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What Matters Most On Tuesday, May 17, 2016

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France's President Francois Hollande speaks during a morning radio show on France's Europe 1 station in Paris, May 17, 2016. (AFP/Miguel Medina/Pool)

Paris Mideast summit postponed over Kerry scheduling clash

By AFP and Raoul Wootliff

President Hollande says conference opposed by Israel will take place ‘in the summer’; embassy says France ‘looking for a new date’

Netanyahu’s office denies Abbas offered secret talks

By JTA and Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisNetanyahu keeps calling for talks with Abbas. Is he serious?

Palestinians welcome French peace initiative

By Tamar Pileggi and Agencies

Firefighters at the scene of a chemical spill at Pisgat Ze'ev neighborhood of Jerusalem on May 17, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Herzog said planning Cairo trip to discuss peace process

Move comes as Zionist Union leader tries to convince reluctant party MKs to enter coalition

Palestinian women try to cross through the Qalandiya checkpoint on their way for Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque, June 26, 2015. (Flash90)

At Israel’s most infamous crossing, even a good day can be bad

By Dov Lieber and Luke Tress

The Qalandiya checkpoint, where thousands of Palestinians travel into Jerusalem daily, is a web of bureaucracy where accountability falls through the cracks

Israeli security forces at the main entrance of the Qalandiya checkpoint, a key crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Border Police vehicle hit in West Bank shooting attack

By Raoul Wootliff

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies conference co-chair Phyllis Grossman at a Jewish cemetery in Osova Ukraine, 2015 (Sergiy Omelchukl)

Who’s your daddy? Conference traces Jewish DNA back to Holy Land

By Janis Siegel

Founders of this year’s IAJGS forum in Seattle, WA, promise even newcomers will geek out about discovering their genetic history

Evangelical Christians from around the world sing and recite prayers at the Jerusalem Chairman's Conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, September 22, 2013. (Flash90)

Israeli doctors watch epileptic’s brain while he ‘sees God’

By Raoul Wootliff

During treatment at Hadassah Hospital, patient has a spontaneous religious experience, claims to converse with the Lord

That sinking feeling on the Iran deal

Latest developments prove the nuclear agreement was folly; its supporters voted for it on loyalty not conscience

Talli Rosenbaum

‘Trans’formation in a world gone mad

Ponder the halachic issues of transgender people if you must, but accept their presence and validate their experiences

Cuba: A country of paradoxes

He walked freely through the streets of Havana wearing a kippah — and he couldn’t wait to get out of there

Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is founder, spiritual leader and executive director of Lab/Shul in New York City. (Courtesy)

Interview

With eye on Jewish continuity, maverick spiritual leader goes mainstream

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah carry a portrait of Mustafa Badreddine in Beirut on May 13, 2016. (AFP/Anwar Amro)

Slain Hezbollah commander said to be succeeded by reclusive nephew

Saudi paper says Mustafa Mughniyeh, son of Imad Mughniyeh, has been tapped as group’s new military commander

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog hobbles toward unity government despite public opposition

By Raoul Wootliff

In the face of lackluster support for a unity deal, opposition leader says ‘the public does not yet know what is being talked about’

Salvadoran diplomat Jose Arturo Castellanos, who saved tens of thousands of European Jews during the Holocaust by issuing them false El Salvadoran identity papers. (YouTube screen capture)

Salvadoran savior of tens of thousands of Jews honored in Germany

By JTA

At least 25,000 were rescued from Nazi hands by diplomat Jose Arturo Castellanos’s false citizenship papers

Bangladeshi security personnel escort Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) joint secretary general Aslam Chowdhury, center, to court following his arrest in Dhaka on May 16, 2016. (STR/AFP)

Bangladesh opposition official arrested over Israel meeting

By AFP

Nationalist Party’s Aslam Chowdhury denies he plotted ‘conspiracies against the government’

French philosopher and writer Bernard-Henri Levy in Paris, January 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Joel Saget)

Jewish thinker Bernard-Henri Levy goes to war against IS

By Fiachra GIBBONS

French philosopher’s late Cannes film festival entry provides a ‘close-up look’ at the Kurds’ battle against Islamic State in Iraq

Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)

Hebrew U, Smithsonian launch Einstein project to make science accessible

By JTA

Initiative marks centennial of the famed Jewish scientist’s publication of the theory of general relativity

A United Methodist Church in Pennsylvania. CC BY-SA Brad Clinesmith, Flickr)

Methodist church meeting votes down BDS resolutions

By Tamar Pileggi

Proposals urging Protestant denomination to adopt divestment measures over Israel’s treatment of Palestinians ‘went down in flames,’ delegate to UMC confab says

The Detroit skyline. (Andrea_44/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Detroit Jews ask: Are settlement boycotts the same as BDS?

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The historic Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, 2005 (AP/Joe Giblin)

Oldest US synagogue to remain in hands of congregants

By Michelle R. Smith

In this Tuesday, May 10, 2016 photo, Mohammed Al-Hissi, 25, who won a scholarship for a Master's program in physics at the University of Triesta in Italy, poses for a photo at his family home in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UNPUBLISHED Gazans say Jordan is refusing to allow them passage

A guest poses for pictures as he arrives for the world premiere of the film 'Brexit: the Movie' in London's Leicester Square, on May 11, 2016. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

‘Leave Hitler out of it:’ UK’s EU vote debate turns shrill

By Katherine HADDON

File: Czech President Milos Zeman, right, and his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin put stones on the memorial during a remembrance ceremony for the victims at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, October 22, 2015. (AFP/Michal Cizek)

Czech Jews call Terezin memorial addresses nationalist, xenophobic

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Channel 2 as Zionist Union head Isaac Herzog sits in the studio, March 14, 2015 (Channel 2 News)

Hebrew media reviewCoalition of the unwilling

By Ilan Ben Zion

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