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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 28, 2018

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Palestinians try to pull down part of the border fence between Israel and Gaza east of Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, during the fifth straight Friday of mass riots along the border between Gaza and Israel, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Rights group calls for arms embargo on Israel over Gaza riots

Amnesty International accuses IDF of carrying out ‘murderous assault’ on Palestinians at border; Israel says terror group Hamas uses protests as cover for bids to breach fence

Screenshot from IDF video showing Palestinians at the Gaza-Israel border fence, April 27, 2018 (IDF video)

Israeli army releases footage showing ‘hundreds’ trying to breach Gaza fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

File: Palestinian fishing boats are seen at the sea port in Gaza City on April 1, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Israel strikes Hamas naval post in Gaza in response to attack on border fence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People wear kippas at a demonstration in Berlin, April 25, 2018. (AP/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin activists to distribute 10,000 kippas in city’s parks on Sunday

Individuals will wear the skullcaps on their own, experience vulnerability of being Jewish in Germany, organizers say

A picture of a model holding money while wearing a rabbi costume seen on the Amazon Germany website. (screen capture: Amazon)

Amazon Germany pulls ad for money-flashing rabbi costume

By JTA

Henrik Mordechai Gideon, Holocaust survivor and former prisoner at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, gives explanations on a site map prior to the inauguration of the Muehldorfer Hart camp memorial site near Waldkraiburg, southern Germany, on April 27, 2018. (AFP/dpa/Matthias Balk)

German memorial finally honors forced laborers of forgotten Nazi camp

By Pauline CURTET

At least 2,200 prisoners, many of them Hungarian Jews, died at Muehldorfer Hart and were buried on-site in a mass grave

Carrie Bornstein of Boston prepares for an injection during her surrogate pregnancy for a British-Jewish couple living in London, 2017 (courtesy)

A surrogate mother’s ‘logical decision’ to help a couple living 3,269 miles away

By Matt Lebovic

Transportation and Intelligence Minister Israel Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2018. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Pool/Flash90)

Israeli minister: Korean pledge for denuclearization will help revamp Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel Katz says Trump is now better positioned to convince EU to tighten screws on Iran nuclear accord; accuses Pyongyang and Tehran of missile cooperation

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shakes hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in (R) at the Military Demarcation Line that divides their countries ahead of their summit at the truce village of Panmunjom on April 27, 2018.(AFP PHOTO / Korea Summit Press Pool / Korea Summit Press Pool)

North Korea says historic summit opens ‘new era for peace’

By Park Chan-Kyong

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event honoring the US Olympic team in the North Portico of the White House on April 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Trump takes credit for Koreas’ summit, declares ‘war to end’

By Sunghee Hwang

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel listens during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on April 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Merkel, at White House, says Iran deal ‘not sufficient’ to curb nuclear program

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Meeting Trump to discuss US threat to leave accord, German leader says nations should be ‘in lock step’; Pompeo states he’s working to address Trump’s concerns on the deal

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a bilateral meeting with US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on April 26, 2018 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Defense Minister says Russia is a ‘very pragmatic’ actor in Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu shake hands at the end of a joint press conference following their talks in Moscow on April 28, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

Russia, Turkey, Iran hold talks on Syria situation

By Olga Rotenberg

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump says he ‘may go’ to next month’s Jerusalem embassy opening

By Eric Cortellessa and AFP

US president tells reporters he’s ‘very proud’ of new, low-cost facility, says many presidents ‘made campaign promises and never had courage to carry it out. I carried it out’

Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila, left, stands next to Romania's President Klaus Iohannis after the swearing in of her cabinet, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, January 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Romanian PM rejects president’s call to resign over Israel embassy spat

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

In this June 6, 2017, file photo Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, left, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee speak after closed meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

GOP-led House panel clears Trump campaign in Russia probe

By Tom Lobianco and CHAD DAY

Israeli emergency services take part in a search and rescue mission near the Dead Sea on April 26, 2018. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

‘We called out their names, nobody answered’ — teen recalls deadly flood

Member of group hit by torrent that killed 10 in desert ravine describes moment friends were swept away. ‘It was a powerful wave, I’d never seen anything like it’

Military helicopters search for missing teens swept away in the flooding of the Tzafit River, a riverbed near the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on April 26, 2018. (Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90)

ATV driver swept away in flash flood found safe after hours-long search

Israel's Sagi Muki poses on the podium with his gold medal following the men's under 81 kg weight category competition during the European Judo Championship in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 27, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israeli judoka Sagi Muki wins gold at European Championships

Competing in Tel Aviv match in under-81 kg class, Olympic athlete says ‘it’s a dream come true to win in Israel’

Students pose with signs at J Street U's West Coast workshop, a gather of top West Coast leaders for training and strategy meetings on UCLA's campus. (courtesy)

How ‘controversial’ J Street U keeps liberal Jewish students in the fold

By Tracy Frydberg

For young Jews looking for something between disaffiliation and traditional advocacy, the progressive campus group is an increasingly important home for engagement on Israel

Jewish man sues over his arrest for criticizing Israel at Dennis Ross panel

By AP

ADL regrets calling group that targets anti-Israel students ‘racist’

ZOA chief Klein sorry for inappropriate comments on Portman, female employee

By ToI Staff and JTA

The names of lynching victims are inscribed on weathering steel columns that hang from the ceiling at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, seen on April 20, 2018. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images/via JTA)

What a new tribute to black lynching victims learned from Holocaust memorials

Karen Miller Jackson

80 women teach Torah

It’s plain math: create more positions for female scholars of Jewish texts, and increase the potential reach of Judaism

Conservative Judaism’s crisis of leadership

The international bodies of this authentic movement must to do all they can to operate efficiently and effectively

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Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

New bill would entrench Orthodox monopoly over Jewish conversion

By JTA

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil, left, talks with an assistant as they stand next to a giant screen following voting by Lebanese expatriates in six Arab countries, ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in Lebanon on May 6, at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry in Beirut, on April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese expats vote in parliamentary elections

Former Labour activist Marc Wadsworth speaks to the media after being expelled from the party on April 27, 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)

From our partnerLabour denies Corbyn backing activist expelled for heckling Jewish MP

Entrance to the Israeli Consulate in New York City (screen capture: Google Street View)

State of emergency briefly declared at Israel’s NY consulate; suspect detained

Josh Rosen of UCLA poses with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after being picked #10 overall by the Arizona Cardinals during the first round of the 2018 NFL Draft at AT&T Stadium on April 26, 2018 in Arlington, Texas. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Josh Rosen picked 10th overall by Arizona Cardinals in NFL draft

By JTA

This file photo taken on May 22, 2015 shows US producer Harvey Weinstein arriving for the screening of the film 'The Little Prince' at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. (AFP Photo/Loic Venance)

Cannes film festival to open anti-sexual predator hotline

By AFP

Covers of the 72-year-old Jewish Currents magazine. (JTA collage)

72-year-old left-wing magazine Jewish Currents aims for millennials

By Josefin Dolsten

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