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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 25, 2014

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US President Barack Obama at the UN in 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Analysis

For Obama at the UN, what a difference a year makes

By Uriel Heilman

Last year’s speech focused on Iran, Syria, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this year the Islamic State takes center stage

At UN, Obama says too many Israelis ready to abandon peace

By Julie Pace and Josh Lederman

UN Security Council takes aim at foreign jihadists

By AFP

US, allies hit Islamic State’s oil refineries in Syria

By AP and AFP

Alice Herz-Sommer, pictured here on her 107th birthday, was the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. She died at 110. (Polly Hancock/JTA)

The Jews who inspired us in 5774

By JTA

From age eight to 111, these individuals and groups moved the Jewish world

Tragedy, triumph and tears in foremost Jewish events of 5774

By JTA

Top 10The best of Jewy pop culture in 5774

By Anthony Weiss

For Europe’s Jews, 5774 a year of upheaval and uncertainty

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Agreeing to disagree about Israel

Rabbis shouldn’t shy away from the topic, they need to teach the Torah of civility and engagement

Literary London, our new Islamic front

A short story published in the Guardian suggests victims deserve to be murdered because of how hated they were

Laura E. Adkins

Abbas’s dream

The PA president is warming up for his UN address Friday, but left a New York University audience cold

Then-economy minister Naftali Bennett speaks at an economic conference, on September 2, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Uncompromising, Bennett transforms party and Israel’s right

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Chief Palestinian negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad (C) of the mainstream Fatah movement walks to a meeting with a Hamas delegation at a hotel in Cairo following reconciliation talks on September 24, 2014 in the Egyptian capital. (photo credit AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Hamas, Fatah announce return of unity government to Gaza

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Following two-day talks in Cairo, Palestinian officials declare breakthrough, say ‘comprehensive’ agreement reached

Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem on June 11, 2003, which killed 16 people. (Quique Kierszenbaum/Getty Images/JTA)

Hamas ties puts Arab Bank in legal bind

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

US District Court decision says Jordan-based bank provided material support to Hamas that helped facilitate 24 terror attacks between 2001 and 2004

A Boeing 747 El Al plane (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

In aliya this year, push is stronger than pull

28% spike in immigration to Israel over last year is highest since 2009, with trouble in Ukraine and France leading causes

A Jewish man places a note at the Western Wall. (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israelis usher in Jewish New Year with uncertainty

By Daniel Estrin

As 5775 welcomed in, economy slowing, relations with Palestinians bleak, and prospectively difficult year ahead

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, emir of the State of Qatar, addresses the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2014. (photo credit: UN Photo by Cia Pak)

Qatari emir urges world to shun Israeli leaders

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani accuses Jerusalem of war crimes, in ongoing diplomatic battle between countries

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during his keynote address at New America, a public policy institute and think tank, on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 in New York (Photo credit: Bebeto Matthews/AP)

Iranian leader: US should focus on terror, not nukes

Ahead of UN address, Rouhani says Tehran and Washington can work together to curb Islamic extremism

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 24: King of Jordan Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein speaks at the 69th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters on September 24, 2014 in New York City. (photo credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)

Jordan’s king urges international defeat of jihadists

By AFP and Lazar Berman

Abdullah II vows to protect Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian character, as well as sanctity of Al-Aqsa mosque

British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the UN during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly September 24, 2014 in New York. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. CLARY)

UK, Iran leaders talk IS in first meet in 35 years

By AFP

Cameron, Rouhani chat on sidelines of UN General Assembly, Iranian president praises ‘constructive, pragmatic dialogue’

An image grab taken from a video released by Jund al-Khilafah via YouTube on September 22, 2014, allegedly shows French tourist, Herve Gourdel (center), sitting between two armed jihadists at an undisclosed location. (photo credit: AFP/HO/Jund al-Khilafah via YouTube)

France: Hunt is on for terrorists in beheading

By AP

Defense minister says Algerian forces searching for those responsible for killing of mountaineer Herve Gourdel

Saudi Arabian air force pilots sit in the cockpit of a fighter jet at an undisclosed location on September 23, 2014, after taking part in a mission to strike Islamic State targets in Syria (photo credit: AFP/Handout -- Saudi Press Agency)

Arab states risk backlash by joining Syria strikes

By Adam Schreck

As Gulf nations flex their military muscles, they are also treading dangerous, and complicated, political waters

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The study offers hope for a preventive drug treatment during pregnancy. (photo credit: Deafness image)

Israeli research links thyroid imbalance to newborn deafness

By Andrew Tobin

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon looks over at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking with Finance Minister Yair Lapid during a plenum session in the Israeli parliament on June 05, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Agreement reached on increase in defense budget

By Lazar Berman

Protestors attend the arrivals at Metropolitan Opera 2014-15 Season Opening on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, in New York. The crowd was protesting the Met's decision to premiere a controversial opera 'Death of Klinghoffer,' about the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of Jewish passenger Leon Klinghoffer. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

At opening night ‘Klinghoffer’ protest, Met meets angry Jews

By Raffi Wineburg

Worshippers at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine (CC BY-SA Nahoumsabban, Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Uman fines Jewish community for pilgrims’ unlicensed tent city

By JTA

An illustrative photo of a hotdog (CC-BY-TheCulinaryGeek/Flickr)

Miss. rabbi says he was booted from restaurant for being Jewish

By JTA

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and former US president Barack Obama look on as disabled IDF veteran Radi Kaiuf demonstrates the ReWalk exoskeleton system. Kaiuf, who was formerly nearly fully paralyzed, completed the Israel Marathon in 2012 using the system (Kobi Gideon / GPO /FLASH90)

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