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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 3, 2012

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The view from Herzl House (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

In the midst of a forest, a house for Herzl

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

An early 20th-century villa built in tribute to the Zionist founder is nestled in the center of the Hulda Forest, surrounded by lush foliage of every variety. A training farm for pioneers, it proved an unlikely retreat during the riots of 1929

This aerial photo shows the Breezy Point neighborhood, in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, where more than 50 homes were burned to the ground Monday night as a result of superstorm Sandy. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

Reporter’s Notebook

On a fifth day without power after Sandy, frustration and uncertainty mount

By Haviv Rettig Gur

New Yorkers like to believe they inhabit the world’s essential city; speak to them now and you’ll hear a different story

A Haredi couple awaits the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on Monday in Brooklyn. (Azi Paybarah via Twitter/JTA)

Jewish volunteers step up in Sandy’s wake

By Chavie Lieber

Daylight in the whale’s belly: Jonah, and Obama’s Israel trust gap

It’s true that by the second half of his tenure, the president’s approach toward Israel seemed to evolve, but it was never clear that his basic thinking had changed

Elections and the next startup challenge

The outcome of voting in January will profoundly affect Israel’s high tech industry and the prospects of its startups

Waziristan (photo credit: Gregor Enste/Wikimedia Commons)

They were so unhygienic

Ex-neo-Nazi regrets joining the Taliban

By Yoel Goldman

Jailed German jihadist tells court he ended up contracting hepatitis A, and his wife missed her mobile phone and supermarkets

Senior Palestinian official says UN upgrade will lead to suing Israel for ‘its crimes’

By Yoel Goldman

Nabil Shaath, of Abbas’s Fatah party, claims nonmember status bid will receive ‘overwhelming’ support

Ehud Barak (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Barak slams top aide’s critical comments on new Egypt, says Israel won’t interfere

Following Egyptian requests for clarification, defense minister says Amos Gilad’s bitter remarks about Cairo don’t reflect Israel’s position

In this illustrative photo, rebel fighters watch over their enemy's position as they prepare themselves to shoot a shoulder-fired rocket towards a Syrian army tank in the Karm al-Jebel neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Gruesome video raises concerns about Syria rebels’ rights record

By Karin Laub and Zeina Karam

Footage appears to show gunmen kicking, beating and shooting captured soldiers loyal to Assad as they lie helpless (warning: graphic video inside)

In this Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 photograph, Israeli women work at the Tikkun Olam medical cannabis farm near the northern Israeli city of Safed, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israel pushing ahead in medical marijuana industry

By Lauren E. Bohn

Cannabis is administered without much controversy to over 10,000 Israeli patients, among them aging Holocaust survivors who struggle to cope with disease

Martyna Majewska, center, guides a tour in Warsaw that shows former Jewish sites. (Marcin Kozlinski via JTA)

Polish gentiles increasingly embrace Jewish culture as part of their own heritage

By Katarzyna Markusz

Growing efforts to preserve and resurrect Poland’s Jewish past reflect changing attitudes to country’s anti-Semitic history

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, left, in Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet." (Courtesy of RKO Pictures)

Israeli director proves a lord of the strings with world-class ‘Quartet’

By Jordan Hoffman

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An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Anti-Semitic incidents in the US down by 13%, ADL audit finds

Campaign signs for both US President Barack Obama and his challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, are seen in yards outside Evans City, Pennsylvania on Friday (photo credit: AP/Keith Srakocic)

US electionsWithout Clinton, possibly without Panetta, a second-term Obama would try to keep ‘Arab Spring’ from unraveling

Iranians burn a representation of an Israeli flag during an annual state-backed rally outside the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran in November 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Iranians mark 33rd anniversary of US embassy seizure

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

Then-minister of communications Moshe Kahlon is embraced and congratulated by Likud members at a party convention held in Tel Aviv on October 17, 2012. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Kahlon might stay in Likud if given Finance portfolio, MK says

By Joshua Davidovich

Well-known for her Democratic politics, Barbra Streisand says she's voting for President Obama. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Barbra backs BarackObama secures Streisand’s support

By Nathan Burstein

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