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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 16, 2015

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Pope Francis welcomes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a private audience on May 16, 2015 in Vatican (AFP photo pool/Alberto Pizzoli)

Pope calls Abbas ‘angel of peace’ during Vatican visit

By AFP and AP

Francis meets with PA chief after Holy See’s decision to acknowledge Palestinian state angers Jerusalem

Obama: Peace between Israel, Palestinians unlikely this year

PM: Israel to pursue ‘diplomatic settlement’ with Palestinians

By ToI Staff and AFP

UN urges new Israeli government to scrap settlement plans

By AFP and ToI Staff

The series finale of the acclaimed show “Mad Men” airs this Sunday night. (JTA/AMC)

Why ‘Mad Men’ was one of TV’s most deeply Jewish shows

By Gabe Friedman

The show, which ends Sunday night, can be viewed as a complex metaphor for Jewish life in 20th-century America

10 questions for Nakba Day

It’s time for all parties to ask: How exactly is this helping the Palestinian people?

Score one for academic freedom

How Bowdoin College students rebuffed an SJP campaign to impose an academic boycott of Israel

Shmuley Boteach

Dying to pray in Nablus

A late-night pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb required the protection of a small army. Literally

Sobuj Khalifa, a homeless illegal Bangladeshi immigrant who saved an Israeli woman from drowning in Rome (YouTube screen capture/TV2000)

Rome hails illegal immigrant who saved drowning Israeli

Sobuj Khalifa receives one year residency permit after pulling 55-year-old woman out of Tiber

Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the DC Superior Court House in Washington, February 19, 2015. (AP file Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mikvah-peeping rabbi sentenced to 6.5 years

By JTA and AP

Judge tells Barry Freundel, convicted of 52 counts of misdemeanor voyeurism: ‘You violated the trust your victims had in you’

A courtroom sketch of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (YouTube screen capture)

Tsarnaev could be first terrorist executed in US since 9/11

By Denise Lavoie

Case faces years of appeals, with some fearing death sentence will only satisfy Boston bomber’s desire for martyrdom

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP/FBI, File)

Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to death

By Denise Lavoie

In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)

Egyptian court sentences former leader Morsi to death

By Hamza Hendawi

Verdict on Muslim Brotherhood’s one-time president now referred to nation’s top cleric for ratification

Illustrative screen capture from a YouTube video allegedly shows Islamic State group fighters firing from an armed vehicle (AFP/HO/AAMAQ NEWS AGENCY)

US commandos kill senior IS commander in Syria raid

By AP and ToI Staff

State media reports at least 40 Islamic State fighters dead after earlier strike by Assad forces on major oil field

A member of the Iraqi interior ministry's anti-terrorism forces stands guard on a vehicle near Anbar province's capital Ramadi, on May 8, 2015. The city, including government headquarters therein, were taken over by Islamic State on Friday, May 15 2015, according to reports. (Photo credit: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Islamic State takes over Iraqi city of Ramadi

By AFP

Government complex falls into hands of terror group; Iraqi forces reportedly have no command post anymore

Syrians walk through the rubble following reported rocket attacks by rebel fighters on the Christian neighborhood of Suleimaniyah in northern Aleppo. (photo credit: AFP/George Ourfalian)

Obama says Syrian war not likely to end before he leaves office

By AFP

US president still says ‘no military solution’ to conflict which has left more than 220,000 dead

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo credit: Kamran Jebreili/AP)

Khamenei: US destabilizing Gulf for own interests

By AP

Iran’s supreme leader warns neighbors that if Persian Gulf ‘is not safe, it will be insecure for all’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (right), on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death on June 3, 2014 (Photo credit: Atta Kenare/AFP)

From the web

Iran’s Shah ‘asked Mossad to kill Ayatollah Khomeini’

Book by top intelligence official details relationship between Jerusalem and pre-revolutionary Tehran, Ynet reports

Illustrative photo of an engraving featuring the Jewish Star of David. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Greek town wants Star of David off Holocaust memorial

By JTA

Jewish groups outraged after local authorities in Kavala cancel unveiling of monument

Justin Zemser with his mother, Susan, in a photo posted on her Facebook page in November 2014. (photo credit: Facebook)

Jewish naval academy student in Amtrak accident honored at funeral

By JTA

Justin Zemser, 20, of Queens buried with full military honors; aspired to be a Navy SEAL, was vice president of Jewish Midshipmen Club

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the first cabinet meeting of Israel's 34th government at the PM's office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘PM: Haggling over portfolios almost cost us the government’

By Jonathan Beck

Netanyahu said to be furious with senior Likud lawmakers, according to TV report; Elkin, Levin urge Liberman to join coalition

The first building at Moshav Shavei Zion (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Escaping the Nazis, Rexingen’s Jews built new lives near the beach at Shavei Zion

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Natalie Portman (R) in Jerusalem's Nahlaot neighborhood directing a scene from 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' February 11, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Oz FestPortman’s Oz film premieres at Cannes

By AP

Hillary Rodham Clinton (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Clinton BillsClintons made $25M from recent speeches

By Ken Thomas and Stephen Braun

US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/JIM WATSON)

Obama to mark Jewish heritage month at DC synagogue

By JTA

This handout photo released by Art Recovery International shows Christopher Marinello, lawyer representing the heirs of Paul Rosenberg, looking at Henri Matisse’s ‘Femme Assise’ ('Seated Woman') painting on May 15, 2015 in Munich, Germany (AFP PHOTO / ART RECOVERY / WOLF HEIDER-SAWALL)

Matisse work from art trove returned to owner’s heirs

By AP

Amy Winehouse in concert, August 2007 (photo credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, by Massic80, Wikimedia Commons)

A losing gameAmy Winehouse film sparks controversy

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Vandals target French Jewish cemetery, Vienna’s Freud museum

By JTA

Israeli start-up Pricence accepts first prize in the 2014 MasterCard Israel Technology Award event. (Courtesy)

MasterCard to hold ‘hackathon’ competition in Israel

By David Shamah

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