ToI’s weekly deep dive: Why Mossad gave Mengele pass; Jawbone fossil takes bite out of evolution; Suave sabra beard solutions;

ToI’s weekly deep dive: Why Mossad gave Mengele pass; Jawbone fossil takes bite out of evolution; Suave sabra beard solutions; Teen shoe design whiz

 

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THE WEEKEND EDITIONSunday, January 28, 2018

INTERVIEW How Israel’s leaders use targeted killings to try to ‘stop history’ BY DAVID HOROVITZ Ronen Bergman, author of ‘Rise and Kill First,’ a revelatory history of Israeli strikes on individual enemies, dissects his discoveries and their often discomfiting implications

Mossad chose not to nab Mengele, didn’t hunt down Munich terrorists, book claims BY DAVID HOROVITZ Netanyahu’s threats to attack Iran ‘panicked’ Obama into nuke talks, author says BY DAVID HOROVITZ

Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN

In Boston, Holocaust-era rescue stories pierce the darkness of genocide BY MATT LEBOVIC To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a conversation about individual efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis’ ‘Final Solution,’ and why the accounts still resonate

Yad Vashem stages ambitious show of rare photos taken by Nazis and their victims BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND At Jewish-Roma Holocaust event, bowing heads to the ‘forgotten victims’ BY MARISSA NEWMAN

ANALYSISQANTA A. AHMED Jerusalem belongs to the Jews: Islam says so In denying Jewish ties to the land of Israel, Islamists defy the Quran and cultivate a genocidal anti-Semitism

In Ashdod, secular and religious politicians shop (for voters) on Shabbat BY MARISSA NEWMAN

Using #resistancegenealogy, journalist exposes immigration hardliners’ hypocrisy BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND As Jennifer Mendelsohn delves into the backgrounds of those strongly opposed to new arrivals today, she almost inevitably discovers ancestors with questionable entries to the US

The Five Tribes of Israel / JTS head says Israel’s close relations with Trump ‘delegitimize’ American Jewry BY TRACY FRYDBERG HARA PERSON Pence’s Kotel visit insulted women everywhere Seattle synagogue gives inaugural ‘tikkun olam’ award to immigrant rights group BY GREGORY GUTTERMAN SCRUGGS

HOLOCAUST HEROES After saving Jewish children from Auschwitz, this humble heroine chose obscurity BY JP O’ MALLEY Mary Elmes, only posthumously honored for her heroism, quietly turned down the France’s Légion d’Honneur. A new book explores the modest Quaker’s life-saving efforts

Holocaust hero honored 75 years after dramatic rescue of fellow Jews from Nazis BY YAAKOV SCHWARTZ BENJAMIN LAU 307 kids have nowhere to go

Once clean-shaven, Israelis no longer bristling at beards BY JESSICA STEINBERG

Israel’s Wizcomtech designs pen to make reading easier for kids with dyslexia BY URVASHI VERMA New device aims to help the 14% of school-age children who have trouble reading, writing and understanding the meaning of words

Flint water crisis whistleblower receives Union for Reform Judaism award BY CATHRYN J. PRINCE

2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scroll deciphered, revealing 2nd Temple power struggles BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN Written in encrypted ancient Hebrew that had always defied researchers, one of the last unpublished scrolls illuminates Qumran sect’s split with Jerusalem over control of calendar

Imaging technology reveals birth of Athena on 2,300-year-old shard from Galilee BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN

Toronto teen shoe designer puts best foot forward BY RENEE GHERT-ZAND

TALLI ROSENBAUM The dangers of demonizing masturbation Several years ago, I shared my Ten Tips for Raising Sexually Healthy Orthodox Sons. In my seventh tip, “Explain that sexual arousal is a natural part of being human,” I alluded to the existential conflict of healthy young men whose options for sexual expression are limited until marriage. I believed this conveyed a modestly cloaked message to parents to educate their sons that, despite prohibitions they are taught against spilling seed, sexual arousal and ejaculation are natural, normal and healthy. Yet, I was taken to task. One reader wrote: “Something very important…

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