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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 5, 2013

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Slamming US and Israel, Khamenei raps aspects of Rouhani’s NY visit

By ToI Staff and AP

10 days before new nuke talks, Iran’s supreme leader calls Americans arrogant and untrustworthy, says US government ‘seized by Zionist network’

Liberman on Iran: ‘Better to be alone and stay alive’

AnalysisArab leaders wary of potential US-Iran thaw

By Avi Issacharoff

Back from ‘charm defensive,’ PM stays on message

By Yoel Goldman

6th&I Synagogue (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons / David Monack)

DC synagogue does double duty as ‘Shutdown Central’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Furloughed federal employees find community, political puns and an endless ‘The West Wing’ loop at downtown Washington shul

Joshua Hammerman

Pewish and Jewish: Guilt-free and proud

Celebrating the results of the survey that found the vast majority of American Jews say they are proud of their Jewishness

Saeed Ghasseminejad

Seeing through the sheep’s clothing

Think Rouhani is a moderate? Take a close look at the corrupt technocrats he has appointed to help him run Iran

Reporter's notebook

A peek into Rouhani’s NY hotel room? No sir, we’d get in trouble

By Raphael Ahren

From his room at the ONE UN hotel, the president could have seen the Iranian and Israeli flags fluttering almost side-by-side in the plaza below. A handy albeit sensitive location

Illustrative photo of Palestinian security forces (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

PA forces raid Jenin refugee camp, arrest Islamic Jihad members

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Abbas’s security forces carry out one of their biggest operations in recent years, highly unusual in terms of scale and area

US President Barack Obama (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) prepare for a press session in the White House in Washington, DC, September 30, 2013. (AP/Charles Dharapak)

US was so sure it was striking Syria it made ‘warning calls’ to Israel’s leaders

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

At height of crisis, Netanyahu was given formal notice of imminent attack on Assad; Obama’s change of heart said to have dented Israel’s faith in president’s ‘military option’ for Iran

Jerusalem's Golden Gate, which abuts the Temple Mount. (photo credit: Keren Freeman/Flash90)

UNESCO votes in favor of 6 resolutions condemning Israel

UN cultural body slams Jerusalem for canceling mission to inspect Old City; Israeli envoy says preoccupation with Jewish state ‘obsessive’

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, September 30, 2013. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel denies US persuaded it not to strike Iran in 2012

Despite emerging detente between Tehran and Washington, Iranian protesters burn US flags, condemn American ‘warmongering’

Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian vehicle rams Border Police checkpoint; two hurt

Security forces find car in Burqa village in West Bank; search for driver ongoing

A young Syrian girl undergoes treatment in an Israeli hospital this summer (photo credit: Channel 10 screenshot)

Israeli hospitals treat three more injured Syrians

Over 300 people, hurt in fighting across the border, have been treated in Israel since Syria war began

Former US special envoy Martin Indyk. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Abbas, Indyk meet in Ramallah to discuss peace efforts

US special envoy reportedly convinced current negotiations will yield results

A supporter of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi holds bricks during clashes on the Al-Malek Al-Saleh bridge in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Hamada Elrasam)

Egypt: Security forces fire on pro-Morsi protesters, killing 4

By AP and ToI Staff

Amid chaos, spokesman for ElBaradei’s liberal party pulled from his car, beaten and stabbed by Brotherhood supporters

Standing stones (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Discover Gezer, Israel’s lost city

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

The Surabaya synagogue, on the island of Java, Indonesia, 2007 (Jono David, HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library)

Indonesia’s last synagogue, an intended heritage site, destroyed

By JTA and ToI Staff

ADL accepts Hobby Lobby apology

By JTA

Bauhaus at the moviehouse

Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter presenting Omri Amrany’s sculpture of a broken bat as a retirement gift to New York Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera, Sept. 12, 2013. (photo credit: Todd Olszewski/Courtesy of the Baltimore Orioles)

Israel-born sculptor carves out a niche in American sports

By Hillel Kuttler

Woerden, in central Holland (photo credit: @DriemanWoerden via Twitter/File)

200-year-old Dutch Jewish cemetery reopens

By JTA

Members of the Jabhat al-Nusra organization, which is an affiliate of al-Qaeda and one of the stronger opposition groups in Syria. (Photo credit: wikicommons)

Al-Qaeda in Syria strengthens hold along Iraqi, Turkish borders

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of IDF troops simulating fighting. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)

From the webIsraeli soldiers practice on mock ‘Hezbollah village’

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