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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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An Orthodox Jewish woman (left) prays alongside a young Jewish woman wearing tefillin at the Western Wall (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Orthodox girls fight for the right to don tefillin

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As young women come of age and demand more gender equality, observant communities are made to contend with a heady dose of halachic egalitarianism

A 16th-century engraving of an execution by fire: The execution of Anne Hendricks, burned in Amsterdam in 1571 (credit: Jan Luyken, public domain)

French Jew cleared of blood libel 344 years after execution

By JTA

Raphael Levy was found guilty and burned at the stake for the alleged killing of a three-year-old for ritual purposes

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The bride banished

The white dress has rotted, the ‘Blushing Bride’ nail polish has been replaced, and the folded paper has been received

It’s the words that bind

A deep connection to Israel can be formed only by an intimacy with the real life of the real people of this surprising country

Reigniting prayer’s passion

Modern Orthodox schools should commend students who show a true a desire to connect to God, including girls who wear tefillin

Knesset members give a standing ovation after the speech by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, on Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Analysis

Canadians ‘taken aback’ at Arab MKs’ heckling of Harper

By David Horovitz

Canada’s parliament wouldn’t disrupt the speech of a visiting foreign leader, says PM’s ministerial colleague Jason Kenney

David Ben Gurion (left) and then-major general Ariel Sharon during a bus ride along the Israeli army positions on the Egyptian border in 1973. (IDF/Flash90)

Book review

Definitive biography shows Sharon as neither butcher nor saint, but possibly savior

By Mitch Ginsburg

UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and the original poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year connection to the land of Israel, in January, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)

UNESCO exhibit on Jewish ties to Israel rescheduled for June

By Haviv Rettig Gur, Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Benhamou

UN body had faced storm of criticism for canceling show under Arab pressure, claiming it could ‘endanger peace process’

Culture Minister Miri Regev (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

MK seeking to expel migrants wants more foreign workers

By Lazar Berman

Miri Regev, who called African asylum-seekers a ‘cancer,’ says that without 34,000 new laborers, housing reforms will stall

Rescue workers seen at the scene of the apartment treated with pesticides which poisoned an entire family in Jerusalem on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. (photo credit: Flash 90)

After 2 siblings die, brothers poisoned by fumigation fight for lives

By Stuart Winer

Phosphine claims lives of sisters aged 2 and 4; now doctors try to save brothers, aged 5 and 7, but there is no antidote to deadly toxin

Moshe Ya'alon, left, meeting with troops in December 2013. (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defence/FLASH90)

After Gaza strike, defense minister warns Hamas of ‘heavy price’

‘We will not hesitate to continue to act with force,’ Ya’alon says hours after Israeli planes take out terror chief

Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland, January 22, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Analysis

Syria summit faces the longest odds — and for good reason

By Avi Issacharoff

Civilians continue to die and rebel groups bicker as envoys from the Assad regime and opposition sit down in Switzerland

Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of the late Shas spirtual leader, Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (Flash90)

Daughter of late Shas rabbi Ovadia Yosef eyes presidency

By Stuart Winer

Adina Bar-Shalom wants to be her father’s all-male political party’s candidate for Israeli head of state

Visual description of how Adallom protects companies (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli start-up helps companies ‘cover their (S)aaS’

By David Shamah

Adallom, with $15 million in Series B funding, aims to expand its security system that keeps an eye on users, not servers

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Examples of Anne Frank abound in Japanese popular culture. (photo courtesy of Alain Lewkowicz)

Behind Japanese fascination with Anne Frank, a ‘kinship of victims’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Special Envoy to the Quartet of Middle East Peacemakers, Tony Blair, attends a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 8, 2010. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arrested developmentTony Blair dodges barman’s cuffs

Matti Friedman's The Aleppo Codex (photo credit: Courtesy)

Codex crackerFriedman accepts ‘Aleppo Codex’ prize

By Jessica Steinberg

The elaborate mosaic at a Byzantine church uncovered by Israeli archaeologists near Kiryat Gat (photo credit: courtesy/IAA)

1,500-year-old church, elaborate mosaic found

By Lazar Berman

'Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep' by Camille Pissarro, born on the island of St. Thomas. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

French woman sues U of Oklahoma to recover Nazi-looted art

By JTA

President Shimon Peres (photo credit: CC BY-SA World Economic Forum, Flickr)

Peres, Netanyahu, Livni, and Rouhani, head to Davos

By Raphael Ahren

Shas party leader Aryeh Deri (right) and his predecessor Eli Yishai (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThou shalt comment on thy neighbor

By Yossi Nachemi

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