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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 5, 2013

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US National Security Advisor Susan Rice (AP/Craig Ruttle/File)

White House foreign policy shake-up: Donilon out, Rice in

Samantha Power to take over as US ambassador to the United Nations

This image made from video shows an explosion from shelling in Qusair, Syria, in late May (photo credit: AP/Ugarit News)

Syria levels warning at Israel in wake of Qusair victory

By AP and ToI Staff

After driving rebel forces from strategic town, General Command says success sends ‘a clear message’ to aggressors

Syrian injured in civil war fighting dies en route to Israeli hospital

By Ilan Ben Zion

Syrian TV: Assad forces control strategic town

By AP and ToI Staff

France, Britain confirm sarin gas used in Syria

Rowdy Jewish kids on a plane

The removal of 100 Flatbush Yeshiva high seniors from a Southwest Airlines flight can be a teachable moment for educators

Feeling blue about women in black

Ducking into a clothing store on Clifton Avenue, she said, “I’m really sorry I’m wearing pink. I’m from Los Angeles.”

Irwin Cotler rescued Cyril Karabus

Without the human rights activist’s help, a falsely accused South African Jewish doctor might still be in an Abu Dhabi prison

Laurent Louis (left) stands on the Israeli flag (photo credit: Facebook)

Belgian lawmaker tramples Israeli flag at pro-Assad rally

Over 2,000 sign petition calling for impeachment of Laurent Louis

Illustrative photo of an empty courtroom at the Supreme Court. (photo credit: Flash90)

‘Some women enjoy rape,’ Tel Aviv judge says

By Gavriel Fiske

Retired magistrate Nissim Yeshaya makes inflammatory remark while hearing appeal in the case of rape of 13-year-old girl

Mike Ross with a four-legged constituent (photo credit: Instagram)

Will Boston be the fourth major US city with a Jewish mayor?

By Matt Lebovic

Democrat Mike Ross has served on the city council for more than a decade. Now he wants to clear a field of a dozen candidates to take the top prize

The policeman fires tear gas directly at the woman in the red dress from close range (YouTube screenshot)

Turkey’s woman in red is symbol of protests

By ToI Staff and AP

Pictures of unnamed demonstrator in Istanbul, snapped as policeman fires tear gas at her point blank, spread across Internet

Fraidy Reiss, 38, the founder of Unchained at Last, the first nonprofit in the US dedicated to getting women out of arranged and forced marriages. (photo credit: Leeor Bronis)

Freedom from the bonds of unholy matrimony

By Leeor Bronis

The French city of Belfort (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Damien Boucard, Wikimedia Commons)

French Jewish community rips plan to honor Arafat

Mayor of Belfort says square named after Palestinian president is a tribute to the Oslo Accords, follows naming of square after Yitzhak Rabin

In this December 2008 photo, Isidore Heath Campbell, left, with his wife, Deborah, and son Adolf Hitler Campbell, pose in Easton, Pennsylvania. (AP/Rich Schultz)

Dad who named kids for Nazis sports Hitler mustache at hearing

Wearing Nazi regalia, New Jersey white supremacist asks for visitation rights with children in state custody

A Mapal aeration system in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Start-up of the week

Israeli ‘bubble tech’ to help keep UK’s water clean

By David Shamah

In wastewater treatment, reducing energy costs is key, and the aeration system from Mapal does just that

Druze children pass Israeli army signs warning of a minefield on their way home from school in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights. (Lior Mizrahi / FLASH90)

Analysis

At current rate, it will take 50 years to clear Israel’s minefields

By David Horovitz

Knesset panel hears of slow progress, insufficient funds to tackle 37,000 acres of terrain with landmines

Hassan Rouhani (photo credit: Mojtaba Salimi/Wikimedia Commons)

For Iranian moderates, a glimmer of hope

By Elhanan Miller

Presidential hopeful Hassan Rouhani, a relative liberal, could squeeze though to the second round run-off, experts posit, but Khameini won’t let him win presidency

Iranians attending a funeral for a religious leader protest against the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, June 4, 2013. (screen capture: BBC News)

Thousands of Iranians chant to end dictatorship

By Stuart Winer

In this 2012 file photo, US Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., walks in the Capitol after the final votes before a five-week recess. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Biden to eulogize Lautenberg at NY funeral

At service Wednesday, the five-term senator will be remembered for championing anti-smoking legislation and mass transit projects

Tel Aviv's gay parade (photo credit: Liat Mandel)

Israel’s gay immigrants are short on language but long on pride

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Lior Lapid, 17-year-old son of Finance Minister Yair Lapid, outside the family home on Thursday, April 18, 2013. (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Cruel punishmentLapid’s son at closed Cabinet meeting

The departure terminal at Ben-Gurion Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ben Gurion airport set to automate luggage security

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of alcohol bottles (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Tax hike on booze moved forward to July

By Asher Zeiger

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in November 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From the web‘A’ reveals self: ‘I dressed conservatively, Katsav raped me’

New developmentRogen wants more ‘Freaks and Geeks’

A Jerusalem branch of Bank Hapoalim. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Anti-Arab discrimination exposed at Bank Hapoalim

By Asher Zeiger

Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewSports, books and politics

By Aaron Kalman

In this picture taken on Saturday May 25, 2013, a Hezbollah supporter holds a portrait of her son, Ibrahim Kanso, 24, who was killed 40 days before, at Sayida Zeinab shrine during a battle in Syria against the Syrian rebels (photo credit:AP/Hussein Mella)

Arabic media reviewHezbollah, no longer the Arab world’s favorite son

By Elhanan Miller

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