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What Matters Most On Friday, March 27, 2015

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Eyal Baum, an Israeli man who was killed in the Germanwings plane crash in France, Tuesday, March 25, 2015 (photo credit: @ILNewsFlash)

Israeli victim’s family blames airline for letting ‘suicidal’ pilot fly

By JTA

Eyal Baum’s brother demands to know why Germanwings failed to properly screen Andreas Lubitz before fatal crash

Germanwings pilot said to have suffered from ‘serious’ depression

Pilot deliberately slams plane into Alps; families ask why

By Angela Charlton and David McHugh

German aviation association ‘seeks two-person cockpit rule’

By AFP

Houthi Shiite rebels protest against Saudi-led airstrikes during a rally in Sana'a, Yemen, March 26, 2015. (AP/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi airstrikes in Yemen target rebel stronghold in north

By Ahmed al-Haj

Warplanes target Houthi leader during second day of Arab coalition strikes

Yemen turmoil escalates as Arab states plan ground invasion

By Ahmed al-Haj and Hamza Hendawi

Arabs inch closer to old dream of joint force

By Hamza Hendawi

Saudi envoy to US: Iran advising Yemen rebels

By Ken Dilanian

Tom Chai Sosnik with his parents and sister during ceremony at Tehiyah Day School marking his transition from female to male, March 13, 2015. (Photo credit: Misha Bruk, BrukStudios.com)

California Jewish school marks 8th grader’s gender transition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In religious ceremony crossing a bar mitzvah with a baby naming, Tom Chai Sosnik becomes a man

A new ceremony for interfaith couples

The Conservative movement has adapted a housewarming ritual for those committed to building a Jewish home

Abraham H. Foxman

Restarting US-Israel ties depends on Palestinians too

Washington’s focus on settlements has shown a one-sidedness that leaves Israelis justifiably wary

Violence and the sacred

Animal sacrifice is a part of the Torah’s plan to redeem humanity from the unending cycle of revenge (Tzav)

Detail from 'Lincoln,' painting by George Peter Alexander Healy in 1869 (public domain via wikipedia)

Jews counted among Lincoln’s closest confidants

By Beth Kissileff

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right), waits for the start of a meeting with a US delegation to multilateral nuclear talks at a hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 26, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Brendan Smialowski)

As nuke talks enter critical round, Rouhani calls world leaders urging deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran claims ‘understanding’ reached, while US uncertain; Israeli plea for suspension of talks over Tehran support for Yemen rebels ignored

A satellite image of Iran's Fordo uranium enrichment facility. (AP/DigitalGlobe)

Deal may let Iran keep centrifuges at fortified site

By George Jahn and Matthew Lee

Sidqi al-Maqt, arrested for spying for Syria, raises his arms as he speaks to reporters, March 27, 2015 (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Golan resident arrested for spying for Syria

By Lazar Berman

Majdal Shams man had served 27 years in prison on terror charges

Israelis stand near soldiers on November 11, 2014, at a bus stop at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut where a Palestinian terrorist killed Dalia Lemkus the day before. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli woman’s Palestinian killer gets 2 life terms

Hamdi el-Hashalmoun unrepentant over stabbing Dalia Lemkus to death; victim’s mother asks judges for death sentence

Illustrative photo of a construction site in Tekoa, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, on September 7, 2014 (Flash90)

UN envoy: Settlement activity killing peace process

By AFP

Palestinians and foreigners, including activists, run past the security barrier during the second annual Palestine International Marathon in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, April 11, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel allows Gaza athletes to run in West Bank marathon

By Elhanan Miller

Easing policy of isolating the Palestinian territories from each other, army allows Gazans to join Bethlehem event Friday

Edirne's abandoned Great Synagogue reopens (screen capture: YouTube)

Turkey reopens restored Ottoman-era synagogue

By AFP

Authorities insist restoration a sign of tolerance toward Jewish community, amid wave of anti-Israel sentiment

File photos of Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (left), Buenos Aires, September 19, 2012, and of Argentina's deceased public prosecutor Alberto Nisman (right), Buenos Aires, May 20, 2009 (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Court clears Argentina president in Iran ‘cover-up’

By Liliana Samuel

Federal judges uphold decision to reject Nisman’s accusation that president, senior ministers protected Tehran from AMIA prosecution

Students on the University of Michigan campus (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish frat shuts down at Michigan

By JTA

Sigma Alpha Mu chapter closes doors amid charges against president over underage drinking

The Sassoon family. Seven of the eight siblings perished when a fire broke out in the family's Brooklyn home early Saturday morning, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy)

Recording emerges of Sassoon kids singing ‘Cry no more’

By Lazar Berman

Members of NY Jewish family who died in horrific fire left behind haunting clip about redemption of Jerusalem

Yariv Levin. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jewish Home talking opposition, Likud says they’re wanted in coalition

By Lazar Berman

MK Yariv Levin argues Bennett’s demands unreasonable, but right-wing party claims it’s been offered ‘nothing’

The iSmart 2015 Internet of Things event in Jerusalem, February 24, 2015 (Courtesy)

Tech giants join to dig out top Internet of Things apps

By David Shamah

Cisco, Intel, and Deutsche Telekom are banding together to discover the best IoT tech in the Middle East – with a special emphasis on Israel

Mitchell Cohen at Economy Candy on New York's Lower East Side. (photo credit; Debra Nussbaum Cohen/JTA)

Young candy king rules changing NY neighborhood

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen

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Harvey Weinstein at a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (photo credit: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Fighting wordsMogul tells Jews to make like the mafia

By Jessica Steinberg

Michael Hebb (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Online ExodusSeder2015 streams a digital Passover

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: Demonstrators from the Agunot organization protest outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem in 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Breaking the chainHaredi Jews test waters on prenups

By Gabe Friedman

Sarah Cancellario D'alena, TACFIT instructor, cultural communication, photographed for New York Magazine (photo credit: Miri Davidovitz)

No-makeup makeupBare-faced beauties of Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Artist's rendering of an asteroid (photo credit: CC BY-SA Kevin Gill/Flickr)

Space evadersIsraeli media sows ‘Armageddon’ panic

By Daniel Bernstein

Technion students create a Rube Goldberg machine to tell the Exodus story (screen capture: Youtube)

Deus Exodus machinaStudents engineer Passover tale

By Lazar Berman

A virtual Shop Direct chair in a potential customer's living room, courtesy of augmented-reality technology (Courtesy)

Israeli start-up lets UK’s Shop Direct ‘deliver’ furniture, virtually

By David Shamah

Andreas Lubitz, the copilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings flight in France on March 24, 2015. (photo credit: Facebook)

Hebrew media reviewOn a wing and a prayer

By Ilan Ben Zion

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