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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 26, 2013

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Parcels of bread collected from settlements await distribution in the Palestinian village of Sawiyah Monday (photo credit: courtesy/Yaki Fried)

Settlers give pre-Passover bread to nearby Palestinians

By Elhanan Miller

3rd year of symbolic goodwill program; ‘why burn good bread when you can distribute it to your neighbors?’ asks Yaki Fried from the settlement of Ofra

Ada Aharoni, sitting on the right among volunteers, is the author of “The Golden Age of the Jews From Egypt." (Courtesy of Ada Aharoni via JTA)

Egyptian Jews record more recent ‘second Exodus’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Fearing new Islamist leaders are trying to blot out their history, authors of a new book compile their own story

10 unusual Passover traditions

Some crazy and beautiful practices, from scallion slaps and bowl breaking to reenactments and pregnancy announcements

Shmuley Boteach

What enslaves us?

Despite being politically liberated, many people suffer in a mental state of servitude

Men in civilian attire administer lashings to a man in Sirte. (photo credit: MEMRI)

Lashings make a comeback in post-Gaddafi Libya

By Ron Friedman

Clip shows men in Sirte being beaten by self-styled enforcers of Islamic law

Amir Omar Hassan, left, and Ingvild Selvik Ask, who were abducted by Bedouin gunmen last week, are seen after their release Monday at police headquarters in el-Arish, Egypt (photo credit: AP/Khaled Kandil)

Kidnapped Israeli tourist released in Egypt

Amir Omar Hassan and Norwegian companion freed after Cairo acquiesces to kidnappers’ demand to review drug dealer case

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama seen hosting a previous Passover Seder for family, staff and friends in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo/Pete Souza)

Obama hosts Passover Seder, enthuses about Israel visit

By Ron Friedman

In holiday greeting, US president speaks about celebrating freedom and the importance of repairing the world

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (photo credit: AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Erdogan aims to ‘monitor blockade’ during Gaza visit

Turkish PM says he will accompany aid groups to the Palestinian territories to make sure Israel keeps its end of the deal

Lawyer Lavi Soloway, center, and his husband, Sebastian Dungan, share a daughter who will soon turn 6. (Albane Navizet)

Jews, Israelis await US Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi poses for The Associated Press in New Brunswick, NJ. Amirahmadi, a professor at Rutgers University, is running for president of Iran. The liberal professor is embarking on a quixotic quest and must still win approval from the supreme leader's Iranian Supreme Council, which many say won't happen. But Amirahamadi is resolute, running a grassroots campaign and targeting Iranian expats who want to see the country open up to the West. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

US professor on quixotic quest to be Iran’s next president

By Katie Zezima

Hooshang Amirahmadi, 65, a dual US-Iranian citizen who says Iran should recognize Israel if a Palestinian state is established, aims to return to his home country and ‘make a splash’

A US Army Patriot Missile launcher (photo credit: US Army/Wikipedia)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote in the Likud primary elections together with his wife Sara, on November 24 (photo credit: Gil Yohanan/Flash90)

Forbes ranks Sara Netanyahu Israel’s most powerful woman

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Ben Zygier. (Screenshot ABC TV via Youtube)

Australian FM demands answers from Israel on Zygier case

By Ron Friedman

France: Jewish minister ‘doesn’t think in French’

Liverpool will preserve abandoned synagogue

Cigarettes for sale with a stamp of approval reading in Hebrew 'Kosher for Passover' at a kiosk in the ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Monday, March. 25, 2013. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Rabbis fired up over kosher cigarettes for Passover

By Daniel Estrin and Tia Goldenberg

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