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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 9, 2014

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French novelist Patrick Modiano, who has won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, it was announced Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Catherine Helie, Gallimard)

Patrick Modiano wins literature Nobel for work on Nazi occupation of France

By Karl Ritter, Malin Rising and AFP

Novelist was born in Paris two months after World War II to father with Jewish-Italian origins and Belgian actress mother who met during the occupation

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, center, arrives at the Palestinian side of the Beit Hanoun border crossing in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Palestinian unity government meets in Gaza Strip

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

PA prime minister says gathering with West Bank lawmakers — a first since 2007 — marks a ‘historic opportunity’

A Palestinian family walks on August 27, 2014, past the collapsed remains of a building in Shejaiya that was destroyed in fighting between Hamas and Israel. (AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)

US: Israel must play role in rebuilding Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Martine, left, and Louise Fokkens in Amsterdam in 2010. (Aspekt Publishers)

Meet the Fokkens: Amsterdam’s septuagenarian Jewish prostitutes

By Cnaan Liphshiz

At 71, the retired twins have reconnected to Jewish traditions, and are now attending synagogue on holidays

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Palm fronds and paper chains

A temporary dwelling reenforced by that most permanent of building materials

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Home-brewed Hebrews

On The New Jewish Catalog, the hippie ‘bible’ that transformed Judaism

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

When your foster son turns 18

He’s no longer bound to you by law, so what, then, remains?

Sociedad Hebraica, Buenos Aires (photo credit: Facebook)

Suspect held for planned attack on Jewish center in Buenos Aires

By ToI Staff and JTA

Argentinian anti-terror police make arrest based on Interpol tip; 1,500 personnel deployed to 100 sites; Sociedad Hebraica evacuated, briefly closed last week

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

1,200 academics sign anti-boycott petition

Move comes in response to statement by over 360 anthropologists urging sanctions against Israeli academic institutions

A scene from 'Dancing in Jaffa.' (YouTube screenshot)

Shouts and stink bombs at Israeli film festival in France

By Renee Ghert-Zand

‘Dancing in Jaffa’ director Hilla Medalia says she feared for her safety amid anti-Israel protest, police told her they couldn’t do anything

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (right) shaking hands with Yukiya Amano (left), chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during a meeting in Tehran on August 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Iranian Presidency website/HO/Mohammad Berno)

Iran refuses entry to UN nuclear watchdog envoy

By AP

Tehran says IAEA delegation member was denied visa because of ‘particular nationality’

'Between Gods' author Alison Pick (photo credit: Emma Lee Photography)

Granddaughter of survivors finds Jewish faith ‘Between Gods’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A view of the northern city of Safed (Alana Perino/Flash90)

French city freezes twinning with Safed to pressure Israel

By JTA

City of Lille, also twinned with West Bank’s Nablus, says temporary move is meant to ‘accelerate resolution of conflict’

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, shows fighters from Islamic State during a parade in Raqqa, Syria (photo credit: AP)

British med student arrested in suspected IS terror plot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Scotland Yard counter-terror officers detain three other suspects in series of raids

Bahraini Prince Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa. (screen capture, YouTube)

Bahraini prince loses immunity — could Israeli leaders be next?

Britain’s decision to change legal status of royal accused of torture may mean politicians will no longer be protected from trial abroad

Illustrative photo of Turkish soldiers, Wednesday, October 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey rejects call to lead anti-IS ground operation

By AFP

FM says country cannot be expected to act alone against jihadists besieging Syrian-Kurdish town

In this Oct. 5, 2014 photo, Summer Albarcha, owner of photo-sharing Instagram account "Hipster Hijabis", talks during a Fashion Forward session in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. By fusing both their sense of fashion with their faith, Muslim women are reinterpreting traditional notions of what it means to dress conservatively. Some have also pioneered businesses around this growing demand, finding unexpected supporters among some mainstream brands, as well as conservative Christian and Orthodox Jewish women. (Photo credit: AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Haute headscarves

Hijabi hipsters fuse fashion with faith

Muslim women’s quest to find stylish, modest pieces to wear has garnered support from Orthodox Jewish counterparts, conservative Christians

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A fleet of pedi-sukkahs cruise through New York City. (Photo credit: Chabad.org / JTA)

Tricycle sukkahsThree wheels and three walls in NY

By Raffi Wineburg

The lunar eclipse over Los Angeles on the first night of Passover, April 14, 2014. (Anthony Cook, courtesy of Griffith Observatory)

Written in the starsSukkot lunar eclipse is an omen, some say

By Edmon J. Rodman

Illustrative: People stand near a gift shop in the old Jewish Quarter of Toledo, Spain, on February 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Gerard Julien)

Spanish city reconnects to Jewish past with Sukkot cultural festival

By JTA

Chopped Kale Salad with Apple and Roasted Beets is satisfying and sweet in the sukkah. (Shannon Sarna/JTA)

Beet back nippy weather with a Sukkot stew

By Shannon Sarna

Brooklyn Nets' Brook Lopez (11) drives between a double team from Maccabi Tel Aviv's Jake Cohen, left, and Sylven Landesberg, right, during the first quarter of an NBA preseason basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014, in New York. (photo credit: AP/Jason DeCrow)

Jewish leader attacked by pro-Palestinian after Nets-Maccabi game

By JTA

Jewish youth soccer club quits game after anti-Semitic taunts

By JTA

Researchers at the Technion in Haifa have developed technology that allows smartphones to repair scratches to the screen automatically. (CC BY-SA/Jan Persiel, Flickr)

Facebook completes purchase of WhatsApp

By JTA

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