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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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A supporter of the Greek ultra-nationalist party Golden Dawn raises his fist during a preelection rally in Athens on May 23, 2014. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

Greece’s neo-Nazis come into their own in EU vote

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As Golden Dawn wins 3 Euro parliament seats, Jewish leader laments that ‘many Greeks truly believe this Nazi party can save the country from economic catastrophe’

The new face of German fascism

By Yannik Pasquet

Twin baby girls among 6 Ukraine Jews airlifted to Israel

By Marissa Newman and JTA

Belgian Jewish activist says he received death threat

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Liu Yandong, Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, seen at a joint press conference at Prime Minister Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem. May 19, 2014. (Photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Israel-China ties hold great promise

In comments to mark the launch of The Times of Israel’s Chinese website, prime minister stresses Israel’s ‘strong affinity for China’

The Times of Israel Chinese

Analysis

Huanying and welcome to The Times of Israel Chinese

By David Horovitz

Interaction between China and Israel is burgeoning, especially in the fields of high-tech and innovation. Hence the need for our new Chinese website

R. Steven Notley

Your Holiness, Bibi was right – Jesus spoke Hebrew!

The Pope expressed a now disproven belief that Aramaic was the only language in wide use during Jesus’ time

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Ruth fails rabbinate, Shavuot cancelled

By making conversion so difficult, we are helping the czars and communists complete the decimation of Russian Jewry

Operation Conveyor Belt

Imagining the dark comedy of a possible U.S. plan to provide military aid to Syria’s moderate opposition

Presidential chess

What does an Israeli president do? Not too much

Former South African president F.W. De Klerk (screen capture: YouTube)

South Africa’s de Klerk: Israel not an apartheid state

By Marissa Newman

Former president, under whose watch segregation ended, says it’s ‘unfair’ to use term, but binational state could change that

A building displaying indigenous Mayan art in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala (Chixoy, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

Residents of small Guatemalan town want Jews to leave

By Natalie A. Schachar

There are 10 Jewish families in San Juan La Laguna. Indigenous Mayans want to ‘defend their rights’ against the ‘ill will’ they’re purportedly causing

People hug at a public memorial service on the Day of Mourning and Reflection for the victims of a killing spree at University of California, Santa Barbara on May 27, 2014 in Isla Vista, California. (photo credit: AFP/David McNew/Getty Images)

Santa Barbara rabbi on front lines in wake of deadly rampage

By Renee Ghert-Zand

UCSB Hillel Rabbi Evan Goodman consoles and counsels school’s large Jewish population after Elliot Rodger murdered six on campus Friday

Detail from a photograph of the Jobar Synagogue in Damascus, circa 2013. (Moti Kahana)

Pictures said to show historic Damascus synagogue destroyed

By JTA and ToI Staff

After numerous reports of damage from civil war, Jobar’s Eliyahu Hanabi Synagogue ‘flattened’ in attack by Assad’s forces on capital’s suburb

Illustrative photo of Iranian Revolutionary Guards (@MidEastNews_Eng via Twitter/File)

Top Iranian officer said beheaded in Syria

Revolutionary Guards Corps officer Mohammad Eskandari reportedly killed by al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front fighters

JDC board president Penny Blumenstein in Jerusalem. (Sasson Tiram)

JDC president says volunteers never hit a glass ceiling

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to students at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem on May 28, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Jerusalem to remain united forever, Netanyahu says

By Ilan Ben Zion

Marking anniversary of Six Day War victory, prime minister calls capital ‘heart of the nation’; statistics show growing religious population

In this March 7, 2012 file photo, a couple sits next to the Tower of David on the wall surrounding Jerusalem's Old City. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Jerusalem Day finds 92% of Israelis in capital happy with their lives

Statistics show a variety of positive trends as capital marks reunification; presidential frontrunner laments annual festival no longer inclusive

Screenshot of TabTale's 'Baby Hero' app (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s TabTale buys Chinese kids’ game publisher

By David Shamah

The strategic move into the Asian market lets the Israeli firm access hundreds of millions of customers

(L to R:) Prof. Joseph Kost, dean of the faculty of engineering sciences at BGU; Prof. Zvi Hacohen, rector at BGU; Prof. Christine Ortiz, faculty director at MIT-Israel and dean of graduate education at MIT (Photo credit: Dani Machlis/BGU)

Tech seed fund brings MIT, Israeli R&D closer

By David Shamah

Deal between the elite US institution and Ben Gurion University rewards promising research with financing

Illustrative: Women from the Falash Mura community waiting in Gondar to be transported to Israel in 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

30 years on, state remembers Ethiopians who died en route to Israel

Monument dedicated at ceremony on Mount Herzl; Peres decries discrimination against African Jews

A Holocaust survivor seen during a ceremony at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Poland. (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Flash90)

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In first, Poland to pay pensions to Shoah survivors abroad

By Raphael Ahren

Procedural change will allow some 50,000 Israelis of Polish descent to apply for allowances of about NIS 470 per month

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Justin Timberlake on the JT2020 tour (Courtesy Justin Timberlake)

Justin timeTimberlake hits Kotel ahead of TA gig

By Jessica Steinberg

Pharrell Williams (photo credit: kallerna/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Clap alongPharrell: Let ‘Happy’ Iranians dance

By AP

FIFA President Sepp Blatter sits between Prince Ali of Jordan (left), and Jibril Rajoub (right), who heads the Palestinian Football Federation, at the presidential headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on May 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

FIFA president says he won’t sanction Israel

By AFP

Pope Francis prays against the security barrier at Bethlehem, May 25, 2014 (photo credit: Nour Shamaly/Flash90)

A message of peace in the ever-present shadow of the conflict

Cranes unload a cargo ship at the Ashdod port in July, 2013 (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewBad management: Port of call — Ashdod

By Yossi Nachemi

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