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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 20, 2018

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Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman bans chief rabbi from IDF events over anti-women comments

Defense minister says there’s ‘no place’ for statements by three top rabbis against female integration in military

Joint (Arab) List head Ayman Odeh addresses a question to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on July 18, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Arab MK calls Pence ‘dangerous, messianic,’ will boycott his Knesset speech

By Alexander Fulbright

Head of the Joint List head also rails against Trump, brands him a ‘political pyromaniac’ and a racist woman-hater

Pence heads to Mideast amid Israel embassy storm

Top Egyptian imam doubles down on refusal to meet Pence over Jerusalem

Egypt’s President Sissi says he will stand for re-election

Jordanian protesters wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for the shutting down the of the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Israel paying families of slain Jordanians $5m in reparations — report

Kingdom says Jerusalem agreed to pay compensation over deaths of three people, in order to end diplomatic standoff

Russian politician Grigory Yavlinsky attends a ceremony for slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov at the Saharovsky Center in Moscow, on March 3, 2015. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

Liberal Jewish politician emerging as main opposition challenger to Putin

By Cnaan Liphshiz

With Alexei Navalny disqualified, long-time reformer Grigory Yavlinsky has become most well-known figure running against Russian leader

The Twitter app on a mobile phone. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Twitter says Russia-linked US-election accounts more widespread than thought

By AFP

An Israeli border policeman takes position during clashes with Palestinians protestors on January 12, 2018 north of Ramallah in the West Bank. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Palestinians appeal to ICC to halt alleged Israeli crimes

PA foreign minister urges The Hague’s chief prosecutor to hold Jerusalem accountable for violence and arrests, particularly of children

Top PA negotiator ‘urged Abbas to reject US peace deal as details emerged’

By Alexander Fulbright

UNRWA head: US aid freeze ‘not related to our performance’

By AFP and ToI Staff

New police footage shows nighttime anti-terror raid in Jenin

Syrian pro-government forces in the Jisr al-Haj neighborhood of Aleppo on December 14, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Way too soon

Assad regime promotes Syria as ‘tourist’ destination

By AFP

With war seemingly reigned in, Damascus is courting foreign travelers for the first time in seven years

David Kellman, Eddy Galland and Bobby Shafran appear in 'Three Identical Strangers' by Tim Wardle, an official selection of the US Documentary Competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Sundance film festival debuts dark tale of Jewish triplets split at birth

By Frankie TAGGART

An Israeli soldier does a mock dance with his rifle in “Foxtrot.” (Sony Pictures Classics)

Fantastic flicks

The 5 best Jewish films to watch this Oscar season

From award contenders to short gems, there is no shortage of high-quality works to see

Harold Goldmeier

Rabbi Akiva as deadbeat husband

In The Orchard, novelist Yochi Brandes reams the revered sage for choosing fulltime Torah study over his family

William Hamilton

In Hawaii, false alarm, true humanity

Judaism favors experiences over information, especially those that inspire us to do good (Parshat Bo)

Participants in the New York Women’s March marching with the Workmen’s Circle, Jan 21, 2017. (Courtesy of Workmen’s Circle/JTA)

Jewish groups gear up for Women’s March 2018

By Josefin Dolsten

The event, which last year took place in cities around the world the day after Trump’s inauguration, is set to kick off Saturday

Installation view of 'Scenes from the Collection.' The 'Accumulations' segment will be on view through September 16, 2018 at The Jewish Museum, New York. (Photo by: Jason Mandella)

650 works from NY Jewish Museum’s private stockpile on show in massive exhibit

By Cathryn J. Prince

In this Tuesday, May 23, 2017 file photo, US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Analysis

Josef Federman

Trump support carries both rewards and risks for Israel

Though Netanyahu’s relations with Washington have greatly improved over the past year, the friendship could also harm Israel in the long run

Trump: Democrats ‘could have easily made deal’ to avert government shutdown

US government shuts down after failed Senate vote

By Zeke Miller, Andrew Taylor and Alan Fram

AnalysisWhich terrorists are greater threat, foreign or domestic? ADL, Washington differ

A Senate committee advanced the nomination of Kenneth Marcus, seen in a 2017 photo, for a prominent civil rights post at the Department of Education. (Facebook/JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Trump education nominee battles BDS. That’s not why Democrats oppose him

Although some are pushing narrative that Kenneth Marcus’s Israel advocacy is central to the controversy over his nomination, there is little evidence to prove this is the case

Artist and podcast creator Zoe Penina Baker at her 'Miss Mitzvah' exhibition at the Museum of Jewish Montreal. The exhibit will be on display through January 20, 2018. (courtesy)

Awkward dances and strapless dresses: A podcast takes on bat mitzvah culture

By Tracy Frydberg

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Illustrative: A view of Amsterdam (CC BY-SA Swimmerguy269/Wikipedia)

Amsterdam synagogue, Jewish hospice targeted in vandalism incidents

By JTA

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to reporters at the United Nations on January 19, 2018. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)

Russia: Iran nuclear deal would fall apart without US support

By AFP

University of Warwick (Wikimedia Commons/Mike1024, public domain)

Jews said barred from UK campus lecture on Israel’s ‘reproductive sabotage’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Leah and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, attend a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem on February 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Family of fallen soldier held by Hamas calls to keep body of Jenin terrorist

By Alexander Fulbright

A yellow star patch with the words 'Gun Owner' for sale on gun enthusiast site Tacticalshit.com (screenshot)

US website offers yellow star patches for ‘persecuted’ gun owners

A view of the Auschwitz death camp in Oswiecim, Poland (YouTube screenshot)

WWII Soviet bomber parts found in lake near Auschwitz

By AFP

Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

French Jewish group demands action following rash of anti-Semitic incidents

By JTA

Jono Simbolon (front), an Indonesian Christian, grimaces in pain as he is flogged in front of a crowd outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, on January 19, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN)

Indonesian Christian publicly whipped for selling sharia-banned booze

By AFP

Finnish educator Marja-Kristiina (second from right) and ICEI director Don Futterman in an Israeli classroom. (Courtesy Ilan Spira)

For classroom success, import the Finnish method, says Israeli group

By Jessica Steinberg

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