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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Egyptian protesters shout anti-Muslim brotherhood slogans and wave a national flag during a protest against the new judiciary law at the high court in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, June 3, 2013.(photo credit: AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt considers disbanding Muslim Brotherhood

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Tony G. Gabriel

PM decides to study legal ramifications of dissolving Islamist group, as clashes continue in Cairo. Friday’s death toll: 173

Muslim Brotherhood says leader’s son killed in clashes

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Tony G. Gabriel

From the webUS, allies were near a deal for peaceful end to Egypt crisis

Turkey, Egypt recall ambassadors

By AP

It's neither a bird nor a plane, just a JLENS aerostat ready to track and monitor incoming threats to the US mainland. (Photo credit: Courtesy Raytheon)

Two enormous flying fortresses are scheduled to be tethered above the nation’s capital as part of an effort to boost air defenses

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

Coptic tragedy in Egypt

20 Coptic churches have been torched this week. What part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s undemocratic, delusional ideology is hard for the West to understand?

A Sbarro survivor speaks

Marking 12 years since living through the bomb at a Jerusalem pizzeria and then, two weeks later, getting married

Daniel Seaman (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

PM’s social media director suspended for offensive Facebook posts

By JTA and Stuart Winer

Daniel Seaman slammed Japanese nuclear-victim commemorations, and wondered whether Muslims ‘stop eating each other’ during Ramadan

Benjamin Netanyahu, left, shaking hands with Ban Ki-moon in Jerusalem in August 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90/File)

Israel faces bias at UN, Ban acknowledges

By Michal Shmulovich

‘It’s an unfortunate situation,’ secretary general tells students in Jerusalem

Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

ADL likens persecution of Russian gays, Soviet Jews

By JTA

US urged to resurrect law that was used to encourage USSR to free Cold War Jewish population

Young Palestinians celebrate the release of 11 prisoners to the West Bank early Wednesday, August 14. (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Analysis

The right decision, bafflingly implemented

By Avi Issacharoff

Abbas supporters can’t understand why Israel would undermine its positive gesture by releasing the Palestinian prisoners in the small hours of the night

Israelis and tourists look at a fire, caused by fighting in Syria, from an observation point on Mt. Bental in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Golan Heights and Syria, Friday, June 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Explosions heard in Golan Heights

IDF scanning area for mortars; seven injured Syrians transferred to Israel hospitals

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addressing supporters via satellite link during a rally in the southern Lebanese border village of Aita in August 2013. (photo credit: AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah chief says he’s ready to fight in Syria himself

By AP and ToI Staff

Nasrallah blames Sunni extremists serving Israel’s interests for Thursday’s deadly car-bombing in Beirut

Joe Black, 87, still vividly remembers the pandemonium that broke out at Toronto's Christie Pits Park after a huge swastika was unfurled during a baseball game. (Samara Bernstein-Hendry)

Toronto marks anniversary of anti-Jewish violence

By Daniel Horowitz

Eighty years later, city remembers the Christie Pits Riot, an hours-long melee started by the display of a massive swastika at a baseball game

Anti-Semitism levels in Belgium highest since 2009

By JTA

Egyptian army soldiers stand guard on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, July 5, 2013. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

‘Palestinian smugglers fire on Egyptian soldiers’

Military official says no one injured in attack

Revivim cactus (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Prickly past: A trip to Mitzpe Revivim

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Eric Anderson plays Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach opposite amber Iman as Nina Simone in the new Broadway production 'Soul Doctor.' (photo credit: coutresy/Richard Kornberg & Associates, Carol Rosegg)

Carlebach croons in new Broadway musical

By Peter Santilli

Religious tensions in Uman, Ukraine, have risen following the desecration of a Jesus figure with Hebrew graffiti. The writing reads: 'To exact vengeance on the gentiles' (Alena Vovchenko via JTA)

Crucifix defaced with Hebrew graffiti in Ukraine

By JTA

Alice Walker (photo credit: CC BY Virginia DeBolt/Wikipedia)

Alice Walker disinvited from U. of Michigan

Many victims of sex trafficking say they don't choose the life and cannot extricate themselves from it. (Shutterstock via JTA)

Jewish groups ramp up response to sex trafficking

By Josh Lipowsky

Adult backup dancers join Sam Horowitz for his grand entrance at his 2012 bar mitzvah party. (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

Hater-ed affairBar mitzvah boy dances on

William Rapfogel, left, then the head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend the social service agency's annual legislative breakfast in 2008. (photo credit: Metropolitan Council via JTA)

Officials shocked by NY Jewish leader’s firing

By Josh Lipowsky

Illustrative image of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport (Panhard/Wikimedia Commons)

From the webHeathrow on high alert over breast implants bomb threat

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