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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 21, 2014

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A protester outside of the New York Metropolitan Opera House's October 20, 2014, premiere performance of the controversial 'Death of Klinghoffer' (Jordan Hoffman/The Times of Israel)

Passionate ‘Klinghoffer’ protest outshines lackluster premiere

By Jordan Hoffman

Times of Israel reviewer, who was close to falling asleep during the opera, wonders if all the fuss over anti-Semitism was justified

People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center, with the Metropolitan Opera House in the background, as they protest 'Death of Klinghoffer' Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

Standing ovation for Met ‘Klinghoffer’ despite protest

By Marissa Newman, Lazar Berman and AP

People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center as they protest "Death of Klinghoffer" Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

US politicians join protesters at Met ‘Klinghoffer’ opening

By Marissa Newman, Lazar Berman and AP

Illustrative photo of an IDF officer during search near Nablus in the West Bank, June 18, 2014 (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Can the Palestinian Authority survive without the IDF?

By Elhanan Miller

Former Netanyahu security adviser says it’s illogical for the PA to demand Israel leave the West Bank; Palestinian official says it’s unreasonable for it to remain

Bethany S. Mandel

A bill of rights for Jewish converts

Rabbi Barry Freundel oversaw her conversion — she shouldn’t have to fear she won’t be considered Jewish

Carrie Bornstein

Breaking the mikveh monopoly

Communal checks and balances mean that everyone is in charge of the mikveh, especially those who use it

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Sitting with the Torah on Simchat Torah

Lot of women literally can’t stand holding a Torah — a eureka moment and a four-legged solution

A monumental Roman inscription found in Jerusalem by the Israel Antiquities Authority. (photo credit: Moti Tufeld)

Rare Roman monument bearing Hadrian’s name found in Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

Massive limestone slab dedicated to emperor’s 130 CE visit discovered at construction site, pinpoints date of city’s reconstruction

An aerial view of Tel Burna, a Canaanite and Israelite site near modern day Kiryat Gat. (photo courtesy Skyview)

Canaanite cult site offers up its treasures after 3,300 years

By Ilan Ben Zion

Colorful lions guard Safra Square, Jerusalem's City Hall (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Two Jerusalem chief rabbis to be decided Tuesday

By Marissa Newman

Nine candidates in the running for positions that have been vacant for over 10 years

Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-Likud minister to start new party to fight high prices

By Lazar Berman

Moshe Kahlon says cost-of-living issues can be solved if the government has the willpower

Rabbi Barry Freundel, former spiritual leader of Kesher Israel (YouTube/Kesher Israel, screen capture)

All Freundel’s US conversions valid, but Israel to review

Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem says it will look again at disgraced DC rabbi’s conversions in light of scandal

Eitan Idan, an Israeli Himalayan snowstorm survivor (second from the left), is treated for frostbite, looks on from a chartered bus as he is discharged from a hospital before heading to the airport in Kathmandu on October 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Prakash MATHEMA)

To survive, hikers had to leave friend behind in Nepal storm

By Marissa Newman

Backpacker Eitan Idan recalls urging his group to press on without Tamar Ariel; ‘It was clear to me that if we stay, we die’

Swedish MP Kent Ekeroth (photo credit: CC BY-SA Kent Ekeroth/Wikipedia)

In pro-Palestine Sweden, far-right Jewish lawmaker embraces Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Kent Ekeroth’s mother immigrated from Poland. As an MP for the nationalist Sweden Democrats, he now agitates against Arab immigrants

Netanyahu stymies bill that would ease conversion process

Justice minister accuses PM of choosing alliance with ultra-Orthodox, Jewish Home party over supporting the proposed law

Screenshot from Monica Lewinsky's first speech in 13 years to Forbes' Under 30 Summit, Monday, October 20, 2014.

Monica Lewinsky: I was suicidal as Clinton scandal went viral

By AFP and ToI Staff

In first speech in 13 years, ex-White House intern tells of shame, depression; says she was cyber-bullying’s Patient Zero, wants to help others

Jordan's King Abdullah II addresses the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 at U.N. headquarters. (photo credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Jordanian king equates ‘Zionist extremists’ to Islamic State

Abdullah II tells MPs that countries must recognize extremism to fight it, according to source

Peering through red hearts at the fields beyond the yoga/meditation space at Ashram in the Desert, one of the yoga sites for the weekend. (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Say ‘om’ in the desert

By Jessica Steinberg

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Thousands of Jews worldwide are reportedly planning to participate in inclusive Sabbath observance activities on October 24-25. (Illustrative photo of challah baking via Shutterstock)

FROM THE BLOGSSabbath Voices

Orthodox schoolgirls looking at posters in Beit Shemesh in June 2014. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Beit Shemesh lawmakers eye splitting city into haredi, non-haredi entities

By JTA

IDF soldiers handcuffing an 11-year-old Palestinian boy in Hebron, October 19, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/B'Tselem)

IDF soldiers handcuff disabled Palestinian boy, 11

By Stuart Winer

‘What Israel? It’s ours,’ says PA TV host

By Lazar Berman

Shadi Halul, head of the Aramaic Maronite Heritage Center, in Gush Halav in northern Israel, on August 9, 2013. Halul is the father of Yaakov, 2, who was officially recognized as the first Aramean by the Interior Ministry (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

In first, Israeli Christian child registers as Aramean

By Marissa Newman

Eitan Idan, an Israeli Himalayan snowstorm survivors, talks to compatriots after his discharge from a hospital before heading to the airport in Kathmandu on October 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Prakash MATHEMA)

Hebrew media reviewThings we lost

By Joshua Davidovich

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