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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 23, 2017

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San Francisco's Pier 39. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Mike Peel, Wikimedia Commons)

FBI: Ex-Marine planned Christmas Day attack on San Francisco tourist area

By Don Thompson

Melbourne car attacker charged with 18 counts of attempted murder

By AFP

‘World wants peace, not death,’ Trump says as UN sanctions N. Korea

By AFP and AP

Sessions orders review of DEA Hezbollah investigation following Obama exposé

Jerusalem Santa, as portrayed by Issa Kassissieh, walking the ramparts of the Old City in Jerusalem, on December 21, 2017. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

'Christians, Muslims, Jews -- they all love Santa Claus'

Trading sleigh for camel, Jerusalem Santa puts the ‘ho, ho, ho’ in holy city

By Jessica Steinberg

Red-suited ex-basketball player Issa Kassissieh, a Christmas fixture in the Old City, is cheerier than ever this year after training at Denver’s Professional Santa Claus School

Palestinians assist a demonstrator in a wheelchair during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border fence east of Gaza City on December 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Second wheelchair-bound Gazan documented in clashes with security forces

Participation of disabled protester in riot along border comes a week after Palestinian double amputee was killed in similar demonstration

Gazan wounded in Israel border clashes last week said to die of injuries

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF stresses ‘no basis’ for claim paraplegic Gaza protester was shot by sniper

Mother of slain soldier to UNSC members: Our son was a victim of your ceasefire

Illustrative: Israeli police clash with Palestinian protesters near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on December 22, 2017.(Suliman Khader/Flash90)

Israel arrests 3 Turks after ‘incident’ near Temple Mount

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police spokesman provides few details of what led to incident, but footage shows men wearing red shirts with Turkish flag scuffling with officers in Old City

Hamas official: Trump gave Jerusalem to descendants of pigs and apes

Lorde may cancel Israel concert after backlash from fans

By JTA

Jake Tapper blasts human rights violators for criticizing Israel at UN

By Gabe Friedman

A giant US flag screened alongside Israel's national flag on the walls of the Old City in Jerusalem, December 6, 2017. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Poll: Fewer than half of Americans support Jerusalem recognition

Only 36% of respondents to CNN survey favor moving US embassy to holy city; support for Trump recognizing Israel’s capital split along party lines

‘Several countries’ in talks with Israel on moving embassies, PM says

Israel to formally announce intent to leave UNESCO

Romania parliament head calls to ‘seriously consider’ Jerusalem embassy move

By Raphael Ahren

Joel Pollak in front of the Trump/Pence presidential campaign plane in 2016. (Courtesy)

Interview

How an Orthodox journalist went from far-left activist to Breitbart editor

By Amihai Zippor

Sholom Rubashkin, seen in Postville, Iowa, in December 2004, served eight years of a 27-year prison term for bank fraud. (Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images via JTA)

How Sholom Rubashkin’s supporters got Trump to commute his sentence

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, prominent lawyers and Orthodox Jews all urged for pardon of Kosher meatpacking CEO

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The mermaid mothers

I can speak Hebrew the whole day long, but I’m never fully myself, and that hurts

What do you do when there’s a suspected abuser in your community, and it’s someone you know and respect?

Judaica Research Centre chief Lara Lempertiene stands amid rediscovered Jewish documents, long thought to have been destroyed during World War II, at the Lithuanian national library in Vilnius on November 3, 2017. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

‘Breathtaking’ Jewish Vilnius trove reveals pre-war ‘Jerusalem of the North’

By Vaidotas Beniusis and Mary SIBIERSKI

In this Thursday, December 14, 2017 photo, Rabbi Chuck Davidson holds a wedding service in Ein Hemed. A growing number of Israeli couples are defying the country’s Chief Rabbinate and marrying in unsanctioned weddings. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

With few options, Israeli couples turn to rogue weddings

By Ilan Ben Zion

A man waving a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the HaCarmel kosher restaurant in Amsterdam, December 7, 2017. (Ginopress B.V./AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Swept under the rug

Why Dutch Jews are up in arms over the handling of a kosher restaurant attack

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Princess Michael of Kent (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Queen’s cousin apologizes for ‘racist’ jewelry at meeting with Meghan Markle

By AP and ToI Staff

An Israeli is seen at the Rose Garden across from the Knesset during international marijuana smoking day in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli pot dealers boost business with high tech smokescreen

By Steve Weizman

Berlin skyline (CC BY-SA A.Savin/Wikimedia Commons/File)

German-Arab students praise Hitler to Jewish classmate

By JTA

US President Donald Trump holds up a copy of legislation before signing the tax reform bill into law in the Oval Office December 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish groups find small victories in a tax bill they otherwise hate

A cornerstone is laid for a new synagogue in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, December 18, 2017 (Facebook photo)

In Montenegro, cornerstone laid for first synagogue in centuries

By JTA

In this photo taken Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, a man reads a book in a bookstore where flags which represents Turkey and 'East Turkistan,' the name Uighurs who oppose Chinese rule call their homeland, are hung in Istanbul's Zeytinburnu neighborhood. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Uighur militants in Syria look to Zionism as model for their homeland

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