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What Matters Most On Friday, April 22, 2016

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A sheep is carried by a member of the Temple Institute, which works to preserve ancient Jewish traditions, for a 'practice' ceremony of the Passover sacrifice at Beit Orot in East Jerusalem, on April 18, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ba-a-a-ad boysBa-a-a-ad boys

7 held for attempting Passover goat sacrifice in J’lem

By Judah Ari Gross

Authorities say the Jewish men tried to ‘disturb the peace’ in Old City; animal control takes the 3 unharmed kids

Soldier who killed wounded Palestinian stabber goes home for Passover

By ToI Staff and Agencies

23 Jewish activists from anti-occupation group arrested at Passover protests

By JTA

Women of the Wall ‘regretfully’ accepts ban on priestly blessing

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Firefighters and rescue personnel at the scene of a suicide bus bombing in Jerusalem, in which 20 people were wounded, on April 18, 2016, (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Fearing terror attacks, IDF closes West Bank, Gaza ahead of Passover

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel announces second closure in a month in wake of Jerusalem suicide bombing and amid concerns Hamas may strike again

Israel plans to improve conditions at ‘shameful’ West Bank crossings

Jerusalem bus bombing was suicide attack organized by Hamas

Israel nabs suspect in 2015 Hebron stabbing attack

Irving Streit, center, son of Streit's Matzo founder Aron Streit, in an undated photo at New York's Lower East Side factory. (Courtesy of Menemsha Films/via JTA)

18 minutes of fame

Historic NY matzah factory hits the big screen

By Curt Schleier

New film documents Lower East Side icon Streit’s painful transition to modern facilities in Jersey

Comprehending the kitniyot craze

Don’t be too quick to divest yourself of the practices that mean ‘Judaism’ to you — even if others don’t relate

The Passover story’s amazing story

The seder isn’t about the Jews in Egypt; it’s about the Jews who are moved by the paradigm of suffering and salvation

The growing divides in Israeli society

The small stories of his family’s search for religious tolerance that make up the big claims in latest Pew Report

Rabbi Jacoob Ben Nistell, from Haifa, Israel, who is actually Jacek Niszczota, from Poland (TVn24.pl screenshot)

Poland’s chief rabbi finds comfort in saga of Catholic impostor who fooled community

By ToI Staff, AP and JTA

As Poznan’s ‘Israeli rabbi’ is exposed as a Catholic ex-cook, Michael Schudrich notes that in the Poland of not long ago, nobody would have pretended to be a Jewish leader

Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons)

Congress probes big rise in campus anti-Semitism

By JTA

Lawmakers seek Education Department’s input on rising levels of anti-Israel, BDS activities, which they say are often rooted in racism

Demonstrators protesting against the arrival of Muslim immigrants to Europe in The Hague, Netherlands, April 10, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Europe’s far right wonders what to make of a ‘president Trump’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French Foreign Minister Jean Marc Ayrault (left) and US Secretary of State John Kerry (right) attend a meeting on the Mideast crisis at the Quai d'Orsay ministry in Paris, on March 13, 2016. (AFP/Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool)

France announces global summit on Israel-Palestinian peace process

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel, PA not invited to May 30 preparatory talks; Paris admits ‘two sides are further apart than ever’ but says ‘we have to act’

This file photo taken on August 08, 2015 shows the bullet-riddled Byblos Hotel in Sevare, days after an attack killed 13 people. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Mali arrests suspected mastermind of hotel terror attack

By AFP

Security sources say suspect was planning to stage an attack on western targets this weekend in capital Bamako

Illustrative: A rigid hull inflatable boat transits alongside the coastal patrol ship USS Typhoon during a vertical onboard exercise in the Arabian Gulf, February 2014. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Martin Cuaron, US Navy via AP)

US Navy boots ‘drunk, reckless’ Gulf boat commander

By Jon Gambrell

Accusations against officer serving in sensitive territory include failure to maintain equipment, lack of integrity and repeated incidents of excessive drinking

Migrants and refugees from Syria and Iraq cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija on February 23, 2016. (Robert Atanasovski/AFP)

5 seder supplements to mark the season of social justice

By Gabe Friedman

A bus crash near Haifa in northern Israel injures at least 35 people, April 21, 2016. (United Hatzalah)

Teen hurt in Carmel Tunnel bus crash succumbs to injuries

Driver arrested; dozens more remain hospitalized with various injuries after accident near Haifa

Russian President Vladimir Putin adjusts his jacket before a meeting with the leader of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on March 31, 2016. AFP / POOL / MAXIM SHEMETOV)

Russia denies reports of altercations with Israeli aircraft

Kremlin spokesman calls Israeli media reports of Russian planes intercepting IAF jets on Syrian border ‘far from reality’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 21, 2016 (Courtesy)

Netanyahu hails ‘very successful’ meeting with Putin

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Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

No punishment for London men who shouted ‘kill the Jews,’ threw eggs

By JTA

Frederick Mayer gives his account in a documentary made about his life (YouTube screenshot)

Real ‘Inglorious Bastard’ who parachuted into Nazi territory dies at 94

By JTA

An Orthodox Jewish man seen wearing a knitted kippah as he prays. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Window to the soulWhat a kippa really tells you about its wearer

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Lufthansa pilot updates passengers after their plane to Tel Aviv returned to Munich when an engine failed, April 21, 2016 (Ksenia Svetlova)

Israel-bound Lufthansa flight, with MK on board, turns back after engine failure

Noah Helfstein on the Maker bus (Ronny Tuvia)

Israel gets its first 3D tech bus – courtesy of NY bar-mitzvah boy

By David Shamah

View of the Montreal skyline (CC BY-montroyaler/Flickr)

Montreal mayor pledges to rename street, park honoring Nazi sympathizer

By JTA

Rabbi William Gershon (screen capture: YouTube)

Leading Conservative rabbi quits Dallas shul over ‘sexual identity’ issues

By JTA

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav released for Passover furlough

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 21, 2016 (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewMeeting in Moscow to clear up a misunderstanding

By Adiv Sterman

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