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What Matters Most On Saturday, April 16, 2022

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Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Russia hits out at Lapid for backing its suspension from UN rights council

Moscow’s foreign ministry accuses FM of ‘anti-Russian attack,’ claims Israel using invasion of Ukraine to ‘distract’ from conflict with Palestinians

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a speech on immigration, at Lydd Airport, in southeast England, on April 14, 2022. (Matt Dunham/Pool/AFP)

Russia slaps entry ban on Boris Johnson in retaliation for UK sanctions

By AFP

Ukrainian servicemen ride on an armored transporter driving through a Russian position overran by Ukrainian forces outside Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Russia said to warn US of ‘consequences’ for giving advanced armaments to Ukraine

By AFP

A man enters a synagogue before Passover in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, April 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

'I pray God will make miracles, like he did in Egypt'

Yearning for freedom from Russia, Ukrainian Jews mark wartime Passover, if they can

By Cara Anna and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI

Curfews, bombings and constant danger imperil seder gatherings for Jews remaining in conflict-torn country, even as invasion gives new meaning to ancient retelling of exodus story

Ukrainians carrying their belongings line up to enter in Poland as they flee their country crossing the Medyka border, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Over 5 million have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion, UN says

By Robin MILLARD

Liudmila Sumanchuk, third left, walks during the funeral ceremony for her granddaughter Veronika Kuts in Lgiv village, Chernihiv region, Ukraine, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian woman talks of pain at watching burials of her daughter, husband on phone

By Evgeniy Maloletka

People stand beside damaged buildings at the Vizar company military-industrial complex, after the site was hit by overnight Russian strikes, in the town of Vyshneve, southwestern suburbs of Kyiv, on April 15, 2022. (Fadel Senna/AFP)

Russia hits Kyiv missile factory after its flagship is sunk

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Russia says plant was used to produce Neptune cruise missiles — the type of missile reportedly used to destroy the Moskva

Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he attends a press conference with Austria's chancellor in Kyiv, on April 9, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

Zelensky echoes US concern that Russia may use nuclear arms

By AFP

Volunteers carry the body of a man killed during the war to a refrigerated container in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday April 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ukraine police find 900 bodies around Kyiv, many ‘simply executed’

By Adam Schreck, Robert Burns and YESICA FISCH

Ukrainian FM sends Passover greetings, cites Kyiv’s commitment to ‘life and freedom’

Dmytro Kuleba urges unity in ‘bringing peace to Ukraine’; Biden evokes Ukrainians, all those ‘fighting for freedom’ during virtual seder as world leaders wish Jews a happy holiday

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is seen following a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on April 7, 2022. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Israelis attend a Passover seder in Mishmar David, April 15, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israelis celebrate Passover Seder free from pandemic’s bondage

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden address the White House virtual seder on April 14, 2022. (Screen capture/YouTube)

White House draws on Ukraine, antisemitism fight for annual (virtual) seder

Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

US ‘deeply concerned’ by Jerusalem violence, urges care for Temple Mount status quo

State Department says it will continue contact with Israeli, Palestinian officials to deescalate tensions after 185 injured in police crackdown on Muslim rioting at Al-Aqsa

Unrest in Umm al-Fahm on April 15, 2022 (video screenshot)

Police arrest seven amid rioting in Arab town of Umm al-Fahm

Police officers at the scene of a suspected terror stabbing in Hafia, on April 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Suspect in Haifa terror stabbing said to be daughter of ex-Shin Bet informant

Illustrative image of a mother with postnatal depression (iStock by Getty Images)

Depression rates among pregnant women, new moms doubled during lockdown, study finds

By Nathan Jeffay

Researcher ‘surprised’ by the high numbers, and says that even though lockdowns seem to be behind us, it will take time for levels to get back to normal

This year, I am a refugee spending a joyful Passover in Berlin. Next year in Kharkiv.

We dream the war will soon end – I want to see and hug my husband, wipe away his tears and say everything will be fine: We are all alive.

Russia: On the run from history

The country has a long history of being let off the hook despite committing heinous acts. With its barbaric attack on Ukraine, the jig is finally up

A still from the film 'Operation Mincemeat.' (Courtesy Lev Cinemas)

'A dead body would never talk'

Behind new film ‘Operation Mincemeat,’ the true story of WWII’s greatest deception

By Robert Philpot

Out Friday, the movie tells how Britain used the body of a dead vagrant to trick Hitler into dropping Nazi defenses in Sicily, enabling its capture and turning the tide of the war

To combat climate threats, Israel to top off Sea of Galilee with desalinated water

By Daniella Cheslow

Freshwater lake depleted by droughts, rising temperatures and over-pumping, but authorities hope project will help keep reservoir full, while boosting ties with thirsty neighbors

Illustrative: A bulldozer carries a new pipeline by Israel's national water company near Kibbutz Ravid, west of Sea of Galilee on March 16, 2022.(Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Rabbi Shimshon Izakson chats with a relief worker at a sports hall in downtown Chisinau, Moldova. (Jacob Judah via JTA)

TikTok rabbi seeks to make Ukrainian Jewish refugees comfortable in Moldova

‘We are trying to create the most normal place possible,’ Shimshon Izakson says of relief efforts, as he explains his drive to connect young and Russian-speaking Jews to religion

In this photo taken April 20, 2016, the famed Birds' Head Haggadah, a medieval copy of a text read around the Passover holiday table, is seen on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Heirs of man murdered by Nazis sue Israel Museum for rare medieval haggadah

Museum denies ‘The Birds’ Head Haggadah’ belongs to progeny of Ludwig Marum, arguing his daughter wanted it on display; family disputes claim

Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Abir Kara, on April 5, 2021. (Olivier Fitousi/Flash90)

Yamina’s Kara says rebel MK Silman was snared by Likud, alternate coalition futile

Lawmaker says he would have been interested in forming a right-wing coalition but no such option exists and further resignations will spark elections, which he vows to prevent

Bat Sheva Marcus. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Bat Sheva Marcus resigns from seminary board in wake of harassment allegations

By Andrew Lapin

Affair has roiled the liberal US Modern Orthodox community

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Matzah pajamas designed by Rabbi Yael Buechler. (Design by Grace Yagel; images via NLI Historical Jewish Press)

'You used to get dressed up for seder. Now it's more casual'

Matzah pajamas are the latest trend in a long history of US Jewish branding

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Like many others, American Jews were influenced by their new home country’s penchant for consumerism – but being a niche market has also helped preserve their cultural identity

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Jérémie Cohen, center, stands betwen his parents in Paris, France in 2017. (Courtesy of Gerald Cohen)

French prosecutors indict 2 men for assaulting a Jew who died fleeing attackers

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Night view of the clock tower at the entrance to Jaffa, on June 30, 2008. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Jaffa in a suspected murder

Police chief Kobi Shabtai ahead of his testimony before the Meron disaster commission, in Jerusalem, on April 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top cop’s car flips en route to seder, two passengers lightly hurt

Then US President Barack Obama presents Jewish Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein, a 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom on February 15, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Gerda Weissmann Klein, who wrote book on surviving the Holocaust, dies at 97

An 18th century haggadah from Amsterdam. (courtesy: National Library of Israel)

Texts with a differenceNational library puts rare, historic haggadahs online

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Servicemen of Ukraine's Azov Battalion pray in the Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 11, 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (Sergey BOBOK / AFP)

Polish journalist quits after paper rejects ‘neo-Nazi’ term for Ukrainian militia

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Cyprus' foreign minister Ioannis Kasoulides, left, welcomes his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib following their meeting at the foreign ministry house in Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Lebanon ready to work with Cyprus, but not Israel, on offshore gas

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Liz Sheridan. (Video screenshot)

Liz Sheridan, Jerry’s doting mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ dies at 93

By AP

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