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What Matters Most On Thursday, May 30, 2013

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Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, in January (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad: Russia already delivered S-300 batteries

By Stuart Winer

Syrian president warns that he’ll retaliate if attacked; Israeli defense official vows to prevent system becoming operational

Hamas denies Hezbollah booting it out of Lebanon

By Stuart Winer

Russia weapons transfer could bring war, Likud MK says

Syria threatens ‘immediate retaliation’ for any Israeli attack

By ToI Staff and AP

Part of an anti-Semitic cartoon published in Norway's Dagbladet in May (photo credit: screen capture/Dagbladet.no)

Norway paper’s cartoon ‘so anti-Semitic it would have made Hitler weep with joy’

By Aaron Kalman

Dagbladet daily attacks circumcision with gory caricature that incites hatred and denigrates Jewish rite, says Wiesenthal Center

Cécile Tormay (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)

Hungarian Jews protest naming Budapest street after anti-Semite

By JTA and Haviv Rettig Gur

By the book: Restoring women’s status in Judaism

The rigorous Talmudic scholarship in David Golinkin’s new book challenges the growing trend of religious strictures on women

How not to draft the ultra-Orthodox

The Peri Committee plan, rooted in blithe ignorance of the Haredi reality, is a recipe for utter failure

What would Ben Gurion do?

Israel’s founding father would have been appalled by the existence of a special ultra-Orthodox army unit in the IDF

The Superland amusement park (photo credit: Liron Almog/Flash90)

Amusement park’s alleged anti-Arab racism draws ire

By Stuart Winer

Inquiry by teacher prompts Superland to admit it hosts Jewish and Arab groups on separate days; MKs to debate discrimination

Spot the differences. A billboard depicting JCPenney's controversial 'Hitler kettle' alongside the real thing.

Storm in a tea kettle

‘Hitler kettle’ sales boil over

By Adiv Sterman and JTA

JCPenney’s product wasn’t selling particularly well, until the ostensibly dictatorial likeness was noticed

Hadassah Medical Center staff and Home Front Command soldiers during a drill Wednesday simulating a chemical weapon attack on Israel (Photo credit: David Katz/ The Israel Project)

Reporter's notebook

In a hospital parking lot, Israel prepares for chemical war

By Mitch Ginsburg

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (Uri Lenz / Flash90)

PA condemns East Jerusalem construction tenders

By Gavriel Fiske

Some 1,100 units to be built in Ramot and Gilo; chief Palestinian negotiator says new building ‘destroying’ US-led peace efforts

Temple Emmanu-el, c1900 (photo credit: Courtesy of Congregation Emanu-El, Victoria)

Canada’s oldest synagogue celebrates 150

By Arthur Wolak

Alicia Keys (photo credit: courtesy)

Alice Walker, Roger Waters urge Alicia Keys to cancel TLV gig

By Gavriel Fiske

Israel is an ‘apartheid country,’ BDS activists tell R&B diva in open letters; Israelis launch counter-effort as debate spills over to Facebook

An SM-3 interceptor missile is fired from the USS Hopper, which is fitted with an Aegis early warning system (photo credit: CC BY US Missile Defense Agency, Flickr)

US Navy ships form a first line of missile defense

With mounting threats from Iran and North Korea, Aegis radar system gets its day in the sun

The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File)

Israel ready to reengage with UN Human Rights Council

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem is prepared to thaw ties frozen in 2012 — but only if ‘fair play and international standards’ are applied, deputy FM says

A protest calling for the release of conscientious objector Natan Blanc from military prison, in front of the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, May 21, 2013 (photo credit: Oded Balilty/AP)

After 178 days in jail, objector to be released from IDF service

By Gavriel Fiske

Natan Blanc refused army enlistment over opposition to Israel’s West Bank policy

Mauro Perani, a professor of Hebrew in the university's cultural heritage department, was updating the library's Hebrew manuscript catalogue when he stumbled upon the scroll in February. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna)

Hebrew profs weigh in on ‘oldest Torah’

By Nicole Winfield

12th-century scroll was discovered in an Italian university library after being mistakenly catalogued in 1889

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Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90/File)

NYPD: Letters to Bloomberg test positive for ricin

Knesset members assemble in the plenum for the swearing in of Israel's 33rd government, March 2013. (screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Knesset approves value-added tax hike

Baby in critical condition after circumcision

By Stuart Winer

Yaakov Peri (left) and Yair Lapid at the Knesset (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewVAT and Syria wars

By Aaron Kalman

Egyptians enjoy a boat ride along the Nile River, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, May 28, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Arabic media reviewEgypt’s water war

By Michael Bassin

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