ToI’s weekly deep dive: Prez Herzog on Jerusalem Day * Reality TV vs chief rabbinate * Beginning of a beautiful relationship in Morocco * Podcast: Ancient Israelite women

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, May 29, 2022 [Ex-Hasidic woman gives tours of her former NYC stomping grounds from the outside in]( By [Danielle Ziri]( [Frieda Vizel takes participants on an intimate journey into the insular Williamsburg enclave. But far from a critique, she offers a detailed and objective look at life there]( Interview [What Americans don’t talk about when they talk about Israel]( By [Tal Schneider]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [Israel’s untenable political dysfunctionality exposed in a ridiculous Knesset battle]( [Our government strains to govern. Our opposition is unremittingly hostile. Meantime, external and internal challenges mount up]( Analysis [FM’s visit shows Turkey eager to accelerate reconciliation, but Israel more cautious]( By [Lazar Berman]( [Ankara’s energy minister had wanted to join FM Cavusoglu on his trip Tuesday, but Jerusalem is not looking to jump into a natural gas partnership]( [Lapid and visiting Turkish FM agree on path forward to return ambassadors]( By [Lazar Berman]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 25: Bennett claims victory on Iran’s Guard & Turkey’s FM flies in]( By [TOI staff]( [Isaac Herzog]( [City of hearts: President Herzog on Jerusalem Day]( [When I was elected president of Israel, my wife Michal and I privately celebrated for another reason, besides the great responsibility and trust placed in me: the fact that from now on, we would have the privilege of living in Jerusalem, a city that has had a deep place in our hearts for many years. Yes, it is a privilege to live in Jerusalem. And every morning over the past year, waking up in Jerusalem, we have felt a certain excitement, an excitement of the sort that only life in...]( Comment [Amy Spiro]( [When reality TV meets the reality of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate]( [Israel’s ‘Married at First Sight’ features its first same-sex couple, dating show ‘New Love’ includes a woman whose mother isn’t Jewish; all are unable to wed in the Jewish state]( ToI podcast [Daily Briefing May 26: Political minefield at West Bank settlement Homesh]( By [TOI staff]( [Political reporter Carrie Keller-Lynn is debriefed on a crazy week before heading off to the Homesh hotspot; news editor Amy Spiro uses reality TV as a window into Israel’s reality]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 24: Flags and prayer in the Old City; US envoy finds a home]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 23: Iran gets angry; Lapid gets vocal about disabilities funding]( By [TOI staff]( [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing May 22: The reality TV that is the Knesset just got more dramatic]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Patricia Levinson]( [Memories of the Six Day War]( [From our roof, we could see and hear the flashes from the fighting at Latrun, and it was obvious that a fight for the approaches to Jerusalem was underway]( [Scott Kahn]( [Judaism’s nuanced view on abortion is not about ‘choice’]( [But the halachic consequence of prohibiting abortion where it should be permitted are worse than those of allowing abortion where it is forbidden]( [Ruthi Soudack]( [The girls at the gate]( [Ahh, they say, so you admit that there were Arabs here. Yes, I say, I know it was an Arab village.]( [Evan Gottesman]( [The futility of seizing a Palestinian flag]( [The nationalistic symbolism draped over Shireen Abu Akleh’s death doesn’t change the political situation, and that is what actually warrants attention]( [CRM]( Times Will Tell [PODCAST: In ancient Israel, a woman’s place was in the home making beer]( By [TOI staff]( [Through careful analysis of oven placement and grindstones, archaeologist Prof. Jennie Ebeling shows how women in antiquity had much more agency than previously thought]( [Archaeology / Stilled life: Why did farmers flee a homestead in the Galilee 2,100 years ago?]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [Archaeology / New segment of Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old Low-Level aqueduct revealed]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( Science [Israeli company’s tiny arachnids provide alternative to pesticide]( By [TOI staff]( [Phytoseiulus persimilis loves the taste of the spider mites that destroy farmers’ crops; a new growing method promises endless supply of tiny soldiers]( [US scientists to open crystals that may hold 830-million-year-old living organisms]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli study: Climate change already causing storm levels only expected in 2080]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel reports second case of monkeypox, in 30-year-old man]( By [Michael Horovitz]( Interview [From Brooklyn gang to the Oval Office: Meet negotiator extraordinaire Herb Cohen]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Tech Israel [In Casablanca, Morocco and Israel see the beginning of a beautiful tech friendship]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Organizations ink 13 agreements, as representatives declare that historic ties have become economic opportunities — though full diplomatic ties are still on hold]( [In Morocco, Israeli innovation minister hails ‘amazing’ opportunities ahead]( By [Ricky Ben-David]( [Visiting Indian artist creates stone altar that sings of Jerusalem’s religions]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( How many times? [Dylan rerecords ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ for auction of one disc]( By [Michael Horovitz]( [Christie’s may get £1m for the single – recorded in Ionic Original, the 1st new analog format in 70 years, which the songwriter’s collaborator calls ‘pinnacle of recorded sound’]( From the blogs [My son’s big fat gay Jewish wedding in Israel]( By [Stacie Rojas Stufflebeam]( [When he first came out to us, I feared he’d have to give up his Jewish observance in order to have the family he wanted. Today, I thank God he can have it all]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved