Why US Jewish leaders urged Kristallnacht silence * Gazan infiltrates, burns greenhouse * Anti-Semitic BDS rally at Dutch monument to Nazi victi ms * ’Spectacular’ Merkel

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Saturday, November 10, 2018 80 years later [How to explain the ‘timid’ reaction of American Jewish leaders to Kristallnacht?]( By [Matt Lebovic]( [Amid the worst pogrom to take place in Germany since the Middle Ages, most US Jewish communal leaders told their constituents to keep quiet]( [Two Israeli tourists found safe as flash floods kill 12 in Jordan]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Foreign Ministry confirms renewed contact with travelers after earlier concerns for their well-being]( [Flash flooding collapses part of Route 90 near Dead Sea]( By [TOI staff]( [Palestinian infiltrates from Gaza, sets greenhouse on fire in Israeli community]( By [TOI staff]( [Suspect, who is not armed, nabbed after manhunt; IDF investigating how he managed to get so far]( [Israel and Qatar said to agree to sea crossing between Cyprus and Gaza Strip]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [PA fumes as suitcases of ‘gangster’ Qatari cash reach Gaza in bid to ease crisis]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Victims of synagogue shooting remembered in Pittsburgh park]( By [Ramesh Santanam]( [Hundreds gather to honor 11 killed at Tree of Life Congregation two weeks ago in deadliest attack on Jews in US history]( [How an Iranian asylum seeker raised over $1,000,000 for the Pittsburgh synagogue]( By [Josefin Dolsten]( [Texas Jewish food truck vandalized in anti-Semitic attack]( By [JTA]( [Swastika sent to phones of students at Chicago-area school]( By [AP and TOI staff]( [A sixty-year friendship of Muslim and Jew, born on the soccer pitch]( By [Diana Bletter]( [Amsterdam BDS rally at monument to Nazi victims features suicide bomber song]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [Dutch politicians ask city government why it allows viciously anti-Semitic demonstrations at main memorial for Nazi crimes]( [Men shouting about killing Jews end London Kristallnacht vigil]( By [JTA]( Night of broken dreams [Hillel Kuttler]( [A girl’s doll is a poignant reminder of the horrors of Kristallnacht]( [Lore Mayerfeld donates a children’s toy to a new Yad Vashem exhibition — one which she carried as her family fled to the US after the pogrom indicating the onset of the Holocaust]( [November 9: A fateful day in German history, four times over]( By [AFP]( [German Jews denounce far-right party at Kristallnacht memorial]( By [JTA]( Analysis [Toby Axelrod]( [Angela Merkel’s ‘spectacular’ Jewish legacy]( [The longtime leader of the Christian Democratic Union, who has announced her pending departure, has been a strong ally of Israel and the Jews]( [In synagogue on Kristallnacht anniversary, Merkel warns against anti-Semitism]( By [Geir Moulson and Randy Herschaft]( All in a row [Holocaust heroes’ grandson helps Israeli rower compete in prestigious US race]( By [Penny Schwartz]( Top Ops [Malynnda Littky]( [Dan Ariely walks into a bar]( [He was here? Could he really be? I started jumping up down like a groupie — which, I guess, I am]( [Daniel Geretz]( [The US needs a day of national mourning]( [This Veterans Day, honor the living vets, remember the fallen, and mourn the recent senseless losses, so the nation can start healing]( [Trump played key role as candidate in hush payoffs for sexual affairs — report]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [The Wall Street Journal says the president was involved in nearly every aspect of the deals to buy the silence of Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels]( [Trump insults reporters, claims Acosta video wasn’t altered]( By [David Bauder and Jonathan Lemire]( [Thin ice for new acting AG? Trump says ‘I don’t know’ him]( By [Eric Tucker and Jonathan Lemire]( [Trump’s new justice chief assailed over anti-Mueller stance]( By [Paul Handley]( symbols of the futility [AP]( [Deaths in the final minutes of WWI highlighted the folly of war]( [Canadian Pvt. George Price was killed by a German sniper in Mons, Belgium, just two minutes before the ceasefire, encapsulating the senselessness of so much of the killing]( [Trump in Paris slams Macron’s ‘insulting’ EU army proposals]( By [AFP]( More Headlines [Holy hoops / Sarah Silverman brings together 5 clerics for a game of H-O-R-S-E]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [Family Fame / Michael Douglas joins dad Kirk with star on Hollywood Walk of Fame]( By [JTA]( [Activists protest submarine scandal with anti-Netanyahu structure in Tel Aviv]( By [TOI staff]( [California man pleads not guilty in killing of gay Jewish student]( By [AP]( [Five die in California wildfires, 150,000 forced to flee]( By [AFP]( [State attorneys: Shaked’s call for Zilber dismissal undermines our independence]( By [TOI staff]( [Israeli court indicts Jewish man for inciting murder of Arabs, leftists]( By [TOI staff]( [Aliya still near-frozen as Ethiopian Jews mark Sigd festival with mass prayer]( By [JTA and Melanie Lidman]( [Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Melbourne stabbing]( By [AFP]( [No laughing matter / Comedy writer apologizes for past anti-Semitic jokes]( By [JTA]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved