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What Matters Most On Friday, June 17, 2016

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Ehud Barak speaks at the Herzliya Conference, June 16, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek)

Barak flogs Netanyahu, laments ‘budding fascism’ in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Former PM accuses premier of lying about his desire for Palestinian statehood, cheapening the Holocaust by ‘Hitlerizing’ every threat

Netanyahu fires back at Ya’alon’s ‘unimportant attack’

Ex-IDF chiefs, former minister set up new ‘cultural’ movement

Ya’alon slams Netanyahu, says he’ll run for PM in next election

By Judah Ari Gross

People lay floral tributes to slain Labour MP Jo Cox, at the base of a statue to Joseph Priestley in Birstall, northern England, on June 17, 2016, near to the scene where she was shot yesterday. (AFP PHOTO / OLI SCARFF)

Stunned Britain puts EU vote campaign on hold after MP murder

By AFP and JTA

Jo Cox’s death widely condemned; Jewish community offers condolences after Labour Party lawmaker’s ‘senseless’ killing

Murdered British Labour Member of Parliament Jo Cox (Yui Mok/PA via AP)

US group: Alleged killer of British MP was neo-Nazi supporter

By AFP and JTA

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning, arrives at a courtroom in Detmold, Germany, Saturday June 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Germany jails ex-Auschwitz guard, 94, for five years

By David Rising

Reinhold Hanning found guilty on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder; volunteered for SS at 18; was at camp from 1942-4, claimed he wasn’t involved in killings

Hermann Goering speaking with a foreign journalist in his private garden in Augsburg, Germany, May 13, 1945. (JTA/Getty Images)

German Jews slam ‘disgusting’ auction of Goering’s underpants

By AFP

Sanusey, a Gambian four-year-old who underwent life-saving heart surgery in Israel (Stella Shalhevet / Save a Child's Heart)

Heartwarming

Sanusey, 4, is 4,000th helped by Save a Child’s Heart

Israeli charity helps bring children suffering heart ailments for treatments not available in their home countries

In 'Bacon & God’s Wrath,' an elderly Jewish woman named Razie Brownstone discusses her intention to end her lifelong observance of the dietary laws of kashrut on her upcoming 90th birthday. (screen capture: The Scene via JTA)

Prayer to pork chops

How Google turned a Jewish bubbe onto bacon

By Gabe Friedman

In short documentary, Razie Brownstone shares intention to end her lifelong observance of the laws of kashrut on her upcoming 90th birthday

The Australian-made Blundstone boot; a simple ankle boot that's become a legendary piece of Israeli footwear (Courtesy Blundstone)

How an Australian boot became Israel’s go-to shoe

By Jessica Steinberg

The story of Blundstone and its second-largest market, a small country in the Middle East

An immigrant’s tale

How to label her post-IDF self, traveling the world as a new Israeli not quite able to shake her New York roots

Shammai Engelmayer

Orlando is not the story; gun violence is

How the right to bear arms squares with strict Jewish safety laws about anything that can inherently cause death

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The missing judges of Israel

Fill the religious court vacancies with justices who will order get-refusers to give a get and sanction all who don’t

Joshua Hammerman

A filibuster of the soul

Political activism is a direct extension of the chaotic way Jews pray, with heart, mind, conscience, and dancing feet

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) and his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, during a meeting on February 2, 2016, in Tehran. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Germany hosts Iran FM, belying vow not to normalize ties

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Minister Steinmeier extends warm welcome to Zarif, expresses eagerness to renew ‘entire range’ of bilateral relations

In this Sunday, March 2, 2008 photo, two passenger planes of Iran's national air carrier, Iran Air, are parked at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran Air cleared to resume flights to Europe

US House okays funding boost for Israel’s missile defense

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Under the shadow of a presidential veto, over $600 million allocated for programs; pro-Israel groups criticize White House for opposing spending increase

US President Barack Obama hugs Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs upon the president's arrival at Orlando International Airport, June 16, 2016, in Orlando, Florida. (Stephen M. Dowell/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

In Orlando, Obama says military action won’t stop ‘lone wolves’

By Josh Lederman and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

As debates about terrorism, gun violence and homophobia roil Washington, US president visits survivors, grieving families in Florida

Foreign Service Officer Robert Silverman (second from right) spent many of his 27 years with the service abroad in hot spots such as Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (Courtesy)

With uptick in hate crime, AJC appoints a Jewish ambassador to the Muslim world

By Cathryn J. Prince

Veteran US Foreign Service Officer Robert Silverman to act as a bridge between two cultures with much in common, and much dividing them

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog addresses the Herzliya Conference on Thursday, June 16, 2016. (Courtesy)

Herzog likens Israel’s leaders to SpongeBob, Batman and Popeye

Opposition chief says cabinet members are all talk, no action; Livni urges referendum on annexation or partition of territories

Chef Alon Shaya (left), proprietor of Shaya Restaurant, fist-pumps a customer who complimented him at his restaurant in New Orleans, May 31, 2016. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Hummus in land of gumbo: Israeli restaurant is standout in NOLA

By Rebecca Santana

Fire damage to a home in the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood of Jerusalem caused by a petrol bomb on June 17, 2016. (Israel Police)

Firebombs damage home in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv

Police increase security around city, search for perpetrators, set up roadblock in neighboring Jabel Mukaber

An IDF soldier loading his weapon before he appears to shoot an disarmed, wounded Palestinian assailant in the head following a stabbing attack in Hebron on March 24, 2016. (Screen capture: B'Tselem)

Hebron soldier said shooter ‘had to die,’ his commander says

By Raoul Wootliff

Pathologist tells court wounded Palestinian stabber would likely have survived had Elor Azaria not shot him in the head

Police escort Yosef Ben David (in green), one of the Jewish suspects in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, in the Jerusalem District Court on June 8, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Defense Ministry: No need to demolish homes of Abu Khdeir killers

Legal adviser says Jewish terror infrequent, does not require deterrent against future attacks; father of slain teen to take case to Supreme Court

Yishai Schlissel, center, is led out of the courtroom at the Jerusalem District Court, April 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State seeks life plus 60 years for gay pride stabber

By Tamar Pileggi

Yishai Schlissel was convicted of murdering 16-year-old Shira Banki at last year’s Jerusalem parade

Iraqi counterterrorism forces load a Humvee with rockets to take to a front line position in their fight to oust Islamic State fighters from Fallujah, Iraq, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Iraqi troops retake Fallujah government compound from Islamic State

By AFP

Advance on city west of Baghdad captures key landmark, after over two years under jihadist group’s control

Lime Ricki, based in Utah, sells swimwear that is fun, fashionable and covered-up, such as these colorful rash guards (Courtesy of Lime Ricki)

Who says you’ve got to flaunt it? Introducing covered-up chic

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of Jewish men inside a synagogue in Kiev (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Prayer powerPeople who attend religious services live longer

By Gabe Friedman

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men yell and protest the Reform and Conservative Jewish men and women as they hold a prayer service in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on June 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle with progressives over Western Wall prayer

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative. EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC taking off from Vienna International Airport, Austria, on August 21, 2015. (AP/Thomas Ranner, File)

Egypt says flight data recorder of doomed jet retrieved

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference outside his campaign headquarters in Washington, DC, June 14, 2016. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Sanders says he will work with Clinton, but doesn’t exit race

Irving Moskowitz speaking at Beit Orot, November 2011. (CC BY-SA Mazel 123, Wikimedia Commons)

Irving Moskowitz, US pro-settlement philanthropist, dies at 88

By JTA

Rehearsing for the Acre Opera Festival 2016, among the Crusader-era arches of the ancient city (Courtesy Yoav Pili)

Acre's 'Abduction'A Turkish-tinged opera comes to Acre

By Jessica Steinberg

Hanin Zoabi of the Joint List party in the Knesset on December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK set to take part in new Gaza flotilla

This photo taken on April 28, 2016 shows a Coptic Egyptian pilgrim (L) checking his new tattoo depicting Jesus Christ crucified on a cross, done by Christian Palestinian tattoo artist Walid Ayash (R) at his studio, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

For Bethlehem tattoo artist, religion is more than skin deep

By Sarah Benhaida

Rachel Weisz stars as historian Deborah Lipstadt in the film 'Denial' (YouTube screenshot)

Courtroom dramaFirst trailer released of film tackling Holocaust denial

By Gabe Friedman

Gilad Erdan, in a pink tie, upon taking office. Far right is the outgoing minister, Avi Dichter, along with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, blue tie, and Ehud Barak (photo credit: Defense Ministry/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewAh! The generals!

By Ilan Ben Zion

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