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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 15, 2019

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Gil Levanon, left, and Kat Rohrer, are the minds behind 'Back to the Fatherland,' a documentary on Israelis moving back to Germany and Austria. (First Run Features)

'If I feel uncomfortable, I’ll get on a plane'

Israeli families struggle as their kids move back to Germany and Austria

By Curt Schleier

In documentary ‘Back to the Fatherland,’ descendants of a survivor and a Nazi team up to examine the trend of young people returning to countries that perpetrated the Holocaust

Analysis

Germany is accused of downplaying anti-Semitic attacks by Muslims

Critics say German government blames far-right for anti-Semitism to shield immigrants; some researchers say classification system for hate crimes skews statistics

Roman Abramovich gives $5 million to Jewish Agency to combat anti-Semitism

By JTA

Director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum quits after tweet linked to pro-BDS story

From the webGerman family that owns Krispy Kreme grapples with its Nazi, and Jewish, past

By Katrin Bennhold

IDF reserve soldiers seen getting food in a staging area near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on July 20, 2014, during Israel's Operation Protective Edge. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli soldier punished for putting dairy and meat in same fridge on base

By Alexander Fulbright

Yisrael Beytenu MK denounces IDF decision to confine soldier to base for putting cheese and cold cuts on same shelf: ‘We’ll become the army for the defense of Jewish law’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)

Iran’s Rouhani renews threat to reduce nuclear deal commitment

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian forces fired missile at US drone before tanker sabotage — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mortar attack targets Iraqi base housing US troops

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

US grants Iraq additional Iran sanctions waiver

By AFP

An oil tanker on fire in the Gulf of Oman, June 13, 2019 near the strategic Strait of Hormuz where two ships were reportedly attacked. (AP Photo/ISNA)

Arab League chief calls on Iran to ‘reverse course’ after tanker attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ahmed Aboul Gheit warns Iranians against escalation with US, says determination of who was behind incident ‘only a matter of time’

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his house in north London, on June 12, 2019. (Isabel Infantes/AFP)

Corbyn: UK gov’t heightening Gulf tensions by blaming Iran for tanker attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Britain's Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt launches his leadership campaign for the Conservative Party in London, Monday June 10, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May stepped down Friday as Conservative Party leader after failing to secure Parliament's backing for her European Union withdrawal deal. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Britain’s Hunt says Iran ‘almost certainly’ behind Gulf tanker attacks

Franco Zeffirelli is shown in this Oct. 16, 2009 file photo, in Rome. The Italian director, known for operas, films and television, has died in Rome at the age of 96. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

‘Romeo and Juliet,’ ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96

By Colleen Barry

Most popularly known for his films, the Italian’s name was also inextricably linked to the theater and opera, making it his mission to bring culture to the masses

Celebrants from Gan Yavneh at the Tel Aviv Pride Parade, June 14, 2019 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Dancing for ‘a more tolerant world’: Revelers celebrate at Tel Aviv Pride Parade

By Simona Weinglass

Solidarity, support and a vision of a ‘free’ Israel as 250,000 enjoy Tel Aviv’s ‘biggest party of the year’

Activists at the Dyke March in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Despite DC controversy, other Dyke Marches welcome Jewish Pride flags

By Josefin Dolsten

Langer's Deli in Los Angeles, seen in 2013. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images via JTA)

Langer’s Deli in LA denies kicking out couple because they were gay

By JTA

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (3rd-R) waves upon his arrival at a rally marking the 31st anniversary of the terror group's founding, in Gaza City December 16, 2018. (Said Khatib/ AFP)

Hamas chief tells UN he doesn’t know who fired past week’s rockets at Israel

Ismail Haniyeh says terror group investigating who carried out attacks; United Nations envoy Nickolay Mladenov says Qatari cash to arrive in Gaza in coming days

Israeli soldiers work next to their tanks near the Israel Gaza border, Israel, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

After fresh Gaza violence, army said pushing for ‘serious military campaign’

Fire teams battle a blaze caused by arson balloons launched from Gaza into Israel on June 14, 2019 (Fire Services and Rescue)

Gazans launch dozens of fire balloons into Israel as hundreds riot on border

An Eritrean wedding singer. (Dafna Talmon)

Asylum seekers in Israel

Eritrean weddings in south Tel Aviv bolster the community, spur commerce

Workers unload a painting believed by some experts to be Caravaggio's 'Judith Beheading Holofernes' for its public presentation at the Drouot auction house in Paris on June 14, 2019 before it goes under the hammer on June 27 in Toulouse, the city where it was discovered five years ago. (FRANCOIS GUILLOT / AFP)

Top French expert stakes reputation on ‘lost’ Caravaggio biblical masterpiece

By Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE

Eriq Turquin values painting of grisly scene in which Jewish widow Judith beheads sleeping Assyrian general at $170 million; now on show in Paris, it goes on sale June 27

Israel’s liberal democracy under attack by ‘democracy’

As once-fringe notions go mainstream, preserving democracy may require a battle against the instincts of the majority

Miriam Herschlag

Blame it on the boogie: Stories in the key of listen up

Pull up a chair and press play to hear the WhyWhyWhy! podcast. Then come to a live performance, or maybe even tell a story yourself

Camp and congregation

When the trumpet sounds, it sounds for us — no matter how deep the divisions among the Jewish people, we remain one family in fate and faith

The ultra-Orthodox are finding housing in the south

Their migration just might spur the region’s development and growth

Illustrative: This April 13, 2009 photo shows an employee of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, waiting for the front gate to be opened so she can enter. (AP Photo/Kate Brumback)

Above and beyond

A Jewish lawyer represents clients at the strictest immigration court in the US

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A worker stands on scaffolding during preliminary restoration work inside the Notre Dame Cathedral, May 15, 2019. (Philippe Lopez/Pool via AP)

Notre Dame Cathedral to celebrate first mass after devastating fire

By Karine Perret

A general view of the deck of the US aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush, as it docks outside Haifa port, on July 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/AFP Photo and Pool/Ronen Zvulun)

US Senate warns Israel against letting China run Haifa port

By Ron Kampeas and ToI Staff

File: A menorah and flowers are seen outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service on the first night of Hanukkah, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

US Senate unanimously condemns anti-Semitism

Illustrative: Fire Department truck (Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, via JTA)

Brooklyn rabbi’s house burns down in suspected arson, 13 injured

By JTA

In this photo from February 1, 2007, Abdelhaleem Ashqar is surrounded by cameramen as he leaves federal court with his wife, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Palestinian who was to be deported from US to Israel is released from detention

The Facebook cover photo for Hevre in Krakow shows that it's a trendy destination. (Hevre Cafe/Facebook via JTA)

This former Krakow synagogue is now a bar, and Polish Jews are protesting

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US Senator Lindsey Graham, left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, on a tour of the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Lindsey Graham, a Trump confidante, insists on two-state solution

The Canadian flag (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images via JTA)

Lawsuit challenges holding of Canadian national election on Jewish holiday

Ukrainians hold burning torches as they gather in Kiev, Ukraine, March 5, 2010, to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Roman Shukhevych, a Ukrainian politician, military leader and Nazi collaborator. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukraine historian honors Nazi collaborator, calls criticism ‘Russian propaganda’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this photo fro March 29, 2012, author and political consultant Naomi Wolf speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Publisher delays US release of new Naomi Wolf book after findings questioned

By AP

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner look on as US President Donald Trump places a wreath on the Grave of the Unknown Warrior during a tour of Westminster Abbey in central London, June 3, 2019. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

Ivanka Trump, Kushner raked in as much as $135 million last year

By Bernard Condon

A view of Resistencia, Argentina, in 2010. The city's Holocaust monument was vandalized with a swastika. (WIkimedia Commons via JTA)

Swastika graffiti found on Argentine Holocaust memorial

By JTA

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