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What Matters Most On Friday, May 12, 2017

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) greets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, May 11, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Abbas, in meeting with Putin, says Moscow must be part of peace process

Two leaders participate via video link in inauguration of $40 million Russian-sponsored Putin cultural center in Bethlehem

US envoy said to advise Israelis to cooperate with Trump on peace

PM: All embassies, especially the US, should be in Jerusalem

In US meetings, Israeli minister tries to keep Iran out of south Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017, photo then-FBI director James Comey pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump warns Comey: Better hope there are no ‘tapes’ of talks

By Julie Pace, Eileen Sullivan and JAKE PEARSON

President tweets threat a day after he claimed former FBI chief told him three times he was not under investigation

Comey reportedly refused to pledge loyalty to Trump

By Julie Pace, Eileen Sullivan and JAKE PEARSON

Trump’s intel bosses reiterate: Russia meddled in election

By AFP

Trump launches commission to investigate voter fraud

Illustrative: Israeli high school students in a classroom. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Young Israeli Jews are mostly right-wing, increasingly religious — survey

Majority of respondents see divide between Jews and Israeli Arabs as the greatest danger to Israeli society

Israeli ultra-Orthodox textbooks promote insularity, study finds

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators break into army base

Bill would end state recognition of private Orthodox conversions

Jewish studies professor Azzan Yadin-Israel. (CC, BY-SA, Asherif99444/Wikimedia)

Interview'He finds the religious in the earthly'

Into the Fire: A Jewish studies prof. searches for The Bible in the lyrics of The Boss

By Cathryn J. Prince

Azzan Yadin-Israel maps theological parallels in the songs of Bruce Springsteen, finding Sodom and Gomorrah, the Exodus, and much more from Testaments Old and New

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2014. (AFP/STR)

Hezbollah blames Israel as Lebanese receive thousands of anti-Nasrallah texts

Automated phone calls and messages sent during terror chief’s speech accuse him of murdering subordinate Mustafa Badreddine

Louise Ellman resigned from the Labour party due to systemic antisemitism within the party. (Courtesy)

'In politics, you have to fight and never give up'

This tough-as-nails UK politician won’t be cowed by anti-Semitism in her own party

By Robert Philpot

Saying it’s not in her character to be intimidated, often-attacked Jewish Labour MP Louise Ellman is an unabashed friend of Israel

Eli Batalion, left, and Jamie Elman created and star in the web series 'YidLife Crisis.' (Darren Curtis/via JTA)

New show 'would still be extraordinarily Jewy'

Can Yiddish humor translate to mainstream TV? These Canadian comedians say ‘yo’

By Josefin Dolsten

The creators of the popular web series ‘YidLife Crisis’ are in talks with a Canadian broadcaster about expanding the show to include other cultures

Protesters in Tel Aviv's annual Slutwalk demonstrate for women's rights, May 12, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hundreds protest in Tel Aviv’s annual SlutWalk

Women wearing just bras or bikini tops march through city center to demonstrate against widespread sexual harassment in Israel

Oleg Kuvaev satirizes Russian society with his cartoon, 'Masyanya.' (Courtesy)

In Tel Aviv, a Russian cartoonist draws upon the old country for inspiration

In the classic tradition, Oleg Kuvaev satirizes society back home — and he’ll speak about it this week at Limmud FSU in New York

The day the newscast died

Channel 1 simply was Israel: austere, serious, faithful, and with the camaraderie and purpose that meant ‘home’

The Trump recipe for Mideast peace

The Israeli–Palestinian talks may be part of a larger initiative to make America great again — leading the region

The duality of Jewish time

Nature’s cycles and the linear march of history overlap to capture the rhythm of human experience (Emor)

Talli Rosenbaum

Post-traumatic sex disorder

Heal sexual dysfunction may begin with treating PTSD, especially in Israel, where trauma is part of the climate

Deborah Cotton (Avodah via JTA)

Before dying of her wounds, shooting victim urges compassion for her attackers

Deborah Cotton was hurt during a mass shooting in New Orleans in 2013. Last month, she recounted her experience. It turned out to be her final public address

A 14-year-old boy who has apparently spent most of his life at his Hadera home is escorted out by police on May 11, 2017. (Channel 2 News)

Parents of boy who lived in seclusion no longer suspected of abuse

Officials are looking into couple’s care of 14-year-old from Hadera, but now say they apparently did not prevent him from leaving home

Palestinian Authority official Issa Qaraqe gives a press conference in Ramallah on the large number of Palestinians staging hunger strikes in Israeli jails on April 19, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

PA official says negotiations to end prisoners’ hunger strike likely

Prisoners minister claims there are signs Israel could soon hold talks with strikers

Palestinians tend to an injured demonstrator during clashes with Israeli forces in the West Bank village of Beit Furik, east of Nablus on May 12, 2017, after a demonstration following Friday prayers in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinian shot dead in West Bank clash with IDF — medics

By AFP and ToI Staff

Army can’t confirm death but says live fire used in ‘violent riot’ in response to ‘imminent threat’

Mazen Faqha upon his release after the Gilad Shalit deal in 2011. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Hamas’s suspect in killing of terror mastermind identified as Ashraf Abu Layla

Palestinian media says 37-year-old who allegedly assassinated Mazen Faqha is a former Hamas member ejected over ‘moral transgressions’

Phillipa Soo and Adam Chanler-Berat in 'Amelie, a New Musical' (Courtesy Joan Marcus, 2017)

Interview

Raised on his mother’s show tunes, a composer takes a shot at Broadway

Spray-painted swastikas on the doors of the Machzikei Hadas synagogue in Ottawa, November 2016. (Screenshot)

New Canadian law makes vandalism of Jewish buildings a hate crime

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jewish community plays leading role in drafting and lobbying for passage of amendment to criminal code

Israel's national netball team practices in Modi'in. The letters on the jerseys specify each player's role on the court. May 5, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Courting new players, Israeli women’s netball team shoots for the hoops in Scotland

Tel Aviv producer and rapper Michael Cohen, also known as Cohenbeats. (David P. Alexander)

Right-to-left rap

TLV hip hop artist Cohenbeats finds his flow in Hebrew

By David P. Alexander

Rapper and producer looks to chart new territory for Israeli musicians with his newest release, ‘Daily Affirmations’

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Illustrative image of newborn baby (Getty Images)

Nurse accused of ‘mercy killing’ in death of premature baby

Israel's Imri performs the song 'I Feel Alive' during the second semifinal dress rehearsal of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 on May 10, 2017 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev (AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY)

Israel’s Imri Ziv powers into Eurovision final

Yeshiva University's Department of Communications and Public Affairs, New York (Scaligera/Wikimedia Commons)

No solution to the gender wage gap at flagship Orthodox university

By Yaakov Schwartz

People hold candles during a memorial service for those killed by a gunman in Copenhagen, February 16, 2015 (Photo credit: Bax Lindhardt/Scanpix Denmark/AFP)

Danish teen charged in plot to bomb Jewish school said inspired by synagogue killer

By JTA

France’s far-right National Front president Marine Le Pen, center, surrounded by supporters, sings the French National Anthem after her speech at Opera Plaza during the annual May Day march, in Paris, May 1, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French mayor shutters Holocaust exhibition deemed election propaganda

By JTA

Actor Steven Seagal attends qualifying ahead of the Russian Formula One Grand Prix at Sochi Autodrom on October 11, 2014 in Sochi, Russia (Clive Mason/Getty Images via JTA)

Marked for deportationSteven Seagal, Putin ally, barred from Ukraine

By JTA

In this photo illustration, a woman holds a fidget spinner, May 5, 2017 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

A wheel storyWas media spun in fidget toy’s invention tale?

By JTA

The outdoor cage at an apartment where a 14-year-old has been allegedly kept by his parents in Hadera, seen on May 11, 2017. (Flash90)

Neglected and alone in the dark

By Adiv Sterman

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