ToI’s weekly deep dive: Rambam to heal today’s wounds * Art teaches Kaunas locals about forgotten massacre * Horovitz Op-Ed: In Iran, sparks of dissent multiply

[Times of Israel]( [Weekly Deep Dive]( Sunday, October 2, 2022 [Initiatives help descendants of Crypto-Jews reconnect with stolen Sephardic heritage]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [Certificate of Sephardic Ancestry validates identity, while an online ancestral database of 45,000 Sephardic family names makes searching for roots easier]( Op-ed: Rosh Hashanah 5783 [David Horovitz]( [To overturn the evil decree]( [In an era of historical revisionism, forgotten lessons and rising intolerance, Judaism’s core imperative seems particularly vital]( Interview [In age of #MeToo and cancel culture, medieval philosopher’s ideas can heal wounds]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( Op-ed [David Horovitz]( [In Iran, the sparks of dissent are multiplying]( [Initially uncertain as to whether placating the public or opening fire was the wiser response, the regime seems to have decided on the latter]( Exclusive [‘You little boy’: Abbas says he scolded Blinken for not pressuring Israel]( By [Jacob Magid]( [In recording of meeting with Palestinian Americans on UN sidelines, PA leader urges group to push for statehood, claims he met with ‘Zionist lobby’ despite Obama warning against it]( [Reporter's Notebook / At funeral for boy allegedly scared to death by IDF, an outpouring of grief, anger]( By [Jack Mukand and AP]( [Minyan man / ‘I went to shul more than most of you’: Biden hosts High Holiday reception]( By [Jacob Magid]( Interview [Lazar Berman]( [Ukraine ‘frustrated’ by Israel, Lapid, says new envoy to Middle East]( [Maksym Subkh, Kyiv’s new special representative, says Lapid became more cautious once he took over as PM, but lauds humanitarian aid, hints at expanded cooperation against Tehran]( Author interview [The unlikely rise – and remarkable endurance – of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky]( By [Rich Tenorio]( Top Ops [Marianne Novak]( [Heaven is the place where love continues]( [I can’t prove it exists, but I can tell you why I have faith that my daughter is in a truly ‘Good Place,’ protected by G-d and surrounded by loved ones]( [Dan Perry]( [Springtime for Ben Gvir]( [What’s the real point of a subversive political TV sketch that depends on its audience catching the reference to an old satirical song to get the joke?]( [Michael Feldstein]( [The culture of fear in the Orthodox community]( [When people are too worried about what those to their right think, they lose the capacity for respectful disagreement and discussion]( [Zack Rothbart]( [Buying a beard trimmer at a gas station from a Palestinian]( [I could afford to overpay for the Geemy 6077 equipped with ’import security cutting head’ – especially since I was purchasing it from my friend]( Religion [In step toward civil marriage, Jerusalem court accepts ‘Zoom weddings’ from Utah]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In early 2020, Utah began issuing marriage licenses for ceremonies performed online,]( [Court: Orthodox conversions done outside state rabbinate acceptable for citizenship]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [CRM]( Exhibition [In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Near the site of one of the genocide’s most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city’s wartime past ‘Out of Darkness’]( Interview [Film lauds WWII partisan chief who found Hitler’s V2s, died in Israel in obscurity]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Director Roman Shumunov tells the story of Leonid Berenshtein]( Health [Fungus is telltale cancer sign, possibly screenable by blood test: Israel-US study]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Many tumors are teeming with fungi that shed DNA into blood, and researchers say blood analysis could offer treasure trove of information to detect and to shape treatment]( [Israeli nanotech may be able to reduce side-effects of chemotherapy, scientists say]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( Interview [How Sigmund Freud fled Nazi Austria, leaving siblings who perished in the Holocaust]( By [JP O’ Malley]( [The 15-minute city could save you from needing a car, but will Israel run with it?]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Planners envision urban spaces with everything you need a short walk or bike ride away, cutting emissions and stress; in parts of Israel, there are signs of the concept taking hold]( [In search of ‘his’ tree in Israel, a Canadian filmmaker unearths unsettling issues]( By [Renee Ghert-Zand]( [After learning a sapling planted through JNF for his bar mitzvah is in a forest where once stood a Palestinian village, Jason Sherman asks himself if he is complicit in a cover-up]( [Return of the panacea / Ancient ‘miracle plant,’ believed extinct, said rediscovered in Turkey]( By [Tobias Siegal]( [Planting trees in drylands unlikely to curb global warming, Israeli study shows]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Israeli plant-based vegan food company to build production facility in Australia]( By [Sue Surkes]( From the Blogs [As history happens in Ukraine, let’s write ourselves into the Book of Right]( By [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [What will we tell our children when they look back at this time, see a bloody war, a ruthless tyrant, talk of nuclear warfare, and ask: Did you stand up to it all?]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( Email not displaying correctly? 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