What’s a ‘real’ right-wing Israeli government? * The unglorious Lebanon War * Biden’s visit: Return to bipartisanship * Ori Zohar and I once studied Talmud

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 23, 2022 new elections [What exactly is a ‘real’ right-wing Israeli government?]( By [Aron Heller]( [The coalition collapsed because of fearmongering, tribal devotion to Likud, and a cult of personality that still surrounds its leader on trial for corruption]( seeking consensus [Alon Tal]( [4 lessons from Israel’s Government of Change]( [How can diverse parties come together once again and agree to put certain hot-button issues aside to get things done and create a better country for all?]( back on track? [Ester Kurz]( [The Biden visit and the return to bipartisanship]( [After a quiet mending of the immeasurable harm Bennett’s predecessor did to US-Israel ties, the two countries’ leaders have an opportunity to make real advances]( dad's war room [Remembering the unglorious Lebanon War]( By [Michael Oren]( [Making the hairpin mountain turn and seeing Beirut below us, I turned to the soldier next to me in the jeep and said, ’We’re never getting out of here’]( truth isn't flat [E. Kinney Zalesne]( [It’s time to retire reductive binaries]( [Red and blue states; victims and villains; us and them. Such orderly pairings feel as natural as our own symmetrical faces. We like things in twos]( CATCH-22 [Jill Jacobs]( [On demolishing peace: A call to American Jewish institutions]( [Bulldozing Palestinian homes destroys the lives of real people, and entrenches the occupation; if you truly want a two-state solution, you must speak up]( in memoriam [The time I studied talmud with Uri Zohar]( By [Abraham Rabinovich]( [As a comedian, he was funny, bawdy, and hilarious. I loved his wild humor, and I couldn’t believe he’d chosen the path of piety. I had to see for myself]( ‘Come to our house!’ [Marjorie Ordene]( [‘Arabs hid my father’s family during the Hebron massacre’]( [The matriarch of the family was a righteous woman who had made the Hajj to Mecca. When the mob said, ’We know you are hiding Jews’ she told them, ‘No, we’re not!’]( ethical robots [Mois Navon]( [‘Sentient’ AI can’t count in a minyan, but it still raises ethical dilemmas]( [Bringing the inanimate to life with rabbinic magic has historically been problematic. Can we do better with artificial intelligence?]( berlin, 1922 [Antisemitic nationalists killed Germany’s Jewish FM. His mom forgave them]( By [Zack Rothbart]( [With compassion, Walter Rathenau’s mother told the mother of her son’s murderer: ’Had he known my son, he had rather turned the weapon on himself than on him’]( more choice voices [Dan Feferman]( [A Jew and an Arab walk into Auschwitz]( [We brought an Arab delegation to Poland to teach them about the Holocaust, yes, but also to recognize each other’s suffering, in the hope of reconciliation]( [Micah Segelman]( [A letter to my children about Jewish values and January 6th]( [Donald Trump eroded the three pillars Judaism considers critical for a stable society and showed that democracy must never be taken for granted]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? [View in browser]( © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved