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What Matters Most On Friday, January 17, 2014

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UNESCO delegates prior to the opening of the organization's 2013 General Conference in Paris, France. (AP/Benjamin Girette)

UNESCO cancels event on Jewish ties to Land of Israel

By Lazar Berman

Days before opening of Paris exhibit, UN cultural body bows to pressure from Arab states, who said it would harm peace talks

Liberman summons EU envoys over ‘one-sided’ policies

By Lazar Berman

PM lashes European ‘hypocrites’ for settlement complaints

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian official says Kerry bowed to Israel’s agenda

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative photo of pro-Palestinian demonstrators facing pro-Israel demonstrators at an Israel Apartheid Week event at the University of California, Berkeley, in February 2012. (CC-BY/James Buck/Flickr)

Can Hillel fully serve Jewish students and fully protect Israel?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Under the campus group’s guidelines, an ex-employee who took an empathetic BDS position has been barred from speaking in Santa Barbara. Untenable censorship, or self-preservation?

Yossi Klein Halevi

Eviatar Banai’s journey to wholeness

A new mainstream is being created, where secular and Orthodox and points beyond all categories are sharing the same music

Shmuley Boteach

An Israeli death penalty for terrorists

It is cruel to the victims’ families to leave these murderers alive in prison with the possibility they’ll be released

Yitro: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…Yitro advises his son-in-law, the Israelites prepare for the big show at Mount Sinai, God tells Moses the Ten Commandments

Jonah Hill from 'Wolf of Wall Street' (photo credit: courtesy Paramount Pictures)

Chosen films

For Jewish actors, Oscar nominations a mixed bag

By Jordan Hoffman

Also, while our film critic boosts the Jewish population of Utah by 400% at Sundance, here’s an early candidate for 2014’s worst movie

Palestinian actors Leem Lebany as Nadja and Adam Bakri as Omar (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar')

Oscars recognize film from ‘Palestine’ for first time

By Jessica Herndon

HP Chromebook 11 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Google puts fast Israeli 4G chips in its newest notebook

By David Shamah

Altair Semiconductor, a small Israeli start-up, is ahead of Qualcomm in the race for the next big thing in cellular data communications

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Sexual intercourse between a woman and a man on a terra cotta plaque from Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium BCE (photo credit: The Israel Museum)

Warning: (Ancient) graphic content

4,000-year-old erotica depicts a strikingly racy ancient sexuality

By Ilan Ben Zion

Police examine a classroom in Ashkelon damaged by rocket fire in November 2012. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

After rockets, Ashdod cancels classes in unprotected schools

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Some students in southern port city to get day off Friday as officials fear increased tensions with Gaza

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom, December 23, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israeli minister to visit Abu Dhabi

By Stuart Winer

Energy Minister Silvan Shalom to attend UAE summit in first such trip since Mossad accused of killing Hamas leader in Dubai

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni at the joint press conference where Livni announced she was joining Netanyahu's government as minister of justice, February 19, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

PM, Livni said to support Liberman’s land-and-people swap plan

By Lazar Berman and Stuart Winer

Likud-Beytenu officials claim Netanyahu backs proposal to relinquish Israeli-Arabs to Palestinian state, and that Israel has raised specifics in talks

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton, right, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, arrive for a photo opportunity prior to the start of closed-door nuclear talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

After nuke deal, EU readies to lift some Iran sanctions

By John-Thor Dahlburg

If atomic agency reports that Tehran is complying with terms of the deal, billions of oil dollars could start flowing by Monday

Hezbollah fighters take an oath during a parade to continue the path of resistance against Israel. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Hezbollah digs in for more conflict with Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Though stretched by its war alongside Assad, targeted by extremist Sunnis, and losing popularity, Nasrallah’s group deepens its hold near the Israeli border

Representative Jim Moran (screen capture: C-SPAN)

Democrat Jim Moran to retire from Congress

By JTA

Virginia representative is known for his regular clashes with Jewish and pro-Israel groups

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Pope treats Argentine delegation to kosher Roman delights

By JTA

Amou Haji, possibly the world's dirtiest man. (screen capture: YouTube)

I-ran awayIran hermit eschews showers for 60 years

In Germany, debate over displaying Nazi-era guillotine

By JTA

Al-Quds University's Faculty of Science & Technology (photo credit: Diaaasa/Wikipedia Commons)

Brandeis, Al-Quds talk about re-establishing ties

By JTA

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (photo credit: Mosdot Shuva Israel/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewBye bye, rabbi?

By Yossi Nachemi

Back row, from left: Judge Walid Akoum, Judge Janet Nosworthy, Presiding Judge David Re, Judge Micheline Braidy and Judge Nicola Lettier await the start of a trial at the courtroom of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Thursday, January 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Toussaint Kluiters)

Arabic media reviewThe Hariri trial and Lebanon’s ‘education’

By Elhanan Miller

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