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What Matters Most On Friday, March 8, 2019

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) participates in a House Education and Labor Committee Markup on the H.R. 582 Raise The Wage Act, in the Rayburn House Office Building on March 6, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

US Jews divided by House resolution condemning anti-Semitism, bigotry

By Eric Cortellessa

While some Jewish groups and leaders applaud the measure, others lambaste it for not mentioning Ilhan Omar by name or being watered down by inclusion of other types of hate

US House passes resolution against anti-Semitism, bigotry after Omar remarks

By AP

Amid Omar row, Rahm Emanuel says he has been accused of dual loyalty

By JTA

Full text of House Resolution against hate, including anti-Semitism

Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the Basilica of Saint Sabina in Rome Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope denounces ‘depraved’ anti-Semitism and urges dialogue

By AP and ToI Staff

Francis laments that meeting with American Jewish leaders takes place amid a ‘climate of wickedness and fury;’ pontiff thanked for opening Vatican archive on Holocaust-era pope

Strasbourg police say Jewish memorial was damaged in car accident

By Damien Stroka

Stepsister of Anne Frank speaks to teens who played Nazi-themed beer pong

By AP

Pelosi: Omar was unaware of ‘weight of her words’ in remarks on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Close-up of the morning blessings, in which a female worshiper thanks God for making her a woman, and not a man, from the 1480 'women's' prayer book scribed by Rabbi Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol in Italy, seen on March 3, 2019 at the National Library of Israel. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

International Women's Day

The Jewish egalitarian revolution that almost was in Renaissance Italy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Detail from back cover of Neshama Carlebach's album, 'Believe,' out March 29, 2019. (Courtesy)

Interview

Coming out from under her father’s shadow, Neshama Carlebach shines in new album

By Cathryn J. Prince

Illustrative: Israeli troops respond to an infiltration by two Palestinian men from the northern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2019. (Yediot Mehashetah)

2 Gazans nabbed after infiltrating into Israel, sparking panic

By Judah Ari Gross

Army finds men were carrying grenade and knife; 1 Palestinian said killed, 42 wounded as thousands riot along border in weekly protest, throwing explosives and rocks

Israeli forces gird for fresh violence as tensions mount in Jerusalem, Gaza

Netanyahu warns Hamas over uptick in Gaza border violence

Israel media reviewGate of no good options: 8 things to know for March 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Profile

Benny Gantz’s tall order: Convincing Israel that he can replace Netanyahu

Critics denounce prime ministerial hopeful as a politically inexperienced, financially incompetent leftist, while fans describe a quiet, collected and strongly principled leader

Former Israeli chief of staff Benny Gantz walks among supporters during an electoral rally after delivering his first campaign speech, in Tel Aviv on January 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Benny Gantz, center, leader of the Blue and White faction, speaks to a woman during a meeting with members of the Druze community in the city of Daliyat al-Karmel on March 7, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Gantz courts Druze vote, pledges ‘equality’ for minority

Blue and White candidate Gadeer Mreeh (C) and party head Benny Gantz (R) attends a meeting with members of the Druze community of Israel in the city of Daliyat al-Karmel in northern Israel on March 7, 2019. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

From the webEx-TV anchor, a Blue and White candidate, could become 1st female Druze MK

Border Policewomen help members of the Women of the Wall movement leave after attempting to hold monthly prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police accuse Women of the Wall members of staging Western Wall ‘provocation’

Authorities say some non-Orthodox worshipers refused to stand in quartered-off area, sparking clashes with ultra-Orthodox protesters; organization says force is ‘brazenly lying’

Members of the Women of the Wall prayer group hold prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Women of Wall forced to move service amid ‘violent’ ultra-Orthodox protest

An ultra-Orthodox demonstration against the arrest of an IDF draft-dodger in Jerusalem on March 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox anti-draft protesters block Jerusalem roads; 30 arrested

The outpost of Lehava Yitzar in the northern West Bank on November 15, 2006. (Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)

Settler says outpost neighbors torched her house due to romance with Palestinian

As police probe December incident, Israeli locals dismiss young woman’s accusations, confirm they pushed her to leave northern West Bank community upon learning of fling

US President Donald Trump's Mideast envoy Jason Greenblatt addresses the American Jewish Committee's Women’s Leadership Board Spring Luncheon in New York on April 24, 2018. (Courtesy / Ellen Dubin Photography)

Jason Greenblatt urges outside parties to back US peace plan, not undermine it

Trump’s chief negotiator says it is up to the Israelis and the Palestinians to decide, as ‘they’re the ones who will have to live with the consequences’

Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Palestinian negotiator calls for boycott of new US embassy unit

By AP and ToI Staff

Abbas expected to tap longtime Fatah ally as next PM, officials say

By AFP and ToI Staff

A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, center, accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)

French jihadist convicted for deadly terror attack at Brussels Jewish museum

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mehdi Nemmouche found guilty of murdering 4 people in 2014 shooting; sentence could be handed down on Friday

A court sketch made on January 10, 2019, shows Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014, during his trial at the Brussels Justice Palace. (Benoit Peyrucq/AFP)

A criminal since childhood, Belgium Jewish museum killer was radicalized in jail

By Matthieu Demeestere

Judith Flacks-Leigh

Things we still can’t say about inequality

#MeToo brought sexual harassment into the open, but nobody wants to address the gender-related issues women face every day

In Ethiopia, it should be International Mothers Day

They cook, wash, clean, educate and lead; they grind the coffee, bean by bean; they care for the kids and pray for the Land of Israel. They are the real heroes (photo essay)

Shira Hecht-Koller

The Mishkan: Larger than the sum of its parts

People are like the Temple vessels: each is designed to be both spectacular alone and also create a greater whole (Pekudei)

A woman walks across Israel square in Guatemala City, Dec. 27, 2017. (Orlando Estrada/AFP/Getty Images)

Israeli throws hat into ring for presidency of Guatemala

Yitzhak Farhi, who moved to Jewish state 12 years ago, will return to Central American country to run in June vote, though he is not among the front-runners

(Collage by Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

Chosen series

12 Israeli shows to binge-watch now that you’re done with ‘Shtisel’

By Lior Zaltzman

More Headlines

Artist's impression of the cable car station to be located next to the First Station complex in Jerusalem.

Transportation Ministry ‘not involved’ in $55.2m cable car plan to cut traffic

The Karaite cemetery in Jerusalem, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Tiny Jewish sect protests controversial Jerusalem cable car project

By Ilan Ben Zion

In this December 7, 1941 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the destroyer USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (US Navy via AP, File)

Remains of a Jewish serviceman killed in Pearl Harbor bombing identified

In this photo from February 14, 2018, Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the federal courthouse in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Former Trump campaign chief given 47 months behind bars

By AP

Illustrative: Radio broadcasters at Army Radio headquarters in Jaffa, on March 27, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

PM hints he could shut Army Radio if right-wing not given more of a voice

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend a Mimouna celebration in Or Akiva on April 11, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

No beef for Bibi?Netanyahus moving toward vegetarianism, Likud MK says

Iranians visit a weaponry and military equipment exhibition in the capital Tehran on Febraury 2, 2019, organized on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

US urges UN to toughen restrictions on Iran over missile tests

By AFP

Illustrative: The aftermath of desecration in March 2019 of the mass grave of Holocaust victims near Raflivka, Ukraine. (Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky via JTA)

Mass grave for Holocaust victims in Ukraine desecrated for 2nd time this year

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Bibi Heybat Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan, March 3, 2006. (Mikhail Metzel/AP)

Rabbi leads US evangelicals in Azerbaijan visit to nurture Israel ties

Haim Revivo seen at a press conference for the new soccer league season in the Jerusalem municipality on July 31, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former soccer player accused of bribing deputy Tel Aviv mayor

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote speech at F8, Facebook's developer conference, in San Jose, California, May 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Zuckerberg claims he now wants a privacy-friendly Facebook. Should we trust him?

By Michael Liedtke

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