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What Matters Most On Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

AnalysisMusings from Putin's Moscow

Back in the USSR?

By David Horovitz

‘Putin is recreating the Soviet Union as he thinks it should have been,’ says Natan Sharansky’s former Hebrew teacher, ‘without the anti-Semitism.’ ‘I don’t know where Russia would be without him,’ says the Chabad chief rabbi. ‘For the Jews, it’s a miracle’

US Secretary of State John Kerry waves as he boards a plane in Paris, France, on March 31, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/pool/Jacquelyn Martin)

State Dept: Kerry regrets ‘apartheid’ word choice, not sentiment

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

‘We’re in a holding period now that Israel has suspended peace talks,’ says spokeswoman, as April 29 deadline for peace deal passes

AnalysisHamas: Our Gaza forces won’t take orders from Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

Israel’s UN envoy condemns Fatah-Hamas deal

By Stuart Winer

After talks collapse, experts advise wait-and-see approach

A free trip to Israel? No thanks

With interest in Birthright missions on the wane, it’s time to engage young Jews about why they should care

HaDassah Sabo Milner

On the eve of my son’s enlistment

Today it hit me full force: My time of protecting you is over…Tomorrow you become the protector

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Racist tape has Sterling silver lining

Here’s why Blacks really are better at basketball and why we should secretly thank Donald Sterling

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Save the Elah Valley

Hoping a last ditch effort can reverse a decision to turn the national park into high density housing for Haredi families

David Geffen, left, accepts the President's Merit Award from the President of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, on Feb. 12, 2011 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (photo credit: AP/Mark J. Terrill)

David Geffen expresses interest in buying Clippers

By ToI Staff and AP

Media mogul has previously tried to buy the basketball franchise, which NBA team owners may force Donald Sterling to sell

Deputy Minister Eli Ben Dahan (photo credit: Flash90)

Ministry looking to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

Deputy religious affairs minister says he ‘expects’ government to adopt new directives breaking longstanding taboo

Facebook page supporting soldier who was video taped drawing weapon on 15-year-old Palestinian boy during confrontation in Hebron. (phot credit: screen capture: Facebook)

Support surges for soldier who raised gun, cursed at Palestinian teen

Army denies reports that soldier was jailed for drawing his weapon on 15-year-old in Hebron incident caught on tape

Copies of audio recordings and films starring Souad Zaki that her son Moshe Zaki was able to obtain because they were sold outside of Egypt before the 1952 Revolution. (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand)

Forgotten siren: From Cairo diva to Israeli single mother

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Syrian oppositionist Kamal Al-Labwani at an anti-Assad demonstration in Paris, June 12, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Jacques Brinon)

Interview

Israel is our last hope, indicates Syrian dissident

By Elhanan Miller

The West and the Arabs have created a ‘fake’ Syrian opposition to keep Assad in power, says veteran oppositionist Kamal Labwani

Members of UCLA’s student government listen to supporters and opponents of a divestment resolution targeting Israel, February 26, 2014. (Courtesy of StandWithUs)

Divestment votes surge but largely fail on US campuses

At some universities, Jewish students find themselves scrambling to counter the lobbying efforts of well-organized pro-Palestinian activists

Illustrative: A Palestinian man changes the tires of his car after a 'price tag' attack in March 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

As wave persists, opposition head calls ‘price tag’ attacks terror

By Stuart Winer

Arab contractor’s vehicle vandalized in Yokne’am; town of Fureidis goes on strike after defacing of mosque

Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna, a nun who discovers she is actually a Jew named Ida, just days before taking her vows, in Pawel Pawkikoski's new film. (courtesy: Music Box Films)

Polish film on Jewish identity best release of 2014

By Jordan Hoffman

Director Pawel Pawlikowski discusses his evocative, award-winning ‘Ida’ — opening across North America on May 2 — and the mysterious actress at its center

A couple walk with the Hungarian and Israeli flags in Budapest on April 27, 2014, during a march commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust (photo credit: AFP/Attila Kisbenedek)

Protesters removed from Budapest WWII memorial site

By AFP

Holocaust survivors among over 20 people that police physically lifted from the area

The SoftWatch analytics system in action. (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Microsoft in double trouble after reports by gov’t, Israeli start-up

By David Shamah

Internet Explorer is too dangerous to use, CERT says; MS Office wastes money for many firms, SoftWatch says

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Daniel Rosenthal: 'I saw how magic could make worry disappear for just that moment and bring happiness to the saddest of all people.' (Courtesy Daniel Rosenthal via JTA)

Teen heroesMagic is a mysterious medical mitzvah, says teen

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan

Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, AKA Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (photo credit: AP/Max Nash/File)

For heaven's sakeTerrorist emailed as ‘sacrifice72’

By AFP

Students protest draft for Christian Arabs at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (photo credit: Hala Marsood)

Three arrested at Hebrew U. anti-enlistment rally

By Suha Halifa and Marissa Newman

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the collapse of Mideast peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians at the US State Department in Washington, DC, April 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Saul Loeb)

Hebrew media reviewKerry’s second opinion on apartheid

By Ilan Ben Zion

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