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What Matters Most On Tuesday, March 15, 2016

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Donald Trump speaking at a caucus night watch party at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Feb. 23, 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Reform movement blasts Trump for ‘hate speech’

By JTA

Umbrella groups reject candidate’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, but back his invitation to AIPAC confab

Clinton camp focuses on Florida Jews ahead of crucial primary

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Historians warn about use of anger, race in 2016 elections

By Jesse J. Holland

Joe Biden joins Clinton, Trump among AIPAC speakers

By JTA

Pastor Mark Burns speaks at a Donald Trump rally in Hickory, North Carolina, Monday, March 14, 2016. (Screen capture YouTube)

At Trump rally, pastor calls for Bernie Sanders to ‘meet Jesus’

Pastor Mark Burns excoriates Jewish Vermont senator ‘who doesn’t believe in God,’ says he’s ‘gotta get saved’

Israel emerges as campaign issue ahead of voting in 3 big Jewish states

Sanders seeks Midwest wins to turn tide against Clinton

By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas

2016 race barrels toward potentially decisive primary day

By Julie Pace and KATHLEEN RONAYNE

Russian soldiers loading equipment onto a plane at a base in Syria, in footage aired on March 15, 2016. (Screen capture: Vesti.ru)

First jets fly out as Moscow begins withdrawing military from Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

Day after Putin makes surprise announcement of pullout, Kremlin says fighters will accompany cargo planes from Hmeimim air base back to Russia

Russian diplomat says Syria pullout won’t affect Israel’s security

By Stuart Winer

Putin orders surprise Russian military pullout from Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rebels, Germany laud Russian plan to withdraw from Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image: DNA (Pixabay)

Israeli-developed blood test may be able to identify diseases

By AFP

DNA strands in the blood can reveal which cells in a body may be dying, alerting physicians early on, Hebrew University researchers say

Broken Star of David

What happens when two Jews means two different peoplehoods?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The clash between much of the Diaspora and Israel over conversion and the question of ‘Who is a Jew?’ means the Jewish state now has two de facto classes of Jews. Where will it all end?

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon gestures during a press briefing on the sidelines of the main annual session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on February 29, 2016. (AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI)

Live updates (closed)

UN chief asks Israel to reverse West Bank land seizure

By Adiv Sterman

One suspect killed in Brussels terror raid; President Rivlin lands in Moscow for meeting with Putin amid Russia pullout from Syria

Tehran native Kambiz Alizadeh at his Getränkemarkt Beethoven convenience store near the Roonstrasse synagogue in Cologne, Germany (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Reporter's notebook'It was the rabbi's idea'

Want kosher gefilte fish in Cologne? Go to that nice Iranian Muslim

By Raphael Ahren

Tehran native Kambiz Alizadeh sells 250 products imported especially for the city’s Jews. And it’s not his fault there’s no kosher sign on his storefront

Daniel Cotzin Burg

Why I’ll be skipping Trump at AIPAC

He has better things to do with his time than attend a speech by a candidate who fans the flames of bigotry

Julie Rothschild Levi

Humor me, heal me

As Funnie the Clown, she uses a time-tested Jewish secret weapon to infuse a dark situation with light

Andrew Silow-Carroll

For the love of the game

The new chief editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on why those who work in ethnic media deserve some respect

Joshua Hammerman

When Esther meets Easter

Purim and Good Friday coincide this year, recalling a dark past and sparking hope for love’s ultimate triumph

File: Jewish worshipers draped in prayer shawls performing the annual Priestly Blessing during Sukkot at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2015. (Gil Cohen/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Western Wall rabbi withdraws support for egalitarian plaza

By JTA

Agreement to expand mixed-gender prayer space at holy site would cause ‘spiritual damage beyond imagination,’ says Rabinowitz

The entrance to the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, November 27, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Father jailed for convincing son not to grant divorce

By Daniel Douek

Judgment hailed by rabbis as unprecedented and groundbreaking measure in the efforts to fight get-refusal

Sherzad Mamsani, the newly appointed Director of Kurdish Jewish Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in Jerusalem on March 8, 2016 (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Iraqi Kurdistan sees a Jewish revival, thanks to the Islamic State

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers during a protest at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 5, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

PA nixes Israeli offer to halt IDF activity in Ramallah, Jericho

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinians insist Israeli army stop operating in all Palestinian cities; PA officials warn end to security cooperation seriously considered

File: Police arrest a group of 22 Palestinians who were living in Israel illegally near the Besor Stream national park on March 10, 2016. (Israel Police)

Bill to jail Israelis who illegally employ Palestinians advances

Legislation provides four years behind bars for those who enable Palestinians without permits to work, and levies fines on subcontractors

Israeli security forces search for the gunman after a shooting attack at a pub in central Tel Aviv, on Friday, January 1, 2016. (Esther Rubyan/Flash90)

Police say Tel Aviv ‘stabbing attempt’ false alarm

Massive manhunt called off after officials determine soldier saw homeless man and got spooked

An Israeli military vehicle on standby near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Rocket fired from Gaza falls in open field near Sderot

No injuries reported in latest incident, that followed 4 rockets fired on Friday

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif before a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, March 15, 2016. (AFP/MARK GRAHAM)

Iran says it’s not bound by UN resolution banning missile tests

By AFP

After US pushes at Security Council for sanctions, Foreign Minister Zarif says wording of measure not obligatory

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon addresses the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. on March 14, 2016 (Webcast screen capture)

Ya’alon faults Obama for going easy on Abbas, warns of Iran’s hegemony

By Eric Cortellessa

In DC, defense minister criticizes US-led nuclear deal, says president bought into false notion that Palestinian conflict at heart of Mideast problems

US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, left, speaks with Moshe Yaalon at the Pentagon on March 14, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Sides mum on aid deal after Israeli and US defense chiefs meet

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully speaks to the Lowy Institute in Sydney on March 15, 2016. (AFP/WILLIAM WEST)

Top New Zealand diplomat says settlements killing two-state solution

By JTA

Murray McCully says Wellington circulating draft United Nations resolution to force Israelis and Palestinians back to table

Former director of the Saudi Arabia General Intelligence Directorate and ex-ambassador to Washington Prince Turki al-Faisal in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Senior Saudi royal excoriates Obama for ‘Iran pivot’

By AFP

Prince Turki al-Faisal also lashes out at US president for accusing monarchy of fueling sectarian conflicts across Mideast

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu hails ‘dramatic warming’ of Israel-Arab ties

By Tamar Pileggi

PM says shifting regional alliances could pave the way to a lasting peace agreement with Palestinians

Incoming Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (Shin Bet)

Panel approves Nadav Argaman as new Shin Bet chief

By AFP and ToI Staff

Vetting committee paves way for mastermind behind assassination of top Palestinian bombmaker to take over security agency from Yoram Cohen

Arnon Tamir, CEO of Teva Nature, smoking a cannabis extract through an electronic cigarette at the CannaTech conference in Tel Aviv, March 7, 2016. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Reporter's notebook

At Tel Aviv cannabis conference — lots of tech, no smoking allowed

More Headlines

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, March 14, 2016. (AFP/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV)

Israeli rocket technology will help explorer ease onto Mars

By David Shamah

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan. (Courtesy of White House/via JTA)

Jewish trans woman named top White House LGBT liaison

By JTA

Evgeni Plushenko, Russia's two-time Olympic figure skating champion at the 2012 European Championships medal ceremony on January 28, 2012. (Dahmeli/Wikimedia commons)

Russian Olympic figure skating champ has surgery in Israel

By AFP

Derailed cars following a train crash in Dimona, March 15, 2016 (Israel Police spokesperson)

Dimona residents given all-clear after bromine train leak

Anders Behring Breivik makes a Nazi gesture as he enters a courtroom in Skien, Norway, on March 15, 2016. (Lise Aserud, NTB scanpix via AP)

Mass murderer Breivik makes Nazi salute in court

By AFP

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 15, 2015, an Air Serbia passenger plane flies over Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia's authorities are investigating reports that a cargo package bound for the United States containing two missiles with explosive warheads was found on a passenger flight from Lebanon to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

US-bound missiles found on passenger flight from Lebanon

By AP

Illustrative: 'Boycott Israel' billboard near Chicago's Logan Airport, 2016 (screen capture: CBS)

Arizona legislature passes anti-BDS measure

By Eric Cortellessa

IDF soldiers stand to attention during a ceremony. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Love drug’ can help treat PTSD sufferers, Haifa U research shows

By David Shamah

Itamar Medical's WatchPAT in action (Courtesy)

How sleep apnea causes heart attacks – and how Israeli tech helps

By David Shamah

The restored Renato Maestro Library and Archive website after it was hacked by a pro-Palestinian group, March 14, 2015. (Renato Maestro Library and Archive)

Islamists hack Venice Jewish community library website

By JTA

The members of Balkan Beat Box, Tamir Muskat, Tomer Yosef and Ori Kaplan (Courtesy Orit Pnini)

BBB is backA new single from the always-eclectic Balkan Beat Box

By Jessica Steinberg

Still looking for a good deed to do? House painters are needed in Hadera. (Courtesy Good Deeds Day 2016)

Do us a favorAltruists unite for day of the (good) deed

By Jessica Steinberg

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