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What Matters Most On Friday, October 4, 2013

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Netanyahu speaking to the Jewish Federation of North America on Wednesday. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he would consider meeting with Rouhani

By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren

Israeli leader tells NPR he would ‘stick’ question about Iran’s willingness to continue enrichment ‘in face’ of counterpart

State Department: Iran sanctions crippled by shutdown

By Lazar Berman

‘We are not suckers,’ says Netanyahu, in Farsi, to BBC Persian TV

By Raphael Ahren and Ricky Ben-David

AnalysisAfter the Iranian smiles wear off, a host of questions

By Avi Issacharoff

Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meet with troops on the Golan Heights, on November 21, 1973. (Ron Frenkel/GPO)

‘Dayan pushed PM Meir to consider using nuclear weapons in 1973 war’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Former government aide says the defense minister, badly shaken on day two of the Yom Kippur War, suggested the ultimate option… and Meir told him to ‘forget it’

Donniel Hartman

Time to get over ourselves

The lesson of the Pew survey isn’t which kind of Judaism is best, it’s the need to deepen ties within a plurality of Judaisms

Sex ed, day school and honesty

This teacher wants her students to feel safe in their sexuality, even if it doesn’t line up with Jewish law

Shmuley Boteach

Three ways to save American Jewry from extinction

Bring Judaism into the public domain, jazz up synagogue services, pay rabbis and teachers a whole lot more

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel: European stance on circumcision ‘intolerable’

Foreign Ministry urges Council of Europe to rescind statements on religious ritual, comparison to female genital mutilation

Young ultra-Orthodox women ridicule a prayer shawl-clad female worshiper at the Western Wall during a monthly prayer session of the Women of the Wall group, Friday, October 4, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women of the Wall pray amid jeers and spitting

Feminist prayer group shuns new platform for egalitarian worship near Western Wall plaza

Israel's UN Ambassador Ron Prosor, left (photo credit: Courtesy/File)

Israel to vie for Security Council seat, envoy confirms

Ron Prosor tells Reuters that Jerusalem will compete against Germany and Belgium for spot in 2019-2020

Hobby Lobby ad (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Hobby Lobby apology unlikely to calm storm over its policies

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Crafting chain owned by devout Evangelical Christian family says sorry for employee comments that may have offended Jewish customers, but makes no promise to stock Hanukkah items

President and chairman of Primus Green Energy, Dr. Yom-Tov Samia (left) and CEO Robert Johnsen (photo credit: Primus Green Energy)

Israeli-backed start-up unveils gas-producing plant

By David Shamah

Natural gas, while plentiful worldwide, can’t be used to power vehicles — until it goes through Primus’s novel conversion process

Members of Batsheva Dance Company's senior ensemble performing part of 'Sadeh21' in a preview of the 2014 season. (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

The lithe movements of the Batsheva Dance Company

By Jessica Steinberg

The renowned Tel Aviv troupe officially opens its 2013-2014 season

Cross section of ginger (photo credit: Sanjay ach CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Food for thought

How to store a healing root? Gingerly

By Phyllis Glazer

As low yields in China drive prices way up, we offer ideas for long-term preservation of an aromatic and medicinal delicacy

FBI officials announce the discovery of new leads in the Gardner Museum art heist, the largest in history (photo credit: courtesy)

Is the hunt for Rembrandt’s stolen ‘Galilee’ almost over?

By Matt Lebovic

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Beauty and brainsNatalie Portman, science mentor

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Unscripted Keshet programs like 'Master Chef' have made Keshet a global TV force. (Courtesy Master Chef Israel)

Sabra SpanishComo se dice ‘Israeli TV’?

Shula Zaken (right), former bureau chief of former prime minister Ehud Olmert, seen in the District Court in Tel Aviv, October 03, 2013. (Photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/POOL/Flash90)

Olmert aide storms out of courtroom

By Lazar Berman and Gavriel Fiske

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Emil Salman/Flash90/File)

Hebrew media reviewMaster of mistrust

By Joshua Davidovich

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