The Knesset law that should terrify women * Is Jenna Ortega worse than Kanye? * Grant this hero’s family US citizenship * Iran’s power-by-execution strategy will fail

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, December 15, 2022 [Four reasons the override clause should terrify women]( By Susan Weiss The Knesset would be able to pass religiously-driven laws that prop up gender separation, allow work discrimination, deny religious services, and harm property rights Avi Weiss [3 years after Jersey City shooting: This hero’s family deserves US citizenship]( Miguel Rodriguez was shot dead as he helped a customer out of the Kosher market and Jews have a responsibility to take care of those he left behind Efraim Zuroff [This cog in the Nazi death machinery says she’s sorry…]( …but she didn’t know about the slaughter at the concentration camp where she worked. As Irmgard Furchner’s trial winds down, her supposed contrition rings false [My Unorthodox Life, revisited]( By Daphne Lazar Price The show did well to bring activists fighting to free agunot, but they were then vilified for appearing on the show. If only the anger was against the chaining of women [CRM]( Dan Perry [The other two-state solution: Might the two Israels divorce?]( Few have come up with an operative partition plan for liberal Israel and illiberal Judea – here’s mine. A certain transfer of populations is to be expected. Daniel Margolis [Jenna Ortega vs. Kanye: Whose antisemitic hate is worse?]( Surely the actress should feel cognitive dissonance in implicitly supporting Hamas, and also praising Planned Parenthood and the heroic women of Iran [Iran’s power-by-execution strategy will fail]( By Marjan Keypour It’s time for the West to look at the Islamic Republic with clear eyes and find new policies to end its menace to humanity, once and for all more choice voices Naomi Chazan [Why the (expected) new government is Israel’s greatest existential crisis]( Without interference, changing laws and restructuring ministries to suit the druthers of a far-right coalition mark the shift from democracy to authoritarian rule Binyamin Krauss [My last kaddish]( There’s no ritual to mark the close of this chapter of mourning my father, Rabbi Simcha Krauss, but the abrupt stop signifies my unbearable loss Jason Miller [The ‘off the derech’ YouTuber]( When a former Brooklyn Hasid started giving tours of her old neighborhood, she was surprised to discover that some of her biggest fans lived on the inside Lori Silberman Brauner [What in heaven’s name brought me to Casablanca?]( The Jewish population is a tiny fraction of what it was in the 1950s, but the vibrancy of the involved community defies those numbers [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