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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 3, 2017

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Thom Yorke performs with Radiohead at Philips Arena, Atlanta, April 1, 2017. (Robb Cohen/Invision/AP)

Radiohead frontman: BDS efforts to derail our Israel show ‘patronizing in the extreme’

Thom Yorke pans Roger Waters and other boycott-backing artists for ‘assuming we are not capable of making a moral decision’

Bryan Adams in 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Bryan Adams said set for December performances in Israel

Moroccan King Mohamed VI in 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Morocco king boycotts Africa summit to avoid Netanyahu

By AFP

Michael Bloomberg speaking during the 4th Annual Town & Country Philanthropy Summit at Hearst Tower in New York City, May 9, 2017. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Town & Country)

How Michael Bloomberg is defying Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accords

By JTA

Former NYC mayor and billionaire pledges $15m for UN’s effort against climate change, says ‘there’s nothing DC can do to stop us’

AnalysisClimate deal exposes areas where Israel, Republicans radically depart

Defying Trump, US states, cities and firms unite behind Paris accord

By Jennie Matthew

Forget Paris‘Even Israel and Palestine agree on climate change’

A view of construction in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Settler leaders say government’s construction plans insufficient

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Samaria council head says 2,600 homes up for approval next week are akin to a settlement freeze

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a press conference organized by the Israeli Labor party, in Tel Aviv, January 29, 2017. (FLASH90)

Barak says Netanyahu giving in to pressure from far right

A man looks at a sign for the 50th anniversary celebrations of Kfar Etzion at the entrance to Kfar Etzion, in the West Bank on January 30, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Residents of historic Israeli settlement say they have returned home

By Michael Blum

After the Six Day War, former residents of Kfar Etzion seized the opportunity to resettle the West Bank kibbutz

A photo of the Hadassah Magazine published after the Six Day War. (Hadassah Magazine)

Elie Wiesel and two others on Israel after the Six Day War

By Josefin Dolsten

This file photo taken on June 5, 1967 shows Israeli airforce Dassault Mirage III fighters flying over the Sinai Peninsula at the Israeli-Egyptian border on the first day of the Six Day War. (AFP)

For Egypt, 1967 war marked end of pan-Arab dream

Palestinian Education Minister Sabri Saidam at a press conference, July 2016. (Baha Nassar/Wafa)

Interview'End the conflict and you will end this whole saga'

Defending new curriculum against incitement charges, PA education chief says he’s ‘safeguarding Palestinian narrative’

Israel keeps its maps and heroes, and the Palestinians do likewise, says Sabri Saidam; will consider Holocaust studies, demands Israel teach the ‘Nakba’; says main goal of reform is to prepare Palestinian students for job market

A photo posted by UNRWA on Facebook of a girl identified as Gazan 'Aya'. However the group has previously described her on multiple occasions as a Syrian refugee (Facebook)

Watchdog group: UNRWA urging aid for Gaza victims using photo of Syrian girl

UN agency appeals on behalf of Aya, 11, described as suffering from the blockade of Gaza all her life. But UN Watch says her picture was taken outside Damascus

Michael Twitty speaking at the annual Food Book Fair in New York, May 13, 2017. (Clay Williams/JTA)

Interview'How I became Jewish began through food'

How this African-American Jew uses cooking to fuse his identities

By Josefin Dolsten

To describe himself, colorful celebrity chef Michael Twitty has invented a new word: ‘Afro-ashke-phardi’

Ivanka Trump attending a bill signing in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington DC, June 2, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Wonder women

Is Ivanka America’s most powerful Jewish woman?

By Gabe Friedman

CNN says ‘yes’ but social media counters with a resounding ‘no,’ favoring Fed chair Janet Yellen and even Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ star Gal Gadot

In this Dec. 6, 2006 file photo, former Iraq leader Saddam Hussein sits in court in Baghdad, Iraq, during the trial against him. (AP Photo/Chris Hondros, Pool, File)

Captive audience

In last days, Saddam gardened, listened to Mary J. Blige

New book explores the daily life of Iraqi dictator as he stood trial for war crimes while in US custody

Lisa Silverstein Nelson

What I learned at Sinai

What happened when a Torah scroll rescued from the Holocaust landed at the airport

Uri Pilichowski

Take Jewish teens to the West Bank

Young US Jews enter the lion’s den of anti-Israel vitriol on campus having never visited a settlement

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg on June 2, 2017. (AFP/Olga Maltseva)

Putin says claims he meddled in US elections ‘remind me of anti-Semitism’

By ian phillips and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Russian president says Democrats failed, won’t acknowledge their mistakes, and so are ‘taking internal US political squabbles into the international arena’

Former FBI director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill on June 19, 2013, (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Special counsel on Russia probe to expand scope

By SADIE GURMAN, Eric Tucker and Jeff Horwitz

Festival goers leave the venue of the Rock am Ring music festival in June 2, 2017 in Nuerburg following an evacuation alert amid a possible 'terrorist threat' (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Thomas Frey)

German rock festival to resume after terror scare

By AFP

Police say searches at ‘Rock am Ring’ over; some 90,000 people due to attend weekend event

Illustrative: Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, second from right, speaks with guests during a National Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre on January 26, 2017 in London, England. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images)

5 reasons some British Jews support Labour, despite charges of anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

UN report says Iran is complying with nuclear accord

By AFP

Tehran’s stocks of low-enriched uranium and heavy water remain within agreed limit, watchdog states

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Rocket siren in southern Israel a false alarm

Security sources say no projectiles fired from Gaza

Hank Greenberg batting for the Detroit Tigers in 1935. (TSN Archives/Getty Images, via JTA)

How Hank Greenberg took on Hitler in the summer of 1938

By Elaine Durbach

Executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations Malcolm Hoenlein in Jerusalem, February 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Top US Jewish leaders ‘disappointed’ by Trump’s embassy waiver

Conference of Presidents expresses hope president will consider moving embassy to Jerusalem soon

BizTank, a haredi Orthodox version of 'Shark Tank,' brings together a panel of mostly Orthodox Jewish investors to hear pitches from entrepreneurs. (Ben Sales/JTA)

There’s an Orthodox version of ‘Shark Tank’

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Gal Gadot in a scene from 'Wonder Woman.' (Clay Enos/Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP)

Gal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman’ headed for over $90m at weekend box office

By AP and ToI Staff

Moroccan Jewish couple Sam Toledano and Vicky Chetrit were murdered in their Casablanca home in July 2016, allegedly by their gardener. (Courtesy)

Moroccan man sentenced to death for killing, dismembering Jewish couple

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an effigy of an Israeli soldier during celebrations marking the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, May 13, 2017 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

12 ultra-Orthodox men detained after attacking cops dressed as IDF soldiers

Georg Kirsberg (CC BY-SA 4.0 Megadolon/Wikipedia)

Estonian politician vows to legalize Holocaust denial

By JTA

Kirk and Anne Douglas at their 60th wedding anniversary in 2014. (Christopher Briscoe)

Lust for LifeHow 100-year-old Kirk Douglas found true love

The clock indicates that it is past midnight, but the sun has only recently set for Muslims in Yellowknife, Canada, who must fit in their prayers around an extreme schedule. (Courtesy Islamic Center Yellowknife)

Arctic Muslims don’t make light of extreme Ramadan schedule

By Cathryn J. Prince

At left, in a Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, Australian tennis great Margaret Court looks on during the official launch of the remodeled Margaret Court Arena at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. At right, in a July 4, 2015, file photo, former Grand Slam champion Martina Navratilova watches from the royal box on Centre Court at the All England Lawn Tennis (AP/File)

Cross CourtAussie tennis legend slams US gay ‘lobby’ for arena row

By AFP

Fine Gael TD for Dublin West and Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar celebrates victory, after winning the party leadership election, at the National Count Centre in Mansion House, Dublin on June 2, 2017. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/AFP)

Ireland set for youngest PM, an openly gay son of immigrants

By Douglas DALBY

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