Gay Pride in Jerusalem * The 1941 Baghdad bloodbath * My partial view from the women’s section * You should watch ‘The Chosen’ * What AI says about humanity

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 1, 2023 [Jerusalem is precisely the place for a Gay Pride parade]( By Judy Halper Proud LGBTQ+ can remind the capital’s inhabitants that acceptance and compassion are not only allowed, they are necessary Yoav Segalovitz [Netanyahu, this crime wave is on you]( Murders, gang violence and domestic terror were going down – and then this blustering, incompetent government came along Lyn Julius [June 1941: Bloodbath on the buses in Baghdad]( More than a pogrom for Sephardic Jews, the Farhud – rooted in anti-Jewish legacies from the Nazi era – led to an irrevocable break between Iraqi Jews and Arabs [When the words came back to me]( By Reyzl Grace What Clara offered was Hebrew lessons in exchange for babysitting. But what she gave me was a place that felt like home Asaf Malchi [The IDF ‘Israel Service’ plan sounds like a good idea. It’s not.]( Setting up easy enlistment tracks for Haredi and Arab Israelis would be, complicated, costly and harmful Shaul Hanany [No, I don’t live in Israel. Yes, I do have the right to protest.]( I care deeply about Israel, and that should be reason enough, but as a US taxpayer I also have an obligation to speak out [What I could (and couldn’t) see from the women’s section]( By Shira Pasternak Be'eri My year of saying Kaddish brought me and my camera into Orthodox synagogues on weekdays. This is what I saw Rivka Ravitz [What Haredi mothers want]( By law, my son receives 55% of the state funding allocated to Israel’s non-ultra-Orthodox students, and we’re the ’bloodsuckers’?! Sarah Tuttle-Singer [‘Trust no one, and don’t spill the soup!’]( ’I listened to my teachers when they told me gay people are taboo, disgusting… I believed them!’ [This Jew is binge-watching The Chosen (maybe you should too)]( By Faydra L. Shapiro The TV drama all the Christians were talking about presents the most intensely Jewish Jesus and Gospels we’ve ever had Top Ops Fred Shahrabani [What humans worry about when we worry about AI]( If the real threat of artificial intelligence is that it’s too much like us, we need to embark on an urgent moral journey Ely Karmon [Belgium’s shameful, dangerous deal with Iran]( The release of a jailed Iranian terrorist to free an aid worker held captive in Teheran spells the return of ‘hostage diplomacy’ Yaakov Or [This plan of national suicide is already underway]( Doubling West Bank settlement, crushing the PA, gutting the courts: Smotrich, Ben Gvir and Netanyahu have a frightening vision for Israel Raoul Wootliff [Injustice Minister Yariv Levin]( What kind of justices does Levin purportedly believe the High Court needs? The kind that do not protect minority rights [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 © 2023 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved