The real problem with prayer and sports * A dead soldier’s sperm * Religious Zionism once supported minority rights * Biden dashed Palestinian hopes

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, July 21, 2022 [Religious Zionism was once all for minority rights in Israel. What changed?]( By [Yosef Blau]( [From the beginning, Israel’s important religious Zionist rabbis grounded equal rights for the Arab minority in Jewish law. They wouldn’t know their own camp now]( [Bazy Swirsky Rubin]( [Kids who slap, exhausted teachers: The Israeli school system is broken]( [I ran workshops in 18 different schools, and the shocking misbehavior I witnessed left me crying on the floor. Something must be done now!]( [Yuval Cherlow]( [Not everyone deserves to return: The case of Baruch Lanner]( [Sex criminals, even those who have served their time, must not see Israel as a safe harbor. Their victims should not have to fear running into them while visiting Israel]( [Praying for your team to win? The problem isn’t the Supreme Court]( By [Rivy Poupko Kletenik]( [When a coach had my school’s students recite Shema before games in the hopes of a divine assist, I had to wrestle with my sense that it was a losing play]( [Enia Krivine and Hussain Abdul-Hussain]( [Hamas-Fatah reconciliation attempts are DOA]( [The recent Abbas-Haniyeh handshake signifies the desperate state of both Palestinian factions – as well as of their Algerian hosts]( [Bishara A. Bahbah]( [Biden leaves Palestinians – and Israelis – without hope for peace]( [The president did nothing to counter the perception of the US as Israel’s partner in its occupation of Palestinian lands]( [Nazis and heretics and whores – oh my!]( By [Yochi Rappeport]( [The same young people who tore up prayer books of fellow Jews – and would do it again — are fasting to repent for the past mistakes of the Jewish people]( [Elchanan Poupko]( [Postmortem IDF IVF doesn’t really create ’orphans’]( [Naysayers decry using the sperm of a fallen soldier in the hope of a child or grandchild, but who are they to deny a family its next generation?!]( [Alex Sinclair]( [America’s Karaite Court]( [Why don’t Jews take ’an eye for an eye,’ and why is ’the rebellious child’ not stoned to death? If only the US Supreme Court knew]( [The Camp Koby model of healing]( By [Sherri Mandell]( [Our campers have suffered loss, but when we cloak their sadness in kindness, we help them tell their stories, on the kids’ own terms, which makes them bearable]( more choice voices [Steven E. Zipperstein]( [J Street’s reaction to Lapid as prime minister: Crickets]( [Israel finally has a moderate centrist at the helm who supports the two-state solution. Why isn’t the progressive US Jewish organization applauding?]( [Yakov Nagen]( [The problem is not baseless hatred]( [We Israeli Jews must learn to coexist with 2 million Arab Israelis, not because we’re doing them a favor, but as a profound existential need of our society]( [Zack Rothbart]( [The chaotic origins of Israel’s international airport]( [Did Jewish airport employees abandon their posts, leaving confusion in their wake, when the British exited the new country?]( [Matt Godwin]( [It’s time the West understood the new Middle East]( [Misconceptions and outdated stereotypes held by most Westerners about the Middle East are jarring – and detrimental to the economic growth of both regions]( [The Blogs Weekly]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? [Subscribe here]( [Unsubscribe]( from this List © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved