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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Jobbik party supporters burning an EU flag at a rally in Budapest in 2012. (screen capture/YouTube)

Jewish leaders to Kerry: Confront Hungary’s rising anti-Semitism

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Acute concerns over growth of extremist Jobbik party, violence against Jews, cemetery desecration, widespread anti-Jewish sentiment

Head of Hungarian Jewry steps down amid criticism

Hezbollah to open ‘new front’ in Golan Heights

By Michal Shmulovich

Iran reportedly convinces Assad to let Lebanese group attack Israel from Syrian territory, calls on ‘all Arabs and Muslims’ to unite and join fight

For first time since Syrian uprising, 2 mortars hit Mt. Hermon

By Michal Shmulovich

US, Russian officials: Syria peace conference in June

By ToI Staff and AP

Dutch FM: No problem with Israel striking in Syria

Neshama Carlebach

Beyond the Beyond at the Gates of Auschwitz

Miraculously, I saw the light shining on the thousands of people who were there: They entered by choice and would leave freely

Actress Angelina Jolie authored an op-ed for Tuesday’s May 14, 2013, New York Times, where she writes that in April she finished three months of surgical procedures to remove both breasts as a preventive measure. (photo credit: AP/Carlo Allegri, File)

Attack the BRCA

‘Jewish’ gene spurs Jolie’s mastectomy

The mutation found on the star’s BRCA1 gene is most common in women of Eastern European Jewish descent — about five times higher than in the general population

A Palestinian sets fire to a tire during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers outside the Ofer prison after a march marking the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, or 'Day of Catastrophe,' on Wednesday. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

4 soldiers injured as Palestinians mark Nakba Day

By ToI Staff and AP

‘The right of return will not die,’ chant thousands across West Bank; rocket launched from Gaza explodes in open field

Members of the jury of the World Press Photo contest listen to questions during a press conference as the winning picture by Paul Hansen, Sweden, for Dagens Nyheter, is projected on a screen in Amsterdam in February. (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

World Press Photo stands by winning shot of Gaza funeral

Organization reviews files supplied by photographer, finds ‘no evidence’ of significant manipulation

Claims Conference chief Greg Schneider visiting a Nazi victim at her home in Moldova. (Photo credit: Courtesy of Claims Conference/JTA)

Claims Conference failed to act when alerted to massive fraud in 2001

Letter revealing corruption reached Greg Schneider, today the CEO, but organization did not stop what became a $57 million scam

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem in 2013. (photo credit: AP/Gali Tibbon)

Ex-PM and former Mossad chief rap PM’s silence on Arab peace plan

By Josef Federman

Ehud Olmert says historic opportunity ‘must be seized,’ Danny Yatom urges strengthening mutual trust

The International Criminal Court in The Hague (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Hanhil, Nederlandstalige Wikipedia)

ICC opens initial probe against Israel over Marmara raid

By AP and ToI Staff

Ship was registered to African island state of Comoros, which filed complaint to International Criminal Court

Abdellah Boutadghart, right, of the Moroccan embassy in Senegal, and Rabbi Eliezer Di Martino of Lisbon at the main cemetery in Praia for the burial of a Cape Verde resident, May 2, 2013. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why is the Moroccan king funding Jewish sites?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Dancing at the 'First Station' Jerusalem on Tuesday (photo credit: Courtesy: First Station Jerusalem)

Jerusalem Photo Essay

On track opening for cultural train station

Shavuot-themed opening day at revitalized ‘First Station’ arts-entertainment-dining complex draws thousands

Silver medalist Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi, from Iran; gold medalist Jordan Ernest Burroughs, from the US; bronze medalist Soslan Tigiev, from Uzbekistan; and bronze medalist Denis Tsargush, from Russia, participate in the medals ceremony for men's 74-kg freestyle wrestling competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London, August 10, 2012. (AP/Paul Sancya, File)

Wrestlers from Iran, US and Russia take to the mat for sport

By Luke Meredith

Exhibition matches, to be held at Grand Central Station, designed to highlight the sport’s international appeal and popularity with sport threatened at Olympics

Wassim Razzouk tattoos an Ethiopian Christian Orthodox pilgrim in a hotel in Jerusalem, Monday, May 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Dusan Vranic)

At a Jerusalem parlor, centuries of pilgrim tattoos

By Daniela Berretta and Ian Deitch

Orthodox Christians ink themselves with a permanent reminder of their visit with a family that has practiced the art form for generations

Illustrative photo shows members of the Jewish community in Canton, Ohio, celebrating the dedication of a new building, July 12, 2012. (photo credit: Karen Phillippi/JTA)

To stay afloat, shuls merging across denominational divide

By Ben Gittleson

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Illustrative: Doctors perform surgery on a patient at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webIsraeli doctors save Syrian girl’s life

A Lebanese army soldier passes in front of Syrian flag, in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Attacks against Lebanese Alawites deepen fears

By Bassam Mroue

UNRWA's Ann Dismorr (second from right) holds the Israel-less map. (photo credit: screen capture/pn-news.net)

Israel files complaint against UNRWA Lebanon director

By ToI Staff and Aaron Kalman

A frame from a video apparently showing a Syrian rebel biting into the heart of a slain regime soldier (photo credit: screenshot YouTube)

From the webHeart-eating Syrian rebel: ‘We will slaughter all of them’

Egyptian anti-riot soldiers stand guard in front of a destroyed banner of the Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, March 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Egyptian teacher detained for ‘insulting Islam’ out on bail

Late Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (seated) and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar during a Shas party Passover gathering, April 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flashh90)

Shas leader to Bennett: Support chief rabbi deal

By Lazar Berman

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani waves as he registers his candidacy for the presidential election, May 11, 2013, before he was disqualified by the Guardian Council. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran hard-liners urge election ban on 2 candidates

Illustrative photo of the USS Kearsarge steaming into the Gulf of Aqaba (photo credit: Official US Navy Imagery/File)

US aircraft carrier docks in Eilat

By Adiv Sterman

Czech Jews document tripling of online anti-Semitism

Illustrative: North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in 2012. (AP/KCNA, File)

From the webUN report: Sanctions delay North Korea’s atom bomb work

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