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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 31, 2017

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This file photo taken on May 29, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump speaking at Arlington National Cemetery to mark Memorial Day in Arlington, Virginia. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

Day before deadline, Trump hasn’t decided whether to sign embassy waiver

By Eric Cortellessa

Asked if president has made up his mind on relocating US diplomatic mission to Jerusalem, Sean Spicer says ‘no’

US says ‘no formal mechanisms’ yet for Israeli-Palestinian talks

By Eric Cortellessa

Pence to speak at Christian pro-Israel group’s summit

By JTA

New Trump attack on Germany widens transatlantic rift

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, second from right, at the inauguration ceremony of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. (Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Trump wants to sell lots of weapons to Riyadh. Why are Israel (and its friends) staying mum?

AIPAC sounded the alarm when a popular president wanted to sell arms to the Saudis in 1981; now an unpopular president is doing the same, with little resistance

Trump said poised to pull out of Paris climate deal

Question on Saudi democracy gives State Department pause

By AFP

Trump to world leaders: Call me on my cellphone

By Vivian Salama

This screen grab shows a tweet from US President Donald Trump which has social media trying to find a meaning in the mysterious term “covfefe.” Trump posted the tweet just after midnight Eastern time on Wednesday, May 31, 2017. (Twitter via AP)

Cryptographer-in-chief

Social media rushes to define Trump’s ‘covfefe’ tweet

By AP

US president deletes Twitter message that triggered worldwide intrigue, jokes about typo

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Cairo on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

UN chief: Denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism

In meeting with Simon Wiesenthal Center, Secretary General Guterres rejects efforts to deny Jewish history in the Holy Land

UN report: Israel is ‘key cause’ of Palestinian suffering

Energy minister refuses to cut further electricity to Gaza

Barghouti says hunger strike has not ended and could resume

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Swiss man who ‘liked’ posts alleging anti-Semitism found guilty of libel

In landmark decision, Zurich court rules that by liking Facebook statements against animal rights activist, defendant ‘clearly endorsed their unseemly content’

A screenshot of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, in the DC Comics film being released in Israel June 1 (Courtesy 'Wonder Woman')

Film ReviewMovie opens Thursday in Israel, Friday in the US

‘Wonder Woman’ showcases Israel’s best export since Waze

By Jordan Hoffman

Amid stunning visuals, well-crafted action sequences and a decent plot, Gal Gadot’s nuanced performance speaks volumes

Clockwise, from top left: Abe Fortas, Monica Lewinsky, Elliott Abrams and Henry Kissinger with President Richard Nixon. (Getty Images/Wikimedia Commons)

5 presidential scandals with Jews in the hot seat

Jared Kushner joins other members of the tribe, including Monica Lewinsky and Henry Kissinger, to be embroiled in controversy surrounding commander-in-chief

Labor activists probing Ivanka Trump brand in China arrested, missing

Jared Kushner: What you need to know about Trump’s embattled son-in-law

Clinton the Third? Chelsea courts limelight

By AFP

The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens' Reut project helps prepare adults with mental illnesses for the workplace. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

In Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens, it’s sometimes the plants that grow the people

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Where stunning flowers from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia flourish amid social activism, research and community outreach

An Israeli schoolkid in Qatar?

A unique summer workshop teaches skills that create international opportunities for local teenagers

Can we give Trump a peace deal?

Peace in the world begins with a renewed commitment to helping the vulnerable, whether Jew or Arab, at home

What it means to ‘accept the mitzvot’

If you thought Jews are supposed to push away would-be converts, you’d be right — and also wrong (in-depth analysis)

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a general election campaign speech in Wolverhampton, central England, on May 30, 2017, as campaigning continues in the build up to the general election on June 8. (AFP/Leon Neal)

May blasts Corbyn on Brexit as her poll lead narrows

By AFP

Labour Party gaining on governing Conservatives with little more than a week until elections

Afghan security forces personnel are seen at the site of a car bomb attack in Kabuls diplomatic quarter on May 31, 2017, in which at least 80 people were killed and 300 wounded. (AFP PHOTO / SHAH MARAI)

80 killed, hundreds injured in massive Kabul car bombing

By AFP

Blast rips through diplomatic quarter of Afghan capital, damaging French, German embassies, as resurgent Taliban launch ‘spring offensive’

Iraqis gather at the site of a car bomb explosion near Baghdad's Al-Shuhada Bridge on May 30, 2017. (AFP/Sabah Arar)

Series of suicide bombings across Baghdad kill over 40

By Salam Faraj, W.G. Dunlop and Simon Valmary

As coalition forces close in on IS stronghold, 3 separate blasts target Iraqi civilians during Muslim holy month of Ramadan

Jeremy Joseph Christian shouts as he is arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, May 30, 2017. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, Pool)

Extremist who killed 2 in Portland anti-Muslim attack says it was ‘patriotism’

By Gillian Flaccus and Steven Dubois

Suspect charged with aggravated murder after train assault defiant in court, shouts ‘death to the enemies of America’

Merav Rozenblum (Courtesy of JCHS via JTA)

Trump’s Hebrew translator says she was happier working for Obama

In this photo from December 16, 2016, attorney Michael Cohen arrives in Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump’s personal attorney summoned in Russia probe

By Eileen Sullivan and JAKE PEARSON

Michael Cohen says he previously turned down invitations to testify and requests for info on contacts he had with Russians

Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen (L) meeting in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 17, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Danish FM said to order review of funding to Palestinian groups

Netanyahu recently urged Copenhagen to stop donating to groups that promote boycotts, incite against Israel

In this Friday, Aug. 19, 2016, file frame grab provided by the Russian Defense Ministry, long-range Kalibr cruise missiles are launched by a Russian Navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service photo via AP, File)

Russia says warship, sub fire cruise missiles at IS in Syria

By AFP

Israel, US and Turkey were notified of renewed strikes on jihadist positions around Palmyra

Commuters make their way through Manchester Victoria railway station which was the scene of a terror attack in Manchester, northern England on May 30, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Owen Humphreys)

Grande to headline star-studded Manchester concert for terror victims

By AFP

A week after bombing leaves 22 dead, pop star returns to UK to raise money for those affected by killings

Danish police search an apartment in Mjoelnerparken at Norrebro on February 15, 2015. (AFP/SCANPIX DENMARK/Bax Lindhardt)

Danish prosecutor: Teen who plotted to bomb Jewish school mentally ill

By AP

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Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man reads a pashkevil on August 1, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi posters offer kids cash for accosting religious soldiers

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: A Torah reading at Adas Israel Congregation, a Conservative synagogue in Washington. (Courtesy Adas Israel)

Non-Orthodox shuls in US begin dropping mandatory dues

Israeli-Georgian tycoon and philanthropist Mikhael Mirilashvili. (YouTube screenshot)

Philanthropist, ex-Bezeq chair questioned in Deri graft probe

Israelis try to enjoy the crowded beaches of the Sea of Galilee during the Passover holiday on April 26, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israelis crowd beaches, parks on Shavuot holiday

Screenshot from the teaser of the 2017 Israel Festival (Screen capture: YouTube)

Baring it allNudity and neon lights at annual Israel Festival

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative: Students at the King David Victory Park school in Johannesburg, South Africa at a Holocaust Remembrance Day event in 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

South African student apologizes for anti-Semitic taunts at Holocaust play

By JTA

Eliezer Jaffe. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Father of Israeli social work dies after winning lifetime achievement award

By JTA

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