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What Matters Most On Friday, June 12, 2015

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A drag queen sings during the annual Gay Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 12, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Gay Pride revelers take to the streets in Tel Aviv

Nation’s largest LGBT rights event brings center of ‘gay-friendliest city in the world’ to raucous, festive standstill

Flags seen during the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 7, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

University relents, allows Gay Pride event

By Judah Ari Gross

An IDF artillery piece firing toward Gaza during Operation Protective Edge (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF closes probe of kids killed on beach, looks into Gaza cafe bombing

By Daniel Bernstein

9 deaths in Khan Younis to be examined; beach deaths said to have occurred when children mistaken for naval forces in area exclusively used by Hamas

Palestinian families: No justice in IDF inquiry on Gaza beach deaths

By AP and ToI Staff

Rocket shot from Gaza toward Ashkelon region in fresh attack

By Joshua Davidovich

German mayor cancels NGO exhibit critical of Israeli army

By JTA

Though he’s CEO of a major travel company, Stephen Kaufer says he doesn’t really have wanderlust — but he would like to revisit his favorite destination: Jerusalem. (Courtesy TripAdvisor/via JTA)

TripAdvisor CEO says his favorite trip was to Jerusalem

By Uriel Heilman

Stephen Kaufer saw a need for good customer feedback while planning trips; now he’s the head of the world’s largest travel site

Israel, my love

Seven gorgeous images showing just how wrong those biblical spies were when they disparaged the Promised Land

Don’t burn my house down

It’s time for religious Jews to tell leaders who violate the moral demands of Torah to get out of the way

Assembling reminders

The tzitzit ritual fringe is one of many outward signs that tie Jews to their inner angels (Shelach Lecha)

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Ride a bike, sit in a cafe, keep Shabbat

With Jewish religious observance on the rise, here are ways to make the Sabbath’s holiness more attainable

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Orange CEO Stephane Richard in Jerusalem, June 12, 2015. (screen capture/PMO video)

Meeting PM, Orange CEO corrects ‘misunderstood’ boycott comments

Richard appreciates chance to ‘set record straight’; Peace with Palestinians ‘cannot be achieved through boycotts,’ says Netanyahu

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn after leaving the courthouse in Lille, France, February 2, 2015. (AFP/Denis Charlet)

French court acquits Strauss-Kahn of pimping charges

By Marine LAOUCHEZ and Fran Blandy

Verdict ends four-year spate of investigations against Jewish ex-IMF chief that ruined his political career

Children stand near the 'El Transito' synagogue and Sephardic Museum in Toledo, Spain on February 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Gerard Julien)

Spain passes law of return for Sephardic Jews

By JTA

Applicants to be vetted by local Jewish community, face language and history tests before securing new passport

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

Analysis

Obama’s latest wooing of Jews not working, poll suggests

As US-Israel ties remain frosty, president’s targeted charm offensive has little effect on his approval ratings

Sen. Bernie Sanders addressing a rally on Capitol Hill in 2013. (Courtesy JTA)

Sanders: Being Jewish taught me ‘what politics is about’

By JTA

Israelis swimming in the Jordan in 2009. (Haim Azulay/Flash90)

To heal defiled Jordan River, activists wade into murky regional politics

By Melanie Lidman

Detail of 'Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie' by Camille Pissarro, born on the island of St. Thomas. (AP/Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum)

US court rules against Jewish family in Nazi art case

By AMANDA LEE MYERS

Judge says museum in Madrid is the rightful owner of 1897 masterpiece by Camille Pissarro depicting a Parisian street scene

Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd left) and Foreign Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council pose for photographers at the Chief of Mission Residence in Paris, France, to discuss Middle East concerns about an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, May 8, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Obama’s ex-intel chief slams Iran nuke deal as ‘wishful thinking’

By Stuart Winer

In sobering testimony, Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn details ‘severe deficiencies’ in pact, and warns it could push Israel into a corner

A worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, on October 26, 2010. (AP/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

World powers would accept Iran deal without answers on past arms activity

By Bradley Klapper

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva, Switzerland, May 30, 2015. (AFP/Susan Walsh, Pool)

US confident there was no cyber-spying breach in Iran talks

By AFP

State Department says it has ‘taken steps’ during nuclear negotiations to ensure that details remain ‘behind closed doors’

Actor Ron Moody in 1999. (Michael Crabtree/PA via AP)

Actor Ron Moody, best known as Fagin, dies at 91

By AP

British Jewish thespian was nominated for an Oscar for his role in ‘Oliver!’

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Former al-Jazeera reporter Shannon High-Bassalik (screen capture: YouTube)

Former al-Jazeera America journalist sues over anti-Israel, pro-Arab bias

By David Bauder

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

Jeb Bush visits Auschwitz on European tour

By JTA and AP

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (R) seen in the Tel Aviv District Court, May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Flash90)

Tax Authority set to crack down on the Kabbalah business

By David Shamah

Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (left) with Fraunhofer SIT's CEO Prof. Dr. Michael Waidner (Courtesy)

Europe’s biggest cyber-tech firm to open in Israel

By David Shamah

Illustrative: Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) stands on the court in front of head coach David Blatt during the first half of Game 2 of basketball's NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors in Oakland, California, June 7, 2015. (AP/Ben Margot)

Blatt’s Cavaliers lose to Warriors, as James gashes his head

$The three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank by Hamas terrorists in June 2014, from left to right: Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel. (Courtesy)$

Hebrew media reviewPandora’s box and a jack-in-the-box

By Judah Ari Gross

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