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What Matters Most On Wednesday, May 1, 2019

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Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Report: Anti-Semitic attacks spike, killing highest number of Jews in decades

Tel Aviv University researchers say governments on 3 continents promoted anti-Semitism in 2018, single out officials in Venezuela, Turkey, Poland, Ukraine

Illustrative: People watch as a menorah is lighted outside the Tree of Life Synagogue on the first night of Hanukkah, December 2, 2018 in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

ADL: All extremist anti-Semitic attacks in 2018 were by white supremacists

By Eric Cortellessa and JTA

Students at the Bnei David pre-army academy learn in the study hall. (Screen capture/YouTube)

ADL blasts rabbis for diatribes supporting racism, Hitler’s worldview

Author interview

‘My aunt might have betrayed Anne Frank,’ writes son of Secret Annex helper

Writer Joop van Wijk has spent years piecing together his mysterious Aunt Nelly’s wartime activities, cutting through lies that concealed her Nazi collaborator past

Anne Frank, aged 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941. (public domain)

A man visits the new 'House of Fates' Holocaust museum, housed in what was the former 'Jozsefvarosi' railway station in Budapest on January 21, 2019. (Ferenc Isza/AFP)

Israel media reviewMemories fade, fears remain: 10 things to know for May 1

By Joshua Davidovich

British opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in north London on April 4, 2019. (Tolga AKMEN / AFP)

Corbyn found to have written foreword for book claiming Jews control banks

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin, center, walk in the March of the Living, a yearly Holocaust remembrance march between the former death camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, April 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Unlike 2018, no senior Israeli, Polish leaders to attend March of the Living

By Michael Bachner

Top officials steer clear after big delegation last year, when countries’ presidents clashed over Warsaw’s controversial Holocaust law

People of the booksWhy is Holocaust fiction still so popular?

By Emily Burack

Man harasses and lunges at Chabad rabbi in NY — report

By Josefin Dolsten

Florida Senate passes anti-Semitism bill

Cast members of Eva.Stories, the Instagram-based fictionalized retelling of the real story of 13-year-old Eva Heyman, a Hungarian Jew murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. (Channel 12 screen shot)

Analysis

ISAAC SCHARF and AUDREY HOROWITZ

Instagram story of young Holocaust victim Eva aims at new generation

Much as Anne Frank’s diary gripped older generations, fictionalized social media account of real teenager Eva Heyman, murdered by the Nazis, is generating buzz among today’s young

Holocaust survivor Bracha Ghilai, 75, shows her tattooed arm at her house in Holon near Tel Aviv, January 23, 2005. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Tech entrepreneurs dedicate 36 hours to aid Holocaust survivors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Photograph from the liberation of the Dachau camp on April 29, 1945, held in the collection of Belgian underground operative Adrian Aloy. (Kedem Auction House)

Newly revealed photographs chronicle aftermath of Dachau’s liberation

Beate and Serge Klarsfeld pose before receiving an award from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., April 29, 2019. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Interview

Famed Nazi hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: It feels like the 1930s

‘There is a bad wind in Europe and democracy is losing its influence,’ they say, warning that EU has been vital to keeping the peace on the continent and reining in anti-Semitism

World War II Diary of S. Lane Faison, Jr.(Courtesy of Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art via JTA)

Diary of WWII’s Monuments Man given to US National Archives

By Penny Schwartz

This May 12, 2005, file photo shows an unidentified visitor viewing the Impressionist painting called "Rue St.-Honore, Apres-Midi, Effet de Pluie" painted in 1897 by Camille Pissarro, on display in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. (AP Photo/Mariana Eliano, File)

LA judge rules Spanish museum can keep Nazi-looted painting

John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing on April 30, 2019, in San Diego facing charges of murder and attempted murder in the April 27 assault on the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which killed one woman and injured three people. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)

Earnest also charged with arson attack on mosque

Prosecutors: When his gun jammed, Poway synagogue killer had 50 unfired bullets

By Elliot Spagat and JULIE WATSON

John T. Earnest pleads not guilty to murdering Lori Kaye and attempted murder of 3 others; judge denies 19-year old bail, calling him an extreme threat to public safety

AnalysisFor some conservatives, the Poway shooting is all about Ilhan Omar

After Poway, California governor adds $15 million for nonprofit security

After Poway, Feinstein submits bill to raise minimum age to buy assault rifle

Tamara Vershitskaya and Leslie Bell

We are here because the Bielski Partisans fought back

A ferocious band of brothers waged battle on the Nazis — their descendants are returning to the forest to celebrate and remember

The lonely survivor and why Noah got drunk

Who wants to be the only one in the family, the only one in the village, to live on without anyone to share memories with?

The rabbinic silence on how to remember the Holocaust

The halachic world has failed to offer guidance on memorializing the greatest evil ever wrought upon the Jewish people

Lying in ambush inside Lebanon on Yom Hashoah

That time our Druze commander had to remind us IDF soldiers that six million Jews were murdered

A note from ToI's editor

Clear-headed journalism, this time in Hebrew: Introducing Zman Yisrael

The years ahead will be as fraught as ever for an Israel facing external threats, internal challenges. Smart, independent reporting will be vital. Zman Yisrael aims to provide it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on Holocaust Remembrance Day on May 1, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In Holocaust Remembrance Day speech, Netanyahu calls to ramp up pressure on Iran

President Rivlin warns against cozying up to Europe’s far-right, says Israel must set ‘uncompromising’ example in boycotting anti-Semitism

6:27 pm

Large fire breaks out in southern Israel, officials suspect Gaza arson balloon
6:15 pm

Netanyahu: Anti-Israel caricatures undermine legitimacy of a Jewish state
6:08 pm

In Holocaust Day remarks, Netanyahu calls to ramp up pressure on Iran

A caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump published in The New York Times international edition on April 25, 2019, which the paper later acknowledged 'included anti-Semitic tropes.' (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

In 2nd apology, NY Times says cartoon shows ‘numbness to creep of anti-Semitism’

Self-berating editorial says paper is ‘still haunted’ by its own history of ignoring Jew-hatred and the Holocaust, acknowledges anti-Semitic imagery ‘particularly dangerous now’

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)

Alan Dershowitz among protesters outside NY Times decrying anti-Semitic cartoon

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin and Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein at the Plenary Hall during the swearing-in ceremony of Knesset members as a new session opens following the elections, on April 30, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Rivlin calls for end to 'dangerous clash' with the judiciary

Opening Knesset after bitter election, Rivlin tells MKs to ‘clean up’ politics

By Raoul Wootliff

As new lawmakers sworn in, including a record 49 rookies, president urges Netanyahu to ‘ease up on on destroying your opponents’

Blue and White MK Gadi Yevarkan kisses his mother's feet in thanks upon swearing into the Knesset, April 30, 2019. (Facebook screenshot)

Taking the floorEntering Knesset, Ethiopian MK kisses mother’s feet in show of gratitude

Arab MKs from the Hadash-Ta'al party hold a press conference after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin on April 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MKs walk out on anthem during Knesset swearing-in ceremony

Avigdor Liberman (left), and Benjamin Netanyahu sharing a private word in January 2013. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Liberman meet in bid to solve coalition impasse

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu says its leader and PM discussed ‘preservation of the status quo on issues of religion and state’; but party’s demands still at odds with ultra-Orthodox

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to lawmakers at the Knesset swearing-in ceremony on April 30, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Addressing new Knesset, Netanyahu expresses hope for peace with Arab world

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Kahlon rules out merger with Likud: ‘We’re not mercenaries’

Israeli soldiers walk near an Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells on August 9, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

IDF deploys Iron Domes ahead of Eurovision, Independence Day

By Judah Ari Gross

Air missile defense batteries stationed throughout the country after rocket fired from Gaza lands off Israeli coast

Gaza factions said to warn they’ll ‘ruin Eurovision’ if Israel breaks agreements

PA court sentences Palestinian to prison for trying to sell land to Israeli Jews

Border Police arrest 18 far-right activists during razing of pop-up outpost

More Headlines

A photo of the 1964 declaration recognizing Israel's independence, signed by former president Harry Truman. (Courtesy Raab Collection)

Only copy of US recognition of Israel signed by Truman up for sale

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, left, makes the keynote speech at F8, the Facebook's developer conference, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar )

Facebook announces revamp to focus on groups after criticisms over hate speech

By Barbara Ortutay

Likud MK and former Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Public spiritedNir Barkat, richest MK, wants to be paid one shekel per year

Roger Waters at a press conference for 'The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains' in Rome, Italy, January 16, 2018. He is a leading celebrity in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel. (Ernesto S. Ruscio/Getty Images)

Jewish students sue to oust pro-Palestinian event at UMass, citing anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

A sign warns of measles in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York City, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

2 NYC Jewish schools closed over failure to heed orders on measles outbreak

By JTA

Students and faculty file out of buildings with their hands up during a lockdown after a shooting on the campus of University of North Carolina Charlotte in University City, Charlotte, on April 30, 2019. - Six people were shot, two of them died on the University of North Carolina Charlotte campus. (Photo by Logan Cyrus / AFP)

At least two killed in campus shooting at North Carolina university

By Tom Foreman Jr.

SAP's new building in Ra'anana, Israel (Courtesy: Uzi Porat)

539 multinationals operate in Israel, view nation as go-to place for ideas

By Shoshanna Solomon

American University student government president Taylor Dumpson, right, accompanied by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, left, and others, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Woman seeks $1.5M in damages from neo-Nazi website founder

By Michael Kunzelman

A private rabbinical court dissolves the marriage of Tzviya Gorodetsky in June 2018 (Courtesy of the Center for Women's Justice/Rachel Stomel)

In first, Israel jails divorce-refuser on criminal charges

By Marissa Newman

Director Rachel Chavkin attends the “Hadestown” opening night at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York City, April 17, 2019. (Jim Spellman/Getty Images)

Chosen peopleJews steal the show in the 2019 Tony nominations

By Emily Burack

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