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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 25, 2015

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From left to right: Jamison, Grayson and Jackson Eberstein, taking a break from playing (Suzanne Pollak/Washington Jewish Week/JTA)

With daughter rapidly aging, Maryland Jewish family finds joy in moment

By Suzanne Pollak

Four-year-old Jamison Eberstein suffers from rare disorder that sees her body deteriorate at a breakneck rate

(From left) Conference of Presidents Chairman Stephen M. Greenberg and Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein with Secretary of State John Kerry, July 24, 2015 (Courtesy)

Kerry leaves Jewish leaders ‘concerned’ after ‘frank’ talks on Iran deal

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In discussions with AJC, Conference of Presidents, says one participant, secretary did not respond ‘specifically enough to what was being raised’

Yadlin: Israel now has five years to ensure we can stop Iran

Ex-Mossad chief: Some aspects of Iran deal are good for Israel

Oren: Kerry ‘threats’ won’t deter Israel from opposing nuke deal

A section of the 'Small Wailing Wall' (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Where Mark Twain viewed a ‘holier’ Western Wall

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

There is a section of the Temple’s retaining wall far closer to the sacred Holy of Holies than the traditional site of prayer, and it’s open to all

Lou Lenart always played hard to get

The late WWII fighter pilot led a pivotal 1948 Israel Air Force assault that halted Egypt’s advance on Tel Aviv

Yitzchak Schwartz

Anatevka lives!

Jews living in dire conditions in Ukraine may find a better life in a place made famous by Tevye

'We Live for Tomorrow' project

Artists’ shrapnel playground excluded from museum’s Tisha B’Av event

By Batya Ungar-Sargon

In about face, NY’s Museum of Jewish Heritage tells Israeli duo their work based on experience surviving suicide bombing would be ‘problematic’

Firefighters tackle a massive wildfire in the Beit Shemesh area, July 24, 2015. (Photo credit: Beit Shemesh Fire Department)

Repairing wildfire damage will take 20 years, says JNF official

Gilad Mastai says 1,500-2,000 dunams of woodland burned, local wildlife perished in Friday’s fire near Beit Shemesh

Then-vice president Dick Cheney watches a TV broadcast of the Twin Towers burning following the attack on New York on September 11, 2001. (US National Archives)

Photo essay

A presidency horrified: New images offer inside look at Bush administration on 9/11

Steven Sotloff next to his Islamic State captor, 'Jihadi John,' in a video released September 2, 2014. (Screen capture: SITE/Twitter)

‘Jihadi John’ said to have fled IS, fearing usefulness over

British extremist Mohammed Emwazi was seen in Islamic State videos beheading captives, including American-Israeli Steven Sotloff

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu gives a statement on the situation with the Islamic State (IS) and other militant groups during a press conference in Ankara on July 24, 2015 (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

Turkey strikes IS in Syria, Kurdish militants in Iraq

By AFP

Crowds of Kenyans gather near the Memorial Park on July 25, 2015 in the city center of Nairobi to watch US President Barack Obama's convoy during his first visit to the country since his election. (AFP PHOTO/CARL DE SOUZA)

‘Africa is on the move,’ says Obama in Kenya

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

‘This is personal for me,’ says the president on his first official visit to a country that views him as a local son

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, right, watches as President Barack Obama, center, hugs his half-sister Auma Obama, after he arrived at Kenyatta International Airport, on Friday, July 24, 2015, in Nairobi, Kenya (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama returns to Kenya, reunites with family

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the Council of Foreign Relations on July 24, 2015 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel could be blamed if Congress rejects Iran deal, warns Kerry

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Secretary says Jewish state will be more isolated if US lawmakers overturn nuclear accord; ex-envoy Oren slams his ‘threat’

Satellite image of the Parchin facility, April 2012 (AP/Institute for Science and International Security)

Iran nuke chief: No separate deal on Parchin inspections

Comments contradict document signed by Iran and UN atomic agencies; IAEA suspects prior nuclear testing was conducted at site

Investigators take samples from sand near a part of a missile that was suspected of carrying chemical agents, according to activists, in the countryside of Ain Terma, Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen, File)

Analysis

WSJ exposé on Syrian chemical weapons is a harbinger of farce in Iran

By Avi Issacharoff

If a beleaguered Assad found it easy to deceive Western powers about his illicit WMD, imagine what Tehran will do

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to the BBC in an interview aired February 10, 2015. (screen capture: BBC)

Assad grants amnesty for army dodgers, deserters

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

File photo of Jonathan Pollard, 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)

US said preparing to release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and ToI Staff

Officials say chances of life-termer going free ‘better than ever’ as US seeks to sooth Israel over Iran; Justice Department denies report

US President Barack Obama, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

After his Iran ‘success,’ Obama may try again on the Palestinian front

By Avi Issacharoff

While he pushes nuke deal through Congress, president also said to be weighing options for a peace breakthrough, even if this involves ‘immoderate’ pressure on Israel

The Israeli border fence with Gaza (David Buimovitch/Flash90)

Israeli Arabs’ access to Gaza to be limited

By JTA

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Bar Refaeli (Helga Esteb/Shutterstock.com)

DiCaprio's lossBar Refaeli to get married in September

By JTA

Owner of Beitar Jerusalem Eli Tabib (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Three indicted in plot to kill Beitar Jerusalem owner

Jon Stewart (Right) and Senator Chuck Schumer on The Daily Show, July 23, 2015 (Comedy Central screen capture)

Daily schtickJon Stewart reviews his Jewish bent

By JTA

This undated photo provided by the Lafayette Police Department shows John Russel Houser, in Lafayette, La. Authorities have identified Houser as the gunman who opened fire in a movie theater on Thursday, July 23, 2015, in Lafayette. (Lafayette Police Department via AP)

Louisiana shooter flew Nazi banner, praised Hitler

By Melinda Deslatte and Michael Kunzelman

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog in the Knesset, January 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Herzog: Netanyahu suffering from ‘Tisha B’Av syndrome’

Amos Yadlin (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-intel chief briefly held up at London airport

Grammy award-winning singer Chris Brown boards a chartered jet at the old Manila Domestic Airport in suburban Pasay city, south of Manila, Philippines, Friday, July 24, 2015. (AP/Bullit Marquez)

Chris Brown leaves Philippines, will perform in Israel next week

Runners in the Jerusalem marathon on March 25, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Are we getting older faster than we think?

By David Shamah

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on the Golan Heights, northern Israel, June 30, 2015, looking toward Syria. (Eden Moladavski/Ministry of Defense)

Ya’alon: MK’s Hatikva demand is ‘morally bankrupt’

Ilya Goryachev was sentenced to life in prison on Friday, July 24, 2015 in Russia, after a Moscow court found him guilty of a string of hate crimes, including murder. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia)

Leader of Russian neo-Nazi group sentenced to life

By AFP and AP

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