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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 28, 2017

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An Iranian woman walks past a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 9, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

After Trump orders entry ban, airlines bar Iranians from US-bound flights

By AFP

Tehran travel agencies instructed by 3 airlines not to sell tickets or allow Iran nationals holding American visas to board planes

Trump bans Syrian refugees, halts entrance from 7 Muslim countries

US suspends immigration program helping non-Muslim Iranians

By George Jahn and Alicia A. Caldwell

Trump’s executive order on refugees, immigration: What does it mean?

By Alicia A. Caldwell

New US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, arrives to meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the United Nations on January 27, 2017 in New York. (Bryan R. Smith/AFP)

Trump’s new UN envoy: ‘For those who don’t have our backs, we’re taking names’

By Carole LANDRY

In debut appearance at UN HQ, Nikki Haley vows to ‘show US strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies’

Meet the Jews in the Trump administration

By Josefin Dolsten

AnalysisAs president, Trump less gung-ho about dramatic changes in Israel policy

Pentagon chief orders review of F-35 fighter program

By Laurent Barthelemy

A police investigator takes photographs at the scene of a murder of a woman and three children in the northern town of Migdal on January 28, 2017 (Israel Police)

Woman, 3 children found stabbed to death in northern home

Victim’s husband arrested for killing his own family, young neighbor; boy, 11, also found with stab wounds, in moderate condition

Jared Kushner and Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi at the Harvard Chabad New York Alumni Reception, June 2013. (Harvard Chabad)

Jared Kushner’s college rabbi recalls a snow-shoveling student mega-donor

When at Harvard, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser attended services and Shabbat dinner at Chabad house, performed workaday tasks, gave generously, and was ‘like a part of the family’ for Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi

US President Donald Trump speaks to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at the annual policy retreat in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump’s Holocaust day statement fails to mention Jews or anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa

President vows to ensure ‘the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good’; ADL chief calls absence of specific Jewish reference ‘puzzling and troubling’

Members of the Likud party attend to the "Likudiada", a gathering of Likud party members and supporters in the southern Israeli city of Eilat, on January 27, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Lapid slams Likud party over Holocaust memorial day antics

‘If (Menachem) Begin was alive, he would never have allowed this to happen,’ says Yesh Atid party leader, the son of a survivor

Herzog tells PM to resign, it’s the ‘patriotic’ thing to do

By Tamar Pileggi

PM denies latest leaks from graft probe as ‘lies and exaggerations’

Milchan said to confirm he supplied Netanyahus with costly gifts for years

US President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to movie director Steven Spielberg at the White House, Washington, DC, November 24, 2015. (AFP/NICHOLAS KAMM)

How Steven Spielberg grew a social conscience

By JP O’ Malley

In her new biography on the iconic director, Molly Haskell traces the filmmaker’s life in Hollywood as an ‘old-fashioned humanist’

Freedom of thought on trial in France

A French historian is on trial for incitement for saying anti-Semitism has deep roots among Maghrebi immigrants

Micah Lakin Avni

Zuckerberg vs. Trump in 2020

In an election, the Facebook founder would have unlimited influence on Americans’ perception of reality

Israel Cannabis: Under the Hood

As Israel moves to decriminalize marijuana, Israeli industry will stay focused on the plant’s medical uses

People watch ceremonies marking the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, January 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

On Holocaust remembrance day, warnings of rising xenophobia

By Vanessa Gera

UN secretary-general laments ‘tragedy’ of ongoing anti-Semitism, vows to be on ‘front lines’ of fight against hatred; German FM: ‘There can and should be no end to remembrance’

A truck drives near the Mexico-US border fence, on the Mexican side, separating the towns of Anapra, Mexico and Sunland Park, New Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP/Christian Torres)

Berlin mayor to Trump: ‘Don’t build this wall!’

By AFP

Michael Mueller compares wall that cut his city in half until 1990 and barrier US plans to build along Mexican border

President-elect Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos after their November 18, 2016 meeting at Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Drew Angerer)

With Betsy DeVos pushing school choice, Ohio Jewish schools sing its praises

Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. (Mike Diamond Photography)

Conservative movement proposes allowing non-Jews as synagogue members

Congregations to vote in March on measure aimed to address issue of rising number of interfaith families

Syrian refugees walk on their way back to the Syrian city of Jarabulus on September 7, 2016 at Karkamis crossing gate, in the southern region of Kilis, Turkey. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Former Soviet Jews protest Trump’s refugee ban

By JTA

‘US must not turn our backs on the human beings fleeing violence and persecution like our families did when we left the FSU’

US actress and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie talking to a young Syrian refugee on February 23, 2014 at a refugee camp near the Lebanese village of Zahle in the Bekaa valley (photo credit: AFP PHOTO /HO /UNHCR/A.MCCONEEL)

UN urges US to continue ‘long tradition’ of welcoming refugees

By AFP

After president suspends refugee arrivals and entry from 7 Muslim countries, international agencies urge him not to end vital resettlement programs

The stockpile of the Islamic State group's suspected chemical weapons discovered by French and Iraqi troops in the city of Mosul, Iraq on January 28, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Suspected IS chemical weapons stockpile uncovered in Mosul — report

Iraqi officials say terror group’s plan to launch non-conventional weapons was interrupted by offensive to retake the city

Yossi Chaikin teaches a workshop to youth at the Little Black Pearl in Chicago. (Ronit Bezalel/Times of Israel)

Israeli waltzes his way into ‘Hamilton’ musical company

By Ronit Bezalel

More Headlines

Stormy weather on the beaches of Tel Aviv on Friday, December 13, 2013, as the first storm of the year hits the city. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Storm washes explosive fuses up on Tel Aviv beaches

Illustrative photo of a US naval ship with the 5th fleet in the Persian Gulf (Courtesy of the United States Navy)

Western navies said planning major drill off coast of Iran

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is greeted by supporters upon his return to Gaza City on January 27, 2017. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Rafah crossing opens as Hamas, Egypt improve ties

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli rescue forces and security forces at the scene where a bus flipped over, near Ma'ale Levonah in the West Bank, on January 27, 2017 (Moshe Mizrachi/Flash90)

Palestinian family ‘was first to help bus crash victims, call police’

An image showing the Twitter feed sharing the names and fates of Jewish refugees the US turned away in 1939, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January 2017. (JTA)

Haunting Twitter feed remembers Jewish refugees turned away by US

Israeli tennis player Yishai Oliel at the Australian Open junior Grand Slam on January 28, 2017. (screen capture: Channel 5)

17-year-old Israeli tennis star runner-up at junior Australian Open

US actress Scarlett Johansson and her husband Romain Dauriac listen to a customer at the opening of the Yummy Pop gourmet popcorn shop in the Marais district of Paris on October 22, 2016. (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)

Lost in SeparationScarlett Johansson splits from husband

Mary Tyler Moore (E Milsom/Getty Images)

Brooklyn's Mary daysMary Tyler Moore on childhood in Jewish neighborhood

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