Don’t eat cheesecake on Shavuot * My son’s big fat gay Jewish wedding * Walking with God after Uvalde * Jerusalem Day wasn’t just a few bad apples

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 2, 2022 Presented by [Shalom Hartman Institute]( [Walking with God after Uvalde]( By [Ari Hart]( [The Bible warns against a world where hearts are closed and cool, numbing us to the kind of grotesque, chaotic evil that takes the lives of children]( [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]( From our sponsor [The Many Meanings of Revelation]( [Rabbi, poet, scholar, and podcaster Zohar Atkins joins Yehuda Kurtzer for a Shavuot discussion that will open your mind and spirit.]( [The thunder of Sinai echos outside of history]( By [Scott Copeland]( [The power of revelation lies not in a mythic moment said to have occurred in the distant past, but rather in the countless retellings by Jews]( [Akiva Gersh]( [Don’t eat cheesecake this Shavuot]( [You surely don’t want to hear the details of the cruelty to the cows that produce the milk that makes our dairy products, but I’m going to tell you anyway.]( [Shai Ben-Ari]( [How France nearly snatched half of Jerusalem over lunch]( [Dignified, respectful General Allenby wouldn’t give an inch of his command of martial law in newly conquered Jerusalem. So said Lawrence of Arabia, who was there]( [Ori Weisberg]( [It’s not a few bad apples]( [As long as the very nice people of the moderate Religious Zionist community sanction the Flag March route, it remains an exercise in the humiliation of others]( [Meir Charash]( [This blog won’t make the news]( [Suicide. Throughout the COVID pandemic, we continuously received ongoing updates on the number of people who were infected, hospitalized and placed on respirators. We know exactly how many Israelis were killed in the latest wave of Palestinian terror attacks, and every Sunday morning, we wake up to learn of yet another deadly head-on collision that occurred on Shabbat and how many people were injured and the number of fatalities. Suicides don’t make the news. Yet, according to the Ministry of Health (Psychology Center update on November 16, 2021), more than 500 people...]( [Scars visibalized]( By [Adele Raemer]( [I have taken control of the events that scarred me emotionally and I am choosing to wear my resilience on my arm as a permanent badge of honor]( [On friars and flowers]( By [Kally Rubin Kislowicz]( [Due to my ongoing status as a non-native Hebrew speaker, I’m not always sure if I’m being offered a deal or played for a fool. Then again, it’s not so bad to be a fool]( more choice voices [Lior Zaltzman]( [I left Israel to give my kids the American dream. Is this it?]( [Just like the shooter at Robb Elementary school, I got my first rifle at 18, and I couldn’t help but think: I am too young and too stupid for this]( [Cary Kozberg]( [Put God, prayer, and the 10 Commandments back in schools]( [The murders in Uvalde cast a shadow on the celebration of the giving of the law. We must redouble our efforts to uphold its morality, values, and precepts]( [Stefanie Diamond]( [You never know who is listening: Thoughts on Pride]( [Some of you reading this have gay kids, and many of you don’t know it. Staying silent, or not actively being an ally, is only harming them.]( [Mitchell James Kaplan]( [Murakami’s hard-boiled anti-Israel line isn’t antisemitic]( [The real problem is that no one objected when the Japanese novelist included an ill-informed throw-away line slamming the Jewish state]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved