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What Matters Most On Friday, October 24, 2014

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Illustration. Security and police are seen at the Ammunition Hill Light Rail station in Jerusalem, where a baby was killed and several injured last night in a terror attack, Thursday, October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Unrest, instability, intifada — whatever its name, it’s in Hamas’s interest

By Mitch Ginsburg

The simmering violence in Jerusalem, culminating in Wednesday’s fatal terror attack, may not have a moniker, but it is a flame that Hamas wants to spread to the West Bank

Three arrested in East Jerusalem rioting

From grandfather of baby terror victim, a tearful message

By JTA and AFP

Jerusalem terrorist’s mother: I understand victims’ pain

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bus crash in Nepal, October 23, 2014 (YouTube Screenshot)

Two Israelis said killed when Nepal bus drives off mountainside

Accident north of Kathmandu claims at least 11 lives, more than 48 said wounded; conflicting reports suggest six more Israelis may have been injured

Raped at a mikveh, then abandoned

Joey Diangello, a former Hasidic Jew and outspoken victims advocate, is dead — where’s the outcry?

If only I could convert!

The founder of Israel’s Conversion Authority says the distress is real and the model he created can help

Katka, a Slovakian immigrant in Poland converting to Judaism, is one of the four main subjects in Adam Zucker's documentary 'The Return.' (courtesy)

New film suggests a bright future for Polish Jews

By Jordan Hoffman

Eliza Moss-Horwitz, Lucy Sattler and Alexandra Schwartz pray with Women of the Wall. Schwartz (right) holds an empty Torah cover beneath her prayer book, symbolizing the Torah scroll the group was prevented from bringing in to the Kotel plaza, January 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy of Moving Traditions)

Women’s group sneaks Torah scroll into Kotel plaza

Women of the Wall hold ‘first Torah reading and bat mitzvah’ at Western Wall women’s section, and on social media

Israeli anti-riot policemen scuffle with Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem's Old City on October 24, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/GALI TIBBON)

Analysis

One capital, two deeply divided cities

By Avi Issacharoff

As Hamas tries to spark an intifada in East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Israeli police aren’t making matters any better

Outgoing Chief of Police Yohanan Danino (center), Jerusalem District Police Commander Moshe Edri (left) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem’s Barkat vows to calm capital’s violence

By Josef Federman

Housing and Construction Minister Uri Ariel (C) at a press conference promoting new housing units to be built in the Jewish settlement of Tel Tzion, near Jerusalem, on August 13, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Build settlements in response to Jerusalem terror: minister

Housing Minister Uri Ariel calls on government to lift unofficial building ‘freeze’ in isolated West Bank settlements

University of Manchester's student union. (David Dixon/CC-BY-SA)

UK Jewish students struggle to avoid twinning with ‘Hamas greenhouse’

President Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Flash90)

New president seeks to cure ‘epidemic’ of racism

‘Israeli society is sick, and it is our duty to treat this disease’ and ease tensions between Arabs and Jews, Rivlin tells academics

US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman speaks to the press in Jerusalem on February 22, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

US negotiator: Some want talks with Iran to fail

By Bradley Klapper

Wendy Sherman says diplomacy with Iran is worth the risk, but many obstacles remain

The Canadian Centre Block parliament building. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Daryl_Mitchell, Flickr)

Canadian Jews shocked, angered by Ottawa shooting

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Canada is the most big-hearted place I know. It hurts to see that upended into so much pain’

Ottawa gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (photo credit: YouTube, screen capture)

Canada terrorist wanted a passport to go to Mideast

By Jennifer Peltz, Rob Gillies and Raphael Satter

Illustrative photo of New York City police officers (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Man with Islamic ‘extremist leanings’ attacks NY police

By AFP and AP

Hatchet-wielding assailant Zale Thompson wounds two officers in Queens, is shot dead by police

'Butcher of Riga' Herbert Cukurs was a nationally celebrated aviator prior to joining a killing squad during the Holocaust. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel slams Latvian musical celebrating Nazi’s life

By JTA

Herbert Cukurs personally participated in the near annihilation of Latvian Jewry after the Nazis invaded Latvia

An ad in New York City's Times Square for the Shabbos Project. (courtesy)

You don’t need to be religious to observe the Shabbat Project

By Caroline Lagnado

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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

Exterior of Harlem Hospital in Manhattan (Photo credit: Courtesy Dip-Tech)

Israel’s newest record: World’s biggest digital printer

By David Shamah

Shia LeBeouf speaking with Jimmy Kimmel in an interview in October 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

TransformerShia LeBeouf now a Christian

Illustrative photo of a traffic policeman. (photo credit Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Friends don't let friendsDriver’s alcohol level breaks record

Police and rescue personnel at the scene where a baby was killed and several people were injured as a Palestinian drove his car into the Jerusalem light rail station, by Ammunition Hill October 22, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Parents of Ecuadorian hurt in Jerusalem attack flown to Israel

Mira Awad and David Broza at a Lod concert organized by the US Embassy in Israel, October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy)

Jewish, Arab singers perform together ‘to promote harmony’

Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rivlin hitches plane ride from Polish counterpart

By JTA

Screenshots of the What's Kosher app (Photo credit: Courtesy)

App aims to keep things kosher, in Israel and abroad

By David Shamah

Store attendants help customers at an Apple store selling the iPhone 6 in Beijing on October 23, 2014. (photo credit: Greg Baker/AFP)

iPhone 6’s price in Israel among highest in the world

David Broza and Mira Awad sing about Ramallah and Tel Aviv, one of the songs on the singer/songwriter's latest album, 'East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem' (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Peace projectDavid Broza and his collaborations

By Jessica Steinberg

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack that killed one baby and injured several pedestrians when a car crashed into a Jerusalem light rail station. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewAll eyes on Jerusalem

By Yossi Nachemi

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