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[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Weekend Edition Sunday, March 3, 2019 Interview [Jewish MP Smeeth says she’s staying in Labour to fight UK party’s anti-Semitism]( By [Robert Philpot]( [The parliamentarian says Corbyn lacks will to uproot hate speech, but ‘Her Majesty’s Official Opposition cannot be anti-Semitic. Full stop’]( International Women's Day [Woman in a man’s world: Ruderman says bold action will save Israel-Diaspora ties]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [The director of a multi-million dollar foundation since her early 20s says it’s time to rip the Band-Aid off worldwide Jewry’s fraught relationship and get to work rebuilding it]( [Interview / First-ever US Jewish herstory to hit stores ahead of International Women’s Day]( By [Rebecca Shimoni Stoil]( [In Germany, droves of Jewish women gather for first female empowerment summit]( By [Amie Liebowitz]( Analysis [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu’s legal war will wait; it’s his political life he’s fighting for now]( [The PM’s urgent priority, now that the AG has announced the intention to indict him, is to persuade enough of the public that he still should — and still can — run the country]( Diaspora Blowback [US Reform leader: Netanyahu’s deal with extremists is like ‘welcoming’ the KKK]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( [Liberal American Jewish leaders say PM’s embrace of Otzma Yehudit party makes it harder to defend Israel]( [Joshua Berman]( [Blacks, Palestinians and the disastrous politics of rage]( Interview [New US anti-Semitism envoy employs lessons learned from Iraq to fight ‘scourge’]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz]( Analysis [Raphael Ahren]( [With Netanyahu indictment cast, what happens now? 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