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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 8, 2017

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US Ambassador to UN and current UN security council president, Nikki Haley leaves after presiding a United Nations Security Council meeting on Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York on April 7, 2017. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

Nikki Haley: US prepared to do more in Syria, but hopes it won’t be necessary

Strike on Assad military base was measured and justified, ambassador to UN tells Security Council, calls on Russia to act responsibly

After Syria strikes, US and Russia spiral into confrontation

By Josh Lederman

Jets launch raids from Syria base hit by US, says monitor

By AFP

Why Israelis are happy about Trump’s missile strike — and why they should be wary

Adnan Badreddine, left, brother of Hezbollah terror chief Mustafa Badreddine, grieves at his brother's picture in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, May 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Analysis

Fatal dissent: When a Hezbollah commander argued with Iran

By Avi Issacharoff

Nothing more chillingly underlines Tehran’s determination to establish a permanent presence in Syria than the assassination of Mustafa Badreddine, the Hezbollah No.2 who dared question its policies

AnalysisIsrael may be heading for a harder time with Russia in Syria

By Avi Issacharoff

British FM cancels Moscow visit over ‘developments in Syria’

By AFP

Trump’s attack on Syria aids ‘terrorists,’ Iranian president charges

By AFP

Michael Rood breaks matzah at the huge seder event 'The Road to Redemption' on Easter weekend near Charlotte, North Carolina. (Courtesy)

'People are on the edge of their seat, at the table weeping'

Why are these seders different from all other seders? Because Jesus serves as paschal lamb

By Rich Tenorio

Christians throughout the US are adopting the age-old Passover tradition, learning, sharing and coming closer to their Jewish neighbors

JDC, partners deliver 10 tons of matzah in former Soviet Union

By JTA

A shrine on the site of Boris Nemtsov's murder, March 2, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russian-Jewish filmmakers immortalize murdered Putin critic as ‘Boris Nemtsov, Jew’

Assassinated outside the Kremlin, the dissenting politician has become something of a cult figure and is the subject of films, poetry and song

Detroit Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, left, and second baseman Ian Kinsler celebrating a win over the Seattle Mariners at Comerica Park in Detroit, July 20, 2015. They are two of the most prominent Jews in the majors this year. (Leon Halip/Getty Images/via JTA)

7th inning kvetch

All the Jewish major leaguers to watch in 2017

The Tribe was able to scrape together nine pros this year — enough to take the field — but who are they, and are they any good?

Swedish Social democrat politician Anders Ygeman lays flowers at a makeshift memorial near the site where a truck slammed into a crowd yesterday outside a busy department store, in central Stockholm, on April 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND)

Sweden identifies truck terror attack suspect as Uzbek native, 39

By MATTI HUUHTANEN

PM urges citizens to ‘get through this,’ police say possible bomb found in same truck that killed four

President Reuven Rivlin, Jerusalem, April 4, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Our thoughts are with Sweden, says Israeli president after truck-ramming attack

By ToI Staff and AP

Holocaust survivor Jack Jaget in Harry Borden's book 'Survivor: A Portrait of the Survivors of the Holocaust.' (Harry Borden/via JTA)

A celebrity photographer trains his lens on Holocaust survivors

By Curt Schleier

In exploring his Jewish roots, Harry Borden focuses on the elderly Jews who have stared down modernity’s most evil iteration of anti-Semitism

Of sinners and saints

A personal encounter with a man in prison taught him how the very act of bringing a sin-offering can transform a criminal

Settlers are not leaving

There are no numbers to support a Reuters report claiming that Jewish West Bank residents are getting fed up

Israeli military medics assist wounded Syrians on April 6, 2017 in a military ambulance. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Changing perceptions between countries at war, Israel treats thousands of wounded Syrians

Jewish state has helped 3,000 patients so far, and expects needs may increase amid fallout from US strike on Assad airbase

US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump’s military action unnerves GOP libertarians, Dems

By Ken Thomas and Richard Lardner

Illustrative: Smoke rises near the village of Bir Fawaz, north of Raqqa, as members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, made up of US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters, advance during their offensive towards the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold as part of the third phase to retake the city and its surroundings, February 8, 2017. (AFP/DELIL SOULEIMAN)

Strike kills 15 near Syria’s Islamic State-held Raqqa

By AFP

Monitor says raid likely carried out by US-led coalition

Palestinian Authority employees chant slogans and wave placards during a demonstration against the decision by the PA to reduce their salaries in Gaza City on April 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Tens of thousands protest in Gaza against PA salary cuts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority employees in coastal enclave call for Abbas to sack his government, as anger builds over pay reduction

Ancient Jerusalem in virtual reality through a new app called Lithodomos VR (screen capture: Lithodomos VR)

Virtual reality app recreates Jerusalem during Second Temple

By Ilan Ben Zion

Lithodomos VR offers visitors 3D look at the holy city during the life of Jesus; IAA to develop digital reconstruction of ancient Galilee

British DJ DAX J, being sought by Tunisian authorities on suspicion of ‘offending public morality‘ for mixing the Muslim call to prayer into a nightclub music set. (YouTube screenshot)

DJ who used Muslim call to prayer in remix sentenced to year in jail

British DJ Dax convicted by Tunisian court in absentia for ‘offending public morality’ by putting muezzin call in his mix

An ad for Foria Pleasure (courtesy foria.com)

Sexy pot product has a Jewish backstory

By Rebecca Spence

More Headlines

File: Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar holds a press conference on September 17, 2014. (Flash90)

Gideon Sa’ar says his ultimate goal is to become prime minister

Egyptian Comedian Bassem Youssef poses at the SLS Hotel on April 6, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Valerie Macon)

New documentary on ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ follows Arab Spring turmoil

By AFP

Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)

Dozens of Jewish gravestones damaged near Philadelphia

By ToI Staff and JTA

Scarlett Johansson, left, has been critical of the Trump administration. (Solarpix/PRPhotos/Getty Images)

Lost in complicitnessScarlett Johansson slams Ivanka Trump as ‘cowardly’

By JTA

Judge Neil Gorsuch stands with his wife Louise as President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

After fierce battle, Gorsuch confirmed to US Supreme Court

By AFP and JTA

A supporter of the Jewish Defence League demonstrates in front of Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, on March 26, 2017, during the AIPAC Policy Conference. (AFP Photo/Andrew Biraj)

US Jewish groups condemn attack on Arab teacher

By JTA

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