ToI’s weekly deep dive: Will Kotel egalitarian space destroy Second Temple evidence? * Giving up control in an autonomous car

ToI’s weekly deep dive: Will Kotel egalitarian space destroy Second Temple evidence? * Giving up control in an autonomous car * Lost Kubrick script

 

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THE WEEKEND EDITIONSunday, July 22, 2018

INTERVIEW Sharansky: Many in Israel think Reform Judaism is some kind of hostile sect BY DAVID HOROVITZ Outgoing Jewish Agency chief laments communication failures and ignorance that complicate Diaspora ties, but speaks positively about rising aliya and strengthening Jewish identity

ONE MAN’S RUBBLE Is evidence of Temple’s destruction being destroyed by a bid for Jewish unity? BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN Archaeologist Prof. Dan Bahat files a High Court petition to stop Western Wall construction. What is the archaeology that is currently covered, and what is in the provisional plan?

Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer BY AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN MICHAL AVERA SAMUEL I experienced the loss of the Temple myself

INTERVIEW Aiming to be Jerusalem’s first female mayor, MK sees thaw in religious tensions BY MARISSA NEWMAN

REPORTER’S NOTEBOOKRAOUL WOOTLIFF How Israel nearly destroyed freedom of speech online, without even knowing it An effort to end Palestinian incitement on social media morphed into a bill that would have granted the state the most extensive internet censorship powers in the Western world

Unwitting Israeli MKs almost pass law allowing sweeping internet censorship BY RAOUL WOOTLIFF

Rabbi’s arrest signals Israel ‘no longer for all Jews’ — US Conservative leader BY ERIC CORTELLESSA Steven Wernick says ‘infuriating’ detention of Dov Haiyun for performing weddings outside Rabbinate ‘gives the impression of a religious police’

MIKIE GOLDSTEIN The day the Jewish state became Orthodox In pre-dawn move, police nab, grill Conservative rabbi over weddings he conducts BY MARISSA NEWMAN Israel’s detention of Conservative rabbi castigated by mainstream US Jewry BY JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH

In Austrian tale of kosher meat ban, groups find bone to pick with far right BY RAPHAEL AHREN

Birthright participants who walked off trip ask public to pay for ride home BY JACOB MAGID IfNotNow members say funds will also be used to cover legal costs, though Birthright denies it has any plans to sue them

ELANA KRAVITZ Who’s afraid of IfNotNow?

OP-EDROBERT PHILPOT Britain’s Labour adopts its own controversial definition of anti-Semitism Defying the Jewish community, chief rabbi, and MPs, the new guidelines omit key references to Israel and can be used to get members under investigation for bigotry off the hook

Israeli Jew and Yemenite Muslim: A musical match that could only be made in NY BY MICHELLE DIVON Yemen Blues founder Ravid Kahalani to perform his Arabic and African-infused music with backing from oud player Ahmed Alshaiba at the Brooklyn Bowl on August 7

Theater review / Breaking with tradition it’s ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ — in Yiddish BY JORDAN HOFFMAN

STARTUP ISRAEL I can’t even give in to cruise control. How could I cope in an autonomous car? BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON ToI’s tech editor doesn’t want anything taking any control of her car, and it turns out she’s not alone. Which is why experts are working on the ‘trust’ as well as the tech

Israeli researchers say they’ve found better way to spot malicious emails BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON Israel earmarks NIS 2.5 million to make cities smarter BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON US seeks record $75m. from marketer for steering victims to Israeli binary scams BY SIMONA WEINGLASS

INTERVIEW Launching in English, chapter-a-day project looks to bring Bible back to masses BY DAVID SEDLEY Rabbi Benny Lau says 929’s daily study program intends to build bridges between Diaspora Jewry and Israel using their common heritage

Faith book to Facebook / Former Satmar Hasidic Jew now tours world to expose sect’s dark underbelly BY ORI GOLAN

HOLLYWOOD JEWS Scholar reveals morbid roots of lost Stanley Kubrick script BY JP O’ MALLEY Film expert Nathan Abrams shocks fans by unveiling nearly finished manuscript by Jewish director, based on book by author, Holocaust survivor, and suicide victim Stefan Zweig

Interview / Howard Rosenman went to Israel to die. Now he’s making Oscar-winning cinema BY ERIC CORTELLESSA What he’s having /Director Rob Reiner says his family’s comic dynasty has some Royal fans BY YAAKOV SCHWARTZ

YAAKOV SELAVAN A war in Gaza, a pair of underpants and Tisha B’Av How a pair of underwear that was received under fire responds to Tisha B’Av negaters In the past few days, my Facebook feed has been divided between those who want to cancel or revise Tisha B’Av due to its irrelevance to our flourishing State of Israel, and those calling upon business owners to open their shops in the name of freedom and liberal values (against the law in Israel today). Last year, I shared my thoughts on Jewish unity learned during the 2014 Gaza Campaign (Operation Tzuk Eitan – Protective Edge),…