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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 23, 2016

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President-elect Donald Trump in a video posted online, November 21, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Trump condemns, ‘disavows’ alt-right, defends Bannon

In New York Times meeting, president-elect insists his controversial chief strategist ‘treated very unfairly’

DC eatery sorry for inadvertently hosting alt-right party, to donate money to ADL

The US alt-right: angry, white and nuts about Trump

By Jeremy Tordjman

CNN apologizes for banner questioning ‘whether Jews are people’

By JTA

In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Trump taps pro-Israel South Carolina governor to be UN envoy

By AP and ToI Staff

Nikki Haley last year signed legislation that bans boycott of Jewish state; appointment makes her first woman in top post in new administration

A picture taken on November 23, 2016 shows a 3,800-year-old jug from the Middle Bronze Age, featuring a human sculpture, displayed at the Israel Antiquities Authority lab in Jerusalem after it was unearthed during an archaeological excavation ahead of the construction of new buildings in Yehud. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Clay figurine is Bronze Age ancestor of Rodin’s ‘Thinker’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Archaeologist who unearthed 3,800-year-old ceramic statue in Yehud says nothing like it has ever been discovered

Les Republicains party presidential primary contender and former French prime minister Francois Fillon on November 20, 2016 in Paris. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Samson)

Live updates (closed)

French presidential candidate’s claim about Jews ‘a misunderstanding’

A-G orders probe into Netanyahu-linked naval purchases affair; IDF chief rabbi-designate: ‘I never wrote, said or thought soldiers can rape’

A Trump supporter with a flag, left, counter protests as a small group outside the courthouse protests in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, Friday, November 11, 2016, in Fort Worth, Texas. (Brandon Wade/Star-Telegram via AP)

Trump stirs a war of words among Jewish academics

By Cathryn J. Prince

While some hear echoes of the 1930s, others believe this poisonous era more closely resembles that of popular, but scandalous, Warren G. Harding

From ADL to ZOA: Two events showcase diverging Jewish rhetoric under Trump

Trump’s Jewish son-in-law says president-elect won’t tolerate hate

By Eric Cortellessa

NY immigration museum sees ‘unprecedented’ rise in anti-immigrant comments

By JTA

Cyber researchers at Ben Gurion University have developed malware to prove that headphones and earphones can be ‘re-purposed‘ to enable snoops to record your private conversations, November 23, 2016. YouTube screenshot)

Israeli researchers: Snoops can hack your headphones to record conversations

Ben Gurion University team reveals software glitch that allows headsets to be ‘re-purposed‘ as microphones

Fire fighters work to put out a forest fire near Zichron Yaakov on November 22, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin /Flash90)

Brush fire forces evacuation of Jerusalem-area village

Authorities say high winds, dry conditions exacerbating blazes across the country; minister mulling requesting international assistance

Fire fighters work to put out a forest fire near Zichron Yaakov on November 22, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin /Flash90)

Fires rage in Zichron Yaakov, Jerusalem-area village Nataf

Firefighters try to extinguish a forest fire near Zichron Yaakov on November 22, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Police chief warns of more fires in days ahead

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

What not to say to domestic abuse victims

She interviewed women who survived abusive relationships and learned just how devastating the wrong words can be

The immigrants’ generation clash

The media reports right-leaning of Jews from the former USSR, but misses the community divide of kids vs. parents

Ruth Ellen Gruber

One Ruth Gruber says goodbye to another

She shared a name and much more with the trailblazing photojournalist who recently died at age 105

The joys and perils of Jewish centrism

Are those who reject the extremes of both right and left and insist on nuance in policy an endangered species?

Israeli security forces evacuate shocked passer byers from the scene of a stabbing attack by the Mahane Yehuda market in central Jerusalem, November 23, 2015. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teenage ‘scissor’ terrorist jailed for 13 years

Palestinian girl, now 17, stabbed elderly Arab man, thinking he was a Jew, in 2015 Jerusalem attack; younger cousin and accomplice killed at scene

Donald Trump shakes hands with son-in-law Jared Kushner during an election night party at a hotel in New York on November 9, 2016. (AFP / MANDEL NGAN)

Trump suggests son-in-law Kushner could help broker peace

By AFP, ToI Staff and JTA

In meeting with New York Times staff, president-elect says he would ‘love’ to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his personal lawyer David Shimron, left. (Flash90)

Email emerges allegedly showing PM’s lawyer intervening in submarine deal

Channel 10 says it has written ‘proof’ David Shimron lobbied Defense Ministry for German shipbuilder

David Shimron in Tel Aviv on February 17, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Report: PM’s lawyer spoke to government figures on behalf of German firm

By Alexander Fulbright

This photo taken on June 18, 2016 shows flowers and tributes laid in remembrance against a photograph of slain Labour MP Jo Cox in Parliament Square, central London, June 18, 2016. (AFP Photo/Ben Stansall)

Far-right extremist jailed for life for murdering British MP Jo Cox

Jury convicts Thomas Mair of killing Labour lawmaker a week before Britain’s EU membership referendum in June

French comedian Rémi Gaillard (Yves Tennevin/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0/via JTA)

In France, a fundraiser for pets ended up unleashing rabid anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hatred seething just beneath the surface of French society is no joke as comedian tweets about violating Ilan Halimi, ostensibly in support of Rémi Gaillard

Les Republicains party presidential primary contender and former French prime minister Francois Fillon on November 20, 2016 in Paris. (AFP Photo/Pool/Thomas Samson)

French presidential candidate: It took time for Jews to respect our laws

By JTA

A police officer stands in front of a makeshift partition erected ahead of an Orthodox prayer service at the mixed gender Western Wall plaza on June 14, 2016. screen capture: Facebook)

Archaeologists say pluralistic Western Wall prayer area harms historical site

By Ilan Ben Zion

In Knesset debate, experts say a platform built for prayer hampers efforts to conserve holy spot; all the more so an enlarged egalitarian space

Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota, speaks during the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Analysis

If Keith Ellison heads DNC, he may usher in a more critical Democratic position on Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Minnesota lawmaker hailing from party’s progressive wing and backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders is much warier of Israel than past Dem leaders

From left to right: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tx.), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Benjamin Netanyahu at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, March 3, 2015. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish groups fret as Republicans retreat from two-state solution

Leading organizations including AJC, ADL, and AIPAC concerned over growing partisan divide in US on Israel

The INS Rahav, a Dolphin class made by German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, sets off from the German port of Kiel toward Haifa, December 17, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Former US defense official calls on Trump to halt Israel’s sub program

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Dov Zakheim says controversial plan to acquire new submarines from Germany comes at US taxpayers’ expense

Israeli musicians perform at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem in a somber tribute to the works of musicians who created a vibrant cultural life in the Terezin concentration camp before being sent to their deaths. Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live music plays at Yad Vashem for first time, in tribute to Terezin musicians

Trio stands upon replicas of train tracks, against a backdrop of Nazi flags and images of emaciated prisoners, showcasing pieces composed by camp prisoners

Iran's deputy UN ambassador Gholam Hossein Dehghani (YouTube screen capture)

Iran denies Israeli claim it’s shipping arms to Hezbollah

By Alexander Fulbright

Islamic Republic’s deputy UN ambassador blasts ‘baseless’ allegations made Tuesday, says Israel a terrorist state

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei warns of ‘definite’ response if US renews Iran sanctions

By ToI Staff and AP

Supreme leader says extending decade-old embargo is breach of nuclear deal, accuses Washington of ‘various violations’ of 2015 accord

Illustrative photo of Orthodox Jews walking on a street in Jerusalem during Shabbat. (Corinna Kern/Flash 90)

Jerusalem cafés to ‘open for Shabbat,’ but not for business

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Seth Conrad Rich, 27, a Jewish staffer at the Democratic National Committee, was shot and killed on July 10, 2016, in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, DC. (LinkedIn screenshot)

Parents of murdered Jewish DNC staffer turn to public for help

By JTA

A man shows a handwritten poem by Anne Frank, written shortly before she went into hiding from the Nazis, at the auction Bubb Kuyper in Haarlem on November 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Koen Suyk / Netherlands)

Rare Anne Frank poem fetches €140,000 at Dutch auction

By AFP

An Israeli flag waves in front of the minaret of a mosque in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Lawmakers revive bid to muffle Muslim call to prayer

By AFP and ToI Staff

Trevor Noah poses for a portrait at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, July 29, 2015. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

Jewish mama's boyWhy ‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah had a bar mitzvah

By Josefin Dolsten

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event, Saturday, April 2, 2016, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Computer scientists call for recount in swing states

IAI's new Collision Warning System helps alert combat pilots to collisions with civilian planes (Courtesy)

Israel Aerospace unveils military anti-collision jet system

By Shoshanna Solomon

Launch of InsurTech competition in Tel Aviv (Courtesy: Dror Sithakol)

New competition to boost Israel insurance tech scene

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits under a portrait of the first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion as he speaks during a special cabinet meeting at the Sde Boker academy to mark 40 years since Ben-Gurion's death, November 10, 2013. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/POOL/Flash90)

Bibi beats B-GPM breaks record for consecutive days in office

By JTA

Ruined Arab building within JNF forest in Bayt Nattif (CC BY-SA Davidbena, Wikipedia)

Son of ‘righteous gentile’ wants name off West Bank memorial

By JTA

A 270-year-old Hanukkah lamp sold in the Netherlands in November, 2016, which belonged to the family of a Dutch Jewish resistance fighter killed by the Nazis (Courtesy)

In Holland, 270-year-old menorah sells for record $440k

By JTA

File: Members of the Arab Joint List at the Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran on November 22, 2016. (Courtesy Joint List spokesperson)

Court rejects plea to delay demolition of Bedouin village

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox IDF soldiers at the Peles Military Base in the Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox man wanted in attack on soldier nabbed trying to flee country

By Tamar Pileggi

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