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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 21, 2013

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This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows dead bodies of Syrian citizens in Arbeen, near Damascus, on Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Local Committee of Arbeen)

Rebel forces report massive death toll after Syrian chemical attack

By AP and ToI Staff

Free Syrian Army says over 1,100 people killed, though others report lower numbers; assault comes as UN inspectors in area to probe for chemical arms use; regime denies reports

World urges UN to investigate Syria chemical attack

By ToI Staff and AP

Top US general: Syrian rebels wouldn’t back US interests

By Bradley Klapper

Syria says it captured Israeli weapons from rebels

By Stuart Winer

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, July 30, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman says Turkish PM is successor to Nazi Goebbels

By Stuart Winer

Former foreign minister compares Erdogan, who accused Israel of plotting Egyptian coup, to notorious Third Reich propagandist

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia in Istanbul, 2012 (photo credit: CC-BY-SA World Economic Forum/ Norbert Schiller, flickr)

US, Egypt pan Turkish PM for saying Israel ousted Morsi

By Gavriel Fiske and Stuart Winer

A dangerous prayer

Believing one’s fate is literally sealed on Yom Kippur misses the point, and no, God does not give us cancer

The spirituality of Jewish geography

As with Abraham the patriarch, there is still a profound reason for living in a land full of moral and spiritual challenges

Young boys from the Falash Mura community in a computer class in Gondar, Ethiopia last year. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Gondar school closure marks end of Ethiopian aliya

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish Agency head Sharansky gives school keys to local mayor; final immigrant flight set for next week

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the prisoner baths in the concentration camp Dachau where more than 43,000 persons were murdered and over 200,000 were imprisoned during the Nazis’ terror reign from 1933-1945 in Dachau, southern Germany, on Tuesday, Aug.20, 2013 (photo credit: AP /Kerstin Joensson, Pool)

German chancellor visits Nazi camp Dachau

By AP

Even today, anti-Semitism and racism remain a threat to democracy in Europe, Angela Merkel says

Egypt's deposed president Hosni Mubarak attends a hearing session in his retrial on appeal in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, April 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)

Court orders Mubarak freed

By Sarah El Deeb

Former president’s release date still undecided as prosecutors may appeal decision; move likely to further roil protesters

Opponents of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi shout slogans during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, July 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Cairo’s Jews support military’s campaign

To tiny Jewish community — made up of 14 women — army’s assertion of power is a welcome development in ‘fighting terrorism’

Footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, enhanced by modern coloring and sound techniques (photo credit: (Warsaw Rising Museum)

Warsaw Uprising brought to life in stunning color film

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

A child is inoculated with the oral polio vaccine at a children's health clinic in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Polio vaccine debate hits High Court

By David Shamah

As hundreds of thousands of children are inoculated against the virus, judges must decide whether the campaign is safe

A Lebanese soldier passes in front of burned cars at the site of a car bombing in southern Beirut, on August 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla/File)

Attacks in Hezbollah area test supporters’ resolve

By Zeina Karam and Bassam Mroue

Shiite operatives man checkpoints guarding southern Beirut suburbs for fear of future bombings by Sunni extremists

Saeb Erekat (left), with John Kerry (center), and Tzipi Livni at a July 2013 press conference in Washington, DC, relaunching peace talks. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators hold clandestine talks in Jerusalem

Abbas meets with Hadash party members in Ramallah, calls on Israel to refrain from ‘stacking obstacles’ ahead of negotiations

US President Harry S. Truman, right, greets Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh as the latter arrives in Washington, DC, in 1951 (photo credit: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum/Wikimedia Commons)

Documents detail CIA’s role in 1953 coup in Iran

By Kimberly Dozier

Explanations offered in declassified papers are eerily similar to current arguments for curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Adult backup dancers join Sam Horowitz for his grand entrance at his 2012 bar mitzvah party. (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

Bar mitzvah video sparks debate over culture of excess

By JTA

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The Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City, with Mughrabi Ascent bridge in foreground (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Moniker muddle‘Jerusalem’ rejected as baby name

By JTA

Molester Andrew Goodman (photo credit: courtesy)

Child abuser claims he and teen victim had Jewish wedding

By Stuart Winer

An Iron Dome battery stationed in the north near the city of Haifa, January 2013. (photo credit Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash 90)

Iron Dome battery deployed in Sharon region

By Gavriel Fiske

Illustrative photo of a Nazi flag on display (CC BY-BPTakoma, Flickr)

Auction of Nazi relics riles New Zealand Jews

A child is inoculated with the oral polio vaccine at a children's health clinic in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNorthern exposure

By Aaron Kalman

Mohammed Badie speaks at an October 9, 2010, press conference in Cairo, Egypt. (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewDramatic capture of a Brotherhood leader

By Elhanan Miller

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