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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 11, 2013

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Gilles Bernheim, the chief rabbi of France, leaving the Elysee Palace in Paris after meeting with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, March 21, 2012. (photo credit: Franck Prevel/Getty via JTA)

French chief rabbi quits amid plagiarism, qualification scandals

By JTA and Gavriel Fiske

Resignation comes less than 48 hours after Bernheim said he’d stay on ‘as a show of humility’

Turkish flags and a photo of the prime minister outside of an east Jerusalem restaurant (Photo credit: Uri Lenz/ Flash 90)

The Middle East’s code of honor: Does Israel understand it?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Netanyahu’s change of course on Turkey reopens the question of whether issuing a forced apology, for an act deemed ‘legitimate,’ is smart self-interest or fundamental, damaging miscalculation

Shmuly Yanklowitz

What the Torah says about eating stale popcorn

The sages teach that if we embrace the false pleasure of instant gratification, we are headed for a life of unfulfilled potential

No regrets: A former Israeli celebrates

When I gave up on living in Israel did I forfeit my right to celebrate the realization of Herzl’s dream?

Women of the Women of the Wall organization wear prayer shawls as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, April 11, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Court frees female activists, calls Western Wall arrests groundless

By Ron Friedman and Gavriel Fiske

Judge rejects police request to bar the female worshipers from Western Wall for three months; Wall rabbi says the Women of the Wall ‘fueling hatred’

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews holding a prayer rally in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square in opposition of the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service, June 25, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox daily calls for Haredi ‘autonomous zone’

By Stuart Winer

Hamodia suggests self-rule for Israel’s strictly religious Jews as a solution to increasing secular interference

Anthony Weiner (photo: Courtesy US Congress)

Disgraced ex-congressman Weiner mulls bid for NY mayor

Veteran Democrat says polls show voters ready to forgive scandal

Rabbi Eliezer Igra believes the chief rabbinate is 'at the heart of the unity of the People of Israel' (photo credit: Courtesy)

Torah, gefilte fish, and the road to the rabbinate

By Matti Friedman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem on April 8, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Officials say ‘no thanks’ to Kerry plan to jump-start talks

By Joshua Davidovich and Gavriel Fiske

After top US diplomat leaves, Jerusalem reportedly takes issue with pre-negotiation concessions, proposed agenda

Shimon Peres and Margaret Thatcher, undated. (photo credit: Yaakov Saar/GPO)

In first foreign trip since elections, PM to attend Thatcher’s funeral

By ToI Staff and Greg Tepper

Former British leader’s family invited both Netanyahu and President Peres

View of Eilat (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Eilat mayor threatens to seal off city over VAT plan

By Gavriel Fiske

Finance Ministry wants to introduce sales tax at Red Sea vacation spot

Amar'e Stoudemire takes a practice shot. (photo credit: CC BY-scott mecum, Flickr)

From the web

Knicks Amar’e Stoudemire to coach Canada in Maccabiah

US basketball star, who visited in 2010 after discovering Jewish roots, will be assistant skipper at upcoming sports competition, New York Times reports

Austria party fires member over alleged Nazi FB posts

FPO party spokesman, Stefan Gotschacher, is accused of posting a battle song of Hitler’s Waffen-SS units on his personal page

The scene after the mass fatal car crash near Haifa, on April 10, 2013. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Family of truck driver to attend victims’ funerals

15 still hospitalized after gruesome Haifa crash that killed 6; driver had 16 prior violations

Palestinian PM Fayyad said to tender resignation

By Joshua Davidovich

Move reported by Reuters after relations with PA head Abbas worsen over finance minister’s departure

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Rescue personnel at the site of a mass car crash that left 6 dead on a major Haifa road, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDeadly crash shocks and awes

By Ilan Ben Zion

Egyptian activists shout anti-Muslim brotherhood slogans in front of Egypt's state prosecutors office in support of popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 31, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Arabic media reviewEgypt’s economy breathes

By Michael Bassin

A large model of a M75 long-range missile is seen as hundreds of thousands attend a rally to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza city in December. (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Palestinian support for Hamas, rocket fire plummets, poll finds

The exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Lauder gifts $1 billion in art to NYC’s Met

Actor Rod Taylor in the 1960 movie adaptation of 'The Time Machine,' H.G. Wells' classic 1895 science fiction novel. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

I ran to the futureTehran time warp

By Gavriel Fiske

The Dubai police's $550,000 Lamborghini Aventador (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Ticket to rideDubai’s super cop car

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