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What Matters Most On Monday, January 8, 2018

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Ffom left, Natalie Portman, America Ferrera,Emma Stone and Billie Jean King arrive for the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (AFP PHOTO / VALERIE MACON)

Jewish leading ladies steal the show at Golden Globes

By Tracy Frydberg

In an evening that was less about awards and more about taking a public stance against sexual misconduct, Jewish women led the way

Oprah Winfrey arrives with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in the press room during The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Oprah says ‘time is up’ for abusive men in powerful Globes speech

By KRISTIN M. HALL

Actress Allison Williams arrives for the 75th Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (AFP/VALERIE MACON)

Golden Globes glitz overshadowed by sex scandals as red carpet rolls out

By AP

Illustrative: Jordanian security forces are seen on December 19, 2016, during the funeral of victims who were killed a day earlier in an attack in Karak, a tourist destination. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan foiled Islamic State plot to ‘sow chaos’ in kingdom, state media says

Security forces arrested 17 men in November who planned coordinated attacks around the country, including shopping malls and mosques

Illustrative: Members of Hamas terror group carry the body of Mohamed al-Astal, killed in a tunnel collapse, during his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2016. (AFP / SAID KHATIB)

Hamas member dies in ‘accidental explosion’ in Gaza, terror group says

Stephen Bannon, left, and Jared Kushner attending a White House swearing-in ceremony of senior staff, January 22, 2017. (Andrew Harrer-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

In new book, Israel seen as locus of Bannon-Kushner power struggle

By Eric Cortellessa

Top adviser tried to paint Trump’s son in law as weak on the Jewish state as the two competed for the president’s backing, Michael Wolff claims in ‘Fire and Fury’

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, takes his seat to watch Vice President Mike Pence administer the oath of office to US Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Kushner’s financial ties to Israel raise questions over peace broker role

By Stuart Winer

White House special adviser Stephen Miller defends US President Donald Trump on the CNN show State of the Union, January 7, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

After spat over Trump book, White House adviser said ousted from CNN by security

Live updates (closed)

In recording, Yair Netanyahu heard asking businessman’s son to ‘spot him’ money

By Alexander Fulbright

Citing ‘awesome’ $20 billion deal advanced by premier that benefited Ori Maimon’s father, younger Netanyahu appears to request NIS 400

7:23 pm

Ehud Barak calls Yair Netanyahu a 'narcissist' over recordings
7:05 pm

Opposition MKs slam Yair Netanyahu over strip club recordings
6:47 pm

Netanyahus slam broadcast of recordings of Yair Netanyahu

Momentum founder Jon Lansman. (YouTube)

Analysis

Jeremy Corbyn’s biggest Jewish backer sows discord within UK Labour party

By Robert Philpot

The unmarried members of the Jewish club

If it takes marriage to keep Jews practicing, we must step up to include those who defy the nuclear family stereotype

Joseph C. Kaplan

Retirement is a beautiful thing

I get to replace the commute and Monday mornings with travel and grandkids — what could be better?

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Pictures from the promenade

A year ago, 4 soldiers were murdered in this magical place, where our past meets our present and colors our future

When modest dress cloaks abuse

Time to discard the distorted notion that girls are responsible for male self-control

Rahma al-Assad, left, and Tasnin al-Assad, two Bedouin Israeli 19-year-old women suspected of plotting terror attacks against Jewish Israelis on behalf of the Islamic State terrorist group, who were indicted on January 8, 2017. (Shin Bet)

2 Bedouin women, 19, charged with joining IS, plotting New Year’s terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet arrests pair from southern Israel; 24-year-old East Jerusalem man also indicted in connection with plot

A Pakistani walks in the main hall of a church following a suicide attack in Quetta, Pakistan, December 17, 2017. (Arshad Butt/AP)

Worldwide suicide attacks on the wane, but more bombers than ever female

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian children do their homework by candlelight in their family home, during a power cut in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 18, 2013. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

After months of cuts, Israel to increase electricity to Gaza at PA’s request

US Secretary of State John Kerry sits across from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif on July 1, 2015, in Vienna, Austria (State Department photo)

Iran warns world to prepare for US nuke deal withdrawal

By AFP

Tehran says Washington will face ‘appropriate and heavy response’ if Trump administration walks away from 2015 accord

Iran’s Zarif warns foreign powers against ‘misusing’ unrest

By Nasser Karimi

Iran bans English lessons for elementary school children

By Stuart Winer

CIA chief denies agency role in Iran unrest, predicts new violence

By AFP

In Weimar, Germany, Adolf Hitler participates in a Nazi party rally, 1930 (public domain)

What did Germans know? Secret anti-Nazi diary gives voice to man on the street

By Matt Lebovic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset on May 29, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM leading ‘multifaceted’ effort against Iranian presence in Syria – minister

By Tamar Pileggi

Reversing the entrenchment of Tehran-backed forces along northern border will take ‘a few years,’ says Yuval Steinitz, but Israel is determined

Israeli soldiers patrol the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, file (Basel Awidat/ Flash90)

Security cabinet said holding ‘significant’ meetings on threats from north

Chulent (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Hebrew media review

Mini-market law brings a day of risk over the day of rest

By Joshua Davidovich

Even if the coalition manages to pass the bill shuttering shops on Shabbat, pundits fear the move could end up tearing apart Likud and society at large

MK Motti Yogev at a meeting of the Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting, June 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shabbat bill threatened as death of MK’s mother shakes coalition majority

By Raoul Wootliff

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (l) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, Knesset in Jerusalem on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Bennett hold yelling match at cabinet meeting — report

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Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis take part in a violent protest in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 27, 2009. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox allegedly stone soldier’s car, causing him to crash

By Judah Ari Gross

View of the Bitcoin Change center on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, showcasing a museum describing the history of the cryptocurrency as well as hosting a Bitcoin ATM and a meeting place for cryptocurrency community meetups. November 05, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Knesset begins grappling with cryptocurrencies

By Marissa Newman

Sarah Silverman participates in a panel during the Hulu Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Thursday, July 27, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Sarah Silverman’s birthday wishes to her nephew in the IDF bring out the haters

By JTA

Elizabeth Tinker and Noah Smalls install an American Friends Service Committee exhibit at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Tuesday, January 10, 2017. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Nobel-winning Quakers vow to keep up campaign after banned from Israel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Palestinians seek to join UN as full member – report

Jerusalem's Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III leads the Christmas Midnight Mass for the Greek Orthodox at the Church of the Nativity in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, on January 7, 2018. (Musa Al Shaer/AFP)

Orthodox patriarch: ‘Jewish settlers’ threat to Christian presence in Holy Land

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this Jan. 4, 2018 photo, chef Shaul Ben Aderet holds up a small "drop tomato" at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Little wonderIsraeli company says it has developed tiniest cherry tomato

By AUDREY HOROWITZ

Then-deputy minister Michael Oren reads his fiction to a crowd at Jerusalem's Tmol Shilshom on January 4, 2018. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Personal talesIt’s all fiction for Michael Oren, when sharing his short stories

By Jessica Steinberg

People taking part in the annual international "No Pants Subway Ride" day wait for the Jerusalem light train on January 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

News briefsJerusalemites drop trow for worldwide ‘No Pants’ ride

By AFP

Illustrative image of a person being arrested. (BrianAJackson via iStock by Getty images)

Jerusalem man charged with hundreds of counts of raping teen daughter

Israeli diplomats protest in Tel Aviv holding a sign reading 'Lost diplomacy = an isolated Israel,' July 3, 2103 (Flash90/Roni Schutzer)

Israeli missions overseas, immigrants, tourists targeted for 2019 budget cuts

The Vainer twins, just hanging out (Courtesy Guy Vainer)

This Israeli dad takes absurd photos of his twin boys

By Jessica Steinberg

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