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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 18, 2013

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Iranian President elect Hasan Rowhani, center, is accompanied by Hasan Khomeini, grandson of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, right, and Ayatollah Mousavi Bojnourdi, during visit of Ayatollah Khomeini's shrine, just outside Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 16, 2013 (photo credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Rowhani’s past actions speak louder than today’s soft words, experts say

By Elhanan Miller

As nuclear chief in the early 2000s, new president suspended enrichment only to resume it; said the world would learn to live with a nuclear Iran

Russia says Iran ready to stop 20-percent enrichment

By AP and ToI Staff

PM: Rowhani has no power to change nuclear policy

By Raphael Ahren

Sanctions having no effect on Iran nuclear program, watchdog says

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas promotes the Arab Peace Initiative during a speech at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in Jordan, May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Young)

Analysis

Why is Israel so afraid of the Arab Peace Initiative?

By Raphael Ahren

It promises full diplomatic ties with the Muslim world, including Iran. It’s the ‘best idea ever,’ says an ex-Likud minister. So why does the government reject the Arab world’s ostensible path to peace?

Bill Clinton: No alternative to two-state solution

Erekat: Bennett not alone in dismissing two-state plan

By Asher Zeiger

China hosts Middle East peace forum

A journey to women’s spiritual leadership

On the halachik, historic and ethical rationale for orthodox ordination of women

The United Church of Chelm

On United Church of Canada’s decision to boycott three Israeli companies operating in the West Bank

Children sit next to a wall in the Arab-Israeli village of Abu Ghosh on June 18, 2013 where anti-Arab graffiti was sprayed overnight. The graffiti reads “racism or assimilation” and “Arabs out.” (photo credit: Flash90).

Vandals slash tires on 28 cars in Abu Ghosh

By Asher Zeiger

Offensive graffiti spray-painted on vehicles in Jerusalem area Arab-Israeli village in suspected ‘price tag’ attack

Michael Applebaum, Montreal's mayor (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons/abdallahh)

Montreal’s Jewish mayor arrested in corruption crackdown

Michael Applebaum took over in November from another politician charged in separate crime scandal

Tel Aviv beach (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Tel Aviv ranks among world’s top 10 beach spots

White City joins Honolulu, Rio de Janiero and Sydney in National Geographic’s ranking

The Israeli Knesset (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Beny Shlevich/Wikimedia Commons)

Knesset passes 2013-14 budget in first reading

By Ron Friedman and Ilan Ben Zion

Parliament votes 58-44 on belt-tightening biannual plan that includes painful tax hikes and slashes to ministry budgets

Turkish police in Taksim Square, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, June 16, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Turkish police arrest dozens in raids on homes, newspapers

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

Erdogan vows to expand police powers as authorities target protesters in Istanbul and Ankara suspected of violence

A 2010 file photo of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

US: No new nuclear offer for Iran’s next leader

By Bradley Klapper

State Department says there are no plans to sweeten any offers in wake of Rowhani election victory

A US fighter jet during practice maneuvers over the desert (illustrative photo credit: Courtesy/US Air Force by Master Sgt. Benjamin Bloker)

US envoy says NATO not considering Syrian no-fly zone

Ivo Daalder says no nations in alliance looking to protect rebels from the sky; Russia says it won’t allow air patrols

Illustrative: Urban Adamah fellows working on the farm (Courtesy of Urban Adamah)

San Francisco’s Jewish farm needs more room to grow

By Renee Ghert-Zand

WWII war criminal Laszlo Csatary outside the Budapest prosecutor's office, July 18, 2012 (photo credit: MTI, Bea Kallos/AP)

Hungary indicts Nazi-era war crimes suspect

Ex-police officer Laszlo Csatary, 98, denies charges that he abused and helped deport Jews to death camps

Middle East state reportedly sends rebels antitank missiles

By ToI Staff and AP

Unidentified country ships sophisticated Soviet-made Konkurs missiles to Assad’s opponents via Turkey

Google Ideas head Jared Cohen (photo credit: Google)

Google Ideas head warns of a ‘balkanization of the web’

By JP O’ Malley

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The Al Batash family and their 11 children (image capture YouTube)

No food for the broodGaza mom, 21, struggling with 11 kids

AirTran Airways' 737 aircraft (photo credit: courtesy AirTran)

Not so anti-Semitic skiesBBFKs: Badly behaved frum kids

Shimon Peres and Barba Streisand with a girl from the Make-A-Wish Foundation at the President's Residence Monday. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO)

PhDivaThat’s Dr. Barbra Streisand to you

Illustrative: A French farmer force feeds a goose as part of the production of foie gras (photo credit: CC BY, Jerome S, Wikimedia Commons)

‘Israeli goose liver ban jeopardizes kosher slaughter’

Hebrew media reviewThe young and the stateless

By Yossi Nachemi

US President Barack Obama, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013 (Evan Vucci/AP)

Arabic media reviewRussia’s intransigence on Syria leaves Arabs sour

By Elhanan Miller

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