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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 28, 2015

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Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Ex-Obama aide Ross: PM’s speech to Congress ‘definitely a mistake’

Many in Congress feel they’re being asked to publicly ‘choose between president and PM,’ he says; emerging deal keeps Iran a year from potential nukes

Netanyahu releases clip of him writing Congress speech

US official sets out ‘bottom lines’ for Iran deal

By AFP

Senators unveil new bill challenging Obama on Iran

By Donna Cassata

O’Neal McKnight and Miriam Sternoff in the Lifetime show “Kosher Soul.” (photo credit: Richard Knapp/Lifetime/JTA)

Stereotyping in TV’s ‘Kosher Soul’ amuses some, infuriates others

By Anthony Weiss

New reality show featuring African American-Jewish couple ruffles feathers of many, particularly black Jews

Lynette Nusbacher

Purim foreign policy

Netanyahu is not Queen Esther risking her life to intercede for her people — he’s a politician up for re-election

Norman S. Lipson

Purim and politics

Netanyahu, much like Queen Esther, will warn of the danger, not just to Israel but also for all democracies

Avi Issacharoff

Netanyahu’s electoral trip to Washington

The PM’s address to Congress on Iran next week won’t move Obama one inch, but he ignores the West Bank to Israel’s peril

Leonard Nimoy, who played the role of Spock in the original Star Trek television series, waves on arrival for the Los Angeles premiere of the movie 'Star Trek Into Darkness" in Hollywood, California, in this May 14, 2013, file photo. (Photo credit: AFP/Frederic J. BROWN/FILES)

Leonard Nimoy, famous as Mr. Spock on ‘Star Trek,’ dies aged 83

Born to Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, actor who also played Golda Meir’s husband loses battle with lung disease

Leonard Nimoy at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2011. (Photo credit: CC, BY Beth Madison/Wikimedia)

Vulcan Prayer

WATCH: Nimoy on Spock’s salute

By JTA

Star Trek character’s signature gesture represents the Hebrew letter shin, said actor who passed away Friday

In this Jan. 12, 2015 photo, Tom Schweich, second from left, in his Capitol office in Jefferson City. photo credit: AP Photo/News Tribune, Julie Smith)

Missouri politician found dead, soon after protesting anti-Jewish whisper campaign

By DAVID A. LIEB

Tom Schweich, a Republican gubernatorial candidate with Jewish heritage, in apparent suicide after reporting anti-Semitic rumors against him

Amedy Coulibaly, who said he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, killed four people at a Paris kosher supermarket on January 9, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/French Police)

Paris killer asked victims if they were Jewish before firing, transcript shows

French paper reports on content of 8-minute clip filmed by Amedy Coulibaly as he gunned down 4 Jews in kosher deli

Helen Mirren as Maria Altmann and Ryan Reynolds as her attorney Randol Schoenberg in the film 'Woman in Gold.' (Robert Viglasky/The Weinstein Company)

Nazi past the star of two Holocaust film premieres in Germany

By Toby Axelrod

French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala delivering a speech, January 15, 2012. (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)

Dieudonne gives Ahmadinejad gold ‘quenelle’ statue

By JTA

After Tehran meet, Holocaust-denying ex-Iranian president calls anti-Semitic French comedian ‘a great artist’

Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog speaking on February 8, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Herzog: I’ll debate Netanyahu anytime, any place

Zionist Union leader says he skipped Thursday’s TV discussion with 8 other party leaders because ‘elections are about unseating PM’

The Nir David tower and stockade complex (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

The gutsy little kibbutz with a river that runs through it

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Sky News releases first photo of 'Jihadi John,' the Islamic State's infamous British executioner, named by US and UK media as Mohammed Emwazi, February 27, 2015. (screen capture: Sky News)

Unmasking of ‘Jihadi John’ shocks Britain

By Gregory Katz and Jill Lawless

PM Cameron attempts to defuse criticism of UK intelligence community, which had Mohammed Emwazi on terror suspect list

Sky News releases first photo of 'Jihadi John,' the Islamic State's infamous British executioner, named by US and UK media as Mohammed Emwazi, February 27, 2015. (screen capture: Sky News)

First picture showing face of ‘Jihadi John’ revealed

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican Senator Marco Rubio (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio slams Obama’s ‘lack of support for Israel’

By Steve Peoples

Prominent Republican contender says president gives Iran’s leader more respect than he does Netanyahu

US Vice President Joe Biden on November 22, 2014 in Istanbul. (Photo credit: AFP/BULENT KILIC)

Biden, sick, cancels Uruguay trip, still aims to be away for PM speech

By Josh Lederman

Vice president’s visit to Latin America is reason he’ll miss Netanyahu’s address to Congress

Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at AIPAC on March 4, 2014. (Screen capture: JLTV)

AIPAC: We never opposed Netanyahu’s Congress speech

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Pro-Israel lobby working to ensure lawmakers attend controversial address; soliciting reps to increase review of any final deal with Iran

Benjamin Netanyahu receiving a standing ovation from Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner during a speech to Congress on May 24, 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Democrats caught between Obama, Netanyahu on speech

By Laurie Kellman

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Italian Democratic Party's leader Matteo Renzi talks to journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome after talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. (photo creditAP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian MPs overwhelmingly approve recognition of Palestine

By ToI Staff and JTA

Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant smash an Assyrian statue in Mosul, Iraq. (photo courtesy of APSA/Abou Mouseb)

UN Security Council slams IS barbarism in Iraq

By ToI Staff and AP

Xavier Sainty (Youtube screenshot)

French National Front candidate says Jews blocking his musical career

By JTA

Mourshidates, female religious guides appointed by the Algerian religious affairs ministry to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, read the Koran, Islam's holy book, at the Ennidal mosque in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on February 22, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ FAROUK BATICHE)

In Algeria, women ‘imams’ battle Islamist radicalization

By Amal Belalloufi

Members of UCLA’s student government listen to supporters and opponents of a divestment resolution targeting Israel, February 26, 2014. (Courtesy of StandWithUs)

UCLA student government member quizzed about Jewish identity

By JTA

Menny Naftali, former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, on February 4, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)

Home of PM’s ex-custodian reportedly burgled

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nadia Hilou, pictured here at a cafe in Jaffa, in January 2013. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Nadia Hilou, first female Christian MK, dies aged 61

An array of Purim costumes available for all of Kibbutz Ketura's kids (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Free for allThe costume cooperative

By Jessica Steinberg

A young Jewish refugee and her Chinese girlfriends in Shanghai during World War II (photo credit: Courtesy Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum)

A long time comingChina, WJC to mark Shanghai ghetto liberation

By JTA and ToI Staff

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