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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 8, 2018

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The Israeli military drills into the soil south of the Lebanese border in an effort to locate and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that it says entered Israeli territory, on December 5, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF fires toward 3 suspected Hezbollah fighters who approach border

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Army says men use weather cover to advance on digging operations against attack tunnels, flee after shots fired; Lebanon says it was a routine military patrol

Israeli soldiers show UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col a Hezbollah tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory from southern Lebanon, on December 6, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel using ‘passive seismic’ technology to expose Hezbollah’s attack tunnels

IDF says its sophisticated sensors are able to monitor Hezbollah tunnel drilling throughout the northern border area

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, center, visits soldiers searching for Hezbollah attack tunnels on Israeli-Lebanese border on December 4, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli minister says IDF may go into Lebanon to deal with tunnel threat

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Palestinian youths sit next to a Palestinian flag by the barbed-wire fence along the border with Israel east of Gaza City during a border demonstration on December 7, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

10,000 Palestinians protest along Gaza border, 33 wounded

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they prepare to deliver joint statements, after a meeting and a lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence, June 25, 2012. (AP/Jim Hollander, Pool/File)

In phone call, Putin tells Netanyahu military cooperation in Syria must improve

Russian leader stresses importance of maintaining regional stability after receiving update on IDF operation to uncover and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels from Lebanon

A man receiving oxygen through respirators following a suspected chemical attack on the town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, November 24, 2018 (SANA via AP)

US accuses Russia of lying about Syria attack to undermine truce

By AFP

New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg interviews author Margaret Atwood (not shown) during the ninth annual Women in the World Summit on April 13, 2018, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

New York Times columnist defends anti-Zionism

Michelle Goldberg says as long as Israeli government de facto opposes Palestinian statehood, rejecting Jewish ethno-nationalism is legitimate, does not constitute anti-Semitism

Rose Asaf (Screen grab via Washington Square News)

Israeli co-authors NYU resolution to divest from companies with Israel ties

By ToI Staff and JTA

Fiorello LaGuardia High School, in New York City (Screen capture: CBS New York)

NYC high school bans Nazi props from ‘Sound of Music’ production

Armored vehicles deployed in Paris as France hit by fresh ‘yellow vest’ protests

By AFP

Around 700 detained in latest wave of demonstrations sparked by raising of fuel taxes; Trump says unrest due to Paris climate accord

Demonstrators wearing yellow vests march down the Champs Elysees avenue Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018 in Paris (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Over 350 detained as Paris braces for worst ‘yellow vest’ protest violence

A still from the Russian WWII documentary 'Ost Front' directed by Andrey Osipov and financed by the Russian Ministry of Culture. (Courtesy)

Nazis with puppies? Russian WWII film shows war through sympathetic German lens

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, August 6, 2018. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP, File)

Rouhani: US sanctions are ‘terrorism,’ will lead to deluge of drugs and bombs

By AFP and ToI Staff

President also claims the number of people seeking asylum will increase as a result of penalties imposed by Washington

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif seen during a meeting between the Iranian president and the North Korean foreign minister in Tehran, Iran, on August 8, 2018. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Iran says US arms sales to Middle East turning region into ‘tinderbox’

Jewish immigrants on a farm 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of Quito. (Courtesy Eva Zelig)

How tiny Ecuador had a huge impact on Jews escaping the Holocaust

By Rich Tenorio

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a Hanukkah reception with Holocaust survivors in the East Room of the White House on December 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Trump praises Israel as ‘your country’ to American Jews

By JTA and ToI Staff

At White House Hanukkah party, the president insinuates that US Jews have a dual loyalty to Israel

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he’ll nominate Heather Nauert to be next US ambassador to the UN

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas speaks at an event on Capitol Hill honoring EFRAT, an Israeli group that discourages abortion, June 15, 2017. (Shmuel Lenchevsky)

Republican congressman says George Soros ‘turned on fellow Jews’

By JTA

The universal and the particular (Miketz 5779)

God is the God of all humanity, accessible to and caring for all; yet God’s connection with the Jewish people is unique, beyond history

Stephen Horenstein

The majesty of the morning storm is like a thousand tubas, rocking me, almost awakened, to enter a very real Shabbat, a final refuge

Don Was attends the 56th Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, January 26, 2014. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images, via JTA)

Blue Note head produces synagogue band’s surprisingly good album

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: A class in March 2016 at Romemu, the Jewish Renewal congregation in New York. (Scott Osman via JTA)

Namaste and shalom: New York yeshiva to combine Jewish texts and yoga

When classes start next summer, students at the Romemu Yeshiva won’t need to be Jewish but must be able to understand Hebrew texts

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Michael Cohen, former lawyer to US President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York's Park Avenue, Friday, December 7, 2018. (AP/Richard Drew)

US prosecutors seek substantial jail term for ex-Trump lawyer Cohen

By AP

Jewish Home MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli speaks during a Knesset plenary session on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

MKs water down anti-porn bill amid privacy concerns

A woman receives first-aid after a car ran into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Neo-Nazi convicted of murder over Charlottesville rampage faces life term

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) looks toward US President Donald Trump, as Trump speaks during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russian official offered Trump campaign ‘political’ cooperation in 2015

By Jennie Matthew and Paul Handley

Rex Tillerson, outgoing US secretary of state, makes a statement after his dismissal at the State Department in Washington, DC, March 13, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Tillerson slams ‘undisciplined’ Trump, who calls ex-diplomat ‘dumb as a rock’

By Shaun Tandon

AnalysisJewish centrists are leading the fight to keep Nancy Pelosi in charge

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort arrives for a hearing at the E. Barrett Prettyman US Courthouse in Washington, DC, June 15, 2018. (AFP/Getty Images North America/Mark Wilson, File)

Russia probe details ‘lies’ by ex-Trump aide Manafort

A sample of the offerings at Meshuggah Bagels in Kansas City. (Victor Wishna/JTA)

Kosher and kindPETA: ‘Bring home the bagel’ — not the bacon

By JTA

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hungary’s prime minister says World Jewish Congress head has left-wing agenda

By JTA

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion. (Wikimedia Commons/Dovernewyork )

Israeli ambassador tells Ukrainians their national heroes were ‘horror for Jews’

By JTA

Shas party leader and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks in the Knesset on November 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deri seeks to block controversial Arab politician from Haifa deputy mayor post

Singer Eyal Golan performing at an Independence Day concert in Beit Shemesh on May 5, 2014. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

MKs demand Knesset drops honor for singer who faced underage sex allegations

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