rethink the materials Israel builds with and innovate for global markets committed to cutting CO2 emissions]( [Sherwin Pomerantz]( [The Museum of Jewish Heritage was right to cancel an event with DeSantis]( [Providing a venue for the Tikvah Foundation to host Florida’s governor would have conflicted with the museum’s values]( [Aaron Jacob]( [The challenge of reforming a powerless UN Security Council]( [The Russian Federation’s veto power reignites a long-running debate about reforming the world body’s most important organ]( [These Ukrainian refugee mothers inspire our synagogue]( By [Barbara Aiello]( [Ahead of Mothers Day in Italy, these 5 courageous women are a shining light of optimism in the face of difficulty, and hope in the face of uncertainty]( Top Ops [Paul Mirbach]( [Who may grieve over those murdered at Elad?]( [To those on the right who swoop down and pick at the carcasses of these poor victims for political gain – please just stop]( [Sylvia Barack Fishman]( [‘Don’t single us out!’ Welcome unmarried Jews]( [The focus on family norms leaves older singles and the divorced and widowed feeling invisible in synagogues or judged as ’broken and waiting to be fixed’]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved