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What Matters Most On Friday, April 26, 2019

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Texas judge Robert Pitman. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Citing free speech, Texas judge blocks law designed to counter Israel boycott

By AP

District justice shoots down enforcement of anti-BDS regulation that requires contractors to certify they don’t support boycott of Israel

Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir, a US citizen, sits in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 9, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

UN officials urge Israel to walk back deportation of rights group director

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows a United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldier monitoring the border between Lebanon and Israel. On his right is a flag of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

UNIFIL reportedly instructed to expand patrols in south Lebanon

Lebanese paper claims UN peacekeepers have been told to widen operations to better monitor Hezbollah’s weapons and activities near the Israeli border

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldiers patrol along the border wall with Israel near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila on December 4, 2018. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

UN confirms 3rd Hezbollah tunnel crossed border into Israel, violating ceasefire

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sri Lankan security personnel stand guard outside Mohideen Meththai Grand Jumma Mosque during the Friday noon prayer in Kattankudy on April 26, 2019, following a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka (Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP)

Sri Lanka says Easter attack leader died in hotel bombing

By Emily Schmall and Jon Gambrell

Mohamed Zahran, head of local terror group known for vitriolic extremist speeches on social media, was reportedly killed in one of 9 deadly attacks

Soldiers stand guard outside a mosque ahead of the Friday noon prayers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 26, 2019. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

Security heavy as Sri Lanka warns of possible further attacks

A Sri Lankan woman walks on a road leading to St. Anthony's Church, one of the sites of Easter Sunday's bomb attacks in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka death toll revised down to 253 as top defense official resigns

By Amal JAYASINGHE and Ammu Kannampilly

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden arrives at the Wilmington train station, April 25, 2019 in Wilmington, Delaware. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Biden makes Trump’s Charlottesville reaction the center of his campaign launch

Newly announced 2020 Democratic candidate says president’s comments on neo-Nazi marchers made him realize ‘the threat to this nation was unlike any I had seen in this lifetime’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on April 22, 2019. (AFP/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

AnalysisWith ‘swagger,’ Pompeo navigates tightrope between Trump and world

By Shaun Tandon

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer, returns to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 6, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Cohen says he pleaded guilty to crimes he didn’t commit

By Michael R. Sisak

Dutch rapper Ismo has said he hates Jews 'more than Nazis.' (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

Western Europe’s rap scene has an anti-Semitism problem

Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories and threats against ‘Zionists’ pepper European hip hop, helping lift taboos on anti-Jewish hate speech

Alain Finkielkraut in his Paris home (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)

French-Jewish intellectual: I can’t show my face due to far-left anti-Semites

By JTA and ToI Staff

People take part in a Liberation Day march in Rome, Italy, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

As Italy marks liberation anniversary, some glorify Mussolini

By AP

A photo of Dubai's skyline with Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower in the center, as the sun sets over Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on April 4, 2016. (AFP/Karim Sahib)

Israel announces its participation in World Expo 2020 in Dubai

Netanyahu hails Jerusalem’s presence in next October’s event as ‘another expression of Israel’s rising status in the world and the region’

Author Boris Fishman (Stephanie Kaltsas)

Food-centric memoir explores emotional hunger of a Soviet Jewish emigré family

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Photo essay

A week after Western brethren, Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday in Jerusalem

By AFP

Thousands of worshipers retrace the steps Jesus is said to have taken on the way to his death, along the Old City’s ‘Via Dolorosa’

Hikers in the Negev (Meir Orbach/Nature and Parks Authority)

Tens of thousands visit Israel’s national parks on Second Passover

SooJi Min-Maranda, second from right, at her bat mitzvah celebration. (Courtesy)

Korean-American leader of Renewal movement says it’s a white world at the top

By Josefin Dolsten

A tale of two effigies

Conflating Judas and the betrayal he represents with real, live people directs the spirit of vengeance against those people; nothing good comes of that

A well-traveled goat

Surprisingly, goats offer physical and spiritual protection: their milk and their blood have worked wonders through the ages (Acharei Mot)

OPI founder and author of 'I'm Not Really a Waitress,' Suzi Weiss-Fischmann. (Kveller/JTA)

Nailed it

This Jewish mom is the mastermind behind OPI nail polish

By Arielle Kaplan

The skyline of Valletta, medieval capital of the Republic of Malta, at sunrise. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

Will foreigners looking for tax breaks revive Malta’s tiny Jewish community?

By Larry Luxner

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The late Rabbi Achiad Ettinger seen at the gate of Oz V'emuna hesder yeshiva in Tel Aviv, in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Vandals attack Tel Aviv yeshiva of rabbi slain in terror shooting

A whale shark spotted off the coast of Eilat on April 26, 2019 (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Huge and harmlessRare whale shark spotted in Eilat

Illustrative: Turkeys at a farm in New Jersey in November 2018 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Israel says highly pathogenic strain of bird flu found at northern farm

Geert Wilders, second from right, participates in a group selfie with Marine Le Pen and other far-right politicians at a press conference of the right-wing Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group in the European Parliament on April 25 , 2019, in Prague, the Czech Republic. (AFP/Michal Cizek)

Far-right alliance touts ‘new European harmony’ in EU elections

Holocaust documentary 'The Last Survivors' is produced by the BBC and features British-raised survivors. (YouTube screenshot)

Discovery Channel and PBS to air Holocaust documentaries for Yom Hashoah

By Curt Schleier

Larry Hopkins, seated, also known as Striker, the leader of the United Constitutional Patriots New Mexico Border Ops militia, inside the team's camper near the US-Mexico border in Anapra, New Mexico, March 20, 2019. (Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

FBI: Militia group was training to assassinate Soros, Obama and Hillary Clinton

By JTA

Actor Jussie Smollett talks to the media before leaving Cook County Court after his charges were dropped, March 26, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

‘Empire’ cast members want Jussie Smollett back for next season

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia, April 25, 2019 (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Ending Russia trip, North Korean leader says US acting in ‘bad faith’

By Anna MALPAS and KANG Jin-kyu

'A Different Pesach' promised guests a private villa, kosher food and other amenities (YouTube screenshot)

Florida Passover vacationers left in lurch when organizer fails to pay bills

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: Belgian police in the city of Liege, May 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Five Palestinians accused of murdering Palestinian boy in Belgium asylum center

By AFP

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the New York Supreme Court, December 20, 2018. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Important Harvey Weinstein hearing could be held in secret

By Michael R. Sisak

J. Levine Co. Books and Judaica in Midtown Manhattan (Facebook)

One of Manhattan’s 3 remaining Judaica stores is closing

By Josefin Dolsten

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