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What Matters Most On Friday, January 15, 2016

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French Jewish families are greeted at Ben-Gurion International Airport upon their immigration to Israel on July 28, 2015 ( Zed Films)

Anti-Semitism drives record-high Western European immigration to Israel

Amid rise in attacks, 9,880 make aliya in 2015, including almost 8,000 from France

After stabbing, 2 French lawmakers wear kippahs to parliament

By JTA

Marseille supporters urged to wear kippahs to upcoming match

French Jews ask: Is wearing your faith a risk, or a right?

By Angela Charlton

Israel's ambassador to Gambia Paul Hirschson inspects an honor guard in Gambia's capital Banjul, January 12, 2016. (Courtesy Israel Embassy, Dakar)

When the world’s newest Islamic republic honors the Jewish state

By Raphael Ahren

Paul Hirschson, Israel’s ambassador to Gambia, dissects the significance of a tiny West African nation’s name change

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a toast for the New Year with representatives of the foreign press in Jerusalem, on January 14, 2016 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu slams Sweden’s ‘immoral’ criticism, EU’s ‘illegal’ W. Bank building

By Raphael Ahren

Angry PM urges a ‘resetting’ of ties with Europe and pans ‘absurd’ labeling of settlement goods; tells journalists Swedish FM’s remarks are ‘outrageous, stupid’

At rally, right-wing activists urge Swedish FM to resign

Israel-bashing FM Wallstrom seen ‘becoming a problem’ for Sweden

By Gaël BRANCHEREAU

IDF opens investigation into shooting of Palestinian

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during the the Iowa Brown and Black Forum from Drake University on January 11, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Bernie Sanders surging in polls, but are Jews feeling ‘the Bern’?

While Democratic hopeful is closing in on front-runner Hillary Clinton, his electability among his coreligionists is in question

Trump, Cruz go head-to-head, outshine rivals in latest debate

By Julie Pace and Bill Barrow

‘The Nation’ endorses Sanders for president

By JTA

Obama says Michelle will not run for president

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

A thousand and one sheitls

Haredi women adapt The King and I to their religious sensibilities, in a high-octane, stellar performance with soul

6 ways you can spark a Jewish revival

As US Jewry’s future looks dire, it’s time to get to work and start inviting, teaching, posting and matchmaking

Does the left want peace?

The 2-state camp seems to be doing all it can to NOT win friends or influence the future of the Jewish State

The spiritual child

The Jewish emphasis on educating the next generation begins with Moses’ inspirational speech about freedom (Bo)

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

London Haredi school that doesn’t teach English ordered to close

By JTA

School fails to meet ‘minimum’ standards, inspectors say; narrow curriculum encourages ‘cultural and ethnic insularity’

Jennifer Cramer Kelley poses at her home with a photo of her brother Christopher Cramer in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 13, 2016. Cramer was found dead on January 15, 2015, beneath the third-floor balcony of a hotel is Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Jim Cole)

Mystery surrounds Saudi Arabia death of Israel-linked defense contractor

By KATHY McCORMACK

US family of Christopher Cramer, who worked for an Elbit subsidiary, doesn’t believe Saudi claim his death was a suicide

Kuwaiti student Amira Jumaa, expelled from the prestigious Sciences Po University in Paris in December 2015 over anti-Semitic Facebook posts. (screen capture: Twitter)

French university expels Kuwaiti student for anti-Semitic posts

By JTA

Amira Jumaa was fired from French Consulate for calling Jews ‘scums and rats,’ is first student expelled by prestigious Sciences Po since 1872

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert seen at the Jerusalem Supreme Court on December 29, 2015. (Photo by Emil Salman/POOL)

State promises ‘no celebrity discount’ as Olmert seeks deal

Attorney for former PM, who is to start prison term next month, meets state prosecutor, aims to minimize jail time in series of cases

Palestinian protesters throw stones at Israeli security forces at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Why the West Bank refugee camps refuse to join the Third Intifada

By Avi Issacharoff

In Jenin and Balata, they’re waiting for a one-state solution… or for Islamic State

Palestinian protesters hurls a rock at Israeli security forces during clashes near the Shejaiya area of Gaza City along the border with Israel on December 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)

2 Palestinians said killed in Gaza clashes with IDF

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli security forces frisk Arab Israelis near the Central Bus Station in Herzliya on January 5, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

After Tel Aviv shooting, Arab-Jewish distrust deepens

By Tia Goldenberg and Areej Hazboun

Deadly terror attack by Israeli Arab gunman intensifies debate about discrimination and loyalty

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015 (Flash90)

Peres making ‘excellent’ recovery, plans Swiss trip

By AFP

Despite mild heart attack, ex-president, 92, set to fly Wednesday to Davos for 15 meetings with world leaders

Alan Rickman snapped in a photo by a fan (Courtesy Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons)

Beloved actor Alan Rickman lost pro-Israel fans over Rachel Corrie play

By Jessica Steinberg

Renowned stage and film actor, who died Thursday, wrote and directed a play about young American activist who died in the Gaza Strip

David Bowie at a press conference at the 36th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 1983 (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

How David Bowie’s ‘adoptive’ Jewish family welcomed him to America

By Gabe Friedman

A MakeMyPlate screenshot (Courtesy)

Israeli app helps you see your way to diet success

By David Shamah

Forget numbers, charts, and diaries. MakeMyPlate shows you exactly what you should be eating, says CEO Alin Cooperman

Catching some Zzz's (Pixabay)

Obesity’s link to lack of sleep is gut-wrenching problem, study shows

By David Shamah

Intestinal bacteria helps keep fat at bay – but late-night hours at the office is seen to prevent them from doing their job

From left, Woody Allen, Tony Roberts and Diane Keaton in a 1977 publicity shot from 'Annie Hall.' (Courtesy of Tony Roberts/via JTA)

Woody Allen’s sidekick shares almost all in new memoir

By Lonnie Firestone

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The entrance to the Hiriya waste processing plant in central Israel, taken on September 19, 2008. (Shnili/Creative Commons)

Garbage truck driver finds top secret Navy docs

Illustrative photo of cancer research at a lab at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Hadassah clinical trials for new ALS treatment ‘very encouraging’

By JTA

An EdenShield GateKeeper system (Courtesy)

Israeli start-up keeps bad bugs at bay, no poison needed

By David Shamah

The scene of a bus crash in Honduras in which three Columbia University students were killed, January 2016 (Youtube screenshot)

3 Columbia U students killed on volunteer mission to Honduras

By JTA

Géza Röhrig as Saul in 'Son of Saul.' (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics, via JTA)

‘Son of Saul’ nominated for best foreign language Oscar

By JTA

More than 1,100 children learned to make challah at Kids Mega Challah Bake in New York, January 12, 2016. (Benams Photo/Courtesy of Chabad via JTA)

Breaking breadIn NY, 1,100 kids break challah-baking record

By JTA

In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 file photo, Kenyan army soldiers ride on a vehicle at their base in Tabda, inside Somalia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Al-Shabab says it killed 64 Kenyan soldiers in Somalia

A shark swimming in the shark aquarium, Eilat, October 07, 2014. (FLASH90)

Not all fin and gamesStay away from sharks, says Israel’s parks authority

By Stuart Winer

Former US president George W. Bush (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/JTA)

The past is over?George W. Bush page most edited on Wikipedia

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, January 10, 2016. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewTaking the stump

By Ilan Ben Zion

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