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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 1, 2023

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Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein, head of the Har Etzion yeshiva, speaks during a protest of right-wing demonstrators against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Head of prestigious yeshiva: Settler riots a moral stain on us all, contravene Torah

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein of Har Etzion in West Bank: Violence in Palestinian villages ‘driven by dark forces in people’s souls,’ ‘pulls rug out from under our claim to morality’

New housing projects in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Ze'ev, June 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

UK, Canada, Australia call on Israel to reverse approvals for settlement expansion

A neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Eli overlooking a nearby Palestinian village, January 17, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

UN trims ‘blacklist’ of firms doing business in Israeli settlements

An IDF soldier is seen vandalizing a Palestinian-owned car in the West Bank village of Qaryut, June 30, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli army probes soldier seen vandalizing car in Palestinian village

By Emanuel Fabian

In short clip, serviceman smashes window of vehicle in Qaryut, near West Bank settlement of Eli; IDF condemns ‘serious incident’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin arrive to vote on the judicial selection panel in the Knesset, June 14, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pledging to carry on with overhaul, Levin says battle is over state’s character

Likud ministers say they won’t give in, including on the ‘override’ clause that Netanyahu says he’s scrapped

Israelis opposed to the government's planned judicial overhaul gather in Tel Aviv's Habimah Square, July 1, 2023 (Rony Shapiro)

‘The protest is intensifying’: 26th week of rallies as coalition advances overhaul

Amitai Weissman on the balcony of his new apartment in Athens. (Courtesy)

'Is this just an adventure, or are Israelis here to stay?'

Under shadow of judicial overhaul, Israelis flee to Greece, birthplace of democracy

By Romain Chauvet

As Israel’s uncertain judiciary seems to increasingly push some sabras into exile, many are drawn to Greece’s proximity, lower real estate prices and high quality of life

Over 1,300 arrested in France during 4th night of riots over fatal police shooting

By John Leicester, Sylvie Corbet and LEWIS JOLY

Funeral set to take place of 17-year-old whose killing by police unleashed unrest; 45,000 police officers deployed as interior ministry says 2,500 fires set overnight

A memorial to those deported from France during the Holocaust and World War II is defaced during riots following the police shooting of a teen, June 29, 2023. (Screen grab via Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Memorial to Holocaust victims, WWII resistance defaced during riots in France

By ToI Staff and Agencies

People run away during clashes with police in the center of Lyon, central France, Friday, June 30, 2023. (AP/Laurent Cipriani)

French youths clash with officers in 4th day of riots over fatal police shooting

By Sylvie Corbet, John Leicester and LEWIS JOLY

Four men jailed over French far-right terror plot against Jewish and Muslim targets

By AFP

27-year-old former voluntary police officer, accused of being ringleader, to serve 18 years; other three, one of whom was a minor at the time, given lighter terms

Illustrative. Police guard a synagogue during a visit by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, in Marseille, southern France, January 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Illustrative: Swastika graffiti. (Flash 90)

Neo-Nazi charged with defacing Michigan synagogue

Explainer

Why did Hulu’s ‘The Bear’ refer to arson caused by ‘Jewish lightning’?

While the term itself is an offensive Jewish stereotype, the show uses it as part of a story arc on restaurant’s staff no longer using pejorative language

Ebon Moss-Bachrach plays Richie in 'The Bear.' (FX/Hulu via JTA)

Bruno Schulz, 'Dedication,' 'The Book of Idolatry,' 1920s. (courtesy)

Interview'They were painted under duress; it is art by coercion'

How the work of a celebrated artist killed by a Nazi mysteriously ended up in Israel

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘Bruno Schulz,’ author Benjamin Balint follows the dark story of a renowned Polish-Jewish creative turned SS officer’s artist-slave, and the battles over his surviving legacy

Michael Wasserman

Defending the broken tablets: On the pro-Democracy protests

A midrash to remind us that spiritual humility, the awareness that our truths are partial truths, is a religious value

Karen Reiss Medwed

Teach all children: Jewish affirmative action

The US Supreme Court’s ruling is an ethical, moral and – for Jews – religious failure

Illustrative: A man walks by school bus with Yiddish signage in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York City, January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

NYC says 18 yeshivas failing to teach secular subjects in accordance with state law

After eight-year probe, city’s Department of Education report finds private Hasidic schools don’t provide ‘substantially equivalent’ education to public schools

This picture provided by the Austrian Interior Ministry on June 29, 2023 shows secured weapons, objects and ammunitions and swastika flags. (BMI/Gerd Pachauer via AP)

Austria seizes vast trove of weapons, swastika flags in raid on far-right biker gang

By AFP

Haul includes 35 long firearms, 25 submachine guns, 100 pistols, 1,000 weapons components, 400 signal weapons, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, grenade launcher, Nazi memorabilia

Left to right: Sharon Herzog, US Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, Netta Barzilai, and Ambassador Michael Herzog pose at a Pride Event at the Israel embassy in Washington, June 29 2023. (Shmulik Almany, Embassy of Israel via JTA)

In notable stand, Israel’s ambassador to US says ‘trans rights are human rights’

At Pride event hosted by embassy, Michael Herzog calls to stand up against those who spread ‘intolerance and bigotry’ targeting LGBTQ community in the US and Israel

A group photo of the 37th Government of Israel, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 29, 2022. (Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office)

Israel plummets 23 spots in gender equality index to 83rd in the world

Obituary

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Alan Arkin, Jewish actor with uncommon versatility, dies at 89

Over a nearly seven-decade career, he imbued comic roles with pathos and serious roles with a touch of sardonic humor

File: Alan Arkin poses for a portrait in the Fender Music Lodge during the 2011 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah on Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, file)

Inside Story

Harvard’s Jewish quotas cited in US Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling

Two justices were sympathetic to group’s argument that demands for diversity were to an extent rooted in a past desire to limit numbers of Jewish students

The US Supreme Court is seen June 28, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

A student debt relief activists adjusts their sign after the US Supreme Court stuck down President Biden's student debt relief program on June 30, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images via AFP)

Analysis

US Supreme Court steers society sharply to the right

By Paul Handley

Conservative-majority court shows determination to scrap long-established progressive policies, with rulings against affirmative action, LGBTQ rights, abortion rights

Gender rights activist demonstrate outside the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP)

US Supreme Court says web designer can refuse service to gay couples

By Jessica Gresko

President Joe Biden speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, June 30, 2023, in Washington. The Biden administration is moving forward on a new student debt relief plan after the Supreme Court struck down his original initiative to provide relief to 43 million borrowers. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Biden pledges new student debt relief plan, slams GOP after Supreme Court ruling

By Will Weissert and Colleen Long

From 'The Feast,' at the Israel Museum, on exhibit through December 2023 (Courtesy Dor Kedmi)

Culinary history, taste and design exhibits whet the appetite in Jerusalem and Holon

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel Museum features anthropological display of banquets; Design Museum Holon rethinks look and feel of food

Participants on a recent tour of Israel and the West Bank, which included members of Pittsburgh's Congregation Dor Hadash, walk through Hebron. (Courtesy of Shleimut via JTA)

'We didn't shrink from our activism, we leaned in further'

During Pittsburgh shooter trial, surviving congregants find parallels in West Bank

By Eliyahu Freedman

As gunman is tried for murder of 11 Jews, members of Tree of Life’s Dor Hadash visit Palestinians, doubling down on refugee aid work for which killer said he targeted them

More Headlines

US socialite Kim Kardashian poses for a photo at the Louis Vuitton Menswear Spring-Summer 2024 show as part of the Paris Fashion Week, central Paris, on June 20, 2023. (STEFANO RELLANDINI / AFP)

Kim Kardashian cries over Kanye’s antisemitism in upcoming ‘Kardashians’ episode

By JTA and ToI Staff

UNESCO readmits US as member state after Trump’s withdrawal

Finnish Economic Affairs Minister Vilhelm Junnila speaking in parliament in Helsinki. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Finnish far-right minister quits after controversies, alleged pro-Nazi comments

By ToI Staff and AFP

Members and other leaders attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Iran to join Shanghai alliance with China, Russia next week, says Lavrov

By AFP

This June 2023 image provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute shows the planet Saturn and three of its moons, from left, Enceladus, Tethys and Dione, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. In infrared, the planet appears dark because sunlight is absorbed by methane in the atmosphere. (NASA, ESA, CSA, JWST Saturn Team via AP)

Saturn’s rings glow bright in Webb Space Telescope’s latest cosmic shot

Ness Ziona mayoral candidate Galit Avinoam films a campaign video on June 30, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

A novel campaign tactic‘Die!’: Thinking cam is off, mayoral candidate lets slip real feelings

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