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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 22, 2021

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A man with a Jewish kippa (Ying Tang/NurPhoto via Getty Images, JTA)

As Gaza conflict triggers antisemitism, some US Jews hide religious symbols

By Shira Hanau, Ben Sales and Ron Kampeas

Jews across the United States have been attacked because of the fighting in the Middle East; national Jewish groups urge Biden to call out such antisemitism

Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City on May 20, 2021 (video screenshot)

Antisemitism in New York City: What we know about Thursday’s attacks

Kim Kardashian West speaks at the Langham Huntington, Jan. 18, 2020, in Pasadena, California (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP)

Kim Kardashian, Mayim Bialik, others pan anti-Israeli, antisemitic expressions

By Gabe Friedman

Joey Borgen shows his injuries after being beat by a pro-Palestinian mob in the streets of New York. (video screenshot)

‘Thought I was going to die’: NY Jewish man details assault by pro-Palestine mob

Joseph Borgen was beaten while wearing a kippa on his way to a pro-Israel rally. ‘I would never think I’d ever have to worry about my religion or ethnicity being a problem in NYC’

Supporters of the Palestinians march in New York's Times Square Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

ADL: ‘Dangerous and drastic surge’ in antisemitism in US linked to Gaza violence

By Jacob Magid and JTA

People restrain a man accused of attacking an ultra-Orthodox Jew in London on May 21, 2021 (Screencapture/YouTube)

Orthodox Jewish man said assaulted in London after flying Israeli flag on car

By Cnaan Liphshiz

People enter the severely damaged Al-Jawhara building to salvage valuable items following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, in Gaza City, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Egyptian mediators hold talks to try to secure long-term Israel-Hamas truce

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As ceasefire holds, officials reach out to Israel and Gaza-based terror group to firm up deal; Palestinians in the coastal enclave begin to clean up destruction

Airplanes at Ben Gurion International Airport, on May 7, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)

US, European airlines restart flights to Israel as ceasefire holds

By AP and ToI Staff

A truck loaded with humanitarian aid, passes into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, through the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza from Israel, on May 21, 2021, after a ceasefire brokered by Egypt between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas terror group (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Aid begins entering Gaza through Israel’s Kerem Shalom as ceasefire holds

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Joe Biden speaks during a joint news conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, in the East Room of the White House on May 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden: Dems still support Israel, intercommunal fighting in Jerusalem must stop

By Agencies and Jacob Magid

US president says he is ‘praying’ ceasefire will hold, adds that until region unequivocally acknowledges Israel’s right to exist, ‘there will be no peace’

US President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony to present the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Col. Ralph Puckett in the East Room of the White House, Friday, May 21, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

81% of young Americans back Biden’s response to Gaza violence, poll finds

Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Rafah Medical Complex in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip on November 23, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas chief says war foils Israel’s attempts at Arab coexistence, normalization

Ismail Haniyeh says terror group will continue to battle Jewish state ‘until Al-Aqsa Mosque is liberated,’ amid fresh clashes at Jerusalem holy site

An Israeli man sits at a restaurant that was attacked the previous night in Israel's Mediterranean city of Bat Yam on May 13, 2021 (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Police arrest Jewish suspects for attacks, threats, rioting in recent violence

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Why are New York mayoral candidates quiet about Jews and Israel?

The answer can be found in the latest Pew study, which highlights the decline in non-Orthodox Jewish ethnic clout

Shawn Zelig Aster

Woke? Go beyond ‘TL;DR’

’Israel has the right to defend itself’ is not some mantra of old white men scorned by progressives; it’s a deep moral claim that protects millions, including me

In the spirit of coexistence, Jewish residents of Abu Tor, Jerusalem, hand out cake, sweets and good wishes to their Arab neighbors during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan, May 15, 2021 (Good Neighbors).

As tensions rock the capital, a fight brews in Abu Tor over how to get along

Even before the latest flare-up of hostilities, community activists in the Jewish-Arab Jerusalem neighborhood were at odds regarding ways to bridge the Israeli-Palestinian divide

Malka Stilerman (L) in her home hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashdod, on May 18, 2021 (Avi Roccah/Flash90)

Residents of Ashdod building hit by Gaza rocket try to pick up the pieces

Public broadcaster meets with those whose homes and possessions were destroyed when a projectile slammed into building on Jewish festival of Shavuot

A Palestinian woman walks past a destroyed building in the al-Rimal commercial district in Gaza City on May 22, 2021, following a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian terror groups. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Gaza official says 2,000 housing units destroyed in war with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians pray by the bodies of members of the Ezz-Al Din Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas, who died in Israeli bombardment of a tunnel, during their funeral in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 21, 2021. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF said to have foiled major Hamas attack in hours before ceasefire

TV says IDF identified and killed several terrorists attempting to infiltrate through tunnel and kill soldiers; Israel also said to have delayed truce to carry out major operation

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, during a press conference in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz says Israel will ‘eventually succeed’ in killing Hamas military chief Deif

Hamas digs up the bodies of terrorists killed in an Israeli strike on a tunnel near Khan Younis, May 21, 2021 (Screen grab)

Hamas digs up bodies of terrorists killed in Israeli strike on tunnel network

Israel Travels

Majestic architecture and delicate flora make Jerusalem’s Givat Ram a must-see

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

In addition to housing the Israeli parliament, the neighborhood boasts the architecturally magnificent Supreme Court building and the aromatic Wohl Rose Park, the largest in Israel

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett (left) and Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid during the swearing-in ceremony of the 24th Knesset, at the Knesset building in Jerusalem, April 6, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Yamina signaling that coalition deal with Yesh Atid is still possible – report

Unsourced report comes after Likud reportedly waters down offer to Bennett; Gantz denies Netanyahu had political motivations behind Gaza operation, says Lapid would be good PM

US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides, right, and Deputy Secretary of State William Burns testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 20, 2012. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Exclusive

Thomas Nides a lock as US envoy to Israel after ex-Rep. Wexler told job not his

Nides, a former State Dept. official with ties to Blinken and Obama, had been seen as early favorite, but former congressman got jolt of support from Jewish groups and lawmakers

Illustrative: A woman and two children pass protesters sitting on La Salle Street in front of Chicago's City Hall, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Israel-Hamas conflict tears apart Chicago’s biggest Facebook moms group

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Dozens of Jewish moms kicked out or quit after MamaHive admin condemns ‘terroristic acts being committed against the Palestinian people’ and urges those who support Israel to leave

In this May 15, 2021, file photo, Lebanese wave Hezbollah and Palestinian flags, as they stand in front of the Israeli town of Metula, background, on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Analysis

In the north, Hezbollah and its missiles loom large over Gaza battle

Both Israel and the Lebanese terror group have good reason to prevent the fighting spreading to a second front, even though both believe another round of conflict is inevitable

Supporters of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood take part in a protest in the village of Sweimeh, near the Jordanian border with the West Bank, on May 21, 2021 (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Jordanians rally to celebrate ‘victory of the resistance’ against Israel

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a video conference with a group of university students, in Tehran, Iran, on May 11, 2021. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei says Israel ‘forced to accept defeat’

Jewish influencers and users of Instagram, the visual social networking app that is widely used for activism, say it became a challenging place during the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Screenshot via JTA)

‘Soul-destroying’: Jewish Instagrammers deal with Gaza conflict, antisemitism

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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In this undated photograph, provided by Boston-based RR Auction, shows a letter written by Albert Einstein, in which he wrote out his famous "E = mc2" equation, that sold at auction for more than $1.2 million. (Nikki Brickett/RR Auction via AP)

E = mc2 = 3 x estimateEinstein’s handwritten E = mc2 equations sells for $1.2 million

By AP

Illustration from The Red Book, commissioned by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, written by Shoham Smith and illustrated by Talia Drigues. (INPA)

World Biodiversity DayIllustrated book seeks to enlist the very young in protecting biodiversity

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a press conference in the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on May 21, 2021. (Michael Sohn/Pool/AFP)

Germany’s Merkel warns against antisemitism ahead of rallies on Gaza

By AFP

Roman Kent stands outside Auschwitz. (Courtesy of Jewish Foundation for the Righteous via JTA)

ObituaryHolocaust survivor Roman Kent who negotiated billions in restitution, dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Illustrative: Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander Gen. Hossein Salami, left, and the Guard's aerospace division commander Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh talk while unveiling a new drone called 'Gaza,' in an undisclosed location in Iran, in a photo released on May 22, 2021. (Sepahnews of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard unveils ‘Gaza’ drone in tribute to Palestinians

By AFP and ToI Staff

Fire and smoke rise from the al-Jalaa Tower, which housed the offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, as it is destroyed in an Israeli airstrike after the IDF warned the occupants to leave a building it said was a Hamas asset, Gaza City, May 15, 2021. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

AP fires Jewish journalist after pro-Palestinian tweets, prompting outcry

By AP and ToI Staff

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