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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 12, 2016

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Omar Mateen, 30, from Port St. Lucie, Florida, the gunman in a mass shooting attack that killed 50 at an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12, 2016

Mass shooting is being investigated as an act of terrorism

Shooter in Orlando gay club named as US citizen of Afghan descent

By AP and ToI Staff

Omar Mateen, 30, of Port St-Lucie, kills 50, dies in firefight with police; FBI says he may have had links to Islamic terror

Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Sunday, June 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

At least 20 dead in shooting at Orlando gay club

By AP

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Friday, June 10, 2016. (Cliff Owen/AP)

At GOP summit, HP president compares Trump to Mussolini, Hitler

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican party candidate promoting dangerous ‘trickle-down racism,’ former nominee Romney says at meeting of donors

Romney not the only one who may vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump slams GOP hold-outs, targets ‘sad case’ Romney

By Jonathan Lemire and SERGIO BUSTOS

In Sanders’ hometown, people proud of his mark on campaign

Ofri Hefetz-Grady recalls her encounter with one of the June 8, 2016, Tel Aviv terrorists, who she took into her apartment (Channel 10 screenshot)

Cop’s wife explains why family sheltered ‘shaking’ Tel Aviv terrorist

Ofri Hefetz-Grady says her husband only realized who they had taken in when he saw the second gunman wearing an identical outfit

On Shavuot, security forces on high alert throughout Israel

Likud says ‘left has gone off rails’ after MP blames PM for terror

By Itamar Sharon

On eve of Tel Aviv terror attack, Hamas called Ramadan ‘month of jihad’

Mel Gibson, right, directs Jim Caviezel on the set of Gibson's movie 'The Passion of The Christ' in 2003 (AP/Icon Productions, File)

Mel Gibson said planning sequel to ‘Passion of the Christ’

Screenwriter says follow-up will focus on Jesus’s resurrection, has strong support from ‘evangelical community’

Just inside the gate to the Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Inside Jaffa Gate, remembering the Caliph who revered the Temple Mount

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

When Omar iben Al-Khatab visited Jerusalem soon after the Muslim conquest in 638, he was furious to find Judaism’s holiest site covered in trash

Joshua Hammerman

(((Pride and Prejudice)))

Jewishness is bound as a sign on foreheads, doorposts, male bodies and, now, on Twitter — and there’s no shame in it

Tamar Z. Kahane

Not only at simchas

When we avoid acknowledging negative emotions, we disable ourselves and the people we love most

Alejandro Bautista from Las Lomas Bakery was able to reproduce the 'pan de siete cielos.' From Puebla, the baker said that the bread reminded him of the symbolic Mexican breads introduced by Spanish conquistadors. (Ronit Treatman/Times of Israel)

From Spain to Salonika, a disappearing Shavuot tradition revisited

By Ronit Treatman

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, shakes hands with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas before their meeting in Athens, December 21, 2015. (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

Greece will soon recognize Palestinian state, ruling party says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Delegation of Syriza officials make pledge in meeting with politicians in Ramallah, but offer no time frame

Clockwise from top left: Conversos y Tacos; New York on Rye Deli Truck; Taim Mobile; Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed Food Truck. (Facebook)

Nosh on the go

The 9 best Jewish food trucks in the US

By Gabe Friedman

An injured English supporter is helped by a rescue team after a street brawl ahead of the England-Russia Euro 2016 soccer match om Marseille on June 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JEAN CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET)

Violence mars England’s 1-1 draw with Russia at Euro 2016

By AP and AFP

Russian fans storm English supporters at close of game, after day-long clashes in Marseille leave one Brit in critical condition

View of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 29, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police remove 2 Jewish visitors from Temple Mount

Four Muslims arrested on suspicion of public disturbance as over 1,000 people visit contested holy site on Shavuot holiday

As seen from the New Jersey Turnpike, smoke billows from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City after airplanes crashed into both towers, September 11, 2001. (JTA/AP/Gene Boyars)

CIA chief says secret 9/11 report not evidence of Saudi complicity

By AFP

John Brennan says 28-pages contain ‘very preliminary review’ of evidence from Al-Qaeda attack on US, and Riyadh has since become key counterterrorism partner

File: A police guard stands near the entrance to the village of Issawiyah on September 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman, child attacked in Jerusalem’s French Hill

Arab suspect arrested at checkpoint, taken in for questioning

Cheesecake sweetens the Shavuot holiday and is great for entertaining or just for having around the house. (Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Recipe

Have your cheesecake (five ways!) and eat it too

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A view of the Dead Sea from Masada (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

83-year-old man drowns in Dead Sea

Ultra-Orthodox school girls (illustrative photo; credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Peddling threatJ’lem rabbi bans bikes for girls over ‘modesty violations’

Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2015. In Mecca, the holy site all the world’s Muslims pray toward, the annual hajj pilgrimage began Tuesday with over 2 million faithful gathering to call out in Arabic: "Here I am, God, answering your call. Here I am." (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

From the webMecca goes mega

This undated handout image, provided by Dr. Christopher A. Tuttle, executive director of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, shows him standing at the southwest corner of the interior, smaller platform, looking north, in Petra, Jordan. (Council of American Overseas Research Centers/ Q. Tweissi via AP)

Archaeologist points to hidden monument in Jordan’s Petra

A 'No To Brexit' sign is pictured on the outskirts of Newry in Northern Ireland on June 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Paul Faith)

Brexit ‘disastrous’ for EU global role, analysts warn

By AFP

Il Giornale newspaper is seen on sale in a newsstand with Hitler's 'Mein Kampf,' in Rome Saturday, June 11, 2016. (AP/Fabio Frustaci)

Shock as Italian daily offers readers free ‘Mein Kampf’ copy

By AFP

An original railway carriage stands at the Judenrampe platform at Auschwitz (Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons)

Germany seeks to prosecute ex-SS Auschwitz radio operator, 92

By Tamar Pileggi

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini greets followers in Iran in an undated photograph. (Wikimedia/public domain)

Iran furious over report Khomeini engaged with US ahead of revolution

Dubai International Airport, United Arab Emirates (Konstantin von Wedelstaedt GFDL 1.2 via Wikimedia Commons)

Delayed by droneDrone forces closure of Dubai airport

By AFP

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