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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 18, 2014

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Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour addressing journalists after a UN Security Council meeting, May 2014. (UN/Devra Berkowitz)

Palestinians submit UN statehood resolution, but don’t seek quick vote

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Draft sets 1-year deadline for a deal, demands Israeli West Bank withdrawal by end of 2017; Palestinians say text not final

Palestinian UN bid is an ‘act of war,’ minister charges

By Ricky Ben-David

Abbas favors peace conference idea, limits talks to a year

By Elhanan Miller

‘Liberman to shun Swedish FM when she visits Israel’

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

Top court backs rabbis who revoked conversion over secular lifestyle

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli justices decide rabbis had the right to cancel Yonit Erez’s conversion two years after she became Jewish

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, December 17, 2014 (photo credit: Johan Dehon)

EU’s Mogherini: Hamas must remain on our terror list

By Raphael Ahren

At Hanukkah reception, union’s foreign policy chief speaks out against anti-Semitism, says world must learn from Maccabees

EU envoy: We still consider Hamas a terror organization

By Raphael Ahren

Canada urges EU to keep Hamas as terror group

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

AnalysisEU ruling on Hamas is only a small legal glitch

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Postcard from a grieving city

In Sydney and reassured that despite an evil man’s despicable act, kindness and solidarity will prevail

Appearance and reality (Mikketz)

The biblical tale of Joseph and his brothers teaches that appearances mask the deeper truth about people

When my parents caught the Zionist bug

Visiting her childhood home where, one day, her mother and father decided it was time to leave

What Europe’s Hamas decision is not about

The outraged response of Israeli leaders is either ignorant or disingenuous

Detail from Fritz Ascher's 'Crucifixion,' 1918, Oil on canvas (Private collection)

If not for the Nazis, he may have been the next Leonardo

By Cathryn J. Prince

German Expressionist painter Fritz Ascher survived the Holocaust, but his career never recovered. A new foundation is trying to change that

Illustration. New immigrants arrive to Ben Gurion airport in Israel. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

Immigration from US on the rise, says Nefesh B’Nefesh

3,762 North Americans moved to Israel in 2014, 7% more than last year

President Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and students from the Max Rayne Hand in Hand School with the Hanukkah menorah made by the school's classes and lighted at the White House Hanukkah party, December 17, 2014. (photo credit: Carole Zawatsky)

Arab-Jewish school’s menorah lights up White House Hanukkah party

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Obama praises resiliency of Jerusalem’s Hand in Hand bilingual students after arson attack

This photo courtesy of the office of US Senator Jeff Flake's (R-AZ) Twitter account, shows Alan Gross and his wife, Judy, before departing from Cuba on December 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jeff Flake/Handout)

Alan Gross credits Jewish efforts in Cuban release

By JTA

Freed after nearly six years Imprisonment, US citizen says Washington community’s support helped him through ordeal

Björn Söder, party secretary of the far-right Sweden Democrats party (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Swedish far-right leader: Jews are not true Swedes

Björn Söder says Jews must abandon religious identity to assimilate, later claims he was taken out of context

Yair Lapid (R), leader of the Yesh Atid party and Moshe Kahlon (L), head of the Kulanu party (Flash90/Channel 2 News)

Hypothetical Lapid-Kahlon party dominates in new poll

Survey indicates that a joint bid by Yesh Atid and Kulanu would receive 24 seats, ahead of both Likud and Labor

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with then-Likud MK and later Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin at the Knesset, July 2, 2013. (Flash90)

Moshe Feiglin backs out of Likud leadership race

Ruling party must unite ahead of elections in light of game-changing decision to move up primaries, MK says

Iranian officials attend a ceremony to unveil a monument in Tehran December 15, 2014, honoring fallen Jewish soldiers. (Photo credit: IRNA)

Iran unveils monument for fallen Jewish-Iranian soldiers

At ceremony, deputy parliament speaker hails Jewish community’s ‘obedience’ to supreme leader

Illustrative: Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman watches as German President Joachim Gauck lights a menorah during a ceremony to mark 50 years of ties between Israel and Germany on December 18, 2014. (photo credit: Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Israel and Germany mark jubilee year for ties

By Stuart Winer

German president attends Hanukkah party at Israeli ambassador’s home; President Rivlin to visit Berlin in May

Production shot of the Dutch play 'Anne,' created with the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel and recently extended to run through spring 2015 (photo credit: Kurt van der Elst)

A most unseemly battle over the legacy of Anne Frank

By Matt Lebovic

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A Hanukka menorah (Flash90)

'Tis not the seasonLocal US official ties Hanukkah to Jesus

Meretz leader Zahava Gal-on in a video campaign (photo credit: Facebook screen capture)

Dressing downMeretz leader one-ups Naftali Bennett

Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police raid offices of anti-assimilation group Lehava

By Stuart Winer

The Dr. Dreidel, a laser-etched wooden dreidel that brings together Hanukkah's traditions with modern times (Courtesy Hannah Rothstein)

Rap it upHaving pun with a Dr. Dreidel

By Jessica Steinberg

Harvard University (Shutterstock)

Harvard University caterer stops buying Sodastream

By Stuart Winer

The Tunisian version of fricassee, stuffing a fried roll with flaky tuna, hard-boiled eggs, preserved lemons and spicy harissa (photo credit: Andrea Brownstein/Photoli Photography)

Food for thoughtThe fried rolls of Tunisian fricassee

By Shira Buzelan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the foreign media at a press conference in Jerusalem, on December 17, 2014. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Flash90, Pool)

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu doth protest too much, many think

By Joshua Davidovich

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