Once again, this terror * A very Jewish Thanksgiving * Sportswashing Qatar * Klezmer was my rock * Don’t know what to say? Try nothing * I hate cranberry sauce

[Times of Israel]( [The Blogs Weekly]( Thursday, November 24, 2022 [Once again, this terror]( By [Rachel Sharansky Danziger]( [The familiarity of the today’s explosions weighs me down. I don’t want my children to have to know this. I don’t want my traumas to be theirs]( [Maury Kelman]( [A very Jewish Thanksgiving]( [Was it Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Hanukkah, or the First Fruits offering that inspired the American day of gratitude? We can’t be sure, but the similarities are clear]( [Adam Levick]( [Cranberry sauce has no right to exist]( [Overrated in any context, the condiment has no business sidling up to, corrupting and defiling the dignified, savory foods that belong on a Thanksgiving plate]( From the blogs [Russia’s ‘denazification’ lie and the whitewash of Roman Shukhevych]( By [Efraim Zuroff and Per Anders Rudling]( [The case of a journalist charged with spraying ‘Actual Nazi’ on a statue in Canada highlights Ukraine’s distortion of its history of complicity in Nazi crimes]( [CRM]( [Ilya Bezruchko]( [Why Israel is not ready for aliyah]( [I always knew that Israel would welcome us Jewish Ukrainians with open arms, but after the war began, I found that getting the support we needed was not that simple]( [Sam Lehman-Wilzig]( [It’s time for an umbrella party]( [If Meretz, Labor and Yesh Atid join together, they’ll vie with Likud, and return Israel to the familiar healthy democracy that depends on two strong competing parties]( [Sportswashing]( By [Radha Stirling]( [When Qatar insisted on hosting the World Cup, people’s love of soccer again surpassed their disapproval of dictators, corruption, and human rights abuses]( [Dan Ornstein]( [Rabbi, I don’t know what to say…]( [When bad things happen to the good people we know, we want to help them, fix them, and support them – as soon as possible. What if that’s not the best we can do?]( [Leah Bieler]( [Was the brutal attack on me in my home just bad luck?]( [Unlike like Paul Pelosi’s assailant, our attacker was not spurred by the cynical right-wing disinformation machine that manipulates the vulnerable]( [Klezmer was my rock]( By [Erik Ross]( [It’s a hybrid music, as Yiddish is a blended tongue, made to trespass and wander over boundaries. But it surpasses all its components.]( more choice voices [Chana Pinto]( [Terror is no laughing matter]( [Antisemites broadcast on social media – that’s not news. What alarmed me was the ease with which they infiltrated Jewish and Israeli pages and mocked our pain]( [Assaf Shapira]( [When the Israeli political parties that run together don’t serve together]( [As a combined faction, the 3 parties of Religious Zionism handily passed the electoral threshold, but their split once elected, though legal, seems wrong]( [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 © 2022 The Times Of Israel, All Rights Reserved