Mourning Mrs. Maisel * Antisemitism is a name changer * The last days of Tzvi Lewis * Homesh: On the way to One State * What it means to love Israel today

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 8, 2023 [Mourning Mrs. Maisel]( By Jennifer Moses ’I want a big life,’ says the fictional 1950s comedian, expressing what women like my mother didn’t even admit to themselves Arie Pellman [Homesh: Cornerstone of an ever-conflicted One State]( Settlement in areas heavily populated by Palestinians undermines the Zionist achievement of a Jewish majority in the State of Israel Shuki Friedman [Do not give up on Judaism: It’s what makes Zionism profound]( The liberal camp must fight for Israel’s Jewishness, or the Haredim and the religious-nationalists will hobble the country with their version of Judaism [Antisemitism: It’s a name changer]( By Tami Lehman-Wilzig If you think Jews’ hiding their identity doesn’t touch you, you’re not paying attention, but it’s not the only reason to change your name Benjamin Porat [When all Haredi boys default to yeshiva study, what we lose is excellence]( Flooding study halls with mediocre students eliminates the chance of great scholars who would delve deeply into Torah study Yehuda Wengrofsky [The last days of Tzvi M. Lewis]( Even after my training in suicide prevention, I failed to see that the ’New York Romantic’ was clearly at risk* [Jews. Christians. Couscous.]( By Erik Ross At an interfaith conference in Geneva, the Spirit of God moved in air redolent of cinnamon, as an outlandishly diverse group ’schmoozed’ into the night Naomi Chazan [What it means to love Israel today]( Even Australian Jewry, which has always supported Israel, is finding itself questioning the values of Israel’s newest government Hayim Leiter [How far have we come?]( While Israel was under a barrage of rocket fire, US Jews were busy worrying whether they could get a stove installed on Shabbat [The lady with the white cane is me]( By Leah Herzog Straight talk about what it means to be visually impaired on this awareness-raising day that Israelis call simply, ’Blind Day’ more choice voices Joseph J. Feit [Israel has abandoned Ethiopian Jewry]( The government allocated no funding at all to bring the thousands who have waited years to be reunited their families Jona van der Schelde [Words that ring, resemble, reverberate]( When it comes to onomatopoeia, nothing sounds more like the thing it describes than uncorking a bottle and pouring from it – in Hebrew [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