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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 19, 2016

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CIA Director Mike Pompeo. (AFP/ Getty Images North America/Win McNamee)

Trump’s CIA pick Pompeo anticipates ‘rolling back’ the ‘disastrous’ Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Republican hawk has warned that Tehran is ‘intent on destroying America,’ castigated Obama for enabling ayatollahs to ‘expand their power’

Huckabee denies being tapped as Trump’s Israel envoy

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Security adviser pick Flynn a critic of Muslim militancy, culture

By Robert Burns and Stephen Braun

Bannon: We could govern for 50 years

By ToI Staff and AFP

Noel and Frances Yauch, second from left, and former Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz and wife Rachael, with New York City and Brooklyn officials standing by the plaque marking Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn, May 3, 2013. (Daniel Zuchnik/Getty/via JTA)

NY’s Adam Yauch Park vandalized with swastikas, pro-Trump message

By ToI Staff and AP

Police investigating incident at Brooklyn memorial to late Jewish Beastie Boy; graffiti removed short time later

Local students and their supporters march during a walkout protest against US President-elect Donald Trump in Seattle, Washington on November 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Jason Redmond)

Trump’s key staff picks alarm American minorities

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK

Rights activists worry appointments of officials with radical positions could embolden public to lash out at marginalized groups

Political theaterPence confronted by cast at ‘Hamilton’ performance

By Mark Kennedy

Meet the 3 firebrands Donald Trump is naming to national security posts

He's with himKanye stuns crowd with Trump support

By AFP

File: Rabbi Shlomo Amar, January 2013. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jerusalem chief rabbi calls homosexuality an ‘abomination’

Gay rights activist files police complaint against Shlomo Amar for comments during interview in which he also takes aim at Reform Jews

Lior Yisraelov displaying both sides of his character. (JTA/Katya Borodin)

Israel’s favorite drag queen is this former yeshiva boy

By Andrew Tobin

Lior Yisraelov, who grew up in a religious Zionist community in south Tel Aviv, now performs as Suzi Boum — fake eyelashes, blond wig, and glittering clothes included

Students comfort each other at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school where a gunman opened fire killing four people in Toulouse, on March 19, 2012. (AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)

French baby named for killer of 4 Jews at Toulouse school

By JTA

Nice mayor refers case to city prosecutor, saying calling child after Mohammed Merah encourages violence and terrorism

Screenshot of children from the 1936 film 'Mir Kumen On (Children Must Laugh).' (Screenshot courtesy of Lobster Films)

‘Saved’ Yiddish propaganda film is haunting glimpse into lost world of pre-war Polish Jewry

By Jordan Hoffman

1936 documentary ‘Mir Kumen On’ unintentionally portends the horrors that awaited its subjects

A look at the Josephus problem, as seen on YouTube's Numberphile channel (YouTube screenshot)

Life by the numbers

How math may have saved an ancient Jewish historian

In YouTube video, mathematician Daniel Erman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains how to solve the Josephus problem. Your life could depend on it

Michael Chernick

The lost art of arguing Jewishly

On the destructive lack of civil discourse or, as Jewish tradition called it, debate ‘for the sake of heaven’

The Rebbe never blessed LSD trips

A Times of Israel article on Jewish spirituality and drugs failed to address the dangers of taking psychedelics

Turkish Jewish businesswoman Betty, left, and her friend Suzette at a cafe in Istanbul, Nov. 4, 2016. They asked that their last names not be used for security reasons. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In post-coup Turkey, Jews plan their future abroad

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People take part in an anti extreme right rally in reaction to results of parliamentary elections in Bratislava on March 7, 2016. The neo-Nazi People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) led by Marian Kotleba gained 8 percent of the votes. (AFP / VLADIMIR SIMICEK)

Slovakia comes to terms with proudly neo-Nazi party

By Karel Janicek

People’s Party, which holds almost 10% of seats in Parliament, openly admires country’s puppet state during WWII

The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp, on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Around Auschwitz, Holocaust items rescued from oblivion

By Maja Czarnecka

Poles dedicated to preserving history are finding and saving thousands of artifacts that originated in Nazi death camp

Stephen Bannon watches as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump addresses the final rally of his 2016 presidential campaign at Devos Place in Grand Rapids, Michigan on November 7, 2016. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Conservative movement demands Trump rescind Bannon appointment

By Eric Cortellessa

Second largest denomination of American Jews ‘compelled not to remain silent in the face of hate or the vilification of any group’

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on the extent of the radicalization of American Muslims on March 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Rep. Keith Elllison’s Jewish defenders rally after attacks from pro-Israel right

By JTA

Muslim congressman running for DNC chairmanship has been accused of anti-Israeli sentiments, but has backing of key politicians

Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. speaks to media at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

AJC: Let Sessions go through confirmation process and see what happens

After opposing his nomination as federal judge 30 years ago, American Jewish Committee says Senate should vet him again for attorney general

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi listens to US Secretary of State John Kerry during a meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo on May 18, 2016. (Amr Nabil/Pool/AFP)

Egyptian president: Don’t ‘jump to conclusions’ on Trump

By AP and AFP

Sissi says campaign rhetoric is in the past, believes president-elect ‘will be more rigorously engaged with the issues of the region’

A member of the Syrian civil defense, known as the White Helmets, takes shelter in the basement of an old building during shelling in Aleppo's rebel-held neighborhood of Bab al-Nayrab on November 19, 2016. (AFP/Karam Al-Masri)

Hospitals hit, schools shut, dozens killed as Syria regime pounds Aleppo

By Karam al-Masri

Assad’s army resumes push to oust rebels from eastern city, aiming to make gains before Trump sworn in

A wounded Syrian boy lies on a table in a crowded makeshift hospital in eastern Aleppo as regime aircraft and artillery pounded neighbourhoods in the rebel-held sector of Syria's second city on November 18, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED)

Hospital workers rush to evacuate infants in Aleppo bombing

By Sarah El Deeb

Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai in 2015 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

After Gazan killed in border clash, Israel warns against unrest

Defense official says Palestinians attempting to cross into Israel are risking their lives

Indigenous activist Ryan Bellerose in the Negev Desert (courtesy)

Indigenous activist is new ‘face’ of B’nai Brith Canada

By Hillel Kuttler

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Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi sings the Muslim call to prayer on the podium of the Knesset on November 14, 2016, to protest proposed legislation that would silence the call to prayer in early mornings (Joint List)

Israeli Arabs march against bill to muffle call to prayer

By ToI Staff and AFP

Jon Stewart talks to CBS in an interview aired on November 17, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Don’t stereotype Trump voters, Jon Stewart warns liberals

By JTA

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo speaks after receiving the Green Diplomat of the Year Award during the fifth annual Diplomat of the Year Awards Dinner hosted by Foreign Policy November 17, 2016 at the W Hotel in Washington, DC. (AFP/Zach Gibson)

France’s Le Pen, Trump are ‘identical phenomena’: Paris mayor

By AFP

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned anti-Semitic acts that took place in Canada following Donald Trump's election in the US. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Canada PM condemns anti-Semitic vandalism in Ottawa

By JTA

Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish attends the Israeli 67th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Far-right activist threatens Arab TV presenter who preaches coexistence

Jewish Museum of Vilnius (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)

Lithuanian Jews go to war with Chabad rabbi and his followers

By JTA

An Israeli couple sits at the Tel Aviv port boardwalk on November 15, 2014. (Danielle Shitrit/Flash90)

False terror alarm leads crowds to flee Tel Aviv port

Three police officers stand guard at the Meiser neighborhood in Schaarbeek on March 25, 2016 during an anti-terrorist operation searching for suspects of March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels. (AFP/Belga/Laurie Dieffembacq)

Dutch expert: Islamic State has 60-80 operatives in Europe

By Edith M. Lederer

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

AnalysisAbbas ally: French peace summit will go forward, with or without Israel

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Cryogenics (iStock)

Cryogenic comfortUK cancer girl gets wish to be frozen after death

By Gregory Katz

A dress worn by Marilyn Monroe when she was serenading John F. Kennedy has broken a record at a Los Anegels auction, selling for $4.8 million. (Getty Images/AFP)

Hot CoutureMarilyn Monroe’s JFK birthday gown sells for record price

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