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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 16, 2016

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Illustrative: Israeli police officers search a Palestinian man at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on February 15, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police briefly detain Washington Post reporter for ‘incitement’

By Judah Ari Gross

Border policemen question William Booth outside Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate after woman reportedly offers to provoke a demonstration; government calls move ‘unnecessary’

Mohammed al-Qiq, a Palestinian prisoner who carried out hunger strike, talks to a man in a hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula on February 5, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinian hunger striker rejects transfer to East Jerusalem hospital

In this illustrative photo, a Bedouin woman shows crafts created by women at 'Desert Embroidery: Association for the Improvement of the Woman,' in the Bedouin city of Lakiya, on April 1, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Even Bedouin MK Taleb Abu Arar has two wives

Polygamy is illegal in Israel. So why is it allowed to flourish among Negev Bedouin?

By Melanie Lidman

Don’t condone the practice as ‘Bedouin culture,’ activist insists; it’s a prop of the patriarchy that damages all involved and needs to be taken down

Illustrative photo of an IDF soldier on March 2, 2015 (IDF spokesperson's office)

Live updates (closed)

Nasrallah to Sunni states: How can you consider Israel an ally?

By Marissa Newman

Hezbollah chief says Arab countries are free to view Iran as an enemy; asks ‘do you accept a friend occupying Sunni land in Palestine?’

Sam Ben Shitrit, founder and chairman of the World Federation of Moroccan Jews in a television interview in 2012. (Screenshot from YouTube)

‘Morocco’s king dispatches Jewish aide to push Israeli-Palestinian talks’

By Raoul Wootliff

Channel 2 says senior officials from both sides will meet this week under auspices of Sam Ben Shitrit, with backing from Abbas and Netanyahu

France fills in Israel on plan for peace talks confab

By Raphael Ahren

Nearly half of all Palestinian terrorists are aged 20 or less — Shin Bet

Troops scuffle with Palestinians as pilgrims visit Joseph’s Tomb

Jackie Mason (photo credit: International Film Circuit, Inc.)

Mason jarred by BDS

Jackie Mason: Blacklist anti-Israel celebs

‘If not for the Jews who created the industry in Hollywood, all these people would never have a job,’ veteran Jewish comic says

Rapper Nissim Baruch Black. 'When I came to Judaism I found the connection I had been looking for.' (Courtesy)

Black rapper who found spiritual home in Orthodoxy on the move to Israel

By Cathryn J. Prince

As his wildly popular collaboration with Gad Elbaz conquers YouTube, Seattle-raised Nissim Baruch Black is taking on a new challenge — the Israeli music scene

The Supreme Court’s Jewish gentile

Memories of Justice Scalia, a classmate at Harvard, a friend, and (usually) a supporter of religious observance

The Holocaust minus the Jews

An alarming rise in attempts to diminish or deny the mass slaughter of Jews and, in parallel, to vilify Israel

Rachel Lefkowitz

Jews must divest from universities

North American campuses have become rife with anti-semitism — it’s time stop funding them

Rabbi Mel Hecht marries Craig Silver and Karen Butt of Connecticut at Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, Feb. 12, 2016. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Looking for a quickie Jewish wedding in Las Vegas? Call Rabbi Mel Hecht

Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota speaks in support of Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders on Sunday, February 14, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

First Muslim US congressman backs Bernie Sanders

By JTA

Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota tells Black America Forum that Democratic candidate ‘believes in true racial justice and equality’

Alex Chalmers was until recently the co-chairman of the Oxford University Labor Club (Facebook)

Oxford student leader resigns as vote endorses Israel Apartheid Week

By Eylon Aslan-Levy

‘A large proportion of the student Left at Oxford has a problem with Jews,’ charges Alex Chalmers, quitting as co-chair of Oxford University Labour Club

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power gives a speech at the Israel Middle East Model UN Conference in Even Yehuda, February 15, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

US envoy to UN skewers world body for anti-Israel bias

By Joshua Davidovich and Marissa Newman

Visiting Israel, Samantha Power says US will continue to pursue two-state solution even if situation not currently conducive

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power gives a speech at the Israel Middle East Model UN Conference in Even Yehuda, February 15, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Samantha Power: Iran deal compliance ‘strong’ so far

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Jordan said to mull canceling gas deal with Israel

Amman officials in talks with Algerian company as lawmakers’ support for Israeli deal declining, report says

File: Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein, left, and MK Nissan Slomiansky attend the opening meeting of the Law and Justice Committee at the Knesset on June 1, 2015 (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Lawmaker puts brakes on MK suspension bill after blowback

Committee chair Nissan Slomiansky says he nixed planned discussion of controversial measure without consulting Netanyahu after noting lack of coalition backing

The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

Diplomat: Islamic State used mustard gas against Kurdish fighters

Global chemical weapons watchdog confirms first use of the gas in Iraq since Saddam Hussein’s fall in 2003

Footage taken from the 'Mavi Marmara' security cameras showing activists preparing to attack IDF soldiers, May 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Turkish official says Ankara, Jerusalem close to signing detente deal

Israel and Turkey near agreement on compensating Turkish victims of Mavi Marmara raid, AK party official says

Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)

For Jewish women in the UK, new cracks in Orthodoxy’s glass ceiling

By Jenni Frazer

People carry a stretcher amid debris after a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders was hit by suspected Russian air strikes near Maaret al-Numan, in Syria's northern province of Idlib, on February 15, 2016. (AFP / Omar haj kadour)

Syria ceasefire hopes dim after strikes on hospitals, schools

By AFP

US, UN and others say attacks in north that killed 50 cast doubt on Russia’s ability or willingness to comply with deal; Moscow blames US

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Katsav offers to ‘coach’ Olmert in prison ways

Former president serving time for rape and other offenses expresses ‘sorrow’ that the ex-PM is joining him in jail

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A nighttime view of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC (Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Jewish billionaire donates $18.5M to repair Lincoln Memorial

By JTA

Israelis take part at a vigil in remembrance of Shira Banki at Zion Square in Jerusalem on August 2, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Song for toleranceZion Square to be memorial for teen slain in gay pride attack

By Jessica Steinberg

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at an annual Women's History Month reception hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images/via JTA)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg pens passionate farewell to Antonin Scalia

By JTA

American rapper Kanye West performs at the Ramat Gan Stadium, near Tel Aviv, on September 30, 2015. (Flash90)

Beautiful dark twisted fantasyKanye pleads to Zuckerberg: Invest $1B in me

By JTA

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto seen entering Nitzan prison on February 16, 2016, beginning a one year prison term. (Flash90)

After brief delay, celebrity rabbi reports to prison

Formation nationBeyonce wows Grammy crowd in Israeli-designed gown

By Jessica Steinberg

As part of its marketing campaign this month to promote winter sun vacations in Eilat, the Israeli Tourism Ministry in London is advertising the Red Sea resort on the iconic black taxis in the capital. (Sherbet London)

Where have all the tourists gone? They’re right here

By David Shamah

British actress Emma Thompson and Irish actor Brendan Gleeson pose during a photo call for the film "Alone in Berlin" by Vincent Perez screened in competition of the 66th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin on February 15, 2016. (AFP / John MACDOUGALL)

Emma Thompson brings Nazi resistance true story to Berlin fest

By Deborah Cole

The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)

Auschwitz museum launches ‘Polish death camps’ text corrector

By AFP

Illustrative: Cannabis leaves (Yossi Zamir/ Flash90)

Going green Medical marijuana company predicts profits boom

Jfiix screenshot

For a new generation, JDate creator has a new Jewish dating app

By David Shamah

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert enters prison to begin his sentence, in the central Israeli town of Ramle, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hebrew media reviewMa’asiyahu Prison blues

By Judah Ari Gross

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