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What Matters Most On Saturday, March 9, 2019

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US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before boarding Marine One at the White House on March 8, 2019, in Washington. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

After House vote, Trump brands Democrats ‘anti-Jewish,’ ‘anti-Israel’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president decries vote on resolution condemning bigotry in wake of dual loyalty remarks by Ilhan Omar as ‘disgraceful;’ Jewish Democratic group slams president for ‘hypocrisy’

United States Senator Chuck Schumer speaks during an inauguration ceremony for the new Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, in New York, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Schumer says Trump’s claims of ‘anti-Jewish’ Democrats have ‘redefined chutzpah’

House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney outside the House chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, March 8, 2019 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Some in House GOP broke with party on Omar resolution

By Andrew Taylor

Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on stage during the 2019 Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City, March 3, 2019. (Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Athena Film Festival via JTA)

Inside story

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says AIPAC is coming after her. It’s not.

Popular freshman Democrat sends out fundraising appeal misrepresenting pro-Israel lobby’s role and quoting an ‘AIPAC activist’ no longer affiliated with group

AnalysisWhy the Democrats’ Ilhan Omar problem isn’t going away

US House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House majority whip says he didn’t mean to diminish Holocaust in Omar defense

By JTA

Edda Goering in a 1986 TV interview (screenshot)

Nazi Hermann Goering’s daughter Edda dies at 80, is buried in secret

Death of Hitler’s goddaughter in December was not publicized; she had spoken highly of her Luftwaffe-commander father, sought to get a portion of his looted assets

Palestinian men clear the rubble from an airstrike at a site the Israeli military said was tied to the Hamas terror group, near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 9, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Keep the calm and carry on: Long-term truce in Gaza put on ice until elections

With Israel in the midst of campaign season, Hamas forced to make do with minor concessions or risk sparking a new round of violence

A screenshot from Channel 13 showing a cluster of balloons with what appears to be a warhead, Match 9, 2019.

Incendiary balloons carrying missile warhead land in Israel-Gaza border area

Illustrative: A picture taken on November 12, 2018, shows smoke rising above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al-Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Army strikes Hamas targets in Gaza after rocket hits Israeli territory

Matti Friedman’s newest book is 'Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel.' (Mary Anderson/Algonquin Books/via JTA)

How Israel welcomed Jews from Arab lands — as spies

By Emily Burack

Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld walks over the stage at Chanel's pre-fall Metiers d'Art fashion show in the new Elbphilharmonie concert house in Hamburg, northern Germany, Wednesday, December 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

The cat's meow

When fashionista Karl Lagerfeld helped fund a synagogue for Holocaust survivors

By Yaakov Schwartz

Worko, aka Lady Titi, played by Zvika Hizikias (left) and xx, played by Elsa Almo (Courtesy Abayenesh Productions)

Identity switch comedy sheds light on complicated Ethiopian-Israeli life

By Jessica Steinberg

Jordana Horn, left, and Shannon Sarna are the hosts of a new podcast about Jewish parenting. (Marissa Roer/via JTA)

‘Call Your Mother’: A new podcast gets real about raising Jewish kids today

By Josefin Dolsten

Left to right: Blue and White party leaders Gabi Ashkenazi, Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Moshe Ya'alon visit a shopping center in the southern port city of Ashdod on March 8, 2019. (Flash90)

Blue and White will outscore Likud, form next coalition, several top figures say

Yesh Atid MK says parties that have ruled out sitting with Gantz will change their tune after elections; Labor Party lawmakers also signal backing for ex-general

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Joist (Arab) List MK Ahmad Tibi during a Knesset plenum session on June 29, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

AnalysisBibi or Tibi: Facing hard reelection bid, Netanyahu campaign zones in on Arab MK

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, left, and State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

AG and state prosecutor become targets of fake news after decision to indict PM

Mizrahi Jews: Israelis, but not Israeli enough

Jewish spies from Arab lands sacrificed everything for the idea of a country that European Jews run

Jefferson’s pockets

Unlike America’s founding father, who carried his many tools, the Temple priests’ only pocket contained the Name of God (Pekudei)

Illustrative: North Korea's Unha-3 rocket lifts off from the Sohae launch pad in Tongchang-ri, North Korea, in 2012. (AP/KCNA, File)

Satellite photos indicate North Korea preparing for possible launch

By AFP

NPR reports images from site used by Pyongyang to develop ballistic missiles, space rockets were taken days before failed Hanoi summit

Washington protesters demand ‘regime change’ in Iran

By AFP

Hezbollah chief says Israel ‘scared,’ not ready for war

By ToI Staff and AFP

Baby of British IS bride Shamima Begum dies in Syrian refugee camp

By AP

Max Boot speaks onstage at the New Yorker Festival at the SVA Theatre in New York City, October 8, 2016. (Anna Webber/Getty Images for The New Yorker/via JTA)

Interview

Max Boot on leaving the Republican party, and why Trump isn’t good for Israel

Former senior foreign policy adviser for John McCain, Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio cites need for strong centrist leadership, saying GOP has ‘truly become the stupid party’

Then-president-elect Donald Trump calls out to media as he and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani pose for photographs as Giuliani arrives at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse, November 20, 2016, in Bedminster, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

‘He said, he said’ — Who can you trust in Cohen-Trump saga?

By Jonathan Lemire

More Headlines

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt attends a press conference regarding the water agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, on July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/File)

Trump’s Mideast envoy meets UN Security Council, offers no details on peace plan

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this photo from May 20, 2016, actor and singer Jussie Smollett attends the 'Empire' FYC Event in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Chicago grand jury indicts actor Smollett on 16 counts for hate attack hoax

Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Woman in Rehovot found dead in suspected murder

Culture Minister Miri Regev's outgoing spokesman Eli Sabti (Facebook image)

Miri Regev’s spokesman resigns, days after reveal of ties to Gantz accuser

Neema's Barak Ben Ezer (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli company partners with Marshall Islands to launch digital currency

By AFP

Illustrative: An image shared to social media in May 2018 by British Labour activist Kayla Bibby (Facebook)

From our partnerCorbyn ally reportedly ruled anti-Semitic image was only ‘anti-Israel’

Pope Francis meets with a delegation from the American Jewish Committee at the Vatican on International Women's Day, March 8, 2019. (Vatican Media)

Pope praises role of women in meeting with Jewish delegation

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Undated photo of CIA contractor and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson (AP/Levinson family)

US bill that would enhance hostage recovery efforts named after Robert Levinson

By JTA

A picture of Oskar Schindler (L) and his wristwatch, which were sold at an auction in March 2019. (RR Auction)

TimelessOskar Schindler’s possessions auctioned for nearly $50,000

Alexandre Bissonnette is escorted to a van January 30, 2017, in Quebec City, after appearing in court for Sunday's deadly shooting at a mosque. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canadian man behind mosque massacre said to appeal sentence

By AFP

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