A Reform rabbi’s anguish * Los Angeles, you failed us * Can the Haredim and IDF get along? * The price of fear * Despite it all, Israelis are getting religion

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, June 27, 2024 [Can the Haredim and IDF peacefully co-exist?]( By Avigail Knoll Let’s be honest: The army has broken promises to ultra-Orthodox soldiers, and Yeshiva students aren’t all Torah scholars Suzie Navot [Loud and clear: The Court’s ruling on the Haredi draft]( All 9 justices were unequivocal in confirming that the government is subject to the rule of law – and the delay in drafting Haredim illegal Shervin Eli Natan [Los Angeles, you have failed us Jews]( If your mayor wants to prevent anarchy, her government cannot be lax when it comes to those who commit crimes against the Jewish community [The anguished dilemma of a Reform rabbi]( By Mark Cohn Jews are a particular people with a universal message – If we abandon our particularity, we risk losing ourselves Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky [Double standards on display: Israel, the UN, children and armed conflict]( 4 findings that call into question the stark conclusions of the UN Children and Armed Conflict Report that blacklisted Israel for violating children’s rights Deborah Danan [In the mourners’ tent after my son’s aide was killed in Gaza]( Saadia Derai’s mother chastised Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials. I told her of her son’s final kindness to my family [The price of fear]( By Avidan Freedman Though rooted in real safety concerns, the push to totally ban Palestinian workers has its own dangers, external and internal Rachelli Prawer [We already know we will win. Here’s the real question]( Jewish history shows that the end of the story is predetermined. But our role in it, and our destiny as individuals, is not Kenneth Brander [Israelis are getting religion, despite a coercive Chief Rabbinate]( Religion clearly does better in the free marketplace of ideas. Israel can’t become a spiritual epicenter through coercion [Please, look now]( By Yael Leibowitz The day You hid Your face from us, God, we found ourselves. Your children ran into fire, not away from it more choice voices Alexandria Fanjoy Silver [For the future of Israel, Biden must win]( With Trump and the Squad turning Israel into a partisan issue, the only way to continue US bipartisan support of the Jewish state is reelecting Joe Biden Zehavit Meltzer [In search of my father]( All we knew was that he flew to Entebbe aboard one of the four Hercules airplanes on July 3, 1976, with strict instructions not to disembark Edmund Case [Ordaining intermarried rabbis is not enough]( The Reform rabbinical school missed an opportunity to fully welcome interfaith families into the Jewish community Rachel Lester [I read the new ‘Gaza famine report’ so you don’t have to]( 5 ways the report suggests there’s no famine in Gaza [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 © 2024 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved