ToI’s weekly deep dive: HEAR from Pulitzer Prize-winner Joshua Cohen * How Shabbat helped songwriter Autumn Rowe * Podcast: US abortion saga with author Joshua Prager

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, May 22, 2022 ToI investigates [Thousands go to Meron to find themselves spiritually. Three have never come back]( By [Marissa Newman]( [The cradle of Jewish mysticism is also where Moishy Klinerman, Moshe Ilowitz and Haviv Ben-Abu were last seen. As Lag B’Omer’s throngs leave, searchers remain to scour the mountain]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Israel wants to be recognized as Jerusalem’s responsible sovereign. Tell the cops]( [The handling of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral contradicted Israel’s claim to act as the capital’s wise and temperate authority. Those in charge have a lot to answer for]( [Interview / Abu Akleh’s brother slams police ‘brutal force’ at funeral, expresses hope for peace]( By [Aaron Boxerman]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 15: Feuding narratives fuel funeral of reporter Shireen Abu Akleh]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 17: Violence at Temple Mount as bereaved brother hopes for peace]( By [TOI staff]( ToI investigates [6 months after the Walder abuse scandal broke, has the Haredi world seen change?]( By [Amy Spiro]( New York [‘Rehabilitating together’: Wounded Israeli veterans find relief, forge bonds in NY]( By [Luke Tress]( [Trips organized by the non-profit Belev Echad give injured IDF soldiers the chance to connect with US Jews and with each other]( [‘A powerful, visible message’: 40,000 expected to march in New York’s Israel parade]( By [Luke Tress]( [‘Mechanics are en route’: Defense Ministry releases logs from 1972 Sabena hijacking]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( Top Ops [Suzie Navot]( [Equality now!]( [Israel may be the only democracy in the world that has not enshrined in law a basic right that protects the minorities living within its borders]( [Nachman Shai]( [Solidarity with Israel doesn’t mean we all agree]( [Jews everywhere can debate Israel’s policies, but we have a profound understanding of the important of a sovereign, independent Jewish state]( [Dan Perry]( [A wider lens on the death of an iconic journalist]( [Whoever shot the fatal bullet, the framing of the story will be unfavorable to Israel – and not only because the Palestinians are exploiting this tragedy]( [Barry Rosen]( [I was an Iran hostage too, and I say the West must not let this man die]( [Any party that takes hostages, even without executing them, cannot be a good faith partner – freeze all negotiations until Iran’s hostages are released]( Times Will Tell [PODCAST: How the clash of sex and religion spawned America’s abortion saga]( By [TOI staff]( [Joshua Prager, author of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for non-fiction ‘The Family Roe,’ dissects potential fallout of a leaked Supreme Court decision overturning Roe V Wade]( [CRM]( Literature [In Israel, Nobel-winning author Olga Tokarczuk reflects on Poles, Jews and a messiah]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Writer says she doesn’t like to get involved in politics, but notes that Poles share Ukraine’s ‘sense of danger that Russia presents to the free world’]( [ToI Podcast / Ironies pile up as author of satirical ‘The Netanyahus’ talks Pulitzer win]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( ToI@10 event [Tickets here! J’lem, May 24: Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen’s Yom Kippur War tour]( [Join us for the first evening in our ToI@10 series: Author Matti Friedman in conversation with ToI’s David Horovitz at Jerusalem’s First Station — plus a Leonard Cohen cover band!]( Interview [How Shabbat dinner helped launch Grammy-winning, Black-Jewish songwriter Autumn Rowe]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( Health [As more COVID rules axed, Israel in stable state, but not yet at endemic stage]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [In a Times of Israel Q&A, epidemiologist Michael Edelstein says that while Israel has COVID calm, and is abolishing travel-related rules, big fluctuations in cases still possible]( [Israel ends COVID tests for international arrivals as pandemic continues to recede]( By [TOI staff]( [Dramatic help / Israeli diagnoses her own rare condition while watching Grey’s Anatomy]( By [TOI staff]( Concert review [On tour, US-Israeli sister-trio HAIM are having the time of their lives]( By [Jordan Hoffman]( [At Madison Square Garden, the multitalented rockers have as much – or more – fun as their audience, with a quirky and charismatic stage presence that makes the huge venue intimate]( Culture [In the Negev, a new breed of vintners are making the desert bloom]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [With the arid terroir producing a wine that’s ‘fruity but not jammy,’ the vineyards of the Negev are banding together in hopes of being recognized as a formal appellation]( [Veteran Jerusalem artist paints small city moments in new exhibit]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [It takes two / Veteran dancer Rena Schenfeld performs with 2 partners in ‘Date’]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Archaeology [Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought]( [Archaeology / Massive bust of illegal antiquities trade seizes 1,800 coins and ancient artifacts]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( From the blogs [Broken roads: Leadership, authenticity and sexuality]( By [Mark Shinar]( [I’ve done the very best I could to avoid facing what many of my childhood bullies already knew: their vocabulary – gay, fag, homo – was painfully laced with truth]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved