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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 23, 2015

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US President Barack Obama delivers remarks in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month at Adas Israel Congregation, May 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Palestinians have right to be free in their land, Obama says at DC synagogue

By Ilan Ben Zion and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Jewish values compel two-state solution, president says, hailing contribution of American Jews, denouncing rise of anti-Semitism, defending Iran nuke deal

Reporter's notebookOn Israel, Obama finds he can’t please all DC’s Jews all the time

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Liberal Jews praise, conservatives pan Obama speech

Full text of Obama’s speech for Jewish American Heritage Month

Illustrative photo of the UN General Assembly hall on September 22, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Garten/UN)

US blocks nuclear disarmament move over Israel concerns

By AP and ToI Staff

Washington thwarts UN NPT meeting’s final document, accuses Egypt and others of manipulating process to single out Jewish state

US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman (L), US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) and US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz wait to start a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and others at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel March 29, 2015 in Lausanne, Switzerland. (photo credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Nuclear talks to resume Tuesday, Iran says

By AFP

Shavuot, Pentecost, Holy Spirit, Torah

Both the Jewish and Christian holidays celebrate the idea that revelation means God’s words are within each of us

Edmon J. Rodman

The day I almost dropped the Torah

A Shavuoth when the greatest of synagogue honors nearly slipped out of his hands

A picture purportedly from inside a Hezbollah tunnel on the northern border, as shown by As-Safir (As-Safir photo)

Hezbollah shows off ‘advanced tunnel network’ on Israeli border

By Itamar Sharon and AP

Terror group has built a sophisticated underground infrastructure from which to strike in future conflict, Lebanese paper reports

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a speech in Beirut, November 3, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Imam Mahdi)

Hezbollah may call ‘general mobilization’ against IS

By ToI Staff and AP

President Barack Obama walks off after speaking at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, May 22, 2015. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama signs bill giving Congress oversight on Iran nuke deal

By Jim Kuhnhenn

Move comes hours after president assured audience at Washington synagogue that he won’t accept a bad agreement with Tehran

An Iron Dome Missile Battery near Tel Aviv, on the first day of Operation Protective Edge, July 8, 2014. (Photo by Flash90)

Saudi Arabia ‘rejects Israeli offer to supply Iron Dome’

By ToI Staff and AP

Arab paper reports Jerusalem proposed to provide system against Yemen rockets, but Riyadh refused

An Iraqi Yazidi woman who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, cries as she stands among others at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/SAFIN HAMED)

UN envoy ‘sickened’ by rampant IS sexual violence

Zainab Bangura says militants have institutionalized rape, sexual slavery as a terror tactic in Iraq and Syria: ‘I never saw anything like this’

An outpost established in the Etzion Bloc after the killing of three Israeli teens in June (photo credit: Gush Etzion Regional Council)

Settler said set to turn West Bank church into new outpost

By JTA

Planned settlement in former Presbyterian hospital complex near Hebron intended to boost Israeli presence in southern Etzion Bloc

Michel Platini (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel urges UEFA head to sway Palestinian suspension bid

By AFP

Football head Eini appeals to European organization to speak ‘loud and clear’ against efforts to oust Israel from world soccer

Le Souq (via Facebook)

Tasty excuse

Eatery erases Israel, for culinary reasons

By JTA

Rotterdam restaurant replaces Jewish state with Palestine in map on its signature placemat

Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski attends a state ceremony in Warsaw, Poland, March 12, 2015 (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish president reiterates country’s Holocaust complicity

By JTA

In election debate, Bronislaw Komorowski defends his apologies for massacre of Jews by citizens of Poland during WWII

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

Ukraine’s recognition of WWII nationalist group sparks Jewish concern

By JTA, AFP and ToI Staff

US Holocaust museum warns against new law which legitimizes UPA group, accused of murdering thousands of Jews

Multi-colored mountains viewed from the Mount Yoash Overlook, Eilat (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Explore Eilat, where the angels jettisoned their paint

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 photo, Jordanian women sew jeans for the U.S. market in a garment factory in the village of Kitteh in northern Jordan. However, for millions of young people in the Middle East and North Africa unemployment has only worsened in the post-Arab Spring turmoil. (AP Photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)

Mideast youth unemployment rises amid post-Arab Spring chaos

Influx of refugees, prolonged conflict and low economic growth keep jobs out of reach for young people across the region

A Saudi man reacts following a blast inside a mosque, in the mainly Shiite Saudi Gulf coastal town of Qatif, 400 kms east of Riyadh, on May 22, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / HUSEIN RADWAN)

Iran condemns suicide bombing at Saudi Shiite mosque

By AFP

Islamic State claims responsibility for attack, but US says not clear whether jihadist group behind it

King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the audience during the opening session of the World Economic Forum at the King Hussein convention center, Southern Shuneh, Jordan, Friday, May 22, 2015 (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Mideast leaders optimistic even as jihadi chaos reigns

At World Economic Forum gathering in Jordan, speakers envision a bright future for next generations despite turmoil across border

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Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

No more Mr. Nice GuyPizzeria serves cops drug-laced pie

US President Barack Obama clapping his hands in New London, Connecticut, on May 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Baby bluesObama learns his lesson about Jewish toddlers

By JTA

President Barack Obama's personal Twitter account. (Screenshot: Twitter)

#TwitterFailAgriculture minister trolls Obama on Twitter

Illustrative photo of Muslim women wearing burqas (AFP/Torsten Blackwood/File)

Netherlands eyes limited ban on face-coverings

By AP

Lady Gaga accepts an ADL award (Youtube screenshot)

ApplauseLady Gaga accepts ADL award

By JTA

Orli Klaiman, 15, from Kiryat Motzkin, has been missing for over a week (Facebook/Israel Police)

Police urge public’s help in locating missing teen

Switzerland defends its funding of Breaking the Silence

By JTA

The Lebanese flag. (photo credit: Flicker/CC BY 2.0/ Eusebius@Commons)

One year on, still no president for Lebanon

By AFP

British citizen Anis Abid Sardar, 38, was sentenced to life in prison for making a roadside bomb that killed a US soldier in Iraq in 2007 (YouTube screen cap)

UK bomb-maker sentenced to life for killing US soldier

By AP

Strawberry rhubarb trifle (Shannon Sarna)

For Shavuot, try super easy strawberry rhubarb trifle

By Shannon Sarna

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