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The Weekend Edition

The Best Reads of the Week for Sunday, June 11, 2023

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Illustrative: Texas state Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, center, is joined by his sons, David and Whitby, during the Pledge of Allegiance in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol on the last day of the legislative session in Austin, Texas, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

'They can believe what they want, but can't impose it on us'

Jewish activists lead charge against inserting religion back into US public schools

By Cathryn J. Prince

With over 1,600 bills nationwide seeking to instill religious values in state educational institutions, advocacy groups protest the ‘crumbling wall’ between church and state

Op-ed

It’s not too late for Netanyahu to do the right thing

An earlier version of this Editor’s Note was sent out on Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. Break your head, devour analyses from supposed insiders, and try and figure out the logic of Prime... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on May 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AnalysisWrangling over nominations for judicial selection panel strains overhaul talks

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Poland's Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski in Tel Aviv, June 6, 2023 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)

Interview

Polish official says don’t compare WWII suffering of Poles, Jews: ‘All were victims’

By Lazar Berman

Poland’s deputy FM Pawel Jablonski, visiting Israel as the two countries look to mend ties, says his compatriots are wrongly painted as perpetrators

Police at the scene where a woman was shot and killed while sitting in her car in Haifa, May 8, 2023. (Flash90)

Analysis

As Arab homicide rate soars, government apathy comes into focus

A failure to prioritize the fight against organized crime, infighting between Arab criminal gangs, and deep-seated societal problems are all part of the problem, say MKs, experts

Hadash-Ta'al leader MK Ayman Odeh and MK Ahmad Tibi host their faction meeting at the Knesset, June 5, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hadash-Ta’al meets with Netanyahu as Arab MKs search for answer to rampant bloodshed

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Travelers seen exiting Ben Gurion International Airport, as Israel opens its borders and allows tourists to enter the country after months of being shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, November 1, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Exclusive

Israel to test eased entry for Palestinian-Americans before landing US visa waiver

But Arab activists demand improvements in treatment of all US travelers at all Israeli crossings before Biden administration begins allowing Israelis into US without visas

Illustrative: Police and community safety vehicles at a Jewish event in Brooklyn, New York City, May 19, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

NYC police report 100 anti-Jewish hate crimes since start of year, down from 2022

Tami Lehman-Wilzig

Antisemitism: It’s a name changer

If you think Jews’ hiding their identity doesn’t touch you, you’re not paying attention, but it’s not the only reason to change your name

Jews. Christians. Couscous.

At an interfaith conference in Geneva, the Spirit of God moved in air redolent of cinnamon, as an outlandishly diverse group ’schmoozed’ into the night

Sending all Haredi boys to yeshiva study harms Torah scholarship

With mediocre students packing the study halls, the gifted few have little chance to delve deeply and leave their mark

Do not give up on Judaism: It’s what makes Zionism profound

The liberal camp must fight for Israel’s Jewishness, or the Haredim and the religious-nationalists will hobble the country with their version of Judaism

Reuven Shvartsman looks out a window of his apartment building in Odesa, Ukraine, in February 2023. (Courtesy of IFCJ)

Scarred and hardened by the Holocaust, survivors relive it in war-torn Ukraine

By Canaan Lidor

Some draw on their childhood experiences to keep their fears in check, wile others are transported back to a sense of helplessness

A local resident makes her way through a flooded road after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed overnight, in Kherson, Ukraine, Jun 6, 2023. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Kherson Jews among thousands forced to flee rising water after Ukraine dam rupture

By Canaan Lidor

The Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a complex that was shut down a decade ago, is the site of a proposed $25 million conference center. (JTA)

Lithuanian city vows to preserve ancient Jewish cemetery it had sought to dig up

By Canaan Lidor

Dr. Jonathan Spyer on a reporting trip in Mosul, Iraq, September 2017. (courtesy)

ToI podcastIranians have an instrumental use for their hatred of Israel

What Matters Now to Jonathan Spyer: Iran’s confrontations with its enemies

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

New alliances thread through Mideast as Syria is re-embraced by the Arab League and Iran signs accords with Saudi Arabia, UAE. This week, we hear of additional looming hotspots

Conductor Ido Marko (far left) during an early June 2023 rehearsal of the Integrative Orchestra, comprising students from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and Shekel, a Jerusalem program for adults with special needs (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Budding musicians jam in Jerusalem integrative orchestra

By Jessica Steinberg

Conservatory president Michael Klinghoffer talks about making music meaningful, in community programs for people with special needs, the elderly and musical kids in the periphery

Painter Lotta Camilla Teale at work on a piece for 'Jerusalem: An Exhibition,' marking a year of living in the city (Courtesy Lotta Camilla Teale)

Eye for detailArtist marks year in Israel with oils of local life and landmarks

By Jessica Steinberg

Barbie doll creator Ruth Handler, left, gets a kiss from Kristi Cooke, an actress dressed as a Barbie doll, during the 35th birthday celebration for the doll at FAO Schwarz in New York City on March 9, 1994. (AP Photo/Robert Clark)

Way before icon Barbie got the Hollywood treatment, she was ‘born’ with Jewish roots

By Cathryn J. Prince

Debris left over from the Swissair, TWA and BOAC flights that were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and blown up on a landing strip in the Jordanian desert on September 12, 1970. (AFP)

Interview

Trauma revisited: Historian reconstructs her week aboard a hijacked jet in Jordan

For close to 50 years, Martha Hodes buried memories of being on a plane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1970 – until she decided to uncover all she could about the ordeal

Lucette Ferraille, Ruth Ben David and Ruth Blau in the different stages of her life. (Courtesy Motti Inbari and Nechama Davidson)

InterviewVillain or heroine? New book documents the complex, astonishing life of Ruth Blau

OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman (center) and Ilya Sutskever (right) on a panel at Tel Aviv University, June 5, 2023. (Chen Galili)

Israel will have ‘huge role’ to play in AI revolution, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says

By Sharon Wrobel

Visiting co-founder of Microsoft-backed OpenAI says firm is examining various investment options in Israel; meets with President Herzog, speaks to high-tech leaders and students

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in the center of Tel Aviv, December 25, 2018. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)

Shekel returns to gains amid cautious market optimism over judicial compromise bid

By Sharon Wrobel

Israel holds first demonstrations of air taxi flight tests. (B.Y. Creative & Productions)

Drone taxis take first test spin in Israel in bid to ease traffic congestion

By Sharon Wrobel

Teenagers vaping in a park (iStock)

Inside Story

With tobacco use on rise in Israel, kids and teens see their health go up in smoke

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative image: neurons inside the human brain (onimate via iStock by Getty Images)

New Israeli study shows link between autism and nitric oxide levels in brain neurons

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Peer-reviewed research at Hebrew University’s Pharmacy School could lead to drug treatments for people with autism and other neurological conditions

Israel sees its first-ever case of rare rapid aging ‘Benjamin Button’ disease

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Stimulating the brain during sleep, Tel Aviv team says it’s found key to better memory

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New Israeli technology improves prediction of patient response to immunotherapy

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hebrew University post-doctoral fellow Dr. Laurent Davin plays a recreated 12,000-year-old flute discovered in northern Israel. (credit Laurent Davin)

Archaeologists discover and replicate earliest musical instrument in the Middle East

By Melanie Lidman

Tiny 12,000-year-old bone hunting flute likely used to attract birds of prey for Natufian settlements in Hula Valley

A rare bronze medium denomination coin from the reign of Antigonus Mattathias II (40 BCE - 37 BCE), allegedly illegally excavated, after they were recovered from a suspect's home in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem, June 7, 2023. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyLooted rare coin from last Hasmonean king seized in raid on suspected thief

By Michael Horovitz

The last days of Tzvi M. Lewis

By Yehudah Wengrofsky

Even after my training in suicide prevention, I failed to see that the ’New York Romantic’ was clearly at risk*

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