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What Matters Most On Friday, March 16, 2018

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US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

TV report: Netanyahu tells cabinet Trump is likely to exit Iran deal by May

Relaying details of their meeting last week, prime minister reportedly says US president made threat to bolt accord in presence of Pence, Tillerson

Iran slams ‘simple-minded’ Saudi crown prince over Hitler jab

By AFP

Lebanese PM says army to deploy along Israeli border

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah number two says terror group prepared for ‘foolish’ Israeli action

The citation presented to Leonard Bernstein by members of the orchestra in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany after he led them in a concert hangs on the wall in this iconic 1955 image of a young Leonard Bernstein, composing in his studio. (Al Ravenna/Library of Congress)

Noble conduct

For centennial, huge Bernstein exhibit highlights conductor’s devotion to Israel

By Penny Schwartz

African asylum seekers gather at the entrance to Holot Detention Center on Saturday, June 18, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prominent Israel advocates urge Netanyahu to reverse course on deportations

Alan Dershowitz, Abe Foxman among group warning PM that expulsion of asylum-seekers could hurt Israel and Diaspora Jewry

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (C) and judges Hanan Melcer and Neil Hendel arrive to hear an an appeal against deportation of African asylum seekers at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on March 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

High court temporarily halts deportation of African migrants

Talia Tallman (l) and her three-year-old son Escher. (Facebook via JTA)

Mother of 3-year-old with cancer barred from flight: Airline has zero compassion

By JTA

Tallman family heading from Florida to LA for doctor’s appointment got stuck in security line and Spirit Airlines refused to allow them to board

Military forces work on a van in Winterslow, England, on March 12, 2018, as investigations continue into the nerve-agent poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Israel denounces UK nerve agent attack, without mentioning Russia

By Judah Ari Gross

In vaguely worded statement, Foreign Ministry says it ‘condemns vigorously’ the ‘event that occurred in Great Britain’

US accuses Russia of ongoing operation to hack and spy on its energy grid

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman

US imposes sanctions on Russians for election meddling

By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman

Israel media reviewRussian roulette with an unloaded gun: Nine things to know for March 16

By Joshua Davidovich

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)

Outcry after Chief Rabbinate bars women from exam on Jewish laws

By JTA

Orthodox women threaten lawsuit after request to take test on family purity rejected for no apparent reason; activist calls move ‘illegal’

Noam Oren (L) and his wife on their wedding day on August 16, 2016. (Yarin Taranos/courtesy)

Orthodox couple appeals to High Court after Rabbinate puts them in marital limbo

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A Jewish couple stand underneath the 'chuppah' during their wedding in a synagogue in Paris, France, July 21, 2013. (Serge Attal/Flash90/via JTA)

New Israeli bill would punish Jewish foreigners with ‘chained’ wives

By JTA

The Lodz ghetto residential area sign reading, 'Jews. Entry Forbidden.' (Henryk Ross/Art Gallery of Ontario, gift from the Archive of Modern Conflict/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts)

Poland demands Yad Vashem remove reference to ‘Polish police’ guarding ghetto

By JTA

In latest dispute relating to incendiary Holocaust law, top Polish official fumes at historically documented Lodz text he saw during tour of Holocaust memorial

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, from left, wait for the start of a commemoration on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the connection to Hitler Germany, the so-called Anschluss, at the Hofburg palace in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

PM hails Austrian leader’s ‘powerful’ Holocaust speech

By Raphael Ahren

Ra'anan mayor Eitan Ginzburg, February 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook video)

Ra’anana gets Israel’s first openly gay mayor

Eitan Ginzburg appointed to lead council until October elections after Ze’ev Bielski leaves to take up post of nation’s housing czar

Itzhak Perlman with his wife, Toby, in a scene from 'Itzhak.' (Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment/via JTA)

Interview

Cracking dad jokes with Itzhak Perlman, the violin virtuoso next door

By Jordan Hoffman

Members of the Hamas security forces inspect the crater left at the site of an explosion that targeted the convoy of the Palestinian Prime Minister during his visit to the Gaza strip, near the Erez crossing, on March 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Something is rotten in the terrorist kingdom of Hamas

Bomb attacks against PA prime minister and IDF troops in areas under full control of terror group point to someone on the inside trying to undermine the organization’s strategy

Haley plan would cut development aid to countries not backing US at UN — report

By Eric Cortellessa

In war games, 100 Israelis ‘killed’ as army preps for attacks on multiple fronts

By Judah Ari Gross

Report: Netanyahu exaggerates PA payments to terrorists

By JTA

Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Baruch Ramatsky, holding the Torah scroll Ramatsky's family has kept hidden for the last 90 years, inside the synagogue of Tomsk, February 1, 2018. (Courtesy Chabad of Tomsk)

The torah revealed

In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed

By Yaakov Schwartz

Naomi Hornstein (left) and Molly Schulman holding megaphones at an If Not Now protest outside the Zionist Organization of America gala in New York City. (Gili Getz)

Progressive Jewish millennials are returning to their roots — thanks to Trump

By Steven Davidson

Previously unaffiliated young Jewish adults are galvanized by the growth of the alt-right — and increasingly draw on their heritage to project their values

Report: McMaster out as top Trump security aide

By AFP and ToI Staff

'You're fired!'Tumult engulfing his White House, Trump jokes ‘who’s next?’

By Zeke Miller, Jonathan Lemire and Catherine Lucey

Larry Kudlow: 5 things to know about the bar mitzvah boy turned Zionist Catholic

Why kill birds to keep planes safe?

Israeli birds wouldn’t alter course, so the pilots steer clear of the migration routes instead

Zaki Shalom and Jonathan Mintzer

An Iranian drone and Israel’s disproportionate response

Teheran will likely get the message and back down — but in case of a clash, Israel now has the upper hand

The call: What life wants from me

You may have to follow paths that turn out to be false before you find your true vocation; I did (Vayikra)

Jerold S. Auerbach

That’s a novel idea, trading land for peace

When you claim Israel’s targeted killings ignore your peace plan, you’re forgetting the efforts of 25 years

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Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, January 8, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Kahlon says he would leave coalition if PM indicted

The cover of the Great Leaders book. (Screen capture: .pegasusforkids.com)

Indian publisher urged to pull book calling Hitler a ‘great leader’

Police forensics officers works alongside an underground tube train at a platform at Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017 following an explosion. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)

Iraqi asylum seeker guilty of London Tube bombing

By AFP

Muhammad Ali Najafi, a former mayor of Tehran, Iran, who resigned amid a scandal over his attendance at a dance recital in March 2018. (Tasnim news agency)

Tehran mayor forced to resign for attending a girls dance recital

By AP

Security camera footage showing former deputy Scot Peterson did not enter Stoneman Douglas High School during a shooting there, in which 17 people were killed, on February 14, 2018. (Screen capture)

Video shows officer failed to act at Parkland school massacre

By AFP

White supremacists hang an anti-Semitic banner on a highway overpass that reads 'UnJew Humanity' (Courtesy: Anti-Defamation League)

White supremacists hung 72 banners across US in last 10 months — watchdog

By Eric Cortellessa

Beitar striker Antony Varenne. (YouTube screenshot)

Police mulling investigation into soccer player sex abuse video

George Nader speaking on June 17, 1998. (Screen capture: C-Span)

Mueller witness is convicted pedophile with shadowy past as a Mideast negotiator

By AP and ToI Staff

Supporter of Conor Lamb, the Democratic candidate for the March 13 special election in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, Judy Kramer of Bavington, Pennsylvania, arrives early for Lamb's election night party in nearby Cecil, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jewish groups cheer Democrat’s surprise win in Pennsylvania

Former foreign minister David Levy, seen on March 3, 2003. (Flash90)

Veteran Likud politician David Levy wins Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement

A Barbie doll in the image of Iris Apfel, right. (Courtesy of Mattel Inc. via JTA)

Fashion guru Iris Apfel, 96, immortalized as Barbie doll

By JTA

File: Palestinian construction workers from the West Bank village of Abadiya, during their coffee break at a house under renovation in the Jewish settlement of Alon, south of Jerusalem, on February 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Court orders Jews-only job site to be taken down

By Judah Ari Gross

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