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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 8, 2014

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Britain's James Woods takes a jump during ski slopestyle training at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

How Herod the tyrant saved the Olympics

By Ilan Ben Zion

Against his people’s will, a brutal despot spent a fortune to keep the games alive. No, this was millennia before Putin

Former PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, November 2008. (photo credit: Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)

Olmert: Netanyahu’s terms ‘a vast distance’ away from peace basis

Former PM urges current leadership to rebuild trust with Abbas, says ‘Jewish Israel’ and Jordan Valley issues can be solved

Kerry: Netanyahu, Abbas can express objections to framework deal

By Michal Shmulovich and ToI Staff

US praises Liberman’s defense of Kerry, peace efforts

By Lazar Berman, Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Two leading American Orthodox groups side with Kerry

By JTA

Miriam Fendius Elman

Yes to settlers in a Palestinian state

This women’s Torah study group believes the world’s salvation depends on a Jewish presence in the promised land

Ani lo medaberet Anglit?

What is an Anglo in Jerusalem to do when encountering another English speaker

SodaStream should be celebrated, not boycotted

By targeting the fizzy drink maker, the BDS movement harms the people it claims to want to help

Driving Grandpa John

When we arrive at his door, he will always say goodbye to me in the same way. ‘Goodnight… You light up my life.’

Centuries-old books and documents from the Iraqi Jewish archive await preservation. (photo credit: Courtesy The National Archives)

Senate bids to save ancient Iraqi Jewish archive

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Time is running out for State Dept. to renegotiate the status of the massive collection before it’s returned to Iraq in June

British high court rules against Ahava boycotters

Court upholds conviction of protesters for criminal trespassing in London store of Dead Sea cosmetics firm, dismisses ‘war crimes’ justification

Pilgrims immersing themselves in the Jordan River, associated with purity and holiness since the days of John the Baptist (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Immerse yourself in purity on the Jordan River shore

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Khamenei: US would bring down our regime immediately if it could

By ToI Staff and AP

In apparent reference to nuclear program, leader also says it’s ‘amusing’ that America thinks Iran will reduce ‘defensive capabilities’

Harry Truman receives a gift from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion and Israel's Ambassador to the US Abba Eban at the White House in 1951. (Courtesy GPO)

The pro-Israel lobby: An obstacle to peace since 1948?

A new book examines Truman’s conflicted attitudes toward Israel and takes aim at the pro-Israel lobby’s influence from the birth of the Jewish state until today

Elderly men sitting on a bus pose for a photograph as they evacuate the battleground city of Homs, Syria, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014 (photo credit: AP)

Syrian bombs in rebel-held Aleppo kill at least 15

By Diaa Hadid

Truce between government and opposition fighters breaks down in Homs, halting entry of aid to areas besieged for over a year

A photo of the house in Amsterdam where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Holocaust, December 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Anne Frank’s marbles prove resonance of a small museum

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Despite its narrow scope and limited collection, the Holocaust diarist’s hiding location is one of Holland’s biggest attractions

Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in 'Wolf of Wall Street' (courtesy Paramount Pictures)

Chosen films

Hill and DiCaprio reteam for Olympics terror tale

By Jordan Hoffman

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An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

Aussie firm to pay $2.5 billion to enter Leviathan field

By JTA

Leading rabbi and Emory University law professor Michael Broyde. (photo credit: Emory University/YouTube)

Rabbi resigns from RCA over online alias scandal

By JTA

US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland (photo credit: US Department of State)

Russia denies leaking tape of US official’s ‘f*ck the EU’ comments

By AP and ToI Staff

Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi during a Westminster Hall debate in London (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

From the web Labour MP apologizes for Holocaust remark

A veiled woman walks in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.(photo credit: AP Photo/Aya Batrawy, File)

Campus mayhemFemale death sparks Saudi fury

By AP

Illustrative: Former US president George W. Bush speaks to a special session of the Knesset, May 15, 2008. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit/pool)

ADL honors George W. Bush

By JTA

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