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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 15, 2015

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File: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Supreme Leader opposes nuke deal, says Iranian hard-liner

By AP and ToI Staff

Editorial by Khamenei associate is first public sign that ayatollah is not wholly in favor of recent agreement

Rubio: Obama didn’t make a deal with Iran, he just gave concessions

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Poor marks on Iran deal drop Obama’s approval rating in poll

By JTA

LA Jewish Journal’s heads spar over Iran deal, but stay friendly

By Uriel Heilman

An undated image of the late al-Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden and his son, Hamza. (YouTube screenshot)

US Jewish groups on alert after bin Laden’s son calls for attacks

By JTA and ToI Staff

In new recording, son of 9/11 mastermind urges targeting of ‘Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv’

A Chabad house in India (illustrative photo; credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Fake bomb discovered at Swedish Chabad House

By JTA

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal attends the premiere of 'Southpaw' at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Monday, July 20, 2015, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Yo Adrian! It's me, Jake

The year of Jake Gyllenhaal

Currently ruling the box office in ‘Southpaw,’ the uber ripped actor is a crazy combo of Jewish Swedish royalty

Just me and my girl

After a year of ups and downs, focusing on romance: Love means you can’t be happy when the other is sad

Joshua Hammerman

The case for rabbinic neutrality

Why he won’t be using his pulpit this Rosh Hashanah to lobby on the Iran nuclear deal

Vanity Fair spotlights anti-Semitism

Threats on Jews is the new black in Paris and that’s a fashion even French police can’t fight

In this May 30, 2013, file photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Jo. L. Keener, File)

Islamic State chief raped American hostage, US finds

By Ken Dilanian

Abu Bakr Baghdadi took Kayla Mueller as a ‘wife,’ according to Yazidi teen who informed American intel officials

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers during a protest at the Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 5, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

IDF soldier hurt in attack at West Bank checkpoint

Soldier lightly wounded in stabbing on Route 443 north of Jerusalem; Palestinian attacker shot and lightly wounded at scene

British Jewish Labour MP Ivan Lewis addresses his party's annual conference in Manchester in September 2014. (screen capture:YouTube)

British Jewish MP blasts would-be Labour chief for ‘anti-Semitic’ ties

By JTA

Ivan Lewis urges fellow Labourites not to vote for Jeremy Corbyn, who he says failed to oppose those using ‘anti-Semitic rhetoric’

Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

After threats, private conversion rabbis get police protection

By Tamar Pileggi

Extremists threaten rabbis David Stav and Nahum Rabinovitch for challenging Israel’s religious authority

Likud member Sharren Haskel campaign poster

Sharren Haskel to become Knesset’s 30th female lawmaker

Filling Danny Danon’s seat as he heads to UN, Canadian-born Likud member brings women’s representation in parliament to all-time high

Danny Danon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud Party conference, November 9, 2014. (Flash90)

Likud hawk Danon promises to ‘advance Israel’s just cause’ as envoy to UN

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Outgoing ambassador Prosor welcomes appointment; Danon opposes Palestinian statehood, was fired by PM last year as deputy defense minister

A 2014 candid shot of 'Orange is the New Black' author Piper Kerman with husband Larry Smith, the inspiration behind the Jewish Larry on the Netflix series. (courtesy)

Who is the real Larry from ‘Orange is the New Black’?

David Suissa, left, and Rob Eshman, right, attending a panel discussion in Israel, April 2015. (Courtesy: L.A. Jewish Journal)

LA Jewish Journal’s heads spar over Iran deal, but stay friendly

By Uriel Heilman

Newspaper’s president, chief editor pen series of polar opposite columns on nuclear agreement

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses supporters in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 3, 2014. (AFP/STR)

Nasrallah: 2006 war shifted balance of power away from Israel

Hezbollah leader says Jewish state understands goup’s deterrent capabilities after ‘divine victory’ of Second Lebanon War

A man takes a photo of damaged cars at the site of the explosions in Tianjin on August 14, 2015. Enormous explosions in a major Chinese port city killed at least 85 people and injured hundreds more, according to state media (AFP PHOTO)

China blast residents evacuated over chemical fears

By AFP

Local media says highly poisonous sodium cyanide is found at port of Tianjin; official death toll climbs to 85

The windmill near the top of Ramban Street, erected by the Greek Orthodox Church some 150 years ago (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

How Ramban’s ‘desolate’ Jerusalem area transformed into yekkes’ Rehavia

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Semion Simkin (Courtesy)

Unstoppable athleteBlind Holocaust survivor, 91, wins int’l distance race

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police in Jerusalem during an August 14, 2015, protest against the opening of the Yes Planet cinema complex on Shabbat. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Thousands of Haredim protest Jerusalem cinema’s Shabbat opening

By Tamar Pileggi

In this Aug. 15, 1945 photo, Japanese people kneel in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo as Emperor Hirohito announced on radio that Japan was defeated in the World War II. (Kyodo New via AP)

Japan emperor feels ‘profound remorse’ over WWII

By AFP

Passenger at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, May 8, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash 90)

Ben Gurion airport computer crash hits hundreds of passengers

A migrant is carried on a stretcher after disembarking from the Italian Navy vessel 'Bettica' in the harbor of Salerno, Italy, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. About 700 migrants, including children, were rescued in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. (photo credit: AP/Francesco Pecoraro)

40 migrants dead in Mediterranean, may have suffocated

By AFP and AP

Passover is a fine time to head to a Tel Aviv beach (photo credit: Tel Aviv beach)

Heat wave descends once again upon Israel

Illustrative photo of babies at the Bikur Holim Hospital in Jerusalem (Flash90)

Is your baby healthy? Israeli profs’ site has answers based on fact, not rumor

By David Shamah

View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem's Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew University placed 67th in world in new ranking

Baron de Rotschild's shipwreck? (Haifa University)

Deep secret solvedShipwreck off Israel’s coast linked to early Zionist

By JTA

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