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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 11, 2017

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Illustrative: Antisemitic graffiti is seen on the wall of a reform synagogue in Seattle, March 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

Seattle shul vandalized with graffiti saying ‘Holocau$t i$ fake hi$tory’

Rabbi notes similarity to language used by Trump in describing the news media; Reform congregation has survivors among its members

Not just prayers: Synagogues organize to fight Trump’s agenda

DeVos praises US Orthodox schools as model for public education

By JTA

Latest bomb scare hits Jewish senior center in Brooklyn

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump on February 3, 2017 (L); Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on January 30, 2017 (Mandel Ngan/AFP; Zacharias Abubeker/AFP)

Trump invites Abbas to White House ‘soon’ to discuss stalled peace process

By Dov Lieber and Agencies

After first call since inauguration, PA president’s spokesman hails US leader as ‘honest, courageous man’ looking for ‘a just deal’

Mike Pence to keynote AIPAC conference

Hamas condemns mosque loudspeakers bill, warns of Arab backlash

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike as Israel agrees to his release

By AFP

Ivanka Trump and children bake for Purim, March 9, 2017 (Twitter)

Cookie momster

For Purim, Ivanka bakes hamantaschen with her kids

Daughter of US president and her family celebrate Jewish festival with traditional cookies

Then-finance minister Yair Lapid with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2013 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid could block Netanyahu-led Likud from power — new poll

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Yair Lapid’s party takes 26 seats in new survey as ruling party drops to 22, potentially allowing formation of anti-PM bloc

Netanyahu ‘has no intention of resigning’ if indicted, coalition chair says

Police seek to question James Packer in PM gifts probe — report

Zionist Organization of America endorses Israel’s anti-BDS law

By JTA

Hockey player Sam Fields was diagnosed with cancer at age 27, just weeks before he was scheduled to go to NHL training camp. (Courtesy ICRF/via JTA)

'I could quit or I could fight, and I wasn’t about to quit'

Miracle drug with Israeli roots saves Jewish hockey player hit with cancer

By Abigail Pickus

In 2003, when Sam Fields was given two weeks to live, Gleevec wasn’t known to help his condition. 14 years later, back from death’s door, the athlete says without it, he simply ‘wouldn’t be here’

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at the Brookings Institution on March 9, 2017. (Screenshot)

Bill Clinton: If Rabin had lived, the world would be a different place

Ex-president says resurgent nationalism preceding 1995 assassination was a ‘microcosm’ of what is now happening ‘full bloom’ globally

In this Nov. 3, 2016, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the University of Cincinnati. (AP/John Minchillo)

Sanders: Trump a ‘pathological liar’ with authoritarian ambitions

A Yemeni child stands outside the family house which was destroyed several months ago in an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition at a slum in the capital Sanaa, on March 12, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

UN: 20 million people in four countries face starvation and famine

By Edith M. Lederer

Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and northeast Nigeria need immediate injection of funds, says humanitarian chief

Billy Crystal attending the Samsung Studio at SXSW 2015 in Austin, Texas, March 15, 2015. (Rick Kern/Getty Images for Samsung/via JTA)

Billy Crystal riffs on circumcision, playing ball, civil rights… and family

At 68, the iconic comedian keeps his eye on his ‘one thing’ while still keeping things fresh with his new one-man show

Moses was great in many ways, and at the heart of his greatness is that, over 40 years, he never gave up

8 Purim facts from the Gaza border

Including: If missiles start flying during their costume party, the Iron Dome defense system is useless

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Purim and the Holocaust

How one can — nay, must — rejoice in the salvation of ancient Jews despite the shadow of the more recent calamity

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters during a rally in Istanbul on March 11, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)

Erdogan says Netherlands like ‘Nazis’ as row with EU spirals

By Fulya Ozerkan and Sophie Mignon

Outburst comes after The Hague cancels landing permission for Ankara minister; Dutch PM says Turkish leader’s remarks are ‘crazy’

The Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks during a visit of the booth of Turkey at the tourism fair ITB in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Netherlands bars Turkish minister

By AP

A group of Muslim protesters gather during a rally against the travel ban at San Diego International Airport on March 6, 2017 in San Diego, California.
(AFP PHOTO / Sandy Huffaker)

Revised Trump travel ban gets first legal blow

By Olivia Hampton

Federal judge halts enforcement of executive order in case of wife and child of Syrian refugee already granted asylum

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Reza Najafi at the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 2, 2015. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Iran UN envoy says Israel behind assassinations of nuclear scientists

Reza Najafi accuses world of turning blind eye to Jewish state’s violations of international treaties

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows blood soaked streets and several damaged buses in a parking lot at the site of an attack by twin explosions in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, March 11, 2017. (SANA via AP)

Twin bombings kill at least 46 in Damascus Old City

Most of the victims were Shiite Iraqis visiting holy sites in the area; over 100 reported wounded

A 16-year-old Palestinian girl arrives at the Jerusalem District Court on December 11, 2015, where she is indicted on two counts of attempted murder for a November 23 stabbing attack in the capital. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF report highlights Palestinians who ‘seek suicide’ through attacks

Military brief examines several cases of assaults it says were spurred by domestic problems, depression, despair or mental illness

Illustrative: A woman looks on as people take part in a debate on role of Islam in the country ahead of the Dutch parliamentary elections at the Essalam mosque, the country's largest, in Rotterdam on March 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND)

In a Rotterdam mosque, anxious Dutch citizens debate the role of Islam

By AFP

Sen. Jeff Sessions arrives to testify at his confirmation hearing to be attorney general of the US before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Molly Riley)

Sessions seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys

By Eric Tucker and SADIE GURMAN

Federal prosecutors nominated by Obama asked to leave by Trump administration ‘in order to ensure uniform transition’

Illustrative image of Holocaust survivors in a hospital ward after liberation, circa April 29 - May 1945, in Dachau, Germany (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Francis Robert Arzt)

Rhyme and reason

The newly discovered post-WWII Purim poem that comforted survivors

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Police block a road in front of a shopping mall in Essen, Germany, Saturday, March 11, 2017. (Bernd Thissen/dpa via AP)

German shopping center shut in fears over suicide bombing

By AFP

Displaced Iraqi families evacuate al-Amil neighborhood in west Mosul on March 10, 2017 as Iraqi forces advance in the city during the ongoing battle to seize it from the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Iraqi troops find fear and hunger in west Mosul

By Tony Gamal-Gabriel

This file photo taken on March 9, 2017 shows Catcher Ryan Lavarnway (L) of Israel celebrating their victory with teammates pitcher Josh Zeid (R) and infielder Nate Freiman (C) against the Netherlands after their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul. (AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je)

Israel baseball success causes excitement, bafflement

Juan Tajes at his studio in Amsterdam in 2016. (Courtesy of Juan Tajes/via JTA)

A Jewish artist draws inspiration, and customers, from Amsterdam’s Red Light District

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Avocados for sale at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on December 12, 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

The pitsMassive avocado heist thwarted by police outside Haifa

Members of the Bnei Akiva youth movement memorialize fallen IDF soldier Hadar Goldin in a Purim dance choreographed by his brother on March 9, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Brother of fallen IDF soldier puts on Purim dance in his memory

By JTA

Partying at Tel Aviv's annual Purim street party (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv)

21 injured at annual Tel Aviv Purim bash

A still image from 'Full Frontal With Samantha Bee' (YouTube)

Bee sorry‘Full Frontal’ apologizes to cancer patient for Nazi joke

By AP

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