This filmmaker gets AIPAC all wrong * I used to be a BDS activist * Israel is a hot mess * Denmark’s circumcision obsession

This filmmaker gets AIPAC all wrong * I used to be a BDS activist * Israel is a hot mess * Denmark’s circumcision obsession * Why school is not important now

Thursday, September 10, 2020

Israel is a hot mess BY MOLLY LIVINGSTONE There are so many better ways to handle this situation that don’t involve inconsistency, hypocrisy, randomness, or illogical busy-work

AVIDAN MILEVSKY Why school is not important now What’s more important than education? Addressing the mental health upheaval created by this pandemic and tending to children’s basic needs

JIM SHALOM The day our nursing home stopped being COVID-19-free We sealed off the home, curtailed visits by family members, and multidisciplinary team members like me switched to working remotely. But would it be enough?

TAL BAR OR How we flattened the curve among the ultra-Orthodox flip-phone users Once we had tracked a population that doesn’t use the internet and dramatically reduced its large number of seriously infected cases, I knew we could manage it anywhere

FROM THE BLOGS Misunderstanding AIPAC and American politics BY DAVID E. BERNSTEIN The director of a film that slams the pro-Israel org holds the erroneous view that any group that’s not explicitly left-wing is the right-wing enemy

KENNETH JACOBSON The UAE breakthrough could spread tolerance across the region Will the Arab country’s push for a more pluralistic Mideast challenge the radicalism and anti-Semitism that have poisoned the region for so long?

ALI DRABU My journey from BDS activist to Israel educator If someone had come to me over six years ago and told me that in my final year of university, I would be graduating from a fellowship programme run by StandWithUs UK, I would have probably called them deluded, maybe even insane. Yet here I am, over a year later, reflecting on every aspect of what I encountered and experienced as a StandWithUs Emerson fellow. Overall, this has been a year that shattered many of my preconceptions and expectations. It has been an experience from which I have learned a lot,…

LAURA SHAW FRANK Seth Rogen is wrong about Israel education in America As an Israel educator, I have seen the sea-change in the way Israel is taught; his critique may have once been on-target, but it is no longer legitimate

VILHJÁLMUR ÖRN VILHJÁLMSSON How is fighting circumcision Denmark’s priority in 2020? The revived push for a ban on brit milah, much of it coming from politicians who simply hate Jews and Muslims, is a stain on Danish history

CHENG XU The forgotten Olympic weightlifting hero of the Munich massacre I never knew him personally, but I learn from Yossef Romano, a weightlifter like me, who sacrificed himself to give his teammates a fighting chance

FROM THE BLOGS My date with history… and hope BY YOSEF I. ABRAMOWITZ Scientists on a desert kibbutz coaxed fruit out of 2,000-year-old seeds found at Masada. It tastes like honey mixed with inspiration

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ROBBY BERMAN WATCH: Sneaking into Israel A single mother of six is one of thousands of Palestinians who illegally enter the country to find work every day. The 1-hour journey starts at 4:30 am ALAN ABRAMS Elsa freezes Anna We know that superheros don’t always save the day in real life; what we need to learn is that we all have superpowers – our own unique gifts – that we are called to use CHAYA LESTER This is your brain on Elul It’s a month of hardcore training for the metaphysical marathon of the High Holidays: Do the work, and epiphany can be the reward MARLA COHEN Sign up for shul — it’s the new normal Since I can’t take shul for granted anymore, I ask: what else do we change? Do we shorten the service? The Torah reading? Welcome to the brave new world of COVID-19 worship

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