Seeking strength on Sukkot * Those useless UNIFIL peacekeepers * How not to be an antisemite * I’m a Jewish atheist who praises God * How the Israel-Iran rope-a-dope ends

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, October 17, 2024 [Sukkot: Seeking strength]( By Rachel Sharansky Danziger This year, we don’t need our transient sukkahs to remind us how fragile life is, but we also can’t let our knowledge impede our resolve to carry on Catherine Perez-Shakdam [UNIFIL, the peacekeepers who watch but do not see]( The Force, in its current form, is worse than useless – it is an enabler of the very conflict it was designed to prevent Michael Oren [How the Israel-Iran rope-a-dope ends]( My father’s boxing lessons taught me that a fight with the neighborhood bully must conclude with a knockout – and now is our chance [To young American Jews who turned your backs on our people]( By Ammiel Hirsch If you do not feel a special bond with other Jews, you are, in Jewish terms, emotionally damaged. A rabbi’s Yom Kippur confession Jonathan Lipow [How to be an anti-Zionist without being an antisemite]( And the 4 bogus anti-Israel canards – Colonization, Occupation, Apartheid, and Genocide – that show who the Jew-haters are Varda Morell [Remembering Maoz]( We had been given a gift. We had the opportunity to hold our son’s hand and hug him. We had the chance to say goodbye [Graffiti comes home]( By Rivy Poupko Kletenik I wish whoever stuck the word ’genocide’ on our lawn had the mettle to open a conversation. I am more than ready to talk Yakov Nagen [Sukkot: 4 parts in harmony]( The joy of this holiday comes from the combination of appreciation for the individual, the community, humanity, and God, in concert together Stephen Saperstein Frug [This Jewish atheist has been praising God’s name]( I’ve said the Mourner’s Kaddish, a prayer of elaborate affirmation of divine will, for nearly a year of my life – twice. Here’s why [Warplanes and birdsong]( By Ruthi Soudack Between sleep and alertness, life’s stresses come to the surface; I lie awake, worried, listening to the planes, until the birds let me know it’s time to get up Top Ops Menucha Saitowitz [Two Women]( Two headscarves, tied differently. Two smiles. Two friends. They are what the future should look like Yael Shahar [Sukkot: Dancing over the abyss]( Does the Torah really expect Jews to be altogether and only joyful during the holiday of Sukkot? That seems impossible, especially this year Talya Rechavi [‘Operation Hush’: Silencing the families of the hostages]( Just weeks after October 7th, members of Netanyahu’s coalition began a venomous attack against families of the hostages. Here’s how and why Abraham H. Foxman [The most important vote US Jews will ever cast]( With Israel in peril and the Jewish community under attack, we need a president with a commitment to democratic norms [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