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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 9, 2013

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An ultra-Orthodox jewish man walks in the snow on a Jerusalem street, Wednesday, January 9, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liveblog: The big storm (now closed)

Jerusalem tucks in with a white blanket

Snow piles up on the streets of the capital and surrounding towns

Navy enters Hadera to rescue stranded residents

Israel’s neighbors get fair share of wild winter storm

By Jamal Halaby

As Israel remains drenched, US measures hottest year ever

By AP and ToI Staff

"What? You're not Jewish?" "I am now!" Shas plays the ethnic card in an election ad (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Election ads: The vague, the dishonest, and the crazy

By Matti Friedman

In Tuesday’s first batch of TV campaign commercials, Jewish Home kept its less palatable faces hidden, Livni briefly dared mention ‘peace,’ Shas dismally played the ethnic card, and we learned that Yachimovich labels the containers in her fridge

Teheran votes YES! on Hagel

What better signal does Obama need that Chuck Hagel is a bad idea than the warm reception his appointment is getting from Iran?

Shame on Shas, shame on us

A campaign ad spewing racism is our wake-up call to the party’s message and danger

Imagining coexistence: a Muslim – Jewish journey

Twenty students discover the complex political reality of Jerusalem and dream of talking peace over a cup of coffee

Seven times eight is how many? From the Likud-Beytenu's TV ad (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Try again!

Seven times eight is how many?

By Kayla R Horovitz

Likud gets its multiplication tables wrong in TV ad, though perhaps the mystery (non-Israeli) teacher was correcting them

The mausoleum at the Majdanek concentration camp outside Lublin, Poland. Under the dome are the ashes of the victims of a November 1943 mass execution that completed the liquidation of the Jewish population of the Lublin district. (photo credit: CC BY-ND Kasia/Flickr)

Poland probes artist’s claim that he used Holocaust victims’ ash to ‘paint’ a picture

Ghoulish work was displayed in a Swedish gallery and later pulled following protests from Jewish groups

In advance of a January court hearing in the case, a hashtag translating to #IfIWereANazi was briefly one of the top five trending topics on French Twitter. (Screenshot)

Twitter heads to Paris court after flood of ‘Nazi’ posts

By Rebecca Benhamou

Major tolerance groups join Jewish student organization in claiming social media giant is violating French laws banning hate speech

Illustrative: computer security (cyber security image via Shutterstock)

Iran behind spate of cyber-attacks against American banking sites, US says

Security breaches bear the hallmarks of a sophisticated, state-sponsored onslaught, security experts tell The New York Times

A Russian bride receives a 'insta-conversion' to Judaism certificate in a new televised advertisement for the Shas party (photo credit: image capture/Youtube)

1-800-Jew-me

Shas vs. shiksa?

Ultra-Orthodox party’s ad aims to spark fear of eased conversion to Judaism

People stand on a platform waiting to get on the subway in New York City (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Anti-Muslim ads posted in New York subway

American Freedom Defense Initiative rents space next to station clocks to put up posters featuring quotes from Quran

A worker on Tuesday prepares ballot boxes for the January 22 elections at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, before they are shipped to polling stations. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israelis in New Zealand to kick off voting Wednesday night

By Michal Shmulovich

4,000 citizens employed at 92 missions around the world to vote overseas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Amit Shabi/Flash90)

Times of Israel poll VII

The Netanyahu disconnect — most voters like him, but most give him only a fair or bad job rating

By Stephan Miller

53% of likely voters have a positive view of the Likud leader, in the Times of Israel poll. But only 39% say he’s doing an excellent or good job as PM

Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk in front of campaign posters for the Likud-Beytenu list in Jerusalem, this week. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Times of Israel poll VIIITraditional Jews vote Likud-Beytenu, while the Orthodox choose Bennett

By Stephan Miller

Danny Danon speaks at a rally in 2010. Once a back-bencher, Danon is now ninth on the Likud list, putting him within reach of a Cabinet post (Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90)

The new face of Likud

By Matti Friedman

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Kadima's Facebook game app (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Some parties take the low road in social media election campaign

By David Shamah

Amy Winehouse (photo credit: CC-BY, Berlinfotos, Wikimedia Commons)

Alcohol poisoning confirmed as Winehouse cause of death

Protesters chant pro-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki slogans during a demonstration in Basra, Iraq, on Tuesday, January 8, 2013. The poster on the right reads, 'No Baathists after today.' (photo credit: AP/Nabil al-Jurani)

Arabic media reviewFistfight breaks out in Iraqi parliament

By Michael Bassin

Floods near the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv due to heavy rain on January 7. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSoaked with news about rain

By Ilan Ben Zion

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