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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 30, 2013

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Illustrative photo of Palestinian and foreign activists during a 2010 protest against the security barrier at the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi / Flash90)

Financing the flames from a mobile home in Florida

A shadowy volunteer organization of non-Israelis working ‘against the brutal occupation of Palestine’ is tracked from the West Bank to the woods near Tampa

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second left, flanked by newly released Palestinian security prisoners, greets the crowd in Ramallah, on October 30, 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Thousands in Ramallah celebrate arrival of Palestinian prisoners

Bird's-eye view of Ramat Shlomo, March 1, 2013 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

PM gives green light to East Jerusalem construction

The White House (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Polite statement after White House talks belies differences on Iran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Unusual meeting of selected Jewish leaders with senior Obama officials comes amid signs of divergence in US and Israeli positions on nuclear crisis

Slowdown or showdown en route to new Iran sanctions bill

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

From the webIf Iran can get this reactor online, Israel may not be able to bomb it

‘US has spying unit on roof of its Tel Aviv embassy’

Aubrey L. Glazer

Lou Reed is why I’m a rabbi

The renegade rocker lit the way that crossed boundaries from the wild side to the sacred side

Jason Fredric Gilbert

The worst brother-in-law in the world

In which Jason Fredric Gilbert is “left alone with that glistening pill case on the kitchen table beckoning me”

When a parking problem turns into a lesson on how to comfort the mourner

Newlyweds stroll down Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard (photo credit: Mama Photography)

New bill would legalize civil marriage, extend right to gays

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Groundbreaking Yesh Atid proposal comes under fire from Jewish Home, but sponsors insist it ‘is not an attack on halachic marriage’

'The Jewish Cardinal,' a dramatization of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger's life and work. (photo credit: courtesy)

‘The Jewish Cardinal’ opens 17th UK film festival

Teva's facility in Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

In surprise move, Teva CEO Jeremy Levin steps down

Announcement comes amid reported disagreements over cost-cutting in Israel’s largest firm; CFO to take interim helm

The video shows a boy struggling to tell his mother what happened to him. (photo credit: Youtube)

Israeli rape crisis center gets animated in bid to help children

A new video, called ‘Tom’s Secret,’ is meant to help parents spot the signs of sexual abuse

Beit Shemesh residents holding signs as they protest in front of the municipality building in the city on October 29, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands in Beit Shemesh rally against election results

By Stuart Winer

Backers of defeated secular mayoral candidate cry foul play amid claims of voting irregularities in municipal poll won by ultra-Orthodox incumbent

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset speaker says ‘non’ to French president

By Stuart Winer

MK Edelstein irked by Francois Hollande’s cancellation of a speech in Israeli parliament in favor of a university venue

Lou Reed (photo credit: CC-BY Man Alive!, Flickr)

Hero(in) worship

Vatican tweets a Lou Reed tribute

By JTA and ToI Staff

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, Vatican culture minister, quotes a verse from ‘Perfect Day,’ then clarifies he’s not condoning drugs

A BMC Seminary student at the Rebbe's grave. (photo credit: Courtesy of DLI Productions)

New documentary opens a hermetically closed world

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Family furloughMurderer back in jail after 13 years on run

Paula Abdul and President Shimon Peres (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

Forever your girlPeres is ‘sababa,’ Paula Abdul gushes

(L. to R.) Yael Mittelman, Jeff Pulver, and Yona Yahav (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Where fitness and technology meet

By David Shamah

Israelis protesting outside Ofer Prison Tuesday night. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIsrael angry over prisoner release, West Bank apathetic

By Lazar Berman

Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, in November 2012 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Arabic media reviewA cold shoulder in the Gulf for UN’s Syrian envoy

By Elhanan Miller

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