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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 12, 2022

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (R) and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 14, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Families of diplomats and of embassy workers are coming home

As Ukraine war looms, PM and Lapid hold urgent Shabbat talks on evacuating Israelis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top officials take part in discussions as threat of Russian invasion grows; embassy staff will be reinforced to boost consular services for Israelis wishing to leave country

Ukrainian soldiers train during military drills close to Kharkiv, Ukraine, on February 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)

Israel evacuating families of diplomatic staff from Ukraine; issues travel warning

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In this photo taken from video and released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, tanks and armored vehicles move during the Belarusian and Russian joint military drills at Brestsky firing range, Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

ExplainerDays to war? What we know about the unfolding Russia-Ukraine crisis

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov before their meeting, January 21, 2022, in Geneva, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Invasion of Ukraine would result in ‘massive’ response, Washington tells Moscow

By AFP and ToI Staff

US top diplomat says diplomatic channels remain ‘open’ to avoid conflict but would require Russia to ‘deescalate’; Biden, Putin to hold high-stakes call

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan gives an update about Ukraine during a press briefing at the White House, on February 11, 2022, in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US warns Russia may invade Ukraine in days, urges Americans to quickly leave

By Matthew Lee, AAMER MADHANI and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on February 10, 2022 (Sergey Bobok/AFP)

Biden and Putin to speak as US warns Russia could attack Ukraine ‘any day’

By Sebastian Smith and Hui Min NEO

A woman receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a Clalit health care center in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Women nearly twice as likely to report side effects from COVID vaccine, study finds

Lead researcher in peer-reviewed Israeli study posits that the immune system in women responds more strongly than in men to foreign antigens

Masks have been a regular part of synagogue attendance in New York during the pandemic, as seen here at SAJ, a Reconstructionist synagogue on the Upper West Side on Jan. 29, 2022. Now that the state's mandate has expired, synagogues are free to make their own policies. (Courtesy Comptroller Brad Lander via JTA)

As New York lifts mask mandates, are synagogues following?

By julia GERGELY

A person is injected with her second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a Dallas County Health and Human Services vaccination site in Dallas, Texas, on August 26, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

US regulators delay approval process for Pfizer’s COVID vaccine for kids under 5

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE

Likelihood of state commission of inquiry said receding

Probe into alleged police phone hacking said to find no evidence of illegal activity

TV reports say only irregularity found in investigation led by deputy AG is in case of state witness Shlomo Filber, which police have acknowledged

Jonathan Feldstein

The voice of silence: A Jewish hero in Moscow

Ephraim Kholmyansky was one of the early underground Hebrew teachers among Soviet Jews, playing a role in the awakening of Jewish identity in the USSR

Leave no one behind: Special in Uniform

After years of being discounted, young Israelis with disabilities can finally experience the pride of serving their country in a meaningful way.

Obituary

Trude Feldman, ubiquitous reporter who spoke to presidents and PMs, dies at 97

Journalist was famous for ability to secure presidential interviews based on her penchant for softball questions, but also her persistence and refusal to take no for an answer

Trude Feldman interviews Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1978. (Jimmy Carter Presidential Library)

Jared Armstrong (center) appealed the Israeli Interior Ministry's denial of his application for Israeli citizenship but his appeal was denied Wednesday. (Courtesy/Jared Armstrong via JTA)

Basketball player converted to Judaism by ‘Biden’s Rabbi’ denied Israeli citizenship

Conservative Rabbi Michael Beals decries ‘racist’ decision not to grant citizenship to Jared Armstrong, who wants to play for the Hapoel Haifa basketball team

This year's Super Bowl has its share of Jewish connections. (Art by Mollie Suss/JTA)

Biblical signs and the Messiah: Jewish fans on who deserves to win Super Bowl LVI

By jacob gurvis

With no Jewish players or owners involved this year, representatives of two storied Jewish communities delve into why the Bengals or the Rams will come out on top

Former Dutch Prime Minister Dries van Agt welcomes a journalist into his home in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on April 6, 2008. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Dutch universities order staff to reveal their ties to Jewish and Israeli groups

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Institutions do so at request of pro-Palestinian group under freedom of information law; chief rabbi: ‘Universities’ compliance with transparently antisemitic request concerning’

Exterior front of the Nabi Musa shrine. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Explore the Medieval shrines left behind by a ruling class of warriors

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The Israeli landscape is dotted with architecture from the Mamelukes, a group of slaves who were taught the art of war before turning on their masters and ruling the region

Firefighters douse a vehicle after an explosion that killed two people in central Israel on February 12, 2022 (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two killed, one injured as blast rips through car near Ramle in suspected mob hit

Police open investigation into incident that comes amid escalating gang war between crime families in the area

Julia Haart and her youngest son, Aron Hendler. (Courtesy: Netflix)

Haart family roiled by drama as filming starts in season 2 of ‘My Unorthodox Life’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Formerly Orthodox fashion mogul who is star of Netflix series fired from talent agency as cameras roll, files to divorce husband for alleged abuse

A picture shows a view of Wadi Gaza, a wetland area in the central Gaza Strip on February 9, 2022 (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Pollution clean-up aims to create Gaza’s first nature reserve

Gaza Valley is set for a UN-backed, decade-long clean-up effort, with plans to make it into a cultural, sporting attraction

Charlotte Nichols, the British Labour Party's parliament representative for Warrington North, lights a Hanukkah menorah. (Courtesy of Nichols)

Charlotte Nichols could soon be UK Labour Party’s only Jewish woman in parliament

By Olivia Fletcher

Only 30, Nichols is a rising star in a party losing Jewish MPs while still reckoning with years of antisemitism accusations under Jeremy Corbyn

Illustrative: Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York, on February 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

US lawmakers call to implement long-delayed measures to combat campus antisemitism

Bipartisan group of 39 Congress members says Biden administration has put off codifying 2019 Trump executive order meant to protect Jewish college students

A teacher at Mountain Brook High School is seen giving a Nazi salute, in a video published on February 8, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Alabama school system faulted for response after teacher had kids give Nazi salute

An athlete speaks to students at a Fellowship for Christian Athletes conference in 2010. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images/JTA)

West Virginia students stage walkout after being forced to attend Christian assembly

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Clergy, members and guests celebrate the 100th anniversary of SAJ-Judaism that Stands for All, the flagship Reconstructionist synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, January 29, 2022. (Courtesy Comptroller Brad Lander/ via JTA)

'US Jews absorbed his philosophy without knowing it'

Manhattan synagogue marks its 100th year as Reconstructionist Judaism’s flagship

SAJ will host events throughout 2022 that examine the influence of founder Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan and his movement on contemporary American Jewish life

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Illustrative: Military Police soldiers escort an arrested soldier at the Jaffa Military Court, on August 18, 2009. (Flash90)

IDF officer charged with sexual assault of 3 female subordinates

By Emanuel Fabian

Artist's rendering of the VENμS satellite, Israel's first environmental research satellite, set to launch on August 2, 2017. (Israel Space Agency)

Israel, UAE issue call for joint space research proposals on climate, environment

Firefighters work at the scene of a deadly car crash in the Jordan Valley, February 11, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two killed, five injured in West Bank multi-vehicle crash

By Emanuel Fabian

James Cockrum speaks before the McMinn County School Board in a packed meeting room, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Athens, Tenn. The McMinn County School Board heard from concerned citizens about the removal of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, “Maus," from the district's curriculum at the meeting. (Robin Rudd/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

Tennessee parents, teachers push back against ‘Maus’ removal

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI

Belgian State Secretary for Scientific Policy, Recovery Program and Strategic Investments Thomas Dermine (left) and the lawyer of the Mayer family Imke Gielen (right) hold 'Blumenstilleben' ('Flowers'), at the Belgium Royal Museums of Fine-Arts in Brussels, on February 10, 2022. (John Thys/AFP)

After 71 years, Belgian museum gives back Nazi-looted painting to Jewish family

Michael Winograd, a popular Klezmer composer and clarinetist, recently poked fun at Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene's viral 'Gazpacho Police' comment by turning it into the title of a klezmer song. (video screenshot)

Best served cold‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song

By julia GERGELY

A Taliban fighter with his gun walks on a street, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Taliban frees 2 foreign journalists detained while on UN assignment in Kabul

By AFP

An aerial view of American Jewish University's Sunny & Isadore Familian Campus in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Communications Department, AJU).

American Jewish University is selling ‘all or part’ of its Los Angeles campus

This photo provided by NASA shows a “selfie” created using a specialized pupil imaging lens inside of the NIRCam instrument that was designed to take images of the primary mirror segments instead of images of space. (NASA via AP)

Vanity, thy name is WebbNASA’s new space telescope sees first starlight, takes selfie

Russia's Kamila Valieva attends a training session on February 12, 2022 prior the Figure Skating Event at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. (Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

Questions swirl as Russian skater awaits Beijing Olympics doping fate

By Peter Stebbings

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