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What Matters Most On Friday, February 24, 2017

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Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street’s founder and director, speaking at the group’s 2012 conference. (Courtesy J Street)

With a new US president, J Street braces for first conference in political wilderness

By Eric Cortellessa

Starting this weekend, confab to showcase liberal group’s plans to deal with a new environment in DC; aims to capitalize on widespread US Jewish opposition to Trump

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Trump clarifies: ‘I like the two-state solution,’ but it’s up to the two sides to decide

President, in Reuters interview, elaborates, a little, on his preferred formula for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Adelson said to hail Trump as likely ‘best president for Israel ever’

Trump’s pick for Israel envoy boasted of removing 2 states from Republican platform

Netanyahu avoids endorsing two states in Sydney statement

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative photo of French police officers on patrol near the Louvre Museum in Paris, February 3, 2017 (AFP/Alain Jocard)

Report: Attackers beat Jewish brothers near Paris

By JTA

Siblings hospitalized after anti-Semitic assault in Bondy, according to anti-Semitism watchdog

Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (YouTube screenshot)

Israel denies work visa to official from ‘fundamentally biased’ Human Rights Watch

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Barred HRW regional director Omar Shakir, who previously campaigned against Israel and led BDS efforts, says ban shows Israel now like North Korea, Iran

UN human rights office raps ‘excessively lenient’ Azaria sentence

Palestinians protest against Trump in Hebron

Meeting PM, Australia Labor head pushes Palestinian state

By AP and ToI Staff

Yacub, a two-year-old Afghan, on February 23, 2017, holds the hand of the Israeli heart surgeon who saved his life. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Afghan baby gets life-saving treatment in Israel — through social media path

Two-year-old Yacub’s family was put in touch with an Israeli charity with the help of a Jalalabad teacher and his Facebook connections

US President Donald Trump pauses during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Little data to back up perceived US uptick in anti-Semitism

Official statistics not yet available to support anecdotal claims of increase in hate crimes against Jewish communities

McGill council won’t impeach student who called for ‘punching Zionists’

By JTA

White supremacist Richard Spencer booted, ‘alt-right’ called anti-Semitic at conservative conference

By JTA

Muslim campaign raises over $115,000 for vandalized Jewish cemetery

By JTA

An ad for binary options firm Prime Sales featuring a still from ‘The Wolves of Wall Street” (Screenshot)

Israeli government unveils draft law to ban binary options

By Simona Weinglass

Legislation would shut down entire, widely fraudulent, multi-billion-dollar local industry that fleeces victims worldwide; could take from ‘two days to two years’ to pass

Sobel's mother, Manya, reading his first book for adults with memory loss, 'Blue Sky, White Clouds.' (Courtesy of Eliezer Sobel/via JTA)

Finally, a book for Jews with Alzheimer’s

While caring for his 93-year-old mother, author Eliezer Sobel came up with the idea for a Jewish-themed text created explicitly for memory-challenged adults

B. Shira Levine

Home sweet shul

Do’s and don’t’s to make your synagogue an inviting place for the young families you pray will become active members

If the divine ideal is that all people be free, why didn’t Hashem abolish Jewish slavery straight out of Egypt? (Mishpatim)

Sivan Rahav Meir

Israel makes peace…with the US

After 8 long years, friction with Washington has ended — now it’s time for Israel to figure out what it wants

Shane Johnson displays some of his tattoos as he poses in his home in Tippecanoe, Indiana, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Former white supremacists help others leave hate groups

Life After Hate and other US organizations assist skinheads, neo-Nazis and klan members seeking to quit and begin anew

Israeli police forces seen during the evacuation of the illegal outpost of Amona, on February 2, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

60 cops hurt, 13 protesters arrested, but none indicted for Amona rioting

By Judah Ari Gross

3 weeks on, prosecutors yet to receive results of investigations into violent resistance during outpost evacuation

Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev Desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Testimonies on deadly Umm al-Hiran incident reveal breakdown in protocol

Probe of deaths at Bedouin village, in what was initially termed a terror attack, finds woeful lack of police preparedness

The website banner of the Conference for Palestinians Abroad, backed by Hamas, held in Istanbul on February 25 and 26, 2017. (Screen capture)

Analysis

Despite détente with Israel, Turkey to host Hamas confab

By Avi Issacharoff

‘Palestinians Abroad’ gathering, backed by Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood, aims to unite Palestinian diaspora for ‘return’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary Of State John Kerry in New York on September 23, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A-G blocked police questioning of Kerry in Netanyahu graft case — report

Avichai Mandelblit said to argue grilling of former US officials, including ex-ambassador to Israel, would be highly sensitive and unnecessary

The flight trajectory of El Al Flight ELY33 from Singapore to Sydney, carrying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 22, 2017, showing a detour of some 2.5 hours to avoid Indonesian airspace. (Screenshot: FlightAware)

Netanyahu took 2-hour detour to avoid Indonesia en route to Australia

PM arrived in Sydney after 11 hours in the air from Singapore, a journey that usually lasts 8.5 hours

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaks during a press conference on February 18, 2017 (AFP/Simon Maina)

Egypt denies any plans to give Sinai to Palestinians

Spokesman for President Sissi says possibility raised by Israeli minister is ‘unrealistic and unacceptable’

Julius Streicher, founder of Nazi propaganda paper Der Sturmer, striking a pose in Berlin, August 15, 1935. (Getty Images/JTA)

Nazi propaganda on display at UN highlights importance of free press

By Cathryn J. Prince

Illustrative: Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Record 40,000 runners at Tel Aviv marathon as city shuts down

Ethiopian runner Balata Mekonnen wins 42-kilometer race; hundreds of cops deployed along routes, medics standing by

Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv February 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Tel Aviv and Jerusalem marathons revel in a ‘healthy competition’

By Hillel Kuttler

An aide of Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian, right, holds a head scarf as he tries to convince French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, centre, to wear it during her meeting with the Mufti at Dar al-Fatwa, the headquarters of the Sunni Mufti, in Beirut, Feb.21, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Far-right candidate sees a France sans kippas, headscarves

By Elaine Ganley

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Natan Sharansky (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webWho will be the next chairman of the Jewish Agency?

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

A performer from Mocidade samba school parades on a float during the Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 8, 2016. (AP/Leo Correa)

Bad sambaTo avoid sexy Carnival, Rio mayor mulls Israel visit

By PETER PRENGAMAN

The Pardes Jewish day school in Arizona (YouTube screenshot)

Teacher at Arizona Jewish school resigns over anti-immigrant tweets

By JTA

Pope Francis attends an audience with the members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See for the traditional exchange of New Year greetings on January 9, 2017 in Vatican. (AFP Photo/Pool/Alberto Pizzoli)

From the webPope suggests it’s ‘better to be atheist’ than an insincere Catholic

Sean Creighton (Met Police)

5-year jail term for UK extremist who called Hitler his ‘God’

By AFP

Syrian refugee Anas Qaterji serves shawarma in his restaurant in Gaza 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube)

In Gaza, Syrians try to rebuild lives in ruins

The Quran (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

In Denmark, first blasphemy charge since 1971

By AP

Wix co-founders (L. to R.): Giora Kaplan, Nadav Abrahami and Avishai Abrahami (Courtesy)

Wix acquires online creative community DeviantArt

Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Hebrew media reviewNow you won’t rush to judgment?

By Joshua Davidovich

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