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What Matters Most On Friday, March 18, 2016

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 12, 2016. (AP/Tony Dejak)

US democracy at stake amid campaign violence, major Jewish group warns

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

American Jewish Committee appears to take on Trump a day after the Republican front-runner warned of riots if GOP blocks him

40 rabbis said to plan boycott of Trump’s AIPAC address

David Duke: Trump-Hitler comparisons may rehabilitate Hitler

By JTA

Senate Dem leader accuses GOP of ‘moral cowardice’ on Trump

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

A 2014 Middle East Monitor cartoon shows an Israeli war plane bombing Gaza while a 'BDS' missile heads toward the plane. (Courtesy)

‘Apartheid Week’ really does threaten Israel, some experts warn

By Matt Lebovic

Going against prevailing wisdom, pro-Israel voices sound the alarm on Students for Justice in Palestine’s flagship project, saying the annual campus onslaught fuels attacks on Jewish students, erodes support for Israel

Israeli soldiers and police officers at the scene of an attack at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank Friday, March 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Two stabbing attacks thwarted within minutes in West Bank

Assailant shot and killed while attempting an attack at Etzion Junction; 2 youths arrested with knives near Sha’ar Binyamin

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Outrage over report alleging NGO seeks classified data on IDF tactics

PM, defense minister order investigation into Breaking the Silence after TV airs undercover footage of activists probing for info on troop deployments, operational procedures

Israel blasts TIME’s insistent depiction of terrorist as victim

EU denounces Israel’s West Bank land appropriation

By ToI Staff, AP and JTA

Jerusalem hotels see sharp decline in Passover bookings

Trump Vodka

High spiritsHigh spirits

Unloved elsewhere, how Trump Vodka immigrated to Israel

By Simona Weinglass

It was one of Donald Trump’s less successful business ventures. But his defunct vodka brand has enjoyed an unexpected afterlife… among Orthodox Jews, at this time of year in the Holy Land

Miri Regev, call off your culture war

A message to the minister who says she’ll work to rectify the sins of what she sees as Israel’s cultural elite

Nora Ephron, the subject of a new documentary made by her son, behind the camera in an undated photo. (Courtesy of HBO)

Nora Ephron’s feats and foibles examined in film by her son

By Curt Schleier

Observation tower at Ben Gurion International Airport. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Winding road to B-G Airport terminal was built to appease Chabad

Travelers spend extra 8.5 minutes getting to Terminal 3 because leaders of ultra-Orthodox village objected to nearby Shabbat traffic, report says

Roseanne Barr (left) with Dr. Lenny Kristal from the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council at a StandWithUs event in Oakland, California on February 27, 2016 (Courtesy StandWithUs)

When it comes to Israel, no holds barred for Roseanne Barr

President Reuven Rivlin, left, meets with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on March 17, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Moscow wants more trade with Israel, Russian PM tells Rivlin

By Tamar Pileggi

Both leaders express support for efforts to establish a free-trade agreement

Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing the TUC Conference at The Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, on September 15, 2015. (Mary Turner/Getty Images via JTA)

British Jewish leader: Jews can’t trust Labour Party

By JTA and ToI Staff

President of the Board of Deputies cites allegations of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel ties in Jeremy Corbyn-led opposition

Illustrative: Orthodox Jews in Lakewood, New Jersey (YouTube screen capture)

Town neighboring Lakewood, NJ, wary of Orthodox Jewish influx

By JTA

Mayor says his use of the word ‘invasion’ about door-to-door solicitation urging residents to sell their homes is ‘not anti-Semitic’

Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Gage Skidmore/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Republican senators propose stricter sanctions on Iran

By Richard Lardner

Bill introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte follows Tehran’s launch of two ballistic missiles on March 9

Mufid Elfgeeh is escorted under heavy guard into the Federal Building for a hearing in Rochester, New York, December 17, 2015. (Jamie Germano/Democrat & Chronicle via AP, File)

NY pizzeria owner who recruited for IS gets 22.5 years

By GINO FANELLI

Yemen-born Mufid Elfgeeh, 32, set up Facebook, WhatsApp accounts that helped people travel to Syria to fight for jihadist group

Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks at a ceremony to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 5, 2016. (Gefen Reznik/IDF Spokesperson)

Top Israeli general: ‘Expect problems’ so long as Erdogan in power

By Judah Ari Gross

In unusually candid remarks, Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan dismisses prospects of reconciliation, calls Turkey ‘a problematic entity’

Illustrative photo of police officers at Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem, July 24, 2013 (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

5 indicted in assault on Arab janitor in Jerusalem

By JTA

The Jewish youths, four of them minors, shouted racist epithets at their victim as they beat him, according to the indictment

Samir Patel, left, with an associate and his father, right, says he gets about five requests each Saturday to act as a 'Shabbos goy' for Orthodox Jews. (Uriel Heilman)

These may be America’s proudest ‘Shabbos goys’

By Uriel Heilman

Runners take part in the international Jerusalem Marathon on March 18, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Kenyan runner wins Jerusalem Marathon

By AP and ToI Staff

Kipkosgei Shadrack, 25, finishes race with a time of 2:16:33; some 27,500 runners take part

Lonah Chemtai, a runner from Kenya, received Israeli citizenship on March 17, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

At the finish line

After legal battle, Kenyan runner gets Israeli citizenship

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lonah Chemtai, 27, who is married to her Israeli coach, may represent the Jewish state in the summer Olympics

Mordechai Genut, founder of Frum Karate, instructing some beginners’ students. (Courtesy of Mordechai Genut)

These Orthodox Jews use karate to defend the faith

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

More Headlines

Shiri Sobol at a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on February 19, 2016 (Flash90)

Teen stabbed ‘more than 130 times’ by twin sister’s boyfriend

A screenshot from The Daily Show (screen capture: Comedy Central)

Punch linesDaily Show tackles anti-Semitism at Trump rallies

By JTA

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II (not pictured) at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on November 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / MAXIM SHIPENKOV / AFP / POOL / MAXIM SHIPENKOV)

Russian to condemnKremlin slams Trump ad starring Putin

By AP

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, speaks at a campaign rally at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Sanders says he has a ‘path toward victory’ against Clinton

Epson Moverio glasses (Photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Happy meals’ to get happier, thanks to Israeli virtual reality tech

By David Shamah

Supreme Court Justice Zvi Zilbertal at a swearing-in ceremony at the presidential residence in Jerusalem on February 21 , 2012. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Supreme Court Justice Zilbertal announces early retirement

Screenshot from a viral bar mitzvah video of a Brazilian Jewish boy (YouTube)

Lip-sunkGoogle told to pull bar mitzvah boy’s video

By JTA

YouTube screenshot shows Ahmed Dawabsha in meeting with soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo March 17, 2016. YouTube screenshot)

Duma firebombing survivor, 5, meets hero Ronaldo

By AFP

Carlos Santana performs (

Everything's coming our waySantana returns to Tel Aviv after 29 years

By Jessica Steinberg

A man loyal to the Libyan armed forces sits in a tank during clashes with Islamic State group militants west of Benghazi, Libya, on Monday, March 7, 2016. (AP/Mohammed el-Shaiky, File)

Unity government aims to save Libya, but has to get in first

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and RAMI MUSA

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russian chief rabbi slams court ruling on organ harvesting

By JTA

Jozef Jarosz looks on March 16, 2016 into an underground hideout in Stankowa, Poland, where he and his family helped Anna Grygiel and 13 other Jews to survive the Holocaust and WWII. (AFP / WOJTEK RADWANSKI)

Polish hole that hid 14 Jews during Holocaust to become memorial

By Michel VIATTEAU

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