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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 9, 2013

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A woman crosses Congress Street during a snowstorm in Portland, Maine, Friday. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what was predicted to be a huge, possibly historic blizzard and sending residents scurrying to stock up on food and gas up their cars. The storm could dump 1 to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Death toll in US blizzard rises as big dig-out begins

By JTA and AP

Brunt of storm slams northeast coast, knocking out power for hundreds of thousands, but snow not as bad as many forecasted

Former Chechen rebel and current head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Head of Chechnya to attend Beitar’s soccer game Sunday

By Michal Shmulovich and Yoel Goldman

Leader of Russian republic reportedly coming in light of fans’ racist outrage over club’s signing of two Muslim Chechen players

A sixth broken camera

Speechless in Seattle after taking knocks at ‘nonviolent’ Palestinian demonstrations in the West Bank

Can we teach a dual narrative?

Both sides in the conflict are addicted to teaching ideology, not truth

Haifa Wehbe (photo credit: Twitter)

Beauty and the beast

Starlet denies Nasrallah nuptuals

Reports of unlikely romance — between Lebanese sex icon Haifa Wehbe and Hezbollah leader — vehemently rejected

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, the foreign minister of Cyprus, during his visit to the island country in February (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90/GPO)

Cyprus upgrades Palestinian mission to embassy

By Ron Friedman and AP

Foreign minister says move in line with Nicosia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood in 1988

John Kerry will head back to Capitol Hill to brief the full Senate on Thursday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

Kerry warns Iran: Be ready to talk seriously, or else

‘We are prepared to let diplomacy be the victor’ in dispute over nuclear program, says US secretary, but if not ‘we’ll do what’s necessary’

Israel travels

On the east-west shadowline: Jerusalem’s municipal complex

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Smoke and fire rising on a main highway in Damascus, Syria on Friday, February 8 (photo credit: AP/Ugarit News)

Syrian rebels close in on capital, block key highway

‘This is not the battle for Damascus. This battle is to prepare for the entry into Damascus,’ says an opposition spokesman

Egyptian protesters set off fireworks at the presidential palace during a demonstration in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 8 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

One dead, over 100 injured as police, protesters clash in Cairo

Tens of thousands of anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters take to the streets across Egypt

Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier operating a reconnaissance drone. (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Lebanese army accuses Israel of 17-hour overflights

Report that Israel sent ‘spy’ drones to South Lebanon twice follows repeated claims about IAF jets conducting mock sorties

Seth Freedman, center, channeled disenchantment with Israel and his IDF service into a popular online column for Britain's Guardian newspaper. (Courtesy of Seth Freedman)

IDF vet turned author teases UK with Mossad alter ego

By Miriam Shaviv

A former darling of British anti-Zionists, Seth Freedman mixes memoir with fiction in his provocative new novel

Uruguayan town offers sun, sand and Shabbat

By Diego Melamed

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US Army officers stand at a Patriot anti-missile battery site during a joint Israeli-US air defense exercise in Tel Aviv, in 2009. (photo credit: Ziv Koren/Flash90)

Flaws found in US missile shield against Iran

By Desmond Butler

An illustration from Maurice Sendak's seminal work, "Where the Wild Things Are" (photo credit: screen capture/WSJ Tribute to Maurice Sendak)

Jewish books illustrated by Sendak sold at NY auction

23-year-old held for fatal shooting in north

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers patrolling a field in the West Bank. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Palestinians attempt to erect another West Bank camp

Hanegbi: Partners must compromise for wide coalition

Illustrative photo of soldiers from Nahal Haredi, an ultra-Orthodox battalion in the Israel Defense Forces (Abir Sultan/Flash90, File)

From the webHaredi leaders at emergency meeting: No to IDF enlistment

An Argentine and Israeli flag stand side by side at the office of Guillermo Borger, president of the Jewish community center AMIA, Argentina. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Argentine Jews suspicious of bombing probe deal

By AP and ToI Staff

An illustrative photo of a hotdog (CC-BY-TheCulinaryGeek/Flickr)

Haute dogA meaty (kosher) question

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