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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 21, 2018

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Natalie Portman arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Annihilation' at the Regency Village Theatre on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

'I treasure Israeli friends, family, books, art, cinema...'

Natalie Portman on prize snub: ‘I didn’t want to appear to endorse Netanyahu’

Actress says decision to skip Israel event has been ‘mischaracterized,’ stresses she doesn’t back BDS: ‘I can be critical of the leadership without wanting to boycott the nation’

Actress Natalie Portman teaches Hebrew slang in a Vanity Fair video (YouTube screenshot)

Snubbing Israel, Natalie Portman won’t get to distribute Genesis Prize money

By JTA

Natalie Portman, seen in Jerusalem's Nahlaot neighborhood in a scene from 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' February 11, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Israeli minister to Natalie Portman: You have been fooled by Hamas propaganda

The mother (C) of 15-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Ibrahim Ayoub, who was reportedly shot and killed by the IDF during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, sits as another person raises his portrait, among other relatives as they mourn in their home in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza strip on April 21, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Army said to find slain Gaza teen was trying to damage border fence when shot

By ToI Staff and Agencies

EU joins US, UN in urging Israel to investigate Friday’s killing of Mohammed Ayoub, 15; IDF says he apparently crossed barbed wire barrier and was heading to main border fence

Liberman says Hamas to blame for death of 15-year-old in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN envoy tells ‘outrageous’ Israel to stop shooting children in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF probing report, video of 15-year-old said killed in Gaza clashes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A picture taken on April 21, 2018 shows men holding up a poster portrait of 35-year-old Palestinian professor and Hamas member Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh who was killed in Malaysia, outside his family's house in Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas rocket engineer killed in Malaysia; family blames Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, a lecturer in Kuala Lumpur said involved in Hamas rocket and drone development, shot by two gunmen Saturday morning on way to prayers

A kite marked with a swastika, flown across the Gaza border into Israel carrying a petrol bomb on April 20, 2018 (IDF spokesman)

Palestinians fly swastika kite with petrol bomb across Gaza border into Israel

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters fly a kite with a burning rag dangling from its tail, during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Flaming kite from Gaza sets Israeli warehouse ablaze

A view of construction in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on January 26, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Trump’s State Department no longer calls West Bank ‘occupied’ in annual report

By Eric Cortellessa

In first, document on human rights abuses refers simply to ‘Israel, Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza,’ with no comment on the status of the territories

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (L), along with MK Avi Dichter and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, visit a new section of the security barrier between Israel and the West Bank near Tarqumiyah on July 20, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Liberman hails US decision to drop ‘occupied’ from West Bank terminology

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

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

Jerusalem municipality completes signs for new US embassy

Police officers inspect the premises at the 'Schild und Schwert' (Shield and Sword) neo-Nazi festival, in the small eastern German town of Ostritz on April 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)

Hundreds of neo-Nazis attend far-right festival in German town

By AFP and AP

Two-day event for Hitler’s birthday expected to attract up to 1,000 far-right extremists; hundreds more arrive for counter-protests: ‘We don’t want these people here’

Photo provided by Berlin police Friday, April 20, 2018 shows the bomb squad of the state police Berlin posing behind a bomb from WWII that was found in central Berlin and is planned to be defused on Friday. (Polizei Berlin via AP)

WWII bomb defused in Berlin after large evacuation in city center

By David Rising

Josh Rosen #3, quarterback of the UCLA Bruins, warms up before the game against the UCLA Bruins at the Rose Bowl on September 9, 2017 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

The anti-Semitism controversy surrounding NFL prospect Josh Rosen, explained

Speculation swirls ahead of Thursday’s draft, as the one-time favorite sees his stock drop amid debate over his Jewish heritage

A Rube Goldberg postage stamp. (Courtesy Contemporary Jewish Museum)

Though he was no inventor, Rube Goldberg’s ‘machines’ made him a household name

By Rich Tenorio

This picture kept in the Archivio Storico San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and taken on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 shows an undated photo of Father Pio Maria Mortara, third from left, with some of his brothers. It’s an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized. Now the case has reared its head again, with new evidence that memoirs the boy wrote as an adult were altered to take the edge off his anti-Semitic views and enhance details favorable to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo)

Memoir of secretly baptized Jewish boy kidnapped by Vatican under fresh scrutiny

By Nicole Winfield

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem)

Prior commitment

Internet rips into Regev over supposed invite to Thatcher for 70th ceremonies

Social media has a laugh at culture minister’s expense after Knesset speaker claims she sought to invite the late UK leader to Independence Day events

Please, Natalie Portman, don’t abandon Israel

Engage with Israel’s peacemakers — in fact, go to the Gaza border and use your fame to help make peace

Joshua Washington

Fighting white racism with…anti-Semitism

A Black Student Union responded to a fraternity’s blackface photo with a swipe against Zionism

Israel is a permanent work in progress

Consider the sweep of only 7 decades and marvel at the miracle of a decimated people building a modern, vibrant state

Love is not enough

Relationships need rules too, for without clear order, we fall into chaos (Acharei Mot/Kedoshim)

Forged papers of Zivia Lubetkin. (Courtesy Agnes Grunwald-Spier)

(S)heroes

Women’s experience in Holocaust is focus of new book by survivor turned scholar

By Rich Tenorio

Prof. Steven Pinker receiving an honorary doctorate from Simon Fraser University. (Simon Fraser University)

Weird Science

Political correctness is not in this best-selling pop-scientist’s vast lexicon

By JP O’ Malley

Illustrative image of someone called to the Torah. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Paris, the demise of some Jewish congregations is fueling revival in others

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

In this Wednesday, April 18, 2018 photo, North Korean soldiers march at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N. Korea’s Kim promises no more nuclear or missile tests

By AFP

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is seen during a visit to border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on July 5, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

As Iran threatens Israel, Liberman says ‘we have never been so ready’

In this Nov. 24, 2013 file photo, Avicii accepts the award for favorite artist - electronic dance music at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Swedish-born Avicii, whose name is Tim Bergling, was found dead, Friday April 20, 2018, in Muscat, Oman. He was 28. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, File)

Avicii, DJ-producer who performed around the world, dies at 28

By Mesfin Fekadu

David Copperfield in New York City, Nov. 7, 2016. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

An unlucky numberDavid Copperfield forced by lawsuit to reveal signature trick

By JTA

A glimpse at what Emek Refaim Street in the German Colony neighborhood of Jerusalem might look like with the light rail running through it. (Courtesy Refaim BaMoshavot)

Local struggle over light rail intensifies in Jerusalem’s German Colony

By Jessica Steinberg

Trayon White Sr. (Facebook via JTA)

‘Jews control weather’ politician walks out midway through Holocaust museum tour

By JTA

Republican president-elect Donald Trump walks on stage along with, left to right, his son, Barron Trump, wife Melania Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughters Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump, and Vanessa Trump, and sons Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016, New York City. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Democrats sue Trumps, Kushner and Russia over election hacking

By Larry Neumeister

Actress Rachel Weisz (YouTube screenshot)

No denying it‘Denial’ star Rachel Weisz pregnant at 48

By JTA

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