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What Matters Most On Friday, November 9, 2018

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Walter Frankenstein, born in 1924, witness to the November 9, 1938 terror against Jews in Berlin and one of the few survivors of Auerbach'sches Waisenhaus orphanage, poses for a photo at the orphanage memorial site for an interview with the Associated Press in Berlin, November 5, 2018. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

They said ' you need to go, we want to burn this orphanage'

80 years after Kristallnacht terror, survivor revisits once glass-strewn streets

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Walter Frankenstein, who helped save orphanage and synagogue on November 9, 1938, returns to the building where he saw Germans unleash horrors on the Jews of Berlin

Some 1,000 guests attend the inauguration of Koenigsberg’s New Synagogue in Kaliningrad, Russia, November 8, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Russia’s westernmost synagogue rebuilt 80 years after Kristallnacht destruction

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gerhard Schmidt-Grillmeier reads names of 55,696 Jews from Berlin who were killed by the Nazis during a commemoration ceremony on November 8, 2018 at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Holocaust Memorial) in Berlin. (Photo by Christoph Soeder / dpa / AFP)

Pittsburgh shooting looms large as Berlin commemorates Kristallnacht

By JTA and AP

This June, 1954, file photo shows renowned physicist Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J.(AP Photo, File)

Newly revealed letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis’ rise

Following assassination of Jewish friend and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau, celebrated physicist warned of ‘dark times brewing’

Participants walk behind banners holding placards during a silent march in Paris in memory of Mireille Knoll, an 85-year-old Jewish woman murdered in her home in what police believe was an antisemitic attack, held on on March 28, 2018. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

French PM says anti-Semitic acts in country up 69% this year

By AFP

Culture Minister Miri Regev at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 8, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Yedioth Ahronoth/ Pool/ Flash90)

Holocaust survivor compares minister behind culture loyalty bill to Hitler

Claude Lanzmann poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote' and the closing ceremony of the 71st international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 19, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Analysis

Stunning posthumous release from ‘Shoah’ director resonates post-Pittsburgh

Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann died this past July, but a new work, ‘Shoah: Four Sisters,’ compiled from past footage to debut in NY, is chillingly applicable today

A Jewish emergency crew and police officers at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6, including 4 police, at the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/via JTA)

US House introduces resolution condemning Pittsburgh synagogue attack

By JTA

In this October 28, 2018 photo, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto walks in view of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pittsburgh mayor requests worldwide moment of silence for synagogue victims

By AP and JTA

How to get rid of scorpions from a book of spells included in the mysterious magic-filled black suitcase given to Dr. Max Brodny in Moscow in 1959. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

The mysterious journey of a suitcase of magical amulets from Moscow to Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, November 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Interview

Russia’s envoy says plane downing still rankles, blames US for fatal Gaza riots

By Raphael Ahren

Amb. Anatoly Viktorov urges Jerusalem to coordinate better with Moscow on Syria, backs Abbas refusal to consider Trump peace plan, says calling Hamas terrorists harms diplomacy

A view of Ben Gurion International Airport near Lod on May 8, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Syrian passenger plane’s approach to Israeli airspace said to cause scramble

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Opposition urges Netanyahu to quit over submarine scandal; Likud is dismissive

By Raoul Wootliff

Ruling party accuses heads of Labor and Yesh Atid of spreading ‘false accusations’ after they say police corruption case against PM’s confidants show he is unfit to govern

David Shomron at the Jerusalem District Court on June 15, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s ex-lawyer, suspected of bribery: PM was unaware of my dealings

Miki Ganor, arrested in the submarine affair known as case 3000, is brought for a court hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Lezion, July 21, 2017. (FLASH90)

Police source: Submarine affair a ‘watershed’ for defense procurement

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

In this October 11, 2018, file photo, Michelle Obama participates in the International Day of the Girl on NBC's "Today" show in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Michelle Obama rips Trump as misogynist, bigoted in new book

By Deb Riechmann

Former first lady writes of her shock over 2016 election results, describes her experiences throughout husband’s career in politics

Protesters gather in front of the White House in Washington, Thursday, November 8, 2018, as part of a nationwide "Protect Mueller" campaign demanding that acting US Attorney General Matthew Whitaker recuse himself from overseeing the ongoing special counsel investigation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

White House braces for Robert Mueller’s next steps

By Eric Tucker, Jonathan Lemire and CHAD DAY

Matthew Whitaker at the Department of Justice’s Kennedy building, August 29, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/via JTA)

Acting US attorney general said judges need ‘biblical view of justice’

By JTA

Side-by-side, the newly imagined 60,000-year-old skeletal chest and its original, Kebara 2, discovered in the Carmel Mountains in 1983. (A. Gómez-Olivencia, A. Barash and E. Been/J. Trueba/Madrid Scientific Films)

3-D model of Neanderthal rib cage busts myth of ‘hunched-over cavemen’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Democrat Ayanna Pressley gives her victory speech at an election night party after being elected to represent Massachusetts' 7th congressional district, on November 6, 2018, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Analysis

How we got Ayanna Pressley wrong on Israel

The first woman of color elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts joins other progressive trend-setters — but it’s a mistake to think she’s the same

President Donald Trump watches as a White House aide takes away a microphone from CNN journalist Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, November 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

White House appears to use doctored video to defend banning CNN reporter

By AP

Kim Schrier (Kim Schrier for Congress/via JTA)

Kim Schrier wins House race in Washington state, flipping a Republican district

By JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Double dating

82 or 83? The curious confusion over Mahmoud Abbas’s age

According to some sources, the Palestinian Authority president’s birthday is next week; others say it was in March

An image of Deputy Attorney General shared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son on Facebook, on November 8, 2018. (Facebook)

Netanyahu’s son shares image of embattled deputy AG as horror film character

Yair Netanyahu later deletes post about Dina Zilber, who recently criticized a controversial bill, prompting right-wing lawmakers to call for her ouster

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on February 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG says calls to ax his deputy are intended to weaken his office

Mordecai Paldiel

A Kristallnacht lesson

Hitler read the world’s silence after the 1936 atrocity as a green light to carry out his murderous plans

The blessing of Jacob: What deception cannot mask

Isaac’s perennial fatherly hope for his wayward son influenced how he treated both his boys (Toledot)

The courage of persistence (Toledot 5779)

Take it from Isaac: in the face of anti-Semitism, the best, most practical response is to start again

The dramatic new finds at Tel Beit Shemesh

The impressive discoveries shed light on a core biblical concept: brit, or covenant

More Headlines

Transportation Minister Israel Katz, second left, stands next to Omani officials during the opening ceremony of the International Road Transport Union World Congress in Muscat, Oman, on November 7, 2018. (Mohammed Mahjoub/AFP)

Top minister, back from Oman: Israel, Gulf must liaise on security, agriculture

People cry as a law enforcement motorcade escorts the body of Ventura County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Ron Helus from the Los Robles Regional Medical Center Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after a gunman opened fire Wednesday evening inside a country music bar, killing multiple people including Helus. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Navy veteran, art student, caregiver among victims of California bar attack

By JONATHAN J. COOPER, Amy Taxin and Rebecca Boone

A police officer directs people away from the crime scene as a body is seen covered with a white sheet in Melbourne on November 9, 2018 (Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP)

Melbourne police: One dead, two injured in terrorist stabbing

By AFP

Illustrative: A private jet lands at Biggin Hill Airport, London. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)

Pakistani airbase staff confirm private jet’s arrival from Israel — report

The entrance to Sukkat Shaul synagogue in Ramat Hasharon (video screenshot)

Pig’s head hung over synagogue entrance in Ramat Hasharon

Performance artist Ariel Bronz during a 2017 show. (screen capture: YouTue)

Butt it's art!Artist who put flag in his rear end wins culture prize

Nusseir Yassin ,the 26-year-old behind Nas Daily, the wildly popular video blog, is currently back in Israel (Courtesy Nas Daily)

Native sonVlogger Nas Daily returns home, and everyone wants a piece of him

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli youth hold signs as they protest for a solution to Gaza border violence in front of the Knesset on November 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

6,000 Gaza-area teens complete ‘apolitical’ protest march to Jerusalem

By JTA

In this photo from September 26, 2018, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall

By AP

Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim (C) and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are seen at curtain call at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on November 7, 2018. (Olivia Hampton/AFP)

Israeli-Palestinian orchestra brings message of peace to divided America

By Olivia Hampton

Patrick Casey, a leader of the white nationalist and anti-Semitic group Identity Evropa, seen at the White House on November 7, 2018. (Twitter via JTA)

White House says neo-Nazi leader visited on public tour

By JTA

An illustrative photo of a wig shop in the central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on June 12, 2008. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Man in LA arrested for tearing off Orthodox women’s wigs

By JTA

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