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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 20, 2013

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A Syrian refugee child holds her little sister as her family queues for aid behind her. (photo credit: Mickey Alon)

For Syrian refugees in Jordan, aid from Israel comes in a whisper

Buoyed by donations from Jewish groups around the world, an Israeli agency helps distribute relief one purple bag at a time

Israeli Arab calls home from Syria to say he’s alive

Syria’s civil war plays out on social media

Car bomb kills 30 in Hama, Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was closed for the first two weeks of October, due to the US government shutdown (photo credit: courtesy)

US Holocaust Museum plans for a future without survivors

By Matt Lebovic

Reopened last week after the government shutdown, ‘the conscience of the nation’ revs up its work with eye witnesses and continues to excavate memory

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Shabbat has gone to the dogs

The best laid plans to observe the holy day were ruined by what turned out to be a real bitch

All the rage on cleanses

A new craze for ‘detox’ drinks that is catching on among teens is one more corporate assault on healthy eating and body image

Baghdad casts a giant shadow

A remarkable new film highlights the devastating loss of lives and property experienced by the Jews of Iraq

Shmuley Boteach

The spiritual education of Cory Booker

The key to the newly elected United States senator is his belief that a leader’s role is to raise people to a higher plane

Newly nominated Bank of Israel governor-designate Karnit Flug delivers a statement to the media outside the central bank's headquarters in Jerusalem, October 20, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Karnit Flug tapped as Bank of Israel governor

Acting governor to replace Stanley Fischer, who resigned earlier this year; Flug will be first woman to head central bank

View of the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Small earthquake shakes Sea of Galilee region

By Gavriel Fiske

No reports of damage or injuries from 3.6 Richter scale tremor, which comes after Thursday’s quake of similar size

Delegates from the P5+1 and Iran meet in Geneva, at the start of two days of talks regarding Tehran's nuclear program, Tuesday, October 15, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Iran ready for deal but won’t shut down nuke program, sources say

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Netanyahu calls for increased pressure on Tehran as long as no action is seen; Rouhani says ‘win-win’ possible

Jewish immigrants from India, members of the Bnei Menashe community. arrive at Ben Gurion airport (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Lost’ Indian Jews come to Israel despite doubts

Illustrative photo of bras for sale (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

613 Shades of Grey

‘Modesty police’ ban colorful bras, panties

Ultra-Orthodox group sends letter to shop owners in Beitar Illit, demanding strict modest standards in sale, display of female undergarments

PA President Mahmoud Abbas during an interview with German TV (screen capture: Deutsche Welle television)

Abbas: Reports are wrong — peace talks not at a dead end

By Raphael Ahren

Israelis have no reason to fear Hamas opposition to possible agreement, Palestinian Authority president tells German TV station

Vice Supreme Court President Eliezer Rivlin (center) flanked by Supreme Court President Asher Grunis (right) and Judge Edna Arbel (left) at a ceremony in honor of Rivlin's retirement from the Supreme Court (photo credit: David Vaaknin/Flash90)

Bills aimed at checking judicial power head to Knesset

By Lazar Berman

Proposals from right would limit judges’ participation in justice selection process, strengthen parliament vis-a-vis Supreme Court

A van allegedly carrying the coffin of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke is protected by policemen in riot gear as it leaves the Society of St. Pius X headquarters, a schismatic Catholic group, where his funeral was scheduled to take place in Albano Laziale, on the outskirts of Rome on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Nazi criminal Priebke to be buried in secret

By ToI Staff and AP

SS man’s casket went missing last week amid turmoil over funeral in Rome

A US Navy F-35 fighter jet during a test flight. (US Navy/Wikimedia Commons)

50 senators: UN Arms Trade Treaty could harm Israel

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Kerry signed on to treaty at UNGA but it is unlikely to garner the two-thirds majority needed to ratify it in the Senate

View of the Route of Passage looking north, with Auguste Rodin’s Pierre de Wiessant, Large Model on the right (photo credit: Tim Hursley/Israel Museum)

An Israel Museum architect finally sees the light

By Jessica Steinberg

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Israeli windsurfer Shahar Zubari (photo credit: Marko/Flash90/File)

Israeli windsurfer takes gold in World Cup event

A woman snorts coke in the toilet of a Jerusalem bar. (illustrative photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

As cocaine’s popularity rises, Israel’s significance in global drug trade grows

Illustrative photo of an empty courtroom at the Supreme Court. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCourts, cutbacks and candidates

By Ilan Ben Zion

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters and lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, June 25, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewA three-way deal?

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