Weekly Highlights: Logan Paul wants to be gay for a month * Israel is not veering to the right * I’m glad I live in Germany * Israel’s Arabs as political punching bag

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 24, 2019 [So, Logan Paul wants to be gay for a month]( By [Yonatan Gher]( [It might be the worst idea ever — or maybe it’s the best, and we should all learn the value of walking in someone else’s shoes]( [David Harris]( [Michelle Alexander’s NY Times column hits new low]( [Reading Michelle Alexander’s column, “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine,” in The New York Times (Jan. 20) isn’t for the faint of heart. So many questions swirl around it that it’s hard to know where to begin. First, I wish I could say I was surprised to see such a flawed and polemical piece in the paper, but then again the Times isn’t exactly new to such pieces, at least when it comes to Israel-related matters. Second, outrageously, Ms. Alexander tried to link her column to the memory of Martin Luther King,...]( [Orni Petruschka and Liat Schlesinger]( [Israeli left’s ideas are winning; why aren’t its politicians?]( [Leftist politicians have been duped by false propaganda claiming the public opposes a two-state solution]( [Donna Swarthout]( [I’m Jewish, American and happy to live in Berlin]( [To those who warn me about the rise of European nationalism: My family has never experienced anti-Semitism in Germany]( [Ilana Blumberg]( [The teacher with light in her eyes]( [She borrows from yoga for the classroom to help body and mind work well together — and it’s a lifesaver for my kid]( [Ariel Levinson]( [Daniel Gordis, you’re making it worse!]( [If we want a strong relationship between young Americans and Israel, they need to meet Israelis, not Palestinians]( [Ilana Fodiman-Silverman]( [That Tu Bishvat teeth-defying dried carob]( [These short, cold, wet days, when most trees appear barren, are hardly festive, so we rejoice in the promise of what is yet to come]( [Why I cry over The Giving Tree]( By [Ilana Kurshan]( [The books I read to my kids remind me all too well that I cannot freeze my children in the moment]( [Sheri Oz]( [McJesus — What was really going on?]( [Was a political ploy to manipulate the new mayor at the core of what looked like an attack on artistic expression?]( [Romi Sussman]( [Not your typical ski day]( [What do you do when Syrian missiles mess with your winter wonderland?]( [Where are the women?]( By [Todd Berman]( [Or: why a yeshiva for young men dedicates a day to study the role of women in Judaism and Jewish society]( more Choice voices [Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya]( [Will Israel’s Arabs be a political punching bag — again?]( [Unprecedented state funding for the Arab community still hasn’t translated to equal rights for the Arab community]( [Hara Person]( [On Roe v. Wade anniversary, reproductive rights hang by a thread]( [US conservatives are making dangerous inroads in their efforts to force women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term]( [David Curwin]( [What is a shekel worth?]( [My father left coins at every bus stop he frequented; he was buying happiness]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [The Forward deals a blow to the kishkes]( [News that the venerable publication is losing its print edition and shedding staff is an ominous sign of the state of Jewish journalism]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved