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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 13, 2013

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Jose Ribeiro e Castro, who spearheaded the law to naturalize the Jewish descendants of expelled Jews, speaking at the Portuguese parliament. (photo credit: Portugal's National Assembly/JTA)

Portugal becomes 2nd country, after Israel, with a Jewish law of return

By Cnaan Liphshiz

500 years after the expulsion of its community, Lisbon’s new legislation corrects a moral wrong, albeit with some ‘economic considerations as well’

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama end a joint press conference in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM to push US for ‘more credible military option’ on Iran

If new ‘public diplomacy’ effort fails, Netanyahu will have to decide whether to attack Iran by winter at latest, TV report claims

The Dome of the Rock: A Muslim’s requiem

A journey to the 3rd holiest site in Sunni Islam evokes sadness at seeing a place where conflict grows faster than grass

Protest leaders: Don’t waste our time again!

On the 2-year anniversary of the social justice movement, we should bring specific proposals, not just slogans, to the demonstrations

Passersby performing the Nazi salute in front of a mural depicting Adolf Hitler alongside assorted superheroes in Thailand's Chulalong University (photo credit: Courtesy/Simon Wiesenthal center)

Thai university slammed for Hitler superhero mural

Nazi leader depicted alongside Superman, Batman; passers-by pose for photos, some with Nazi salutes

Oday Aboushi (photo credit: Twitter)

Palestinian-American football player rejects ‘extremist’ label

Website claims New York Jets’ Oday Aboushi gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference; ADL comes to player’s defense

In Israel, a banned Iranian director finds echoes of home

By Leeor Bronis

Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s film about the Baha’i religion, and its place in the Jewish state, premieres at Jerusalem festival

Security forces and civilians stand at the scene of a bombing in the Beir el-Abed, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 9 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Omar)

Analysis

Hezbollah’s suicide bombing tactics come back to haunt it

By Avi Issacharoff

Last month IDF chief Benny Gantz said the fringes of Nasrallah’s cloak were on fire; today, the entire robe would seem to be burning

Ben Hirschfeld hopes to provide solar lanterns to more than 15,000 additional students and their families in Kenya as well as Guinea and Nigeria. (photo credit: JTA)

Ben Hirschfeld: A (safe) light unto students in Africa

By Suzanne Kurtz

Over four years, Hirschfeld, 19, has replaced dangerous kerosene lamps with solar lanterns for more than 11,300 Kenyan students

A Yakhont missile at a Russian air show in 1997 (CC BY-SA, JNO, Wikimedia Commons)

US sources say Israel attacked Syrian weapons depot

By Ron Friedman

Unnamed officials claim IDF carried out July 5 strike on Latakia to destroy a shipment of Russian-made anti-ship missiles

Ultra-Orthodox men pray in front of the Jerusalem Police headquarters in 2012 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews pray outside J’lem police HQ

By JTA and ToI Staff

Men protest the arrest of two of their community members who assaulted officers during Mea Shearim attack on Haredi soldier

Egyptian army soldiers stand guard on the border with Egypt in Rafah. (photo credit: Hatem Moussa/APFile)

Egyptian military bombards militant towns in Sinai

Cairo sends attack helicopters out to the desert to counter Islamist paramilitaries’ increasingly bold attacks

Jerry Lewis (photo credit: International Film Circuit, Inc.)

The key ingredient to comedy? Jews in mountains

By Jordan Hoffman

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Illustrative photo: A viper (photo credit: CC-BY-H. Krisp, Wikimedia Commons)

OuchSnake bites man’s ‘snake’ on the toilet

By Ilan Ben Zion

NSA leaker Edward Snowden, center, attends a news conference at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport with Sarah Harrison of WikiLeaks, left, Friday, July 12 (photo credit: AP/Human Rights Watch, Tanya Lokshina)

Russia: No asylum application received from Snowden

Illustrative image of the pink and purple stripes of a Wizz Air plane. (Wizz Air)

Travel timeCheap flights to Dracula’s hometown

By Nicole Levin

Illustrative photo of a vehicle that was allegedly torched by Israeli settlers in a 'price tag' attack, June 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

From the webSettler sprays ‘slaughter Jews’ on own car

Comic actor Adam Sandler gets a little too close to a cheetah for comfort. (photo credit: CBS/David Letterman)

One crazy fightAdam Sandler attacked by cheetah

Incoming central bank governor denies shoplifting allegation

Illustrative: Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

From the webJewish man awarded £20,000 after quitting job because of boss’s anti-Semitic rants

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