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What Matters Most On Friday, March 3, 2017

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Illustrative: The Albany JCC closed briefly due to a bomb scare, January 18, 2017. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

Man arrested for bomb threats against 8 US Jewish centers

By Gavin Rabinowitz and Agencies

Suspect Juan Thompson apparently made threats as a campaign to harass former girlfriend, using her name; investigation into robocalls to other JCCs ongoing

Headstones were toppled at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery, also known as the Stone Road Cemetery, in Rochester, NY (Courtesy of News 10 NBC WHEC/via JTA)

NY governor orders probe as Jewish cemetery in Rochester vandalized

By ToI Staff and JTA

Five headstones found toppled in third such incident in US in less than 2 weeks; cemetery president hesitates to call it hate crime

Former ADL head says anti-Semitism in US not at ‘crisis’ level

NY police: Anti-Semitic incidents have nearly doubled over last year

By JTA

Herzog praises Trump stances on anti-Semitism, Israel

By JTA

Iranian submarines and warships participate in a navy drill in the Sea of Oman in December, 2011 (AP Photo/Young Journalists Club, Mohammad Ali Marizad)

Iran ‘will likely seek new subs, warships’ once arms ban expires in 2020

Tehran is set to capitalize on removal of international sales restrictions under nuclear deal, according to new US intelligence assessment

Detail of a selfie with the late David Rubinger (Joe Hyams)

Remembrance

Rubinger’s moment: A lesson in time

The acclaimed photographer taught him to keep an eye on the edges of a frame, and never to cut off hands or heads

People demonstrate at a Stand Against Hate rally at Independence Mall on March 2, 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images/AFP )

Hundreds in Philadelphia rally against hate after cemetery vandalism

By ToI Staff, JTA and AP

Pennsylvania governor says anti-Semitic crimes threaten ‘every one of us’; Jewish Federation ‘heartened’ by show of support

Bipartisan group in Congress demands Trump take action on anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa

US Jewish security group forms law enforcement advisory council

By JTA and ToI Staff

French teacher in machete attack says he now hides his kippa

By JTA and ToI Staff

A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Bad name

Hamas won’t let Gaza dad call baby Mahmoud Abbas

Authorities say son can be named either Abbas or Mahmoud, but not both together

Director Elite Zexer discusses the 12-year journey to making her film 'Sand Storm' at a Times of Israel Presents event at the Jerusalem Cinemateque on March 2, 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Behind the scenes with Israeli ‘Sand Storm’ director Elite Zexer

At packed Times of Israel event, filmmaker says that by making the particular universal, Arabic-language Bedouin women’s story touches global audiences

A portion of a Roman-era fresco found during excavations at Omrit, north of the Hula Valley, in June 2016. (Courtesy of Daniel Schowalter)

Ducks, not phalluses, real stars of 1,900-year-old find in northern Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

Archaeologist at Roman settlement of Omrit, near Hula Valley, says phallic find that grabbed headlines pales in comparison to pastoral frescoes discovered at Roman manor

Interns from the Palestinian Internship Program (PIP) on a visit to Microsoft R&D center in Herzliya on July 20, 2016. (Courtesy)

Can Startup Nation be an incubator for Palestinian high-tech entrepreneurs?

Initiative brings high-potential IT grads from West Bank, Jerusalem, to intern, soak up experience in multinational and Israeli companies

The (ir)rational fear of terror

The fact that the odds are against being a victim of terrorism does little to beef up anyone’s sense of security

Fake news and Purim

A holiday known for hilarity and inebriation celebrates events that heralded an era of unusually rational analysis and literacy

The architecture of holiness

The Torah’s long, precise specifications for the Tabernacle highlight just how crucial small details can be (Terumah)

Zionist Camp party members Shelly Yachimovich (R) and Eitan Cabel attend at a faction meeting in the Knesset on February 6, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Tape suggests 2 senior MKs agreed secret Labor takeover deal

Leaked recording points to agreement by Eitan Cabel and Shelly Yachimovich on mutual support to win leadership of party and main union; they deny it

Zionist Union MK Omer Barlev attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset on December 13, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Omer Barlev to challenge Herzog to head Labor

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin, in the West Bank on January 4, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Coalition MKs delay push for Ma’ale Adumim annexation

Bill to extend Israeli sovereignty to Jerusalem-area settlement postponed by a week at Netanyahu’s request

Senate Banking Committee member Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. gives his opening statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, during the committee's hearing on Iran sanctions. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Trump’s Israel envoy nominee likely to earn Democrat support

NJ senator Bob Menendez says he is ‘inclined’ to back David Friedman as ambassador

Yoram Sheftel, defense attorney for convicted manslaughterer Elor Azaria, and Azaria's father Charlie speak at a press conference on March 1, 2017 appealing Elor's jail sentence. (FLASH90)

Court delays start of Hebron shooter jail sentence

Judges rule convicted IDF soldier Elor Azaria to remain on army base during appeal; Liberman against pardon

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

Israel bars Human Rights Watch worker from country — again

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Despite pledge to let him enter, Interior Ministry denies tourist visa for NGO’s regional director Omar Shakir, a former BDS activist

A still from a video threatening Hezbollah attacks on sensitive Israeli sites. (screen capture: alahednews.com)

Hezbollah-linked video threatens attacks on 9 Israeli nuclear, chemical sites

Propaganda clip includes pictures and details of the sensitive facilities

Then-Israel ambassador to France Aliza Bin Noun, 2015. (CC BY-SA Erez Lichtfeld, Wikimedia Commons)

Ambassador asks French cities to ban anti-Israel apartheid week

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Israeli envoy says events are against French law and will cause incitement to hatred and violence towards Jews

'Eyes Right,' a drawing from London's Liberal Jewish Synagogue's WWI-era archive of children's artwork, digitized and uploaded to the We Were There Too website. (Courtesy LSJ/WWTT)

WWI archive shows children’s view of wartime London

By Jenni Frazer

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a press conference at the US Justice Department on March 2, 2017, in Washington DC. (AFP/ Nicholas Kamm)

US Attorney General Sessions to recuse himself from Russia probes

Head of Trump’s Justice Department yields to pressure from Democrats and Republicans after it emerged he met with Moscow envoy during campaign

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 9, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt appeals court acquits Mubarak over 2011 protester killings

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ousted president cleared of inciting deaths of some 850 demonstrators in 18-day revolt that brought down his reign

Samar Qupty and Tamer Nafar in 'Junction 48.' (Courtesy)

Political nuance lost on NY audience at sneak preview of Israeli hip hop film

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

David Rubinger in 2013; the famed photojournalist died Wednesday, March 1, at age 92 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Photo essayDavid Rubinger: 12 iconic photos of Israel

Norman (Courtesy)

Times of Israel to host Joseph Cedar at first Jerusalem screening of ‘Norman’

By Matthew Kalman

Iranian Shahin Najafi, right, and Israeli Aviv Geffen rehearse in Tel Aviv on February 27, 2017. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Rebels with a cause, Israeli, Iranian rockers team up for peace concert

Brondesbury Park near North West Jewish Primary School (Screen capture: Google street view)

London Jewish school evacuated due to WWII bomb

By ToI Staff and AP

People pass by 'The Walled Off Hotel' and the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, March 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Banksy’s art in new West Bank hotel with world’s ‘worst view’

US Vice President Mike Pence pauses while speaking before administering the oath of office to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, March 2, 2017, in the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pence used private email to conduct official business

Australian musician Ben Lee rehearses inside his home studio in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Mark RALSTON)

In age of Trump, a Jewish indie rocker explains Islam

By Shaun Tandon

A man holds an iPhone displaying the Waze app (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right of wayWaze to help preserve Israel’s wild animals

By JTA

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich and fellow party member Eitan Cabel attend a meeting at the Knesset in 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLaboring over a deal

By Adiv Sterman

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