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What Matters Most On Friday, June 15, 2018

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Students from Australia's Charles Sturt University are seen dressed in Ku Klax Klan uniforms and blackface for a 'politically incorrect' themed birthday party. (Twitter)

Australian students slammed for Nazi, KKK uniform costume party

Anti-Defamation Commission says the ‘foolish students’ from Charles Sturt University ‘crossed every line of decency’

Teenage girl assaulted at Jewish school near Paris

By JTA

Over 30 headstones smashed at Jewish cemetery in Manchester

By JTA

UK singer banned from social media over Holocaust denial

By AP

Sinner or saint?

Renowned British writer, a virulent anti-Semite, being considered for sainthood

Proposal for the canonization of author G.K. Chesterton has British Jews — and some Catholics — up in arms

20th century writer G.K. Chesterton is up for canonization -- but critics say he espoused virulently anti-Semitic views. (Public domain)

Leni Riefenstahl directs 'Olympia,' based on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany (public domain)

The quiet absolution of pro-Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl

By Matt Lebovic

Saudi football fans watch the Russia 2018 World Cup Group A football match between Russia and Saudi Arabia at a fan tent in the capital Riyadh on June 14, 2018. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

World Cup kicks off as Russia looks to burnish image

Vladimir Putin officially opens tournament, the most watched global sporting event, before a Moscow crowd ahead of Russian drubbing of Saudi Arabia

Warning: Likely to offend

World Cup: Why this Israeli is backing Iran, a little, and Denmark, all the way

This article deals with such unrelated matters as the Holocaust and soccer skills. It is largely light-hearted, but has some bite. If you’re easily infuriated, don’t read it

A Danish supporter cheers ahead of the World Cup qualifying play off second leg soccer match between Ireland and Denmark at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

Rami Gershon of the Israel national soccer team reacts after a Euro 2016 qualifying match against Belgium at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, March 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How geopolitics keeps Israel out of World Cup contention

By Charles Dunst

Supporters of Saudi Arabia's national football team pose as they watch the Russia 2018 World Cup Group A football match between Russia and Saudi Arabia in the fan zone near the main building of the Moscow State University in Moscow on June 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/Maxim Zmeyev)

After Israel wishes World Cup team luck, Saudi fans imagine playing Jewish state

Palestinian protesters prepare kites loaded with flammable material to be flown towards Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip on June 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

IDF aircraft fires warning shots at Gaza ‘incendiary balloon cell’

For third time in 48 hours, Israel opens fire on Palestinians to block the launching of the flaming devices

Hamas leader joins thousands of Palestinians at fresh Gaza border protest

By Michael Bachner, Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Israel media reviewKafka with a kite: 8 things to know for June 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Hamas threatens to launch 5,000 fire kites, balloons Friday

By Michael Bachner and Judah Ari Gross

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, leading the Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran on June 15, 2018. (Iranian Supreme Leader's Website/AFP)

Khamenei: Israel will soon perish, Palestinians should vote on ‘right of return’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran’s supreme leader says the main problem with the ‘Zionist regime’ is its ‘fundamental illegitimacy’

Israel says new ‘Rampage’ rocket will break bunkers, but not the bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: 70% of people who carry out terror attacks are killed in act

Iran leaders focus on Palestinians in Eid messages to nation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) walks with US President Donald Trump (R) at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore, on June 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Israeli Foreign Ministry said to send out very skeptical paper on Trump-Kim meet

By Michael Bachner

Document reportedly distributed to diplomatic missions and PMO warns of ‘significant’ concessions made by US president, says ‘many’ in Japan, South Korea, US Congress are doubtful

Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Hussein. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Jerusalem mufti: Trump peace plan ‘aims to liquidate the Palestinian cause’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press with Joshua Holt (out of frame), who had been detained in Venezuela for two years, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2018 (PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

New York sues Trump for ‘illegal conduct,’ seeks to dissolve his charity

By AFP

A general view of the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 26, 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. (AFP Photo/Jean-Guy Python)

UN rights body reopens amid US threat to withdraw over anti-Israel bias

By Agnès PEDRERO

US widely expected to quit Human Rights Council after the body fails to implement any of the reforms it sought

A picture taken March 26, 2018 in Um Al-Hammam district in Riyadh shows Egyptian laborers inspecting damages to a home hit by falling shrapnel from Yemeni rebel missiles that were intercepted over the Saudi capital. (AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE)

UN report confirms debris from missiles that hit Saudis from Iran

By Edith M. Lederer

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov, right, sits next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a reception marking Russia Day in Sergei’s Courtyard, Jerusalem, June 14, 2018 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

In first such event, Russia celebrates its national day in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Ambassador Anatoly Viktorov notes Moscow’s recognition of western part of the city as Israel’s capital but stresses that eastern section belongs to the Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) shakes hands with Czech President Milos Zeman at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 7, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Czech president: Netanyahu offered his Jerusalem home to be our embassy

By JTA

Achinoam Nini singing in Nuremberg, Germany in 2014. (Rs-foto/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Singer Achinoam Nini calls for Eurovision to be held in Tel Aviv

By JTA and ToI Staff

Stephen Flurry, president of Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmon, Oklahoma, and archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar at a reception in Jerusalem's King David Hotel on June 10, 2018. (courtesy)

Why a world premiere of precious biblical artifacts is in quiet Oklahoma

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The first populist

When leaders claim to speak with the one true voice of the people, assume they are the enemy of freedom (Korach)

It’s raining in Israel, but I’m not relieved

There are agricultural reasons why summer rain is bad here, but it’s the spiritual significance that has me losing sleep

Gerald C. Skolnik

Getting personal about depression

I share our story with you to shatter the myth that everyone you see socially is a model of perfection or wellness

On the Rebbe’s yahrzeit, the oath

Even when all seemed lost, we knew we had a mission: to improve the world, and usher in a time of peace and sanctity

Israel's hit television show, 'Shababnikim.' (Ohad Romano)

Times of Israel Presents

Tough women, bad boys and theater cocktails to be featured in Jerusalem events

The inverted runway of 'Fashion Statement; Decoding Israeli Dress' exhibit at the Israel Museum, which opened June 13, 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israel Museum exhibit puts decades of Israeli fashion on runway

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Islamic State video threatening the 2018 World Cup in Russia (Screenshot/MEMRI)

Islamic State threatens World Cup with video of burning stadium

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets Sheikh Yahya Cholil Staquf, leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, at his Jerusalem office, June 14, 2018 (Haim Zach, GPO)

Netanyahu unexpectedly meets with Indonesian Muslim leader

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with then-health minister Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party, left, at the Knesset on March 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Early elections ‘back on the table’ as rabbis issue ultimatum on enlistment law

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Then-IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 26, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief of staff ends speculation, confirms he will not serve a fifth year

Rabbi Gershom Sizomu, second left, prepares to read the Torah during a Shabbat service among the Abayudaya Jewish community, in a village near Mbale, eastern Uganda, July 2, 2016. (AFP/Michael O'Hagan)

Israel’s Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportation of Ugandan Jew

By JTA

In this file photo taken on May 24, 2018, US actor Sylvester Stallone looks on before the US president signed a posthumous pardon for former world champion boxer Jack Johnson in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Stallone accused of sexually assaulting woman he met on ‘Rambo’ set in Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jerry Springer watches during Game 4 in baseball's National League Division Series between the Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

‘The Jerry Springer Show,’ symbol of trash TV, set to end

By AFP

In this photo provided by the Philippine National Police, SAF (Special Action Force) members escort Israeli nationals following a raid at Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga province, June 7, 2018, in Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. (Philippine National Police via AP)

Philippines reportedly lets Israelis go after massive cybercrime sting

By Michael Bachner

The scene of a bromine leak in the Dead Sea region on June 15, 2018 (Fire and Rescue Services)

Chemical leak near Dead Sea shuts roads, sends residents indoors

Illustrative: Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team players raise the championship plate after defeating Hapoel Holon at the final of the Israeli Basketball Premier League in Tel Aviv, June 14, 2018 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Maccabi Tel Aviv wins league championship after 4-year drought

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