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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 25, 2017

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RISD Metcalf Building (Daniel Penfield / Wikipedia)

Swastika made of feces found at Rhode Island art school

By AP and ToI Staff

RISD launches investigation into hate crime after Nazi symbol found in gender-neutral dorm bathroom

Igor Sadikov (McGill Arts Undergraduate Society)

‘Punch a Zionist’ tweeter quits McGill student government

By JTA

Keith Ellison, left, and Tom Perez lead the race to become the next head of the Democratic National Committee. (Getty Images/via JTA)

‘Rebuilding’ efforts overshadow Jewish issues in DNC election

Israel and anti-Semitism are burning problems for Jewish Democrats, but in the party overall, battered by electoral defeat, other domestic concerns take precedent

Fractured, frustrated Democrats to pick leader in Trump era

By Michael Mathes

Dershowitz threatens to leave Democratic party if Ellison elected DNC chair

Homeland Security report disputes threats from Trump’s banned nations

By Vivian Salama and Alicia A. Caldwell

Vice President Mike Pence, left, takes the stage with his wife Karen Pence at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Pence to Republican Jews: No nuclear Iran, still thinking over embassy move

‘We will never allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, this is my solemn promise,’ VP tells RJC to standing ovation at Adelson’s Vegas hotel

Pence to Republican Jews: World will know US supports Israel

By Julie Bykowicz

Combative Trump promises Americans safety and strength

By Andrew BEATTY and Michael Mathes

Top US commander for Mideast said to make secret Syria trip

By AFP

French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux (Patrick Kovarik/AFP)

French minister expresses ‘indignation’ over saw attack on Jewish brothers

Jewish lawmaker says anti-Semitism ‘alive and kicking’ after group of Muslims allegedly beat and cut kippa-wearers in Paris

An illustrative photo of the Israeli border fence with Lebanon near Metula (Ayal Margolin/ Flash 90)

Dozens of Lebanese cross Israeli border during protest

Demonstrators pass international line, though not fence, before being dispersed by IDF troops with smoke grenades, tear gas

Palestinian terror leader urges Iran to join ‘all-out war’ on Israel, then Jordan

Jordanians protest price hikes, demand government ouster

By AFP

Suicide attacks on bases in Syria’s Homs kill 42

By AFP

Yoel Solomon street in Jerusalem's Nahalat Shiva, one of the capital's oldest neighborhoods. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Where ancient instruments, vegan cuisine and Zionist history meet

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Jerusalem’s historical Nahalat Shiva neighborhood, outside the Old City, became such an eyesore it was nearly torn down in the 1970s. Instead, it has been stunningly revived

Clergy is not a Hebrew word

The brouhaha isn’t really about women’s ordination, it’s about the waning influence of Orthodox pulpit rabbis

A road to peace that runs through Mecca

Shifting priorities in the Middle East have created unlikely allies and new avenues for a Palestinian peace deal

Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel walks back barring Human Rights Watch worker from country

By Agencies and ToI Staff

NGO’s regional director Omar Shakir, who previously campaigned against Israel and led BDS efforts, may now enter on a tourist visa and then seek work visa; 2 US Jewish groups protested earlier ban

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, speaks in Tehran, Iran, on July 15, 2015. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran requests 950 tons of uranium from Kazakhstan

By AFP

Tehran says it needs the material to help develop its civil reactor program

Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

Iran complying with nuclear deal, says UN watchdog

By Nina Lamparski

IDF soldier Elor Azaria, center, who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant, arrives at the military court in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Defense minister slams UN criticism of Azaria sentence

UN Human Rights Council raps 18-month jail term for soldier who killed incapacitated Palestinian stabber as ‘excessively lenient’; Lapid calls it a ‘council of terrorist rights’

In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)

Three die in Gaza tunnel after inhaling gas

By Itamar Sharon

Five others injured in digging accident on Rafah border while attempting to fix a shaft destroyed by the Egyptian army

An empty podium is seen as an off camera briefing is held with a small group of reporters and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer instead of the normal on camera briefing in the White House February 24, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

Outcry after White House bars top US media from briefing

By AFP

News organizations, former top officials blast move as ‘unacceptable,’ an ‘insult to democratic ideals’ and ‘more Nixonian than Nixon’

Jewish-American filmmaker Ami Horowitz. (Screenshot YouTube)

Meet the gonzo Jewish filmmaker behind Trump’s fake news on Sweden

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: A Jewish supporter wears a Donald Trump yarmulke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 24, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Did Donald Trump and the Jews have a good week?

Jewish concerns haven’t been completely assuaged, but there are signs the president’s anti-Semitic supporters haven’t infected the Republican Party mainstream

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles during a meeting with the new president of Germany's Upper House of Parliament and Rhineland-Palatinate State Premier Malu Dreyer (not pictured) in Berlin on February 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Odd Andersen)

Merkel: Keep working on the two-state solution

By AP and ToI Staff

German leader sees ‘no other possibility becoming reality to achieve a peace process’

A Jewish couple enjoys Valentine's Day at the waterfront in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

For some Jews, it’s getting easier to conceive of life without kids

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

An illustrative photo showing a street in Ciego de Avila, Cuba. (CC BY-SA, Leon Petrosyan/Wikimedia)

Israeli killed, 8 others injured in Cuba bus crash

Actor George Clooney poses with the Honorary Cesar award during a photocall at the 42nd Cesar Film Awards ceremony at Salle Pleyel in Paris, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. This annual ceremony is presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques. (AP/Francois Mori)

Paris mayor, George Clooney fire back at Trump for insulting city

By AP

New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge (CC BY-Buggolo via Flickr.com)

Shot in the darkIsraeli nabbed climbing Brooklyn Bridge for a selfie

By JTA

Frank London speaks about 'Hatuey: Memory of Fire' to the Yiddish Book Center (screen capture: YouTube)

Yiddish-Cuban opera to premiere in Havana

By JTA

An illustrative photo of the El Dorado International Airport in Bogota. (CC, BY-SA, Wikimedia)

Israeli deported, banned from Colombia following bomb ‘joke’ at airport

By ToI Staff and AFP

Coldplay performing in Toronto on Sept 21, 2011. (CC, BY-SA, Wikimedia)

Coldplay, visiting Israel and West Bank, denies planning November concerts

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Staff and campers at Camp Modin. (Courtesy of Camp Modin/via JTA)

Here’s how summer camps welcome their youngest charges

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

Students sitting in the College Green outside Sayles Hall on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons)

Looking for a Jewish college roommate? BBYO has an app for that

By Gabe Friedman

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a rally in Sanliurfa, Turkey, January 6, 2017. (Yasin Bulbul/Presidential Press Service, Pool photo via AP)

Erdogan biopic to hit screens ahead of referendum

By Raziye AKKOC

US President Barack Obama (L) presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to physicist Mildred Dresselhaus (R) during an East Room ceremony at the White House November 24, 2014 in Washington, DC. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, ‘Queen of Carbon,’ dies at 86

By JTA

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