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An aerial photo shows the archaeological site of Ur amid preparations for Pope Francis's visit near Nasiriyah, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jourani)

Francis: 'It all started from here'

In ancient Ur, birthplace of Abraham, pope urges peace among monotheistic faiths

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sacred city in cradle of civilization served region’s peoples for thousands of years, but has gone largely unexplored; some experts believe its treasures could rival Egypt’s Giza

Pope Francis, right, meets with Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, Iraq, March 6, 2021 (AP Photo/Vatican Media)

Iraqi Shiite leader Sistani tells Pope Francis that Christians must be protected

By ANMAR KHALIL and Nicole Winfield

Pope Francis is surrounded by religious figures during an interfaith meeting in the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq's Dhi Qar province, on March 6, 2021 (Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)

Pope asks faith leaders to pray together for peace ‘as children of Abraham’

A closed restaurant on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, during a nationwide lockdown, January 6, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Restaurateurs vow to ignore ‘shameful, disrespectful’ changes to reopening plan

Final vote on Sunday’s reopening of restaurants and other businesses is delayed until Saturday night; business owners say they’re struggling to hire workers back from furlough

Worker puts up a poster advertising for staff at a restaurant in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2021 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ministers delay vote on easing virus rules, infuriating business owners

People vaccinated against COVID-19 coronavirus disease and holding a "green pass" (proof of being fully vaccinated) attend a "green pass concert" organised by the Tel Aviv municipality at Bloomfield Stadium in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city on March 5, 2021. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Tel Aviv hosts its first ‘Green Pass’ concert for the vaccinated

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel walk on Ashdod beach on February 21, 2021, after an offshore oil spill caused damage along Israel's Mediterranean coast (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Analysis

Likud minister’s Iran eco-terror accusations damage Israel’s credibility

Gila Gamliel keeps claiming the oil spill polluting Israel’s beaches was deliberately engineered by Tehran. Offering no proof, she makes Israel look paranoid, conspiratorial

Pieces of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea wash up on a beach in the Gdor Nature Reserve near Michmoret, Israel, Monday, March 1, 2021. The cleanup from the disastrous oil spill that has blackened most of the country's shoreline is expected to take months. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Gantz says no evidence found so far that oil spill was deliberate

Analysis

In Eastern Europe, historical synagogues are sold for the price of a used car

Dilapidated structures, left empty after the Holocaust, are sold for cheap, but owners must carry out costly restorations and maintenance

The interior of the Great Synagogue of Slonim, Belarus, pictured in 2007. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

The Great Synagogue of Brody in Ukraine, pictured in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Roof collapses on run-down 18th-century former great synagogue in Brody, Ukraine

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A Palestinian worker gets vaccinated by Israeli Magen David Adom staff at the Sha'ar Efraim checkpoint in the West Bank, March 4, 2021 (COGAT)

Vaccination drive for Palestinian workers delayed amid reported budget dispute

After 700 inoculated as part of widely publicized pilot, program to vaccinate some 120,000 employees in Israel in limbo as Treasury looks for funding source

Shaun Henrik Matheson on September 27, 2019 (Screen grab/Facebook)

Watchdog: Norwegian broadcaster should be censured for anchor’s ‘anti-Semitism’

Naftali Bennett announces he is running for prime minister, December 23, 2020. (Uri Cohen)

TV: Center-left may back Bennett for PM if needed to prevent Netanyahu majority

Some anti-Netanyahu parties weighing plan to support Yamina chairman in a rotational premiership to pull him from the right-wing, religious bloc, report says

MK Mansour Abbas (c) is led away by security guards after being heckled and accosted at a protest in Umm el-Fahm on March 5, 2021.(Screencapture/Twitter)

Renegade Arab MK heckled, chased away from Arab Israeli protest

By Aaron Boxerman and ToI Staff

Sami Tamimi in a London bakery he co-owns with Yotam Ottolenghi on December 18, 2012. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

‘Falastin’ cookbook opens Palestinian kitchen to home chefs

By Jessica Steinberg

Rachel Honeyman

I had a miscarriage while reading Megillat Esther

The heavy bleeding meant yet another setback, but even if I am never able to create the child I so long for, I’ve helped create something lasting

Another victim of the pandemic: Our fundamental rights

This government’s violation of every Israeli’s basic right to leave and enter the country is unparalleled in any other democracy

Demonstrators carry banners outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, rear, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for alleged war crimes, The Hague on November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

ICC probe expected to advance in coming weeks; Israel to decide if cooperating

Jerusalem will have 30 days to respond to formal letter from The Hague detailing investigation scope; while it leans toward doing so, PM still hoping for delay until new prosecutor

ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is seen through a plexiglass lectern in the court room of the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, September 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

Israel’s dilemma: To work with ICC war crimes probe or not?

By AFP and ToI Staff

Workers raise a five-story replica of a stamp of Superman on the Terminal Tower, Sept. 10, 1998, in Cleveland (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

Poetic justice

Vladimir Nabokov’s Superman poem published for 1st time

Poem rejected by the New Yorker in 1942 because ‘many of our readers wouldn’t quite get it’ is printed by the Times Literary Supplement

Arash Abaie, top right, a leader of the Tehran Jewish community, is interviewed via Zoom by Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, a professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, top left, Feb. 28, 2021. Rabbi Yaakov Glasser, dean of the university's Center for the Jewish Future, which sponsored the program, is below. (Screen capture/JTA)

Iranian Jewish leader tells US rabbi community freely observes its religion

By Gary Rosenblatt

Arash Abaie says regime’s commitment to religious law benefits observant citizens from all religions, adding that local Muslims respect, understand Jewish customs

Laura Shovan, left, the cover of 'A Place at the Table,' and Saadia Faruqi (QZB Photography/Clarion Books/Laura Joy Burke/ via JTA)

Teach your children well

2 women, Muslim and Jew, co-write children’s book about standing up to prejudice

By Talia Liben Yarmush

Moviegoers sitting in a socially distant seating arrangement at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 theater on the first day of reopened theaters after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, March 5, 2021, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

New York cinemas reopen after a year, brightening outlook for theaters

Doors open in one of the world’s foremost movie capitals; for some moviegoers who consider the big screen the only way to see a film, the day has almost religious significance

A pharmacist draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

New US daily COVID cases at five-month low as nations try to hold off surge

By AFP

Aman is inoculated with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic in Pomona, California, March 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 await guidance on what to do next

By Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe and Zeke Miller

Rabbi Joseph Schwartz, left, and Ryan Eleazar use boiling water to kosherize equipment for the Hanan Products' kosher-for-Passover production run on Jan. 7, 2021. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Photo essay

Icing on the matzah: NY kosher food maker turns over for Passover

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Jake Tapper in his Washington CNN office, which is decorated with posters from losing US presidential campaigns over the decades, in 2016. (Brooks Kraft/Getty Images via JTA)

For Jake Tapper, being the ‘rabbi’ of TV news comes easy

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White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, looks on during a meeting between US President Donald Trump, left, and leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

As Trump plots political future, close adviser Kushner said missing in action

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

30,000 US organizations said hacked in Chinese cyber-espionage attack

By AFP

In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, US Capitol Police push back rioters trying to enter the US Capitol in Washington. A former State Department aide in President Donald Trump’s administration has been charged with participating in the deadly siege at the Capitol. Court papers say Federico Klein was seen wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat amid the throng of people trying to force their way into the Capitol. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Trump-appointed State Department aide charged with assault at Capitol

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Mikhail Iosilevich (YouTube screenshot)

Russia jails Israeli dual national for alleged ties to Putin opposition group

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A slide from a homework assignment that blames Jews for Jesus' death. (Joanne Bell via Topmarks/Twitter/JTA))

UK school apologizes after homework assignment blames Jews for killing Jesus

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Chairman of the Budget Committee, speaks during a US Senate Budget Committee hearing regarding wages at large corporations on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Social--istBernie Sanders: We must end pandemic so young people can date again

In this Thursday, July 11, 2019 photo, an Ebay app is shown on a mobile phone in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

eBay removes at least 15 Nazi toys from its marketplace

Illustration of a wedding ring (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)

From our partnerUK makes religious divorce refusal a criminal offence under domestic abuse bill

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