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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 2, 2014

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US Secretary of State John Kerry at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/POOL/Jacquelyn Martin)

Despite Kerry’s claim, Abbas has applied to join UN-related groups

By Raphael Ahren

Secretary had asserted ‘none of the agencies… Abbas signed tonight involve the UN’; Palestinians hand over letters of accession to UN envoy

Full list of treaties, conventions where Abbas seeks membership

By Raphael Ahren

Abbas signs Palestine request to join 15 int’l bodies

Kerry nixes Ramallah trip as Abbas signs UN applications

By Yifa Yaakov and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

An archaeologist cleans a Byzantine mosaic floor that decorated a monastery during infrastructure work in the Bedouin village of Hura in the Northern part of the Negev desert, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (photo credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP)

6th-century Byzantine monastery excavated in Negev

Mosaic floors bearing colorful designs, Greek inscriptions found during roadwork near Bedouin village of Hura

Striking diplomats and that giant sucking sound

That’s the sound of all the painstaking efforts by Israel’s soon-to-be gutted foreign service going down the drain

Ben-Dror Yemini

The real ‘Jewish state’ story

The demand that Palestinians recognize the country’s Jewish character is, for Israel, a matter of survival

Schama on the Jews: We are our story

Volume one of the British historian’s chronicle of the Jewish people offers a compelling narrative of resilience

The Catholic Church has changed its spots

A refutation of a book that claims the Vatican is anti-Semitic

Israeli protesters call for the release of Jonathan Pollard during a protest in Jerusalem on January 2, 2014, outside the hotel where US Secretary of State John Kerry was staying during one of his visits to the region. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Pollard would agree to go free in prisoner release scheme’

Though jailed spy opposes Israeli concessions in principle, he’d seize ‘last opportunity’ for freedom, close sources say

The Senate side of the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC (Wikimedia Commons/File)

Top senators slam ‘desperate diplomacy’ on Pollard

By AP and ToI Staff

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv District Court, March 31, 2014, where he was found guilty of bribe-taking in the Holyland real estate scandal. (photo credit: Ido Erez/Pool/Flash90

Olmert’s lawyers said preparing to appeal bribery conviction

By Stuart Winer

Yossi Olmert says he loves his brother and was ‘dismayed’ by the verdict; analysts predict lengthy jail term

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds up a photo of a deployed American soldier as he testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee at his reappointment hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington. July 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

US Army chief: Israel trusts we’ll bomb Iran if needed

‘Our clocks are more harmonized than they were’ on Tehran, Martin Dempsey says after Jerusalem visit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Analysis

Despite Palestinian unilateralism, talks will likely limp on

By Raphael Ahren

A Pollard-for-prisoners deal could hand Netanyahu a tangible achievement, but the negotiations it’s meant to salvage are irretrievably deadlocked

AnalysisArafat-style, Abbas is playing with fire

By Avi Issacharoff

Pat Robertson (photo credit: screenshot via YouTube)

Televangelist says Jews busy ‘polishing diamonds’

By JTA

Pat Robertson makes comment during interview with rabbi promoting a book on why Jewish people prosper

Youth from Ioannina’s Greek community, in traditional dress, hold candles to be lit in memory of the more than 500 Jewish children who were deported to Auschwitz. (photo credit: Gavin Rabinowitz/JTA)

Greece’s Romaniote Jews face extinction, 70 years after Auschwitz

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Fewer than 50 members remain of the community in Ioannina, which was decimated by the Nazis during WWII

Gary Shteyngart: Has 'mixed' feelings about his years of Jewish day school (Brigitte Lacombe/JTA)

Shteyngart thanks Schechter, an ‘unhappy, alien place’

By Julie Wiener

Lampooning by satiric author may be boon to Conservative movement’s Solomon Schechter day schools

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Action figures, made on the Rainbow Loom (Courtesy Rainbow Loom Facebook page)

Knockoffs abound, but there’s only one Rainbow Loom

By Jessica Steinberg

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Three lots of Bar Refaeli star in an advert for Fashion chain 'Hoodies', March 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/Awesome Tel Aviv)

Ménage à troubleRacy Bar ad banned from daytime TV

By JTA and ToI Staff

Aides to Saudi King Abdullah stand outside a room in the monarch's desert camp about 60 kilometers northeast of Riyadh while he meets with US President Barack Obama, March 2014. (photo credit: Saul Loeb/AFP)

Saudi royal decree: Atheism is terrorism

Kim Kardashian supporting the troops at the Marine Corps Ball (Courtesy Kim Kardashian, Instagram)

Mishmash-tagKardashian posts pro-Assad tweet

By Yifa Yaakov and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a visit at a matzah factory in Kfar Chabad, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 1, 2014. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/ GPO/FLASH90)

Bread of afflictionPM bakes while peace process burns

By Julie Wiener

Will Pollard be a free man? This illustrative photo shows Israelis protesting in March 2013 for the release of Pollard (photo credit: FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewTo free or not to free

By Yossi Nachemi

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