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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 4, 2014

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Journalist Steve Sotloff in Egypt, 2011. (Facebook/Oren Kessler)

How Sotloff’s Jewish, Israel connections were hushed up

‘Bond of silence’ was forged amid fears that if journalist’s roots were discovered, it would cost him his life

Obscuring heritage, Sotloff quietly observed Jewish customs

By Lazar Berman

Sotloff family mourns for a gentle, compassionate soul

By AFP and ToI Staff

Silicon Valley firms halted spread of grisly video

By Lori Hinnant

IDF soldiers assemble in the Palestinian village of Halhul, north of Hebron, after the bodies of three Israeli teenagers were found nearby, Monday, June 30, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Alleged mastermind of 3 teens’ killing indicted

By Mitch Ginsburg

Hussam Kawasme, on whose land the Israeli youths’ bodies were found, was arrested en route to Jordan; says the killers didn’t plan to seize 3 people

Steven’s message

Slain journalist Steven Sotloff’s move to Israel should be his most inspiring legacy for American Jews

Beit Shemesh through Haredi eyes

A spacious school for 144 secular kids was planted in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood desperate for classroom space

Dropping ‘nag’ from Mom’s job description

A book with creative solutions that help parents raise respectful, responsible, and resilient children

Illustrative image of a burned trolleybus near Donetsk train station after shelling, Donetsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Jewish communities decimated in eastern Ukraine

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

While not holding out much hope for a true ceasefire, JDC workers and volunteers climb rubble to reach Jews in need

Abbas rejects Egyptian offer to settle refugees in Sinai

By Elhanan Miller

PA leader tells Fatah gathering it is ‘illogical’ for Palestinian refugee problem to be solved at Egypt’s expense

A bird's eye view of the Arab neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jerusalem approves plan to build 2,200 homes for Arabs

Mayor Barkat and allies push measure through committee over vociferous opposition from right-wing council members

A youngster holding an IS flag on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (photo credit: Facebook)

Pro-Islamic State gathering on Temple Mount filmed by Israeli TV

Channel 10 shows footage of event attended by thousands on a recent Friday in Jerusalem’s Old City

Workers on the Israeli 'Tamar' gas processing rig, 24 km off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israel-Jordan gas deal a bulwark against Jihadis: expert

By David Shamah

Top security official says the $15 billion sale of Israeli natural gas could bolster regimes in Jordan and Egypt

Convicted ex-MK Said Nafa (screen capture: YouTube)

Former MK sentenced to a year in prison for Syria visit

By Stuart Winer

Said Nafa, who met with secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, says he’s victim of witch-hunt

School children wave the Israeli flag as they sit in their school playground in front of a dividing barrier put up by the Beit Shemesh municipality, September 02, 2014. Graffiti reads "Separation barrier, a disgrace to Zionism" . (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

In Beit Shemesh, ultra-Orthodox and secular face off over school

By Melanie Lidman

Despite court injunction, council in divided city continues to push plan that chopped up academy to provide classrooms for Haredi students

Schoolchildren wave the Israeli flag in their Beit Shemesh school playground, where graffiti on the fence reads, 'The segregation wall is a shame to Zionism,' September 2, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Court orders ultra-Orthodox out of secular Beit Shemesh school

By Yifa Yaakov and Marissa Newman

Gil Ron Shama has been singing and working toward peace for 25 years, and now brings his message to Jerusalem's Sacred Music Festival (Courtesy Gil Ron Shama)

Groove and tradition meet at Jerusalem’s Sacred Music Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

The final event of the truncated Jerusalem Season of Culture offers four days of coexistence, holy yearnings and divine music

A United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) peacekeeper on a watch tower at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and Israel. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Mortar shells from Syria land in Golan Heights

Apparently inadvertent artillery fire hits open areas, causing no damage; IDF fires back at point of origin

'BoJack Horseman' creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg (photo credit: Julie Lake)

Comedy writer gallops to success with ‘BoJack Horseman’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Israeli game stars on Samsung’s new virtual reality headset

By David Shamah

Mandy Patinkin on the Colbert Report (Colbert Report screenshot)

Homeland primeMandy Patinkin for PM of Israel?

By Stuart Winer

Governor of Bank of Israel Karnit Flug and Finance Minister Yair Lapid at an economy conference on September 2, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Lapid threatens to quit coalition if taxes raised

By Marissa Newman and Tamar Pileggi

Negotiators from Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva on November 22, 2013. (photo credit: US State Department)

US, Iran to resume nuclear talks Thursday

The synagogue in Omsk, Russia (photo credit: JTA/ Ezra Nathan)

Russia orders Siberian Chabad rabbi out of country

By JTA

Journalist Steven Sotloff (right) in Syria, 2012 (photo credit: Facebook/Oren Kessler)

Hebrew media review Remembering Steven Sotloff

By Joshua Davidovich

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