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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 4, 2013

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Members of the Women of the Wall organization pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on October 17, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women can’t say mourner’s prayer at Western Wall, police announce

By Aaron Kalman

Kotel rabbi says later that offenders won’t be arrested

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces (not seen) during clashes following a protest against the death of a Palestinian prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia while in Israeli detention, April 3, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

Palestinians riot as prisoner is laid to rest in Hebron

By Stuart Winer

Abbas blames Israel for escalation in West Bank violence after two alleged firebombers are killed in Tulkarem

Two Palestinians killed after attack on army post

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians in Gaza fire rocket, mortars at Israel

Netanyahu vows ‘vigorous response’ to Gaza fire

A crack in Egypt’s Jewish amnesia

A new film surprises Egyptians by showing them there were once Jews here… and we kicked them out

The last cantor of Wlodawa

Tracing a belief in Jewish self-defense back to his roots in Poland, where Nazis murdered dozens of his relatives

Michael J. Salamon

I can’t keep up

Recalling his father bounding through the NY city streets, so far from the cattle car that nearly carried him to his death

Amira Hass in Ramallah, 2001 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Settlers accuse Haaretz writer of inciting violence

By Aaron Kalman

Amira Hass’s claim that ‘throwing stones is the birthright and duty’ of Palestinians is subject of police complaint

The scene of a suicide bombing on September 9, 2003 after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of Cafe Hillel coffee shop in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Burger joint to open in memory of terror victim

By Stuart Winer

A decade after a suicide bomber targeted Jerusalem’s Cafe Hillel, a friend of one of the victims realizes a dream

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz meets with Holocaust survivor Esther Friedman ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 3, 2013 (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Chief of staff meets the woman his mother saved in WWII

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Benny Gantz participates in IDF project that encourages soldiers to visit survivors

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meet in Jerusalem in 2010 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

US Jews urge Israel to take ‘confidence-building steps’ for talks

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Citing Obama’s March trip to Israel, 100 prominent US Jewish leaders call on Benjamin Netanyahu to ‘demonstrate commitment’ to peace

Crowds in Ramallah watch the speech of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN, November 29, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Giving US efforts a chance, Ramallah reportedly suspends recognition bids

By ToI Staff and AP

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris in 2008 (photo credit: Thaer Ganaim/Flash90)

‘Israel’s condescending Ashkenazi leaders preventing peace deal’

Hatnua’s Meir Sheetrit says cultural gap is the main obstacle to agreement; calls Arab Peace Initiative ‘best idea ever’

Illustrative photo of al-Qaeda-linked fighters after an attack on a Syrian army convoy in March, 2013. (screen capture: YouTube)

‘Up to 600 Europeans among ranks of Syrian rebels’

UK study finds volunteers from 14 EU countries have joined fight against Assad, warns that such fighters have gone on to feature in European-based terror plots

Jon Stewart's segment about Mohammed Morsi. (Screenshot: Comedy Central via YouTube)

In swipe at Stewart, Brotherhood tweets link on Jewish media control

Clip featuring CNN’s Rick Sanchez saying Stewart’s Jewishness doesn’t make him an ‘oppressed minority’ sent out after kerfuffle over satirist’s grilling

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Peres set to meet the pope on April 30

President will be highest-ranking Israeli official to meet Francis so far

Rozanne Dittersdorf hopes recent photos of her childhood home, left, and of her friend’s will help her find Phyllis Garfunkel. (Courtesy of Rozanne Dittersdorf via JTA))

Retiree seeks the sad girl from across the street

By Hillel Kuttler

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Amira Hass in Ramallah, 2001 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewEverybody must not get stoned

By Joshua Davidovich

Egyptian protesters chant slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, during a protest in front of the prosecutor general's office in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Arabic media reviewEgypt: Students win a round

By Michael Bassin

MK Meir Sheetrit surfing Facebook in the Knesset in 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Facebook virus hits Israel days before planned attack

Smoke rises from a building in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli airstrike on November 16, 2012 during Operation Pillar of Defense. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Saudi donation of $16 million to aid Gaza families

Rihanna performs in Tel Aviv as part of her 'Last Girl on Earth' tour, May 2010. (photo credit: Flash90)

Where have you been?‘Rihanna set to play Israel again’

By Aaron Kalman

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