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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 9, 2016

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A Turkish policeman runs after an explosion on the pedestrian Istiklal avenue in Istanbul on March 19, 2016. (AFP / Bulent KILIC)

Echoing Israel, US issues emergency warning of ‘credible threats’ in Turkey

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

US embassy urges tourists to avoid Istanbul, Antalya, day after Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau orders nationals out of country citing immediate terrorist danger

Israel tells its nationals in Turkey: Get out now

By Tamar Pileggi

Sixth suspect in Brussels attacks arrested in fresh raid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Abrini arrest highlights Paris, Brussels attacks links

By AFP

Bernie Sanders on MSNBC April 8, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Sanders again inflates Gaza civilian death toll, though he’s getting closer

Democratic candidate, who on Monday suggested Israel killed over 10,000 innocents, then accepted he was wrong, now claims UN says ‘over 2,000 civilians’ killed; UN figure is actually 1,423; Israel says true number is lower

Obama reassures Democrats: Trump will not succeed me

By ToI Staff and AP

After primaries, a bleak election landscape for Trump

By Michael Mathes

Sanders hopes to meet Pope… but hasn’t been invited

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Prince of Wales speaks with the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Reverend Justin Welby following his Enthronement at Canterbury Cathedral. (AP Photo/Chris Ison, Pool)

Archbishop of Canterbury finds his dad was Churchill’s secretary, not a Jewish alcoholic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Justin Welby, leader of world’s 85 million Anglicans, discovers his biological father was Sir Anthony Montague Browne, not the whisky salesman Gavin Welby who raised him

Vlodymir, a waiter at the Pid Zolotoju Rozoju restaurant who calls himself Moishe, March 14, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

First person

I ate ‘Jewish’ food in Lviv, and lived to tell the tale

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Across Eastern Europe there are restaurants paying uncomfortable homage to communities decimated by the Holocaust

A photo posted on social media showing students from a New Jersey school playing a "Jews vs. Nazis" drinking game (Facebook/Jamaica Ponder)

US students pictured playing ‘Jews vs. Nazis’ drinking game

By AP

Photo posted on social media shows version of beer pong dubbed ‘Alcoholocaust’; Princeton Police Department investigating

Illustrative: Soldiers guarding a staff member at a Chabad school in Paris, November 16, 2015. (Israel Bardugo/Courtesy of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews/via JTA)

In a rough Paris ‘hood, Jews keep a high profile for Passover

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Chabad House of Saint-Denis has no intention of complying with its mayor’s advice to lie low until there’s peace in the Middle East

Rome’s Jews prepare Passover parcels for low-income brethren

By JTA

Tehila Friedman

Baby steps towards mutual understanding

When Jews and Arabs share moments of daily life, they conquer the extremist both imagine behind the other’s ID card

Shammai Engelmayer

Protecting the money of Israel

On the ever-growing cost of Jewish living fueled by halachic rulings in the name of “beautifying the mitzvah”

Religious participants in the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, September 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli Orthodox rabbis draft gay ‘inclusivity’ document

By JTA

Paper issued by nonprofit Beit Hillel aims to allow homosexual individuals to ‘feel more comfortable within their faith community’

Illustrative photo of rabbis on stage at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College's 2013 graduation ceremony (Courtesy of RRC/Jewish Reconstructionist Communities/JTA)

Reconstructionist rabbis split over intermarriage, BDS claim

By JTA

New group says allowing intermarried clergy ‘muddled the definition of what it means for a rabbi to have a Jewish family’

Campaigning in New York, clockwise from left: Donald Trump greeting the crowd in Bethpage, Long Island, April 6, 2016 (Washington Post via Getty Images); a sign at a Bernie Sanders event in Brooklyn, March 31, 2016 (D Dipasupil/WireImage/Getty Images); Ted Cruz signing an autograph in the Bronx, April 6, 2016 (Bryan Thomas/Getty Images); Hillary Clinton swiping a MetroCard at a Bronx subway, April 7, 2016 (Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images).

Debra Messing, matzah baking, bashert making — what to expect ahead of NY primary

An Israeli policeman patrols the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, October 21, 2015. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90, File)

Palestinians threaten to smash Temple Mount security cameras

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After notices warning of the destruction appear at site, Jordan states that Muslim worshipers won’t be filmed

Israeli security and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack where one person was murdered and nine others were wounded in Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv on March 8, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel sees 26% drop in Palestinian terrorist attacks in March

By JTA

Figure of 123 incidents is lowest since last July; only fatality was US visitor Taylor Force; total does not include 3 Israelis killed in Istanbul terror

File: The Soviet- and Russian-made Buk-M1-2 air defense system, also known as the SA-17 (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

If Hezbollah has the SA-17, it’s a ‘big deal,’ expert says

By Judah Ari Gross

German journalist claims Shiite terrorist group acquired advanced surface-to-air missile system, despite alleged Israeli attempts to stop it

This photo taken on September 20, 2012, shows the house were Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria. (AFP PHOTO/APA/MANFRED FESL)

Austria seeking forced purchase of Hitler’s birth house

By AFP

Vienna says the acquisition is intended to stop the home in the town of Braunau from becoming a neo-Nazi shrine

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US actor Kevin Costner poses during the photocall of the film "Criminal" in Rome on April 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / TIZIANA FABI)

He will comeIn Israel, Kevin Costner dismisses BDS campaign

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Hasidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Israeli tourist stabbed in New York subway robbery

By JTA

Left: The letter sent by German Jew Paul Danby from the Titanic. Top right: Danby and his wife, Rose, who both perished in the Holocaust. Bottom right: Adolphe Saalfeld, Danby's uncle, who survived the sinking of the luxury liner. All three items were put up for auction in April 2016, 104 years after the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. (photos courtesy of Henry Aldridge and Son auctioneers)

Monumental missiveHolocaust victim’s letter from the Titanic up for sale

Brussels bombing survivor Walter Benjamin makes a phone call as he rests in his bed in Jette University Hospital in the city on Sunday, April 3, 2016 (AP Photo/Helene Franchineau)

Belgian Jew hurt in Brussels attacks becomes Facebook ‘voice of the wounded’

By JTA

89-year-old American Holocaust survivor Hermina Hirsch will sing the American national anthem at a Detroit Tigers baseball game May 21. (screen capture: YouTube/CBS Detroit)

Song in the key of lifeUS Holocaust survivor gets wish to sing at baseball game

By JTA

Sam the cuddly toy dog flies high in the sky after taking off from Morecambe, England Tuesday April 5, 2016 attached to a special camera and a helium balloon. Sending the toy dog into the sky was part of a science project by Morecambe Bay Community Primary School which joined forces with a local hotel . The toy dog reached an altitude of 12 miles above the earth's surface. (Morecambe Bay Community Primary School and English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues via AP)

Cuddly cosmonautStuffed dog Sam soars to the stars, disappears

By AP

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)

UK Jewish leader: Corbyn belittling Labour’s anti-Semitism problem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kerry Washington plays Olivia Pope in ABC's political drama 'Scandal' (Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty Images, JTA)

A real headscratcherTV show’s headwear remark sparks Jewish group’s fury

By JTA

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