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What Matters Most On Friday, October 3, 2014

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Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau. (Flash90)

Chief Rabbi, Muslim leader in joint call to end violence

David Lau and founder of Islamic Movement Sheikh Abdullah Nimar Darwish want to hold march to promote peace

Leaders bid to downplay tensions as Yom Kippur, Eid al-Adha clash

By Melanie Lidman

Israel shuts down, police on alert for Yom Kippur

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israeli-Arab radio to continue broadcast during Yom Kippur

A tale of three friends in Uman. From left to right: Eliav Flataur, Emmanuel Bouzaglou with son Moshe Nachman, and Meir Knafo in the small Ukrainian town in front of typical Breslover graffiti. (Yaniv Salama-Scheer/The Times of Israel)

A bubble of undistilled spirituality surfaces in war-torn Ukraine

By Yaniv Salama-Scheer

In Uman, a story of three pilgrims among tens of thousands on Rosh Hashanah

Praying with a pedophile

The Kol Nidre liturgy has a lesson to teach about making room for the best and the worst of us

Yesh Tikvah: Three Steps to a Life of Hope

At this time of overwhelming darkness, Yom Kippur offers a profound pathway into the light

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

My #ParentingFail on Erev Yom Kippur

knows she screwed up this year with her kids, but she’s paying attention now

The land of milk and money

Why poor Israelis forgo dairy products, fruits and vegetables

My Yom Kippur War

A vivid, 10-part memoir chronicling the experiences of a young Golani soldier in the thick of the bloody 1973 battles

Part of a medieval inn, or khan, built in 1337 by the Mamluks, now beneath the Old City near the Temple Mount (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Medieval inn, bathhouse beneath Jerusalem’s Old City to open to public

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with executive chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt, in Jerusalem on June 19, 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90)

Could artificial intelligence hold the key to fighting hate?

By JTA

Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt hopes AI will help locate problematic speech, but censorship questions remain

The Givat Hamatos neighborhood, Jerusalem (photo credit: Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Awkwardly timed settlement announcement, part two

By Raphael Ahren

Why does the government risk rounds of bitter criticism for building over the pre-1967 line — as with the 2,610 apartments in Givat Hamatos this week — when the bulldozers are silent?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference in September 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu: War on terror won’t be over unless Iran is contained along with IS

Soldiers setting up an Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israeli docs remove bullet from Syrian boy’s neck

Five-year-old, shot in face during clashes, was rushed by father across border to field hospital, then to Haifa

Wounded Syrian rebel Abdulkarim al-Naseef wears a scarf with symbols of the old Syrian flag, now used by the opposition, as he stands at a hotel lobby near Mecca's Grand Mosque on October 1, 2014 during the annual hajj pilgrimage. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH)

Pimp my hajj

Wounded Syrian reaches Mecca in wheelbarrow

By LYNNE AL-NAHHAS

Rebel fighter pushed to Saudi holy city as he makes pilgrimage in hopes of starting new life

IsraAID's Yotam Polizer, left, meets with the first lady of Sierra Leone Sia Nyama Koroma, center, and Sam Bangura, her policy advisor, and presents them with gifts from Israel. (photo credit: courtesy IsraAID)

IsraAID joins West Africa fight against Ebola

Israeli aid team partners with Sierra Leone’s first lady to offer psycho-social support to survivors, health care workers

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 26, 2014, in New York. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Analysis

Happy new year? Not unless Israel takes Abbas’s threats seriously

By Avi Issacharoff

Seeing no Israeli partner and wary of Hamas’s popularity, PA president decides on aggressive new tack; Netanyahu isn’t exactly heartbroken

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 26, 2014, in New York. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Abbas to seek $4 billion for Gaza reconstruction

By AP and ToI Staff

Elias Karaki (left) and his brother stand next to the house Nabil Karaki sold three months ago in Silwan, October 2, 2014. (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Silwan is changing, to rightist glee and Palestinian chagrin

By Elhanan Miller

Local residents say hundreds of Jews are expected to move into their neighborhood after Yom Kippur

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama in the White House, October 1, 2014 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Analysis

Obama choosing not to turn Jerusalem building dispute into major crisis

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Washington insiders largely unfazed by latest US-Israel spat, focusing on low-key Obama response rather than strident critiques from spokespeople

A protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House in Washington, DC, October 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jim WATSON)

US rejects Netanyahu dismissal of East Jerusalem rebuke

By Adiv Sterman and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Lebron James sings the national anthem prior to the start of a team USA exhibition game against the Dominican Republic, July 12, 2012, at the Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

LeBron, Blatt’s NBA debut make Maccabi TA a sideshow against Cavs

By Hillel Kuttler

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Cedar's All Natural Pumpkin Spice Hommus. (Courtesy of Cedar's Mediterranean Foods)

'Tis the seasonPumpkin spice hummus hits the US

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

In first, Tel Aviv University named Israel’s best

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative photo of an El Al flight taking off at Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

El Al may be violating US law, NY rabbi says

By JTA

Still from the video 'Flames of War,' which was released on Friday, September 19, 2014, presumably by members of the Islamic State. (screen capture: YouTube)

French teen with jihadi aspirations told to kill Jews

By JTA

Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

HONY in the holy landCelebrity photographer turns lens on Jerusalem

By Marissa Newman

The Coffee Shop in Bushwick, Brooklyn accuses Jews on Instagram of being "greedy infiltrators" (photo credit: Screenshot via Instagram)

Cup-o-JewBrooklyn cafe rants about ‘greedy’ Jews

By Marissa Newman

Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal The Lancet. (screen capture: YouTube/World Health Summit)

Lancet editor ‘deeply regrets’ publishing Gaza letter

By JTA

Israelis riding their bikes on the empty streets of Jerusalem on Yom Kippur. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRepentance and remembrance

By Marissa Newman

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