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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 4, 2017

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In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, an Emad long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard during a military parade, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Defiant Iran holds ‘massive’ missile drill day after US sanctions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian VP calls for calm dialogue, but Revolutionary Guards general threatens ‘if the enemy makes a mistake, our missiles will land on them’

Mattis: Iran world’s ‘biggest state sponsor of terrorism’

By AP and AFP

Iran announces ‘reciprocal action’ to US sanctions

By AFP

White House imposes fresh sanctions after Tehran’s ballistic missile test

By Eric Cortellessa and AP

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House declines to voice support for two-state solution

By Eric Cortellessa

Sean Spicer says ‘the president is committed to peace,’ will discuss issue with Netanyahu when he visits Washington

Trump is doing everything he said he would — except on Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Israeli settler group shrugs off White House criticism

Despite losing Amona, Israeli settlers expect to win war for West Bank

By Andrew Tobin

Washington state Solicitor General Noah Purcell, center, talks to reporters as Attorney General Bob Ferguson, third from right, looks on, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, following a hearing in federal court in Seattle.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

US judge temporarily blocks Trump’s travel ban nationwide

By martha bellisle

Washington and Minnesota challenge executive order against 7 Muslim countries, arguing it harms residents and mandates discrimination

White House pledges to fight court ruling blocking travel ban

By AFP

Qatar to fly barred nationals after US travel ban stayed

By AFP

Iranian baby will be allowed into US for life-saving surgery

By Verena Dobnik

Opposition leader and Zionist Union chairman Isaac Herzog leads a faction meeting in the Israeli parliament, January 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Herzog hospitalized after suspected mild stroke

Opposition leader, 56, said to be in stable condition, but will remain in hospital overnight for observation

My boychik is now a manchik

On what it means to mother a first born, and the freedom to choose to be wrapped in God’s compassion

Irene Rabinowitz

Daniel Pearl and intersectionality

What on earth does the 2002 murder of the Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter have to do with Donald Trump?

There is no Hebrew word for obedience

The Jewish priority of education, religious study, life-long learning, and the necessity of asking questions (Bo)

Every year’s a souvenir

How family photos provided solace during a time of dread

Demonstrators hold signs during a rally against a ban on Muslim immigration at San Francisco International Airport on January 28, 2017 in San Francisco, California. ( Stephen Lam/Getty Images/AFP)

Precedent for Trump’s Muslim ban exists from nearly a century ago

By Cathryn J. Prince

While temporary restrictions on immigration have been put into place in recent times, it has been almost 100 years since religion played a key role

People protesting and welcoming arriving passengers at Dulles International Airport in Virginia, Jan. 28, 2017. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post via Getty Images/JTA)

Confusion in US over how many visas canceled by Trump executive order

By Alicia A. Caldwell

French far right National Front (FN) political party leader Marine Le Pen, member of the European Parliament, and candidate for the 2017 French Presidential elections presents her New Year's wishes to the press at her campaign Presidential headquarters, in Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

Le Pen defends Trump in interview with Israeli TV: ‘Patriotism is never racism’

Far right leader rejects notion that president’s executive order is anti-Muslim, defends initiative to ban religious clothing in France, including kippa

Illustrative: Hola Hillel is an offshoot of University of Miami's Hillel House, geared specifically towards Jewish-Latin relations. (Janu Mendel)

Jewish-Latin fusion seeks to kick democracy up a notch

By Cathryn J. Prince

A security guard gestures at the entrance of the Louvre museum in Paris, on February 3, 2017, after a French soldier patrolling at the Louvre shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding attacker earlier. (AFP/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)

Louvre reopens 24 hours after machete attack

By Pauline Talagrand, Adam PLOWRIGHT and Gersende RAMBOURG

Egyptian terrorist, 29, living in the UAE, believed to have entered France legally on a flight from Dubai last week

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

Egypt said pressing Hamas to open negotiations over Israeli captives

Terror group reportedly holding 2 civilians, remains of IDF soldiers Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin who were presumed killed in 2014 Gaza war

Journalist, scholar and author Geneive Abdo, director of the Iran Program at the Century Foundation in Washington, DC. (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/ Flickr, via wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)

Interview

Is the solution to pan-Arabism simply to rethink our concept of borders?

By JP O’ Malley

Israeli children in second grade use computers in a classroom as part of a study program of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Education Ministry (Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

In Israel, teaching kids cyber skills is a national mission

By Daniel Estrin

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Illustrative photo of a New York City subway (photo credit: Melanie Fidler/Flash90)

Jewish woman shoved, called ‘dirty Jew’ on NY subway

By JTA

Israeli soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade take part in a training exercise where they practice door-to-door combat in inhabited areas in Tze'elim, southern Israel, Thursday, July 10, 2014. (Flash90)

Most soldiers believe commanders won’t back them if they err

The Carmelit subway in Haifa seen on June 21, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Firefighters battle blaze in Haifa Carmelit subway

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Olmert loses prison privileges after being insolent with a guard

People, including leaders of NGOs and religious leaders from varied religions and beliefs, hold a joint press release during a protest against hate speech of US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in front of the New York City Hall on December 09, 2015 in New York City, USA. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Protest palsOrthodox Jew supports Yemenite bodega strike

By Josefin Dolsten

Ivanka Trump walks with her father US President Donald Trump toward Marine One while departing from the White House, on February 1, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Out of FashionNordstrom, Neiman Marcus drop Ivanka Trump label

By JTA

In this photograph taken on February 3, 2017, a prototype figurine replica of US President Donald Trump, made by toymaker Dragon in Dream (DiD), is displayed in Hong Kong toy shop Seven. (AFP/Anthony Wallace)

Model leaderHong Kong doll maker toys with Trump

By AFP

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