The IDF is not a ‘people’s army’ * A watershed for women in Jewish leadership * My surreal Lebanon War moment * Lone [and forgotten] soldiers

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 9, 2022 Presented by [OurCrowd]( [A watershed for women in Jewish learning and practice]( By [Devorah Evron]( [A government decision to pay salaries of female religious authorities is a move that dramatically solidifies the role of women in public religious life]( [Yohanan Plesner]( [Out with the people’s army, in with the hybrid army]( [The IDF’s universal draft has long been a charade, and a purely professional volunteer army won’t work. Here’s how Israel can meet the security needs of tomorrow]( [Gil Ribak]( [Too Arab? Joshua Cohen’s Mizrachi problem]( [The Pulitzer laureate’s portrayal of Israelis suggests that under his political criticism lurks a cultural disdain toward those with ’unibrows’ and ’neckbeards’]( from our sponsor [Revolutionizing how digital experience data is collected, enriched and delivered]( [Tal Benjamin]( [Israeli startup Convizit unleashes fully automatic website user activity data capture]( From the Blogs [‘Sit there, the game is starting’: A surreal Lebanon War moment]( By [Gary Cohen]( [40 years after Operation Peace for Galilee, an IDF vet offers an (expletive-laden) reminiscence about the time his commander noticed he was from Scotland]( [Libbie Snyder]( [The forgotten soldiers]( [Too many of the 7,000 lone soldiers per year who serve without support from family can’t find housing and never manage to make a life in Israel]( [‘It’s too late’ and other stark truths for Jewish environmentalism]( By [David Zvi Kalman]( [Instead of promoting prevention and advocating personal responsibility, we must help people adapt to the stresses of our warmer world]( more choice voices [Naomi Chazan]( [The ongoing problem of competing sovereign claims to the same land]( [Despite the impending likely renewal of the ’Emergency Regulations for Judea and Samaria,’ Israel cannot subjugate the Palestinians with impunity forever]( [Sharon Nazarian]( [Missing the zeitgeist: Iraq legislates anti-Israel bigotry]( [Baghdad’s move to legislate anti-Israel and antisemitic prejudice holds onto a hateful and archaic past that refuses to see the light of normalizing ties with Israel]( [Bradley Shavit Artson]( [When a rabbi sins]( [Those who cross the line irreparably violate a trust – and yet they are still people and need to know they are never beyond help]( [Howard Leigh]( [Time to address the hotheads from all faiths in the Holy City]( [Claims that Christians are unwelcome in Jerusalem are not accurate; it’s vandalism and other extreme actions by the overzealous of each religion that don’t belong]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved