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What Matters Most On Friday, May 2, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Independence Hall in Tel Aviv, on May 1, 2014. (GPO/Amos Ben Gershom)

PM to push for law declaring Israel nation-state of the Jews

By Raphael Ahren

Planned new Basic Law will respect minority rights, Netanyahu vows; proposal likely to shake up governing coalition

in Jerusalem. April 27, 2014. (photo credit: Amit Shabi/FLASH90)

Livni bashes PM’s plan to codify Israel’s Jewish status

Rabbi Rick Jacobs (photo credit: URJ via JTA)

Reform movement may bolt Presidents Conf. in wake of J Street rejection

By JTA and Yifa Yaakov

Departure of largest Jewish organization in US could undercut umbrella group’s credibility; Conservative movement also unhappy

A sign welcomes attendees to J Street’s 2013 national conference in Washington. (photo credit: Courtesy of J Street)

AnalysisHas J Street won its fight for mainstream acceptance?

Big Tent Judaism, Kotel style

With spiritual introspection, the squabbles that threaten to tear us apart become insignificant

Teach kids manners? Thanks but no thanks

This week’s Torah portion shows it’s not about being polite or impolite — it’s about gratitude

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

America’s top mohels share secrets and stories

By Uriel Heilman

New York's Cardinal John J. O'Connor shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir during a meeting in Jerusalem, Jan. 5, 1992. (photo credit: AP Photo)

New York’s Cardinal John O’Connor was a Jew

By JTA

Mother of late archbishop was born Jewish but converted to Catholicism, genealogical research shows

Al-Aqsa Mosque imam Raed al-Danna speaks at an Islamic conference in Milan, Italy, Sunday, April 27, 2014. (photo credit: MEMRI/al-Jazeera)

In Italy, al-Aqsa Mosque imam urges destruction of Israel

Cleric calls on Arab armies, including those of Egypt and Jordan, to ‘liberate’ cities such as Jaffa and Haifa

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

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Abbas rebuffed bid to find mutually acceptable wording on ‘Jewish state’

By Raphael Ahren

Israel suggested describing Jewish people’s and Palestinian people’s rights to self-determination in precisely equivalent terms; Palestinians refused to discuss idea

US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) stands alongside US Ambassador to Ethiopia Patricia Haslach as he speaks to US Embassy employees and their families at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on May 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / POOL / Saul LOEB)

Kerry: Fatah-Hamas pact came as complete surprise to us

By AP

File: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization's Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 26, 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Analysis

For peace talks, a 10th month of pregnancy?

By Avi Issacharoff

Negotiations ended this week without a deal, or an intifada, which leaves a situation ripe for secret contacts between the sides

Shelley Dadon (photo credit: Facebook)

Evidence mounting Afula woman was terror victim, police say

Officials still keeping all avenues of investigation open after Shelley Dadon, 19, found dead in Galilee parking lot

Yekutiel and Sheryl Wultz with Debbie Wasserman Schultz (center), Thursday, May 1, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy)

DC prayer event pays homage to teen killed in Tel Aviv attack

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

As family continues legal battle over 2006 suicide bombing, Daniel Wultz’s commitment to prayer remembered on Capitol Hill

Australian ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer (photo credit: Courtesy Pat Farmer)

Middle East Peace Run kicks off in Lebanon

By Yifa Yaakov and Rebecca McKinsey

Hoping to increase awareness and promote tolerance, Australian athlete runs first 57 km en route to Israel

A scene from the encounter in Hebron, uploaded to YouTube by the 'Youth Against Settlements' organization. (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

IDF probes Palestinian teen who appeared in Hebron video

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Youth insists he was holding prayer beads, not brass knuckles, during controversial altercation with Israeli soldier

A Japanese child with an IsraAID volunteer (photo credit: Courtesy of IsraAID)

Healing Asia

The art of teaching Japan to speak

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A working draft of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” one of the most popular songs of all time. The draft, in Dylan’s own hand, is coming to auction in New York on June 24, 2014 where it could fetch an estimated $1 million to $2 million. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sotheby’s)

Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ heads to auction

By AP

Leonard Nimoy (left) and William Shatner in a 'Star Trek' poster, 1968 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Star quality‘Captain Kirk’ honored by NASA

Sarah Palin, seen at an August 2008 campaign rally in Missouri. (photo credit: geerlingguy / Creative Commons)

Good puplicity?Palin’s new dog is Hadassa bar the ‘h’

By Julie Wiener

Patrick Mercer (photo credit: Courtesy)

British MP guilty of ‘worst breach’ for ‘bloody Jew’ comment

By ToI Staff and JTA

Drake cleans lint off his pants ringside. (YouTube screenshot)

Lint defenseDrake cleans up court side

By Renee Ghert-Zand

US President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jay Leno during a commercial break at a taping of “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” in Los Angeles, in August 2013. (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jay-nesis AwardIn J’lem, Leno to present Genesis Prize

By JTA

Intimate City screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

With new Israeli app, real life mimics TV hit

By David Shamah

Assi Dayan in 2013 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewDebating ‘Israeliness’

By Marissa Newman

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