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What Matters Most On Friday, February 12, 2016

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President Barack Obama speaks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Baltimore, Md., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to reluctantly sign trade bill that lumps together Israel and settlements

By Eric Cortellessa

Legislation, hailed by AIPAC, includes anti-BDS provision with language White House says ‘contravenes longstanding US policy,’ but president will still back it

Netanyahu may meet Obama in March to ink aid deal, US envoy confirms

By Joshua Davidovich and Sue Surkes

British Airbnb host refuses Israeli because of ‘aggressive settlers’

By JTA

Arab MK: ‘Shahids’ were fighting occupation, aren’t criminals

Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, right, makes a point as Sen. Bernie Sanders listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Thursday, February 11, 2016, in Milwaukee. (AP/Morry Gash)

Democratic hopefuls clash over warming ties with Iran

By JTA

At debate, Sanders backs away slightly from previous call for normalizing relations, Clinton says Tehran must stop sponsoring terror first

After primary win, Sanders returns to Brooklyn ‘hood, reminisces

By JTA

US: Precise location of Iran’s low-enriched uranium is unknown

By Richard Lardner

Brother of Sanders gets frontline role with UK Greens

By AFP

Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)

Century after Einstein predicted them, scientists glimpse gravitational waves for first time

‘The skies will never be the same’: In landmark discovery, billion-year-old vibration in space-time reaches underground detectors in US

Einstein writings show dramatic theory 100 years ahead of time

A ‘magical’ space-time ripple that wasn’t believed, at first

By Kerry SHERIDAN

Gravitational waves: Why the fuss?

By Mariëtte Le Roux

Syrian government forces who took control of the village of Kiffin on the northern outskirts of the embattled city of Aleppo from opposition forces on February 11, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

UAE special forces to deploy in Syria, as Russia warns of world war

By AP and AFP

US confirms Emirates will send troops to train and enable locals to defeat Islamic State, but Moscow says foreign boots on ground will spark ‘permanent war’

Diplomats hammer out deal for temporary Syria truce

By AP

CIA chief says IS has used, can make chemical weapons

By AFP

French PM: Merkel’s refugee policy ‘unsustainable in long-term’

By AFP

Alex Wolfson, seen here holding a tray of hot pastry, co-owns Yonah Schimmel’s Knish Bakery with his daughter, Ellen Anistratov. The pair are descendants of the original owner, and the business is one of the few ongoing Jewish landmarks in New York's Lower East Side. (courtesy Ellen Anistratov)

At New York’s oldest knishery, nosh with a side of Jewish history

By Cathryn J. Prince

Although it now sells new-fangled flavors like sweet potato or jalapeno and cheddar, each visit to Yonah Schimmel’s Knish Bakery is like doing the time warp, again

The gift of giving

By building a physical home for God, the Children of Israel enable Him to dwell in their hearts instead (Terumah)

Stan Goodenough

As a Christian, I say no to Mike Bickle

In a message to Jewish readers: Ted Cruz’s guru, and others like him, are preaching a sick distortion of Scripture

Julie Rosenzweig

A woman’s guide to Jerusalem

Pedestrian access to the area’s shopping center should be a no-brainer, but those on foot have to navigate highways!

The Occupation: beginning and end

The moral stand against occupation negates the moral imperative of Jewish survival in the Land of Israel

Police talk inside the Columbus, Ohio, restaurant where they say a man attacked several people with a machete on Thursday, February 11, 2016. (AP/Kantele Franko)

4 injured in machete attack on Israeli-owned Ohio eatery

By AP and ToI Staff

Assailant shot and killed by police after hacking at patrons at Nazareth Restaurant, owned by Israeli Arab originally from Haifa

Suspects arrested after plotting to free Daniel Pearl killer Omar Sheikh on February 12, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Pakistan foils plot to spring Daniel Pearl killer from jail

By AFP

Military says suspects were close to executing plan to ram explosives-laden vehicles into prison to free British-born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh from death row

People stand in front of the Chez Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris on August 11, 1982, two days after the Jewish delicatessen was attacked by terrorists. (AFP / JOEL ROBINE)

Jordan won’t extradite suspect in ’82 Paris Jewish restaurant attack

By JTA

Amjad Atta, 62, believed to have masterminded assault on Jo Goldenberg in which six were killed, 22 wounded

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during a campaign event at the Heartland Acres Agribition Center on January 25, 2016 in Manchester, Iowa. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Cruz defends evangelist who said God sent Hitler to hunt Jews

By Eric Cortellessa

Campaign ‘welcomes support’ from faith leaders including Mike Bickle, who tries to convert Jews and predicts a new death camp era

Incoming Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (Shin Bet)

PM taps Nadav Argaman as new head of Shin Bet

New director is current No. 2 of domestic security service , spent 3 years as its point man in US

Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo on February 11, 2016 (Courtesy)

Egypt’s Sissi hosts 36 American Jewish leaders

Participants mum about details of two-hour conversation, which focused on Israel-Egypt security ties

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in Switzerland, February 11, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon: Turkey reset impossible while it hosts Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Defense minister says Ankara, not Jerusalem, caused the deterioration in relations between the former allies

MK Dov Lipman in the Knesset, March 6, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Book review

An immigrant-turned-lawmaker looks back at 25 turbulent months

By Raphael Ahren

File: Illustrative image of a hammer. (CC BY-SA Michael Jastremski, via Wikimedia Commons)

Arab man ‘bludgeoned sister to death with hammer’

Police say Hussein Rahal, 22, likely motivated by anger over modern lifestyle of Ranin, 19, in grisly murder, burning of body

Medics wheel a wounded Israeli man, stabbed in a terror attack, into the emergency room of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center on February 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Terror attacks in Israel drop back to pre-escalation level

By JTA

Shin Bet reports 169 Palestinian attacks in January, down from 246 in December; lowest numbers since July 2015

Lubavitcher Hasidim in Kfar Chabad studying Talmud at 770, a brick-for-brick replica in Israel of Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn. (Ben Sales)

In all-Chabad Israeli village, Brooklyn meets country living

By JTA

Jonathan A. Greenblatt, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, speaks at the ADL Annual Meeting in Los Angeles on November 6, 2014.(courtesy ADL)

New ADL chief turns to millennials to reinvigorate the old guard

Stepping out of the shadows of long-serving predecessor, Jonathan Greenblatt looks to make civil rights group social media savvy in the fight against anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Turkish Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva, right, talking to congregants outside Kadoorie – Mekor Haim synagogue in Porto, Portugal, January 29, 2016 (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

New citizenship law has Jews flocking to tiny Portugal city

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

A screen capture from a video with a side-by-side comparison of Jews and Christians describing Jews as having "got what they deserved." (ADL/Education Portal)

NY schools pull anti-Semitic videos after outcry

By JTA

The Supreme Court in session. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Top court rules public ritual baths open to all Jewish conversions

Refugees and migrants arrive on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Dec. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)

Refugees in Greece get medical aid from Jewish-funded group

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands with his wife Sara after voting in Israel's parliamentary elections in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)

Sara Netanyahu to appeal court ruling in favor of ex-employee

By Daniel Douek

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on January 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid tightens grip on Yesh Atid, delays leadership race

Illustrative image of a hacker at work (Pixabay)

Hackers infiltrate Finance Ministry computers

LG G3 phones (Courtesy)

‘World-class’ cyber-detective Cynet raises $7 million

By David Shamah

Paul Alivisatos (Courtesy)

Poverty activists, nanotech pioneers picked for $1 million prize

By JTA

The Woo team in their new San Francisco offices (Courtesy)

Israeli start-up ‘Woos’ Americans with ‘disruptive’ job search platform

By David Shamah

Dancers perform Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak's production of 'Wallflower' (screen capture: Vimeo)

Cultural spaceSinuous costumes, movements in Inbal Pinto’s ‘Wallflower’

By Jessica Steinberg

In this December 10, 2015 file photo Harrison Ford walks during a Star Wars fan event in Sydney. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Star SoresDisney company sued for Han Solo’s fall in the Falcon

By AP

Incoming Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (Shin Bet)

Hebrew media reviewSecret agent man

By Adiv Sterman

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