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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 5, 2015

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US President Barack Obama speaks on US gun violence at the White House in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2015. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Obama vows US ‘will not be terrorized,’ calls for more gun control

By AFP

After California terror attack, president says it is ‘entirely possible’ that the two killers ‘were radicalized’

Islamic State: Our ‘supporters’ carried out San Bernardino shooting

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FBI: San Bernardino shooting was ‘act of terrorism’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators

By BRANDON BAILEY and Michael Liedtke

Nicholas Thalasinos renewing his marital vows with his wife at a Jewish-style ceremony, 2013 (Facebook/JTA)

Messianic San Bernardino victim was ‘gentile’ supporter of Israel, argued with killer on Islam

By Uriel Heilman

Nicholas Thalasinos was not Jewish, but ‘felt he was put on this earth to follow Hashem and God’s people’

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with members of the traveling press during his stop in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

WATCH: Kerry speaks about US-Israel ties, peace process

By ToI Staff and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

US secretary of state gives keynote address at annual conference

Yossi Sarid seen at a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting during a discussion on the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War on parliamentary oversight of defense then and now. October 15, 2013. (Photo by Flash 90)

Former Meretz leader, left-wing icon Yossi Sarid dies at 75

By Jonathan Beck and Sara Miller

Veteran politician was an MK for 32 years, holding education and environment portfolios; will be laid to rest on Sunday

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom gives a statement to the media in Stockholm, Sweden, on the Paris terrorist attacks, on November 14, 2015. (AFP/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)

Swedish FM accuses Israel of ‘extrajudicial executions’

Margot Wallstrom calls Israel’s response to stabbing attacks ‘disproportionate’; Israeli envoy: She’d do better to condemn attackers

Israel slams Swedish FM’s ‘delusional’ extrajudicial executions claim

Knife-wielding Palestinian woman arrested in Hebron

Hamas: PA colluding to uphold Gaza blockade

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The author, and her mother, at her 2003 wedding in Jerusalem (Courtesy)

How being called a heretic made me a Jew

By Amanda B. Dan

At age 9 she set out on a spiritual quest that was at once the same as and at odds with her mother’s own journey

Just another day here in Gush Etzion

On the complicated, convoluted, intertwined lives of Jews and Arabs

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi

10 tips for an accessible Hanukkah party

A little planning goes a long way in making ALL your guests feel fully welcome

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Hanukkah: Hypocrisy or authenticity?

Novelty may be exciting, but slow and steady wins the race, as lighting one more candle each night reflects

From Genesis to the Great Gatsby

Can one break out of the prison of one’s old wounds and unresolved traumas? The Joseph stories say yes

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, DC on December 4, 2015 (Courtesy)

Ya’alon: US is ceding leadership in Mideast to Russia, Iran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

America ‘should play a more active role, DM says; IS can only be defeated by ‘boots on the ground,’ but Western troops are ‘last resort’

US Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew speaks to the Economic Club of New York on June 11, 2014 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)

US to lead UN Security Council meeting on terror financing

By AFP

The front page of the New York Times website on December 5, 2015 (screen capture)

NY Times, in rare front-page editorial, urges gun control

By AFP

Publisher prints a ‘statement of … anguish about our country’s inability to come to terms with the scourge of guns’

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (C) and members of the anti-Islamic State coalition meet on June 2, 2015 in Paris, to discuss strategy in fighting the jihadists who have made key battlefield advances in recent weeks in Iraq and Syria. (AFP/ POOL/STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN)

Baghdad tells Ankara to ‘immediately’ withdraw troops from Iraq

By AFP

Prime minister’s office calls unauthorized deployment near IS stronghold in Mosul ‘a serious violation’

A CNN reporter pointing to an assortment of documents and Islamic religious items found at the California home of US citizen Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, December 5, 2015 (YouTube screen cap)

Baby toys, a Quran: California shooters’ home thrown open to media

By AFP

Landlord grants press access to two-story townhouse where Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik resided

A general view shows news crews gathering outside the Houses of Parliament in London on December 2, 2015 where MPs were debating a motion to join air strikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria. (AFP/BEN STANSALL)

Islamic State planning attack on Britain, official warns

European counterterrorism expert tells CNN that IS has instructed British members to return home to carry out a strike

A memorial ceremony at the British military cemetery on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

When the British captured the Holy Land

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The S-400 anti-aircraft missile system on display in Russia. (CC BY-SA Соколрус/Wikimedia)

Top IDF officer: In our nightmares, we never saw Russia’s S-400 in Syria

Still, General Staff member says missile defense system, which can reach as far as Ben Gurion Airport, is not currently a threat to Israel

A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display at an undisclosed location in Russia (AP)

IAF said training to counter Russian-made air defenses

Exercises earlier this year included joint israeli-Greek sorties while S-300 missile system was operational, sources tell Reuters

Joop Will holds a picture of his father Peter and a copy of the letter his father wrote during WWII as he poses for a portrait in Lelystad, Netherlands, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. (Peter Dejong/AP Photo)

After 70 years, Dutch resistance fighter’s son gets farewell note

By David Rising

Jewish immigrants from Iraq arriving at Atlit transit camp, June 1951 (photo credit: GPO)

Jews from Iraq, Algeria to get Holocaust survivors’ benefits

Aside from European Jews, until now only refugees from Libya and Tunisia were eligible; Kahlon says step ‘rights a historical wrong’

The Jewish community celebrates Hannukah at the Shaare Tzedek Synagogue in Bridgetown, Barbados in December 2014. (Courtesy)

Barbados, a centuries-old Jewish haven for relaxation — and refuge

By Ze'ev Portner

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Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore and family pose for Christmas card holding guns, December 1, 2015 (Facebook)

Photo ShootUS politician and family pose with guns for Christmas

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: Santa Claus at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. (Craig Lassig/Invision for Frito-Lay Grandma’s)

So long, SantaNorwegian paper runs obit for Father Christmas

American rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, a few moments before terrorists stormed into the venue and massacred 89 people, November 13, 2015. (AFP/ROCK&FOLK/Marion Ruszniewski)

Eagles of Death Metal to join U2 in emotional Paris return

By AP

Syed Farook, left, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people in a shooting attack at a center for the disabled in San Bernardino, California on December 2, 2015. (Photos from California Department of Motor Vehicles and FBI via AP)

Social media, the new megaphone for violent perpetrators

By BRANDON BAILEY and Michael Liedtke

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon addresses the UN Security Council, October 22, 2015. (Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN)

Israeli resolution on agtech wins broad support at UN

Tom Bernstein speaks at the National Days of Remembrance ceremony at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC on May 17, 2011 (screen capture: YouTube)

Obama backer gets second term as Holocaust memorial chair

By JTA

Mugshot of Monte Hanson (Courtesy Ravalli County / JTA)

Brew the day20 years for shooting barman who served non-kosher drink

By JTA

Latke poutine by Handle It. (YouTube)

Unkosher for HanukkahLatke poutine — new fusion cuisine?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative image of transplant surgery. (Flash90)

Israeli said held in Turkey for suspected organ trafficking

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