The right to bare arms * National emergency government now! * Biden’s bad Iran deal * Hillel, Shammai and J Street * He was my dog, and I loved him

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, August 17, 2023 [The right to bare arms]( By Sarah Mann If public bus drivers can become modesty police, women’s rights are in real danger – as is the future here for the likes of liberal me Joseph H. Prouser [Women witnesses for Jewish divorce: A major misstep]( Failure to provide a divorce of unimpeachable halachic validity spells catastrophe for Jewish unity Yoaz Hendel [A national Zionist emergency government can save Israel]( Govern according to the majority of Israelis who vote right-wing on security and want liberal social policies; leave the extremists out [A date tree named Methuselah]( By Bill Slott These were likely the trees King David was looking at when he described how the righteous person will blossom Fern Reiss [The truth about Israel’s Supreme Court]( Israel’s justices are all secular left-wingers, right? Wrong. Starting with the fact that 10 of 15 were appointed under Netanyahu Barry Shaw [Biden’s bad Iran deal is cause for dire Israeli concern]( The Administration must be told that for Israel, the Iran problem is not a can to be kicked down the road until 2025 [Hillel, Shammai and J Street]( By Emily Kaiman We must avoid the prevailing impulse to exaggerate and distort and learn to disagree without fracturing our community Adam Bernstein [How the pro-democracy movement is killing democracy]( Pushing for military disobedience gives soldiers precedent for future boycotts of, say, a land deal with the Palestinians Robbie Gringras [Signs I’d like to carry when I’m demonstrating against the judicial overhaul]( 6 concerns I have about Israeli democracy that don’t fit neatly on a placard with a catchy slogan [What can I say? He was my dog, and I loved him]( By Jennifer Moses They say it’s a blessing that we can put a dog down, relieve him of his misery, but I’d never had to do it before more choice voices Nili Bresler [Time for unity]( If just five Likud members stood up now and said they’ll leave the party unless Bibi resigns, he would lose his majority Judy Halper [Let them eat dates]( When the world runs out of wheat for challah, pita, rugelach, and more, we’re going to wish we’d set up back-up crops Avidan Freedman [The Artsakh humanitarian crisis is our responsibility]( The need to forge ties with Azerbaijan does not give Israel license to ignore the suffering of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh Arnold E. Resnicoff [Praying to leaders, for leaders within]( More rabbis have prayed before the US Congress than before the Knesset; this week, I had the honor to serve as guest chaplain for the 20th time [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