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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 6, 2015

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Members of Turkey's Jewish community pray at Neve Shalom Synagogue in Istanbul on October 11, 2004, during a ceremony to mark the official reopening of the synagogue (AP/Murad Sezer)

Young Turkish Jews trickling away from shrinking community

By Ilan Ben Zion

Faced with rising anti-Semitism, flagging economy, fewer than 17,000 members remain of once-burgeoning population

Ahead of polls, Erdogan slams foreign, ‘Jewish’-backed media

By AFP

Turkish PM calls Kurdish rally blasts act of sabotage

By AP

Four dead, over 150 injured in blasts at pro-Kurdish party rally in Turkey

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Phoenix group from one of the pilot Honeymoon Israel trips gathers in Jerusalem, May 2015. (Courtesy/Honeymoon Israel/JTA)

Young couples, many intermarried, get Birthright-style ‘honeymoons’ in Israel

Acknowledging climbing rates of intermarriage, subsidized trips ‘to see Israel in all its complexity’ only require one Jewish partner

The FIFA farce and the Palestinians

The scandal-ridden soccer organizations passed a resolution that politicizes sports and appeases incitement

Summer camp is not for building resumes

Fun and friends should be at the heart of this immersive summer experience

Islamic State fighters pass by a convoy in the town of Tel Abyad in northeast Syria, May 4, 2015. (Jihadist website via AP)

‘Islamic State working to develop chemical weapons’

By AFP

Recruits among terror group likely to have technical expertise for weaponizing toxic materials, warns Australian FM

A file picture taken on January 29, 2015, shows Palestinian youth showing their skills during a graduation ceremony as part of a training camp run by the Hamas movement in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)

Egypt overturns naming Hamas a terror organization

By AP

Gaza-based group welcomes ruling, saying the decision will help improve relations with Cairo

Orange CEO Stephane Richard (screen capture: YouTube)

Orange CEO ‘sincerely regrets’ Israel controversy

By AFP and ToI Staff

Stephane Richard claims previous statements did not imply company was seeking to withdraw from Jewish state

Israel's then-Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold and former Saudi government adviser Anwar Eshki shake hands in Washington DC, June 4, 2015 (Debby Communications Group)

Saudi general tells Israeli TV of peace hopes

Anwar Eshki gives rare interview at event where he spoke with incoming Foreign Ministry chief Dore Gold, author of a book critical of Saudi Arabia

An Iron Dome missile-defense system. (photo credit: Flash90)

IDF deploys Iron Dome batteries to south in fear of more rocket fire

Army bracing for further salvoes from IS-linked group in Gaza, though it says Hamas is trying to stop the attacks and doesn’t want another war

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2014. (AFP/STR)

Nasrallah threatens to displace ‘millions’ of Israelis in future war

Hezbollah chief responds to senior IDF officer’s warning of consequences for south Lebanon of attack on Israel

The work of Polish-Jewish artist Agnieszka Kurant will be featured this summer at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (Janek Zamoyski/JTA)

Guggenheim hosts Polish-Jewish artist’s visual ode to handwriting

By Lucy Blatter

Pope Francis at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Pope backs sainthood candidacy of allegedly anti-Semitic priest

By AFP

In late 1800s, Leon Dehon said Jews ‘favor enemies of Church,’ called Talmud ‘corrupt’; pontiff says attitude must be seen in historical context

Cameron Carpenter (Thomas Grube/Courtesy)

Unorthodox pipe organist eschews the church for dazzle and bling

By Judah Ari Gross

Zichron Yaakov arts complex to host famed Juilliard-trained showman for a Saturday night concert

Street life on today's Agrippas Street (Photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

On Agrippas Street, Jerusalem built to the sky and feuding synagogues multiplied

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Robel Phillipos leaves federal court after being sentenced in Friday, June 5, 2015, in Boston. (AP/Bill Sikes)

Two friends of Boston Marathon bomber sentenced to prison

By Denise Lavoie

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin speaking at the Lincoln Square Synagogue. (screen capture: YouTube/JBS)

West Bank rabbi countersues ‘swindler’ for defamation

By JTA

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 30, 2015. (AP/Erik Schelzig, File)

A foreign policy checkmark for Jeb Bush

By Thomas Beaumont

A file picture taken on May 24, 2006, shows former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tarek Aziz testifying for the defense during Saddam's trial held in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/MARCO DI LAURO)

Tareq Aziz, ‘Voice of Saddam,’ dies in Iraq hospital

By AFP

Jockey Victor Espinoza celebrates aboard American Pharoah after winning the 141st running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky, May 2, 2015 (AP/David J. Phillip, File)

Blazing saddles7 facts on Jewish owner of American Pharoah

By Gabe Friedman

French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy at Tel Aviv University in 2011 (Photo credit: CC BY-SA Itzike, Wikipedia)

Scrumptious StrikeHenri-Levy hit with cream pie… again

By JTA

Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Sexy revelations5 very Jewish things about Dr. Ruth

By JTA

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