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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 5, 2016

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Illustrative photo of an Israeli salesman demonstrating a beauty product at an American mall. (Creative Commons via JTA)

US charges 10 Israelis in illegal network of mall kiosks

Demanding $14.5m in company assets, authorities say Omer Gur-Geiger and his firm hired 140 compatriots without work permits

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to workers at the Detroit Manufacturing Systems facility on March 4, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

It’s all about the delegates in first primaries after Super Tuesday

Candidates campaign hard across 5 states; GOP establishment looks for any way to stop Trump; Clinton aims to pull further clear of Sanders

US ex-defense chief: Trump’s anti-terror plan could bring Nuremberg-like trials

By JTA

Trump reverses stance on targeting civilians, torture

Trump rallies: Tense, racially charged and immensely successful

By Bill Barrow and Jill Colvin

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) on March 3, 2016 (AFP/Geoff Robins) and founding father Alexander Hamilton (Public Domain)

A short history of 'bastard brats,' 'whores' and 'cojones'

Think the debate was crude? The Founding Fathers were just as bad

By Beth J. Harpaz

The exchange over the size of Donald Trump’s ‘hands’ is merely the most recent vulgarity in American politics

ADL: Trump’s statement on Jews, white supremacists ‘obscene’

By JTA

Before there was Trump, there was Paul LePage

By Jill Colvin and David Sharp

Trump’s GOP rivals attack his ‘flexibility’ on policies

By Steve Peoples and Jill Colvin

The Kotel’s time-space discontinuum

The urgent problems at Judaism’s most sacred site might best be solved by a choreographer

‘Just send them all to Gaza!’

Questioning whether deportations and making life even harder for Palestinians can be an effective deterrent

Not so backward a place

Wisdom from isolated and sparsely populated Tasmania, where Jews cannot afford to be close-minded

Men run and cover their faces as Turkish anti-riot police officers use tear gas to disperse supporters in front of the headquarters of the Turkish daily newspaper Zaman in Istanbul on March 5, 2016, after Turkish authorities seized the headquarters in a midnight raid. (AFP/OZAN KOSE)

Turkey police use plastic bullets, tear gas on protest over media crackdown

By AFP

500 protesters gather outside Istanbul premises of opposition newspaper Zaman, a day after court-imposed closure

Turkish riot police clash with supporters at Zaman daily newspaper headquarters in Istanbul on March 5, 2016, a day after an Istanbul court ordered the publication into administration amid growing alarm over freedom of expression in the country. (AFP/OZAN KOSE)

Turkey’s main anti-Erdogan paper closed down

By Suzan Fraser

A Palestinian Authority policeman prepares to attack Israeli soldiers in a propaganda video produced by Hamas (Channel 10 news)

Hamas video urges PA policemen to attack IDF troops

Propaganda film encourages West Bank security forces to rise up against Israel, following example of officer who was killed shooting soldiers

Border policemen stand guard on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City following an attack by three Palestinian assailants at Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on February 3, 2016. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Jewish man knifed, lightly hurt in Old City altercation

Police reportedly rule out terror, believe injury to be outcome of dispute between Jews, Arabs; suspect surrenders immediately

Isaac Herzog leads a Zionist Union party meeting in the Knesset on February 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Herzog: Extremists on both sides turning Israel into ‘Israstine’

Opposition head says far-left slams Jewish state but offers no solutions, while far-right is forcing West Bank annexation upon country

Lynne Avadenka at her 'How a Poem Begins' exhibit at Yeshiva University in New York on February 28, 2016. (Courtesy)

YU art exhibit is born out of 10 sleepless nights in the Galilee

By Cathryn J. Prince

US Vice President Joe Biden (AP/Markus Schreiber/File)

White House: No new peace push during Biden’s Mideast visit

By AFP and ToI Staff

With vice president arriving in Israel for talks next week, officials downplay possibility of new initiatives while sides lack ‘political will’

A child enjoys an interactive feature at the 'America to Zanzibar' exhibition at the Children's Museum of Manhattan (screen capture: YouTube)

New York museum lets children discover Muslim culture

By Thomas URBAIN

New Manhattan exhibit centers on non-religious aspects of life in communities that practice Islam across globe

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. acknowledges applause at a campaign stop, Wednesday, March 2, 2016, in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

40 rabbis sign petition backing Sanders’ economic agenda

By JTA

‘Jews for Bernie’ says it hopes all candidates ‘will embrace the goal of an economically just society’

One of 12 migrants claiming to be from Iran protests with sewn lips and a poster reading 'Stop Police' against the dismantling of the southern part of the so-called 'Jungle' migrant camp in Calais, northern France, on March 4, 2016. (AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)

Migrants protest French camp demolition with mouths sewn shut

By AFP

Iranians stage demonstration against destruction of shelters, as authorities try to move refugees away from English Channel

In this Feb. 16, 2016 photo, Qenawi Hamdan, holds a photo of his slain son, Mohammed Hamdan, at the family house in Beni Suleiman village, south of Cairo, Egypt. The 32-year-old Egyptian government engineer disappeared in mid-January when, according to witnesses, masked police burst into his office in the southern city of Beni Suef and dragged him off in handcuffs in front of his co-workers. (AP Photo/Maggie Michael)

Secret detentions, deaths raise alarm over Egyptian police

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Allegations of abuses by cops are raising fears that Egypt’s security agencies are growing out of control

File: Illustrative photo of an Iran Air Boeing 747 passenger plane. (CC BY-SA/Wikimedia/Mike P)

Iran invites Boeing to Tehran for aircraft buy

By AP

Tehran says US officials gave company ‘green light’ for commercial talks

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir arrives at the Bayerischer Hof hotel to participate at the 52nd Munich Security Conference in Munich on February 12, 2016. (AFP/THOMAS KIENZLE)

Saudi FM: Assad must go at start of Syrian transition

Adel al-Jubeir also says Riyadh will itself take delivery of $3-billion worth of French arms initially destined for Lebanon

Daniel Goldstein is counsel to the National Federation of the Blind. (Courtesy of Brown, Goldstein & Levy/via JTA)

Disabilities lawyer pioneers legislation for digital accessibility

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off over Cocoa Beach, Fla., at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Monday, December 21, 2015 (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX satellite launch succeeds, but rocket crash lands

By Kerry SHERIDAN

A Saudi Arabian Airlines Gulfstream jet at Edinburgh Airport, Scotland (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0/Scott Wright)

Down to earthCaptain dies, so Saudi co-pilot lands passenger jet solo

East quad of Brooklyn College, in New York City. (Gabriel Liendo/Wikimedia Commons)

CUNY holds anti-Semitism probe after ‘Zionist pig’ incident

By JTA

A Jerusalem mosque (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Knesset to debate bill barring mosques’ broadcasting call to prayer

By JTA

FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, meets Oliver Jack Carter Lomas-Davis, of Venice, Calif., who was dressed as Sanders during a rally at Bonanza High School in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

4-month-old ‘Bernie Baby’ dies of SIDS

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Friday, March 4, 2016, in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Carson spent heavily on consultants, lightly on campaigning

By AP and ToI Staff

Stephen Flatow in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Movie in works about man who sued Iran for attack that killed daughter

By JTA

Hubert Zafke (Courtesy)

German court: Doctor finds Nazi medic unfit for trial

By AP

Brother of Toulouse killer to be tried by national security panel

By JTA

Singer Hovi Star performs Israel's 2016 Euovision entry 'Made of Stars' (screen capture: YouTube)

And the winner is...Israel gets Star performer for Eurovision

US Secretary Of Defense Ash Carter (L), flanked by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Joseph Dunford, speaks to the media in the Pentagon briefing room, on February 29, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Cyber challengeHack us if you can, Pentagon chief says

By AFP

Thought crimePakistani jailed for 13 years for Facebook post

By AFP

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