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What Matters Most On Friday, February 27, 2015

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Illustrative: a screenshot from the documentary 'Crossing the Line 2,' which depicts rising anti-Semitic activity on North American campuses. (Courtesy)

New film depicts Jewish students’ growing insecurity on campus

By Cathryn J. Prince

While calling for Jewish pride and Israel advocacy, documentary portrays North American universities as anti-Semitic battlefields

Harassment of Jews on the rise worldwide, study finds

By AFP

Madonna: European intolerance ‘feels like Nazi Germany’

By AFP

Danish imam to be charged in Germany for call to kill Jews

By JTA

US National Security Adviser Susan Rice during an interview with Charlie Rose on the Public Broadcasting Service, February 24, 2015. (screen capture/YouTube/Charlie Rose)

After bashing Netanyahu, top Obama aide Rice to address AIPAC

By AP, ToI Staff and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

UN envoy Samantha Power also to attend pro-Israel lobby group’s conference in bid to ease tensions over Iran, speech to Congress

AIPAC reportedly opposed to Netanyahu’s Congress address

Ex-Mossad chief: PM taking ‘intolerable’ risks with Israeli security

Jeb Bush says Obama’s foreign policies ‘catastrophic’

Foreign Minister and Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman (bottom L), Yair Lapid, leader of 'Yesh Atid' Party( bottom 2L), Leader of the Yachad party, Eli Yishai (bottom 2R), Leader of the combined Arab list, Ayman Odeh (bottom R), Meretz party leader Zahava Gal On (upper R), Leader of the ultra orthodox Shas party, Aryeh Deri (upper 2L), Leader of Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, Naftali Bennett (upper 2R) and Leader of the Kulanu party Moshe Kahlon (upper C) and Channel 2 TV news anchorman, Yonit Levi (upper L) seen before a Channel 2 news political debate ahead of the 2015 Israeli election. in the Neve Ilan studios near Jerusalem on February 26, 2015. (Photo cedit: Channel 2 News)

Campaign notebook: February 27

TV debate exposes Israel’s good, bad and ugly

By Haviv Rettig Gur

How the leaders of eight political parties finally cut through their empty campaigns and laid bare Israel’s anguished politics

Zionist Union gains slight edge over Likud in Friday polls

By Itamar Sharon

Live updates (closed)Bennett dominant, Liberman hesitant, Arab leader Ouda eloquent in TV debate

By Jonathan Beck

Knesset candidates trade jabs in first-ever TV debate

Shoshanna Schechter-Shaffin

What’s so scary about Hashem?

Non-Orthodox Jews have the right to explore and establish their own personal relationships with the divine

Is summer camp better than day school?

It’s time to figure out how the camp magic can replace the tedium of Jewish education as we know it

Freedom is under attack worldwide

A warning to the world from the UN General Assembly podium: Don’t close your eyes to the atrocities around you

Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom (L) and his Jordanian counterpart Hazem Nasser seen during a signing ceremony between Jordan and Israel in Jordan on February 26, 2015, Israel and Jordan sign Tuesday the “Red-Dead” agreement to jointly build a desalination plant north of the Jordanian tourist resort of Akaba. (Photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel and Jordan sign ‘historic’ water deal to save Dead Sea

‘Most significant agreement’ since 1995 peace treaty will see construction of ‘Red-Dead’ pipeline and provide water for both nations

Israel Electric Company workers build a new electric line (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Israel-PA resolve electricity and water disputes

After blackouts in Jenin, Nablus, Palestinians to pay NIS 300 million of outstanding debt; PM agrees to hook up city of Rawabi to water supply

Dr. John Donoghue (L.) accepts a $1 million award from former president Shimon Peres at the BrainTech event in Tel Aviv, October 15, 2013. The award was presented to Donoghue and his team for their work in using brain tech to treat degenerative brain diseases (Photo credit: Chen Galili)

Alzheimer’s to meet its match in brain map project, researcher claims

By David Shamah

Artificial brain models will let scientists understand the brain and cure its diseases, says Prof. Henry Markram

A member of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards chants slogans after attacking a naval vessel during a military drill in the Strait of Hormuz in southern Iran, February 25, 2015. (Hamed Jafarnejad/AFP/Fars News)

Iran test-fires new weapon in naval drill

By AP

No details provided though exercise apparently involved missile fire; army says weapon will play key role in any conflict with US

US Secretary of State John Kerry (right), speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as they walk in Geneva, Switzerland, ahead of nuclear discussions, January 14, 2015. (AP/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, File)

Kerry to meet Iranian FM Zarif next week

By AFP

US secretary of state to meet counterpart in Switzerland to advance nuclear deal; will address UN rights council in Geneva

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Senator Mitch McConnell at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on January 11. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu to hold bipartisan meeting with US lawmakers

After rebuffing Democrats, PM accepts invite for closed-door parlay from Senate majority leader McConnell and minority leader Reid

Steven Sotloff next to his Islamic State captor, 'Jihadi John,' in a video released September 2, 2014. (Screen capture: SITE/Twitter)

‘Jihadi John’ described at home as compassionate, ‘humble’

By Jill Lawless

Mohammed Emwazi, identified as the Islamic State executioner, is ‘kind, gentle, soft-spoken,’ UK acquaintance says

New IS video shows militants smashing ancient Iraq artifacts (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Video shows Iraq jihadis destroying 3,000 year old ‘idols’

By AP

Archaeology professor calls Islamic State campaign to destroy ‘heretical’ relics in Mosul a catastrophe

Argentina's then-president Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires on January 30, 2015. (AFP Photo/Alejandro Pagni)

Judge throws out AMIA cover-up case against Argentine president

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Documents filed by dead prosecutor Nisman on whitewashing of Iran’s role in deadly bombing fail to meet standards, but prosecutors plan appeal

Central Elections Committee workers check voter registration lists, February 24, 2015. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

A behind-the-scenes peek into Election Day planning

By Renee Ghert-Zand

How Central Elections Committee workers prepare 11,500 blue ballot boxes for polling stations across the country

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on February 22, 2015. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

A-G to probe spending abuse claims at PM’s residences, but only after elections

By ToI Staff and AFP

Top legal official says no suspicion of misconduct by PM; investigation must wait because it wouldn’t be completed by March 17

Chabad emissaries won't step foot in Havana's Orthodox synagogue, Adath Israel. (photo credit: Josh Tapper/JTA)

Chabad emissaries face shut doors in Havana

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Apple CEO Tim Cook poses for a selfie with Apple's Herzliya employees, February 26, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Tim Cook: Apple’s Herzliya R&D center second-largest in world

By David Shamah

Runners in the 2015 Tel Aviv marathon, February 27, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Tel Aviv marathon halted after 2 hospitalized

By Itamar Sharon

Pop singer Katy Perry (screen capture: YouTube)

Part of mePop star Katy Perry visits Auschwitz

By AFP

Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem, Israel (CC BY-James Emery/Flickr)

Drug-smuggling US Consulate guards sent home

A scene from the Polish movie 'Ida' (screen capture: YouTube/Film Festivals and Indie Films)

Poles say Oscar-winning ‘Ida’ misrepresents Jewish persecution

By Vanessa Gera

Founder of Hello Flo Naama Bloom is a businesswoman on a mission. (Sam Khan)

‘Accidental activist’ CEO grinningly depicts grim new motherhood

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to voters from the Russian-speaking community, at a Likud Party conference in Tel Aviv, February 9, 2015. (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu under fire

By Ilan Ben Zion

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