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What Matters Most On Friday, September 13, 2013

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Thousands gather for prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on the night before Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, September 13, 2013. (Dror Garti/Flash90)

Israel marks solemn, silent Day of Atonement

Jewish state grinds to a halt on Yom Kippur; businesses, TV stations, airports and highways shut down until Saturday night

Migrants in Tel Aviv asked to shutter shops for Yom Kippur

By Gavriel Fiske

Study shows Yom Kippur’s empty roads make for cleaner air

By David Shamah

Israelis urged to brace for blistering Yom Kippur

By Asher Zeiger

Illustrative: Maharat Ruth delivers a Rosh Hashanah sermon. (photo credit: Ben Zehavi)

Ordained Orthodox woman brings vitality to DC pulpit

A traditional shul in the nation’s capital makes one highly untraditional hire and gets hit by a ‘jolt of electricity’

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Please forgive me…

In step with the season of atonement: a collection of apologies, several of which are actually sincere

Yom Kippur and blaming others

With their long history of being scapegoated, Jews should strongly oppose the demonization of peaceful Muslim Americans

King Hussein, far right, alongside Gamal Abdel Nasser, Yasser Arafat and Muammar Ghaddafi in 1970 (Photo credit: Palestinian Authorities via Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash 90)

40 years since the Yom Kippur War

Account of King Hussein’s 1973 war warning still deemed too harmful to release

By Mitch Ginsburg

PM Golda Meir’s testimony on the Yom Kippur War, as declassified Thursday after 40 years, omits all mention of her pivotal meeting in Tel Aviv with Jordan’s monarch

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90).

Popular Israeli rabbi may meet Iran’s Rouhani in NY

By Yifa Yaakov and David Shamah

Summit between Yoshiyau Pinto and Iranian president being brokered by business leaders; sit down to take place on sidelines of UN General Assembly

Syrian President Bashar Assad (photo credit: AP/CBS)

Assad says US must stop military threats, and Israel must sign WMD treaties

By ToI Staff and AP

Syrian president, announcing plans to submit data on his chemical weapons a month after signing int’l convention, issues demands of his own

Columns of smoke rising from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood in west Damascus, Syria. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Analysis

Syria’s secular rebels caught between Assad and the Islamists

By Avi Issacharoff

One of the reasons for Obama’s swerve away from intervention is the sorry state of the opposition, increasingly infiltrated by jihadi extremists

Syria claims full membership of chemical arms treaty

Human rights group: Assad’s men executed hundreds

By AP and ToI Staff

Leaving strike on table, Kerry says Syrian words on arms deal ‘not enough’

By AP and ToI Staff

A Syrian man (center), identifies dead bodies who were killed, according to activists, by Syrian forces loyal to Bashar Assad, in Bayda, outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria, on May 2, 2013. (photo credit: AP/The Syrian Revolution Against Bashar Assad)

Human rights group: Assad’s men executed hundreds

By AP and ToI Staff

Human Rights Watch accuses Syrian government of mass murder of more than 248 Sunni Muslims in coastal towns in May

In this Thursday Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Iran's then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon their arrival for a dinner in Damascus, Syria. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syrian rebel chief claims Assad gave Hezbollah nerve gas

By Ilan Ben Zion

Al-Labwani tells Saudi paper that Damascus transferred a ton of VX to Shiiite terrorists; FSA leader claims chemical weapons moved to Iraq, Lebanon

A Palestinian man walks by the barrier separating the West Bank town of Abu Dis from East Jerusalem. The Arabic graffiti, seen on the Abu Dis side, reads, "PLO, no for negotiations." Monday, September 9, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

20 years on, Oslo Accords promise rings hollow

Negotiators on both sides say mistakes they made then are causing damage to this day

Nate Freiman, a rookie first baseman for the Oakland Athletics, is trying to help his team make the playoffs. (photo credit: Hillel Kuttler/JTA)

Ex-Israel squad slugger chases a pennant in the big leagues

By Hillel Kuttler

More Headlines

Last lamentationsA Jewish memorial to WTC victims

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An Israeli emergency rescue team examines the remains of a bus bombed in Bulgaria in July, 2012, allegedly by Hezbollah. (Dano Monkotovic/Flash90/JTA)

Burgas bombing suspects to go on trial in early 2014

By AP

Shuli Chen of the National Water Authority stands in the Sea of Galilee to take a measurement of the water level, March 2007. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Scaling upSea of Galilee gets 600,000 fresh fish

'Bridge of Spies' director Steven Spielberg (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Peres to honor Spielberg, Wiesel with annual award

By AP and ToI Staff

An Egyptian soldier stands guard next to an armored personnel carrier in Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Citing security, Cairo extends emergency laws

By AP

The Mount Herzl grave of an Israeli soldier killed during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewYom Kippur, then and now

By Aaron Kalman

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