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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 12, 2015

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President Reuven Rivlin and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the Union for Reform Judaism, attend a meeting of American Jewish religious leaders in New York, Dec. 11, 2015. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)

‘We want equal rights in Israel,’ non-Orthodox Jewish leaders tell Rivlin

By Uriel Heilman

Reform and Conservative Jews demand parity on marriage, divorce, conversion and worship at the Western Wall

Rachel Elkayam with her family at Ben Gurion Airport, December 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)

After 68 years, a Syrian great-grandmother comes home… to her Jewish family in Israel

She was 16 when she disappeared from pre-state Israel, and had been assumed dead. This week, Rachel Elkayam was reunited with her relatives, closing a heart-wrenching circle

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall style campaign rally at the Varied Industries Building at Iowa State Fair Grounds on December 11, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Steve Pope/Getty Images)

Trump holds big lead in first poll after anti-Muslim comments

By ToI Staff and AP

Reuters survey shows frontrunner has 35% support of Republican voters, with 64% saying they weren’t offended by recent remarks

Saudi prince calls Trump ‘a disgrace’ to entire US

By AFP

Clinton touts presidential plan to defeat Islamic State

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

Islamic State may have passport printing machine

Members of the Bnei Menashe Jewish community from across northeastern India gathering in Churachandpur, in the Indian state of Manipur, to celebrate Hanukkah, Dec. 8, 2015. (Shavei Israel)

Photo Essay

Hanukkah worldwide, lifeline to a shared Jewish heritage

By Gabe Friedman

A celebration of the festival of lights in photographs, some from unexpected places

Suburban Chicago public menorah vandalized

By JTA

NJ Jews upset as town removes menorah, keeps Christmas tree

By AP and JTA

Dutch rabbi hosts Muslims at lighting of giant menorah

By JTA

Muslims are my brothers and my sisters

Donald Trump’s bid to ban every Muslim from entering western countries is unreasonable and unnecessary

The paper menorah

If Hanukkah is about the virtue of courage, then there’s a Maccabee in all men — even the monks in his monastery

Geoffrey Clarfield

Hanukkah and Quebec’s hate-speech bill

A Canadian bill against promoting ‘fear of the other’ could make it illegal to criticize Israel’s declared enemies

Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh (CC BY-SA 3.0 Zantastik)

Gambia’s president declares his country an Islamic republic

Yahya Jammeh says move in line with nation’s religious identity, vows Christian community’s rights will be protected

Illustrative: Saudi women visit the Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 29, 2010. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi women vote in their first ever election

By IAN TIMBERLAKE

Fewer than one in 10 voters are projected to be women, and few, if any, female candidates are expected to win in local races

A view of Marseille (Jddmano/Wikimedia Commons/File)

French court sentences stabber of Marseille Jew to 4 years

By JTA

Farid Haddouche shouted anti-Semitic slogans during October assault; 3 injured in the attack, including rabbi and his son

Border Police walk through the market near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, October 11, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Right-wing extremists barred from lighting menorah on Temple Mount

Two members of extremist group Returning to the Mount arrested as police break up demonstration trying to enter Jerusalem’s Old City

Mural on Agrippas Street (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

A neglected Jerusalem neighborhood illuminated by street art

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The Museum on the Seam, situated in a former Palestinian home that became a military outpost and later a museum about coexistence and dialogue (Avi Deror/CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Jerusalem’s Museum on the Seam loses major funder, may shut

German family to end financial support at end of December for art gallery that promotes coexistence and tolerance

Shimon Sheves, former head of the Prime Minister's Office under prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (YouTube screenshot)

Ex-Rabin aide, Israeli tycoon accused of corruption in Romania

By JTA and ToI Staff

Shimon Sheves, Beny Steinmetz deny involvement in $150 million real estate scandal; Romanian prince at heart of case arrested

Dutch Portuguese Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo arguing for the lifting of the ban on Baruch Spinoza, December 6, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Centuries after excommunication, time to void ban on Spinoza?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his dog Kaia at the PM's residence in Jerusalem in December, 2015. (Facebook)

After biting spree, Netanyahu’s dog quarantined

PM says incident involving family’s rescue dog, Kaia, exposed him to country’s ‘flawed’ veterinary regulations

Singer Antonia Bennett, daughter of crooner Tony Bennett, converted to Judaism before marrying her Israeli-born husband. (courtesy)

Tony Bennett’s daughter says Judaism keeps her from flying to the moon

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Summerall Chapel at The Citadel college in South Carolina (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, ProfReader)

US military college suspends cadets over ‘KKK uniforms’

By AFP

An image from the anti-Islamic State coloring book produced by Missouri-based Really Big Comics. (screen capture)

Little Book of HorrorsColoring book highlights brutality of Islamic State

Frank Sinatra performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, September 1, 1980. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

His wayHappy 100th to Sinatra, a supporter of Jewish causes

By Gabe Friedman

President Barack Obama, wearing a yarmulke, speaks at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, Friday May 22, 2015, as part of Jewish American Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Cheeky messageObama sends out a ‘chutzpah’ email

By Daniel Treiman

Taylor Swift (YouTube screen capture)

Knew she was troubleCultural critic calls Taylor Swift a ‘Nazi Barbie’

A December 2, 2015 ad for Russia Today (RT) featuring an elderly Obama and Kerry as cranky old men. (screen capture: YouTube)

A wrinkle in timeRussian TV shows Obama, Kerry as cranky old men

Jon Stewart impersonates Donald Trump on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' December 10, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Trump it upJon Stewart channels the Donald — for a good cause

By JTA

Deputies of Ukrainian Parliament fight after the attack of the Ukrainian Prime Minister during the annual report of the government in Ukrainian Parliament in Kiev on December 11, 2015. (AFP / Sergei SUPINSKY)

Rumble in the RadaWATCH: Ukraine parliament brawl as MP picks up PM

By AFP

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