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What Matters Most On Friday, March 9, 2018

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Illustrative: Britain's opposition Labour party's leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech at a rally on the eve of Labour Conference in Brighton, September 23, 2017. (AFP/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

Before elected Labour leader, Corbyn was part of an anti-Semitic Facebook group

By Robert Philpot

As the party suspends members for hateful posts, a 280-page report details a slew of racist and anti-Israel material posted in the Palestine Live forum

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. (Courtesy Core18)

From our partnerRabbi Jonathan Sacks at 70: ‘I feel younger than five years ago’

By Justin Cohen

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, talk to the press after they attend an exhibit entitled '3000 years of history: Jews in Jerusalem' at the United Nations on March 8, 2018. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Netanyahu to US talk radio: Israelis support me despite corruption allegations

By Raoul Wootliff

PM tells conservative shock jock Mark Levin most of the public understands his contributions to country and ‘have a real confidence in the future’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's former spokesman Nir Hefetz (foreground) and Bezeq controlling shareholder Shaul Elovitch attend a remand hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Ex-Netanyahu confidant reportedly agrees to confront PM and his wife

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at an IDF base on March 10, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg)

Former defense minister says Netanyahu tried to ‘take over’ Army Radio

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman (left), Shas leader Aryeh Deri (center), and United Torah Judaism chief Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox conscription bill heads to cabinet as parties look to end crisis

Defense minister insists IDF’s needs must play central role in determining Israel’s military draft policy, but signals openness to compromise

Defense minister slams ‘extortion’ by ultra-Orthodox over conscription bill

Israel media reviewGearing up for confrontation: 10 things for March 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Ultra-Orthodox draft protesters block entrance to Jerusalem for three hours

Thousands of runners take part in the international Jerusalem Marathon on March 9, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essay

35,000 race through Jerusalem in capital’s largest-ever marathon

By Jessica Steinberg and ToI Staff

Gal Gdot attends the 90th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images/AFP)

Wonder Women's Day

Gal Gadot says feminism is equality, not ‘bra burning’

Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ star calls for equal pay and opportunities in Hollywood after a year dominated by sexual harassment scandals

A still from "The Wall" by Moran Ifergan. (Photo courtesy of Lev Cinemas)

Her marriage in crisis, director finds solace filming at Western Wall

By Simona Weinglass

Illustrative: Students protesting against gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, February 21, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

How ‘Never Again’ evolved from Holocaust commemoration slogan to universal call

Rooted in the Holocaust experience, the phrase has come to serve a huge variety of political and social causes, from Meir Kahane’s militancy to gun control

Anti-government protesters shout slogans during ceremonies marking the 50th anniversary of student protests that were exploited by the communists to purge Jews from Poland, at the Warsaw University in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (AP /Alik Keplicz)

Hecklers shout ‘shame’ at Polish president over Holocaust law

By JTA and AP

Bedouin students arrive at school at Khan al-Ahmar, near the Kfar Adumim settlement in the West Bank on September 2, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Unwanted by Israel and the PA, Bedouin have nowhere to go but ‘up in the air’

Activists carry placards and ballons during a feminist march in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev to mark International Women's Day on March 8, 2018. (AFP/Sergei SUPINSKY)

International Women's Day

Eastern Europe’s Jews are being led by women, partially thanks to communism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

USSR’s feminist agenda still reverberates in many Eastern Bloc countries, the only places in Europe where national Jewish communities are headed by females

Pictured: 'Jakob and Esau' by Dutch painter Matthias Stom. In 'From Forbidden Fruit to Milk and Honey,' editor Diana Lipton offers commentary about the Bible and food, such as the lentil soup traded by one twin for his brother's birthright (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

What the Torah talks about when it talks about food

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara touring an exhibition on Jerusalem's history at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM raps UN for distancing itself from exhibit on Jerusalem’s Jewish history

By Eric Cortellessa

UN official says the offending signs are placed in front of all exhibits, but Netanyahu sees disclaimer in context of UN anti-Israel positions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with United States Ambassador to the UN, Nicky Haley, in New York, USA, on March 8, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu calls Nikki Haley a ‘tsunami of fresh air’ at UN

By JTA

Palestinian boys ride bicycles in Gaza City on March 8, 2018. (AFP/ MOHAMMED ABED)

White House to convene Gaza ‘stakeholders’ for summit on saving Strip

Administration mum on guest list for brainstorming session devoted to solving humanitarian crisis in enclave, announced by Greenblatt

A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations' offices at the United Nations' offices in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

PM said to push funneling Palestinian refugee aid via Jordan

Jordan's King Abdullah II (right), meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and their delegations at the Royal Palace, in Amman, Jordan, January 29, 2018. (Khalil Mazraawi, Pool via AP)

Arabs advising Abbas to accept Trump peace plan or risk losing out — report

By Khaled Abu Toameh

A world without women

The ultra-Orthodox erasure of female images is a drastic deviation from the Jewish concept of modesty

The lesson of Marjory Stoneman Douglas teens

The kids know what they’re doing; it’s on adults to empower them to take over the conversation with policymakers

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Who still sees the wonder of Judaism?

Religion is the art of knowing what to do with amazement and how to protect it from complacency

Our highest achievement is self-limitation — moving ourselves over for the sake of someone else (Vayakhel-Pekudei)

Etty Ausch said her sexuality was cut from Netflix’s 'One of Us.' (Courtesy of Ausch/via JTA)

Woman’s sexuality cut from hit Netflix documentary about leaving Hasidic Judaism

By Josefin Dolsten

US President Donald Trump in the White House, February 9, 2018, and an illustration of Cyrus the Great. (Getty images/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Trump the great

Who is King Cyrus, and why did Netanyahu compare him to Trump?

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Mysterious Persian ruler is credited for helping Jews return from exile to Jerusalem 2,500 years ago, rebuild the Temple

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From left, Tony Sirico, Steven Van Zandt, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli and Vicint Pastore, shown in this undated photo, star in the HBO drama series "The Sopranos." (AP /HBO, Anthony Neste)

Bada bing!‘Sopranos’ to return with big-screen prequel

By AP

The Orot Rabin Power Station in Hadera, seen from the ruins of ancient Caesarea, Israel, July 24, 2015. (Garrett Mills/Flash 90)

Teen arrested for throwing flare at PM’s house during protest

Former Australian principal Malka Leifer, who wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes is seen at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court orders alleged Australian molester kept in custody

By AP and ToI Staff

US Rep. Danny Davis, an Illinois Democrat (US House of Representatives/Wikipedia/Public Domain)

Congressman who praised Farrakhan condemns preacher’s anti-Semitic views

By ToI Staff and JTA

Picture taken on March 7, 2018 shows German Justice Minister Heiko Maas prior to a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / DPA / Michael Kappeler)

German anti-Nazi crusader Heiko Maas to become foreign minister

By Frank Zeller

The border fence between Israel and Lebanon with the southern Lebanese village of Blida in the background, from the Israeli kibbutz of Yiftah, on January 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Israel, Lebanon talking ‘nearly every day’ in bid to avoid conflict

Former Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner (R) is honored as a 'great friend' to Israel at the annual World Values Network dinner, March 8, 2018. Also pictured, from left: Sean Spicer, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Steve Mnuchin. (Danielle Ziri/Times of Israel)

Caitlyn Jenner receives Jewish group’s ‘Champion of Israel’ award at NY gala

By Danielle Ziri

Illustrative: 2,000 Israeli women sing Sia's 'Titanium' in honor of International Women's Day on March 8, 2018. (Screen capture/ Facebook)

Choir power2,000 Israeli women sing Sia’s ‘Titanium’ for Women’s Day

The Google search bar (Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Swedish Jews complain Google searches returning anti-Semitic results

By JTA

Students at Institute Machon CHaMeSH for women, which will become part of Moscow's first Jewish university (YouTube screenshot)

Modeled on Yeshiva University, first Jewish university to open in Russia

By JTA

View of the US Consulate in Jerusalem's Arnona neighborhood, February 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Part of new US embassy site in Jerusalem may be in disputed territory — report

A Jerusalem youth carries the Hamas flag (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

EU: Jerusalem residency law could make Palestinians’ status ‘precarious’

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

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