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What Matters Most On Friday, January 19, 2018

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Rabbi Shmuel Krawatsky (Screenshot from YouTube)

Synagogue, Jewish school fire Baltimore rabbi over molestation charges

By JTA

Shmuel Krawatsky’s dismissal comes after publication of article alleging he inappropriately touched 3 boys at Jewish camp

From our partnerDid Baltimore’s Orthodox community turn a blind eye to child sex abuse?

From our partner‘Kids were hurt. And nothing was done’

By Hannah Dreyfus

From our partnerA painful lesson on child sexual abuse

By Jewish Week Editors

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist terror movement Hamas, take part in a rally marking three years since Operation Protective Edge, on July 20, 2017, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Gaza family kills own son after Hamas says he aided Israel

By AP

Terror group was investigating Ahmed Barhoum, believing him to be responsible for a 2014 airstrike that killed 3 commanders

Illustrative: Border Police officers stand at a checkpoint near Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs on January 19, 2018. (Border Police)

Palestinian woman caught with knives outside Hebron holy site

Illustrative: Soldiers at the scene of a car-ramming attack on a highway in the central West Bank on July 10, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Soldier lightly wounded in Jordan Valley attempted car ramming

The destruction caused by an Iraqi Scud missile that hit the 'Danny House' in Tel Aviv's Hatikva neighborhood in January 1991. (Bamahane/

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

‘We’re going to attack Iraq,’ Israel told the US. ‘Move your planes’

On 27th anniversary of Saddam’s 1991 Scud missile strikes at Israel, Defense Ministry releases interviews with senior officials on how close Israel came to bombing Baghdad

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on December 29, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Relations with Jordan back on track, new envoy to be named in days

By Joshua Davidovich

PM confirms Amman and Jerusalem reach agreement over reparations, restoration of ties following deadly July altercation at Israeli embassy

Jordanian security forces stand on guard as protesters wave Jordanian flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Israel to reopen embassy in Jordan, which touts apology over shooting

By Dov Lieber and Alexander Fulbright

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Trump administration plans to move US embassy to Jerusalem by 2019

By Eric Cortellessa

Transfer will be expedited by converting existing consular building in the Arnona neighborhood of West Jerusalem, instead of building new structure, according to the NYT and WSJ

Macron said to tell Abbas not to rule out Trump peace plan

By Alexander Fulbright

US State Department withholds additional $45 million from UNRWA

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisTrump’s flip-flop-flip on UNWRA no surprise for his tempering security advisers

By Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses a memorial ceremony for Israeli navy soldiers who died in the Dakar Submarine that went missing in 1968, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on January 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Escaped terrorist ‘living like a fleeing dog on borrowed time’

Defense Minister says Hamas can’t lament Gaza’s poverty while carrying out attacks in West Bank and building infrastructure in South Lebanon

Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, 22, head of the terror cell who shot dead Rabbi Raziel Shevach in the West Bank on January 9 (Twitter)

Leader of terror cell that killed rabbi said still at large after Jenin raid

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Israeli security forces carry out raids in the West Bank city of Jenin in pursuit of the Palestinian killers of Israeli rabbi Raziel Shevach on January 18, 2018 (Israel Police)

Hebrew media reviewThe Battle of Jenin

By Adiv Sterman

Drag queen performer Jenayah De Rosario will be featured at a havdalah ceremony at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton, Mass. (JTA Collage/De Rosario photo: Courtesy of De Rosario; havdalah items photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Breaking down stereotypes, Jewish day school to host drag queen Shabbat ceremony

By Josefin Dolsten

In this January 3, 2018, file photo, US Vice President Mike Pence waves as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Pence heads to Jerusalem, epicenter of rift with the Palestinians

By Raphael Ahren

VP’s visit to Egypt, Jordan and — on Sunday — Israel takes place amid high tension sparked by Trump administration’s moves

India’s Modi to visit Ramallah next month

EU mum on Abbas speech because ‘we don’t comment on comments’

By Raphael Ahren

Pence has long pushed for Trump policies on Israel

By Ken Thomas and Tom Lobianco

Rexhep Hoxha, left, and Fatos Qoqja in a bar in Tirania, Albania, November 8, 2017. Qoqja is pictured with a medal that his father received for saving Jews during the Holocaust. (Cnaan Liphshiz/via JTA)

What made Muslim Albanians risk their lives to save Jews from the Holocaust?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Colin Firth gives an acceptance speech at the Oscars after winning the award for best actor on March 3, 2011. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Firth rebukes Woody Allen over daughter’s molestation claims

By Jennie Matthew

Hollywood star joins list of actors vowing not to work with film director amid revived claims he molested his 7-year-old adopted daughter

In this file photo from July 15, 2015, director Woody Allen attends a special screening of "Irrational Man" at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

AnalysisWoody Allen: Prolific film legend stained by scandal

By Jennie Matthew

Dylan Farrow speaks with CBS in an interview aired on January 18, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In first TV interview, Woody Allen’s daughter describes alleged assault

An Israeli army officer looks at a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim, January 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)

In the sand around Gaza, Israel and Hamas dig in a literal race to the bottom

By Judah Ari Gross

Lessons from Hiroshima

How a survivor of the atom bomb stopped hating the pilot who flew the plane

The story we tell

Our tale across the generations gives the gift of identity, and with it, courage and confidence (Bo)

Freedom and justice don’t just happen

The triumph over the tyranny of Pharaoh strengthens our resolve to root out modernity’s plagues and rulers

I used to check the Sabbath eruv

Those who observe the letter of Jewish law are not about to stop using an eruv that lets them carry on Shabbat

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Emergency crews cut a tree blocking a road in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv. The tree fell due to heavy winds as a storm hit the country on January 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

15 hurt, 4 seriously in accidents linked to stormy weather

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a gathering of Bollywood stars in Mumbai, India, on January 18, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Bibi pitches Bollywood to turn popcorn into plane tickets

By Joshua Davidovich

President Donald Trump gives his pen to Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, third from left, after signing one of various bills in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US lawmakers aim to tighten terms of Iran nuclear deal

By AFP

US film director Steven Spielberg poses on the red carpet on arrival for the European premiere of his film 'The Post' in London on January 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

From the webSpielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’

Illustrative: Pro-government demonstrators gather at the Massoumeh shrine in Iran's holy city of Qom on January 3, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Mohammad ALI MARIZAD)

Authorities amputate hand of convicted thief in Iran — report

By AP

Julius Lester after receiving his Samuel Minot Jones Award for Local Literary Achievement, April 16, 2015. (CC BY 2.0 Flikr/Jones Library)

Julius Lester, African-American scholar who converted to Judaism, dies at 78

By JTA

Sisters Toni (R) and Donna Snow, hosts of the DIY Network show "Texas Flip N Move." (Screen capture: YouTube)

DIY Network apologizes for host’s anti-Semitic haggling slur

By JTA

This poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary, reads, 'We can't let Soros get the last laugh.' It was part of a government campaign, July 6, 2017. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images)

Hungary plans ‘Stop Soros’ laws amid refugee row

By Peter Murphy

This file photo taken on February 24, 2017 shows Deputy Assistant to US President Donald Trump, Sebastian Gorka, speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / ALEX WONG)

Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka wanted in Hungary — report

Chelsea soccer players join the World Jewish Congress' #WeRemember Campaign. (Credit: Chelsea Football Club)

UK’s Chelsea soccer club joins campaign to battle anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AFP

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