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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 17, 2014

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A Palestinian man holds up a portrait of a relative during a demonstration to mark Prisoners Day in Hebron, on April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Hazem Bader)

Palestinians clash with IDF in Hebron over prisoners

By AFP and ToI Staff

Dozens of demonstrators hurl rocks at soldiers, who respond with tear gas and stun grenades

Abbas wants next stage of talks to focus on borders of ‘Palestine’

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Abbas tells MKs he’s waiting for probe before condemning shooting

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian rioters attack IDF position in Hebron

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sister Gratia (left) and Sister Yahalom in front of Beit Avraham at 10 Ein Gedi Street in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand)

Lutheran nuns end Jerusalem mission to Shoah survivors

By Renee Ghert-Zand

For half a century, they’ve run a gratis guesthouse for Holocaust victims. Now an era is ending, and the nuns themselves are at something of a loss

Yossi Klein Halevi and Abdullah Antepli

What Brandeis can teach Muslims and Jews

By opting not to honor Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the university marked the line between criticizing and demonizing

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Nuts for avoiding peanuts on Passover?

Just an Ashkenazi girl trying make it in a legume-filled world

Binging and purging at Passover

Eating disorders can flare up when families gather around the holiday table

Marionville, MO Mayor Dan Clevenger (Screen capture/ KSPR)

Mayor of Kansas shooter’s hometown: I agree with his views

By Lazar Berman

Dan Clevenger, who once called himself a friend of Frazier Miller, accuses Jews of destroying country

Israeli Arab journalist Majd Kayyal (screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli Arab journalist held after visiting Lebanon

By Aron Dónzis

Majd Kayyal, released to house arrest Thursday afternoon, is suspected of meeting with Hezbollah agents

A combat vehicle with pro-Russian gunman on top drives through Slovyansk Wednesday, April 16, 2014. (photo credit:AP/Efrem Lukatsky)

Pro-Russians in Donetsk deny calling for Jews to register

By JTA

Activists backing Kremlin in eastern Ukraine deny issuing flyers telling Jews they must check in at occupied building

Israeli police clash with Palestinians outside the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 16, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israel: Palestinians stockpiling rocks inside al-Aqsa Mosque

After riots on Temple Mount, security officials quoted saying they will have to storm Jerusalem holy site

Jewish worshipers cover themselves with prayer shawls during the Passover priestly blessing ceremony as they pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Tourist sites bursting at seams with Passover vacationers

By Stuart Winer

Day-trippers asked to stop coming to Ein Gedi, Sea of Galilee; thousands attend priestly blessing at Western Wall

Illustrative photo of a noose (photo credit: CC BY-Patrick Feller/Flickr)

From the web

Iranian killer’s execution halted at last minute by victim’s parents

The Guardian: Convict was about to be hanged when murdered man’s mother slapped him, removed noose

Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia attend a rehearsal Seder ahead of Passover, March 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Snatched while fleeing Africa, woman finishes 34-year journey to Israel

By Aron Dónzis

After living as a Muslim in Sudan for decades, Tekala escapes and completes exodus in time to spend Passover with mother and brothers

Evening view of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Two in Thai custody over possible Hezbollah ties

By Aron Dónzis

Suspects of Lebanese origin; connection to terror organization unclear at present, Thai media reports

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, after closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, April 9, 2014 (photo credit: AP /Ronald ZaK)

Iran cuts high-grade uranium stockpile, UN says

By AP

Tehran neutralizes half of the 20% enriched material that could be quickly turned into core of an atomic bomb, IAEA reports

Yuval Freilich, 19, who grew up in Gush Etzion, has been fencing for 10 years and has won myriad
distinctions, most recently sixth place at the Junior World Championships in Bulgaria. He hopes to win
an Olympic gold medal in the next decade. (Photo courtesy of Rachel Freilich)

Aiming for Olympics, fencer cuts a wide swath in Europe

By Rebecca McKinsey

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Andrew Garfield, nice Jewish boy and the star of 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2.' (Courtesy)

Neurotic superheroNu, of course Spider-Man is Jewish

US House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor (CC BY/Gage Skidmore/Flickr/File)

Passover call between Obama and Cantor may have turned ugly

By Josh Lederman

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Satellite dishes on rooftop of shacks in Jaffa (Photo credit: Alana Perino/Flash90)

From the webStart-up Israel suffering most OECD poverty as poor surge

Abu Isa al-Andalus, a rebel fighter in Syria claimed to have once played for the Arsenal soccer club in England (screen capture: YouTube)

No goal‘Arsenal player’ in Syria video IDed

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Israeli police officers carry the coffin of Baruch Mizrahi during the funeral at the military cemetery of Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 16, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNot dead and buried

By Ilan Ben Zion

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