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What Matters Most On Friday, April 8, 2016

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses hecklers and supporters at the Netroots Nation 2015 Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, July 18, 2015. (Charlie Leight/Getty Images/AFP)

Sanders tells ADL he knows he got his Gaza death toll number wrong

By Eric Cortellessa

Candidate notes he immediately accepted correction to much-inflated 10,000 figure in midst of controversial interview; campaign says his words were ‘distorted’

As one Jewish group praises Sanders’ Gaza backtrack, second says he has more to clarify

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

With rivals absent, Cruz to court Jewish Republicans uncontested

By Julie Bykowicz and Steve Peoples

Clinton fires back at Sanders’s ‘irresponsible attack’ on her qualifications

By AP

Pope Francis leads a prayer vigil at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican, April 2, 2016. (AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)

Pope issues historic guidelines: Won’t recognize gay marriage, softens on divorce

By AFP

Pontiff says same-sex unions not ‘even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family’; urges greater acceptance of cohabitators

Vicky Escobar, left, and Romi Charur will be married at a synagogue in Argentina. (Facebook/JTA)

First Jewish same-sex marriage at Latin America shul gets the okay

By JTA

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

Einstein letter blasting US policy on Nazis up for auction

In pained 1942 message to colleague, renowned physicist says American inaction led by financiers with near-fascist outlook

Auschwitz guard dies a week before trial

By JTA

From the webPanama Papers reveal firm’s role in spat over Nazi-looted art

Austrian museum to return 2 Nazi-looted works to Jewish heiress

By AP

Illustrative: Detail from an 18th-century painting depicting blood libel in St. Paul's Church in Sandomierz, Poland. (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

Interview

How a 12th century murder became an international Jewish conspiracy

By JP O’ Malley

Blood libel, the myth of Jews killing Christian children, has taken on its own life — and that of many Jews — since a Benedictine monk penned the first chronicled fabrication, says author E.M. Rose

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 21, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

PM says Abbas effort to condemn Israel at UN ‘pushes peace away’

Netanyahu says resolution against settlements unhelpful when Palestinians ‘educate their children that the settlements are Tel Aviv, Haifa’

Police nab Palestinian with knife at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

AnalysisPalestinians search for 3 youths; not clear if they’re planning attack

By Avi Issacharoff

Former Palestinian finance chief: Global Judaism is a virus, a plague

Illustrative: Rabbi Brant Rosen, founder of the non-Zionist Tzedek Chicago synagogue, speaks at a Black lives matter rally. (IIRON)

Why Millennials flock to Chicago’s non-Zionist synagogue

By Amy K. Rosenthal

For its 300 new members, trendy Lincoln Square’s Tzedek congregation is a way to be Jewish — without compromising their devotion to social justice values

Hadassah Froman

Bezalel Smotrich, you have lost your way

The MK’s call for segregation could spell disaster for the entire mission of Israel’s national religious community

Turkey must tackle its anti-Semitism

An impending rapprochement with Israel won’t be sustainable unless there’s an end to sanctioned vitriol

No, rabbis should not do intermarriages

Jewish weddings transform love, sex, and relationships into vehicles for holiness; they are not outreach events

Land Day: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

40 years after bloody territorial battles, the need to correct anti-Arab land discrimination is greater than ever

How to talk to those who are not blessed

For couples who struggle with infertility, even innocent questions about children may be excruciating

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks with media at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, February 27, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran boasts it has developed 12 new nuclear products

On Day of Nuclear Technology, Rouhani also announces new atomic facility, unveils latest technology

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan. (YouTube/PressTV News Videos)

Iran announces plan to produce explosives used in missile warheads

By Stuart Winer and Agencies

US Secretary of State John Kerry sits in front of a map of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf during a joint press conference with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister in the Bahraini capital of Manama, on April 7, 2016. (AFP/Jonathan Ernst/Pool)

US open to ‘new arrangement’ on Iran’s missile tests

By AP and ToI Staff

After appeal to UN over Tehran’s violation of ballistic missiles resolution, Kerry says White House ‘prepared to work for peaceful solution’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a shmura matzah at a matzah factory in Kfar Chabad, Israel, prior to the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover, April 1, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

What makes shmura matzah the caviar of flatbread?

By Uriel Heilman

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2016 (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Under fire from extremists, Ya’alon vows: I won’t yield in fight for Israel

Defense minister slams ‘marginal elements’ in his own Likud who circulated images of him in cross-hairs in row over Hebron shooting

An Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian assailant in Hebron sits in a military court hearing in Tel Aviv, April 5, 2016. (Flash90)

Court extends detention of soldier accused in Hebron shooting

IDF serviceman shot dead incapacitated Palestinian assailant; remains confined to military base

File: A photo taken from the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip shows a Hamas outpost on a hill (right) along the border, February 25, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

No injuries as bomb detonates near army vehicle on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

IED explodes near engineering bulldozer along the fence between Israel and the northern Strip, IDF says

Philippa Whitford (L), an MP for Central Ayrshire in Scotland and a breast cancer expert, visits al-Ahli Hospital with its medical director Doctor Maher Ayyad in Gaza City on April 5, 2016. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

British MP performs cancer surgery for Palestinian women

Phillipa Whitford, an oncology expert, spends her recess in Gaza and West Bank advising and conducting life-saving procedures

A building funded by the European Union in the West Bank. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Aid or political meddling? Israel, EU spar over Palestinian buildings

Ethiopian immigrants arrive in Israel with Operation Dove's Wings in October 2012. (Courtesy of the Jewish Agency for Israel)

Ethiopian aliyah to restart in June

By JTA

Government agrees to bring 9,000 people who claim Jewish descent over the next five years

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset on March 28, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As bills hit snags, will Netanyahu be forced to kill his darlings?

By Marissa Newman

With the conclusion of a Knesset session, a look at the laws passed, the laws reversed, and the laws that appear to be stuck

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with leader of the opposition Isaac Herzog during the opening session of the 20th Israeli parliament on March 31, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

PM, Herzog ‘held secret coalition talks, swapped draft agreements’

By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff

Negotiations to form unity government were frozen after Labor head hit by graft claims, according to media report

Participants in the San Francisco Pride Parade showing their Jewish and Israeli pride, June 30, 2014. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

Orthodox rabbis wrestle with Jewish law and transgender issues

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

Adolf Hitler (German Federal Archive/Wikimedia Commons)

Fail HitlerAfter 83 years, Hitler loses citizenship in German town

By JTA

Migrant and refugees wait for food distribution at their makeshift camp in the northern border village of Idomeni, on April 5, 2016. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Requests for asylum in Germany drop 66% in March — minister

By AFP

Israel Scouts and members of the US mission to Israel honor Taylor Force in a ceremony in Jaffa on April 7, 2016 (The Israel Project)

Israel’s scouts hold memorial for US tourist killed in Jaffa attack

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with Czech Foreign Minister Lubomie Zaoralek at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 4, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

PM slams Arab MK’s ‘shameful’ remarks on defining terrorists

Then-US secretary of defense Chuck Hagel speaks to Israeli and US soldiers during a joint exercise called Juniper Cobra 14, May 2014. (Matty Stern/US Embassy/Flash90)

US denies it’s building secret missile defense base in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

'Sex and Take Out' by Sarah Bahbah at Mika Gallery (Courtesy Fresh Paint)

Spring for itFood for the cultural soul

By Jessica Steinberg

Ilustrative. An industrial robot at work (Pixabay)

The Israeli robots are coming… to Herzliya

By David Shamah

Sensors attached to tomato plants. (Courtesy)

Data analytics giant SAS shopping for big data partnerships in Israel

By David Shamah

Zouheir Bahloul (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist

By Adiv Sterman

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