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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 31, 2014

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Amiram Nir, in 1985, with his wife Judy Mozes (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/ Flash 90)

Israeli counterterror chief’s son blames US for his 1988 assassination

25 years after Amiram Nir died in mysterious plane crash amid Iran-Contra scandal, his son Nimrod points finger at Washington

Prime Minister Netanyahu in the West Bank settlement of Barkan, June 25, 2013 (photo credit: courtesy GPO)

Under US pressure, Netanyahu suspends some settlement plans

By Raphael Ahren and JTA

10 days after Deputy DM Danon told Times of Israel of a ‘silent freeze,’ PM reportedly tells settler leaders he’s had to partially halt building programs

Daniel J. Solomon

Opening Hillel to save it

History shows that the campus organization’s attempt to block free discourse will backfire big time

Joshua Hammerman

The human face of blessing

On his visit in Israel, the Pope embodied love over doctrine just as Jews should favor kindness over law

Syrian citizens who live in Lebanon shout slogans and carry a big portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, as they walk towards to the Syrian Embassy to ballot their vote for their presidential elections, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

As Lebanon and Syria become one

By Avi Issacharoff

Hezbollah’s central role keeping Assad in power has so blurred the borders that it’s hard to think of Lebanon as an independent entity anymore

Spiritual Leader of the Druze Community in Israel Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, October 20, 2013. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90)

Closing visit, Lebanese cardinal calls on Druze leader

By ToI Staff and AFP

'Abu Hurayra al-Amriki' (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

US confirms: Suicide bomber in Syria was American

By AP and ToI Staff

Al-Qaeda-linked group was first to tweet about ‘Abu Hurayra the American’ setting off a truck bomb outside a Syrian troop hangout

Palestinians in the West Bank wave green Hamas flags during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails on May 30, 2014. (photo credit: Musa al-Shaer/AFP)

Hamas vows to end West Bank security cooperation with Israel

Days before unveiling of Palestinian unity government, top officials in the Islamist movement reiterate dedication to ‘resistance’

The holy stone at Mount Bereniki (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

The sacred stone of Mount Bereniki

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Minister Yuval Steinitz at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in Jerusalem on May 20, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Steinitz: Defense establishment is manipulating state for funds

Strategic affairs minister pans military for using ‘undemocratic’ tactics to pressure gov’t to increase budget

Ahmed Akkari speaks to a Danish audience, August 2013. (screen capture, YouTube)

Ex-Islamist: Hamas, Hezbollah involved in cartoon controversy

Danish Muslim who had leading role in 2006 riots reveals conspiracy between imams and terrorist groups at heart of violence

A klezmer musician performs before Thursday's Jewish Heritage Night at Boston's Fenway Park (photo credit: Elan Kawesch)

Red Sox celebrate Boston’s Jewish-baseball connection

By Matt Lebovic

A young Nicholas Winton with a rescued child. (photo credit: Courtesy of Menemsha Films)

US National Archives finds historic Winton letter to FDR

By Renee Ghert-Zand

’60 Minutes’ report spurs archivist’s search for 1939 missive from Sir Nicholas Winton to US president Franklin Roosevelt asking for help in saving Jewish children

Protesters chant anti-government slogans, silhouetted by the light of flares in Taksim square, in Istanbul, Turkey, late Wednesday, June 12 (photo credit: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

On 1-year anniversary, Erdogan blames ‘terrorists’ for Taksim protests

By AFP

Turkish police deploy in central Istanbul square ahead of demonstrations marking start of anti-government struggle

Idit Klein, right, the executive director of Keshet, married Jordan Namerow under a chuppah at their 2011 wedding in Massachusetts, which was officiated by two rabbis. (photo credit: courtesy of Idit Klein)

Massachusetts Jews reflect on a decade of same-sex marriage

By Penny Schwartz

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A scene from the controversial ad. (photo credit:YouTube screenshot)

Urine trouble‘Sexualized’ diaper ad has parents in a tizzy

'Head of a man,' a portrait once attributed to Vincent van Gogh.

Australian gallery to return portrait lost under Nazis

By AFP

Israeli creator of 'Homeland' Gideon Raff. (Courtesy)

Dig inNBC’s ‘Dig’ starts filming in Jerusalem

Nazareth Lane in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Dutch city calls Jerusalem, Nazareth ‘cities in Palestine’

By JTA

Los Angeles Clippers former owner Donald Sterling sits with his wife, Shelly, during the Clippers NBA basketball game against the Detroit Pistons in Los Angeles, in November 2010 (photo credit: AP/Mark J. Terrill, file)

NBA cancels Sterling hearing after Clippers deal

By AP

Europeans petition Google to erase unflattering results

By Michael Liedtke

A view of the Nile River. (CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)

From the webArtifact trove at Egyptian tomb illuminates life before pharaohs

Hanna Maron (1923-2014) (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Israeli actress Hanna Maron dies at 90

Illustrative photo of the outside of a police station in Jerusalem (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Homeless man tries to hang himself at police station

In this photo dated May 14, 2014, Andree Auvray answers question during an interview with the Associated Press in Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

D-Day gratitude kept alive in France

By CATHERINE GASCHKA and Angela Charlton

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