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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 29, 2015

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US President Barack Obama answers questions about the Iran deal in a live webcast sponsored by North American Jewish organizations, August 28, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Obama to US Jews: Iran deal lifts existential threat to Israel

In live broadcast, president says ‘deal blocks every pathway that Iran might take’ to nukes; expects ‘sacrosanct’ US-Israel ties will improve

AnalysisObama’s ‘friends and family’ webcast to Jews falls short of reunion

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Iran official: We will never end fight against Israel

Iran nixes Israeli conductor’s Tehran performance

By JTA

The HI-SEAS habitat in Hawaii, which will be home to Gifford and five other crew members for the next year. (Courtesy HI-SEAS)

Meet the Jewish woman getting ready to live on Mars

By Patricia Corrigan

Sheyna Gifford — doctor, science journalist, astrophysics researcher and space enthusiast — ‘launches’ today in a NASA-funded geodesic dome on a 365-day simulated mission to the red planet

Illustrative photo of the Hamptons, Long Island, NY Shutterstock)

Hamptons Jewish cemetery so trendy, even non-Jews dying to get in

By Gabe Friedman

‘You don’t want to be left out in the cold — literally,’ says Charlotte Klein Sasso, who recently bought two plots for $6,500 each

Israeli soldiers and Palestinian children

Lack of clear borders is making those unwinnable encounters with stone throwing minors ever more complicated

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

To the grandparents of Israel with love

The immigrants who built the Jewish state raised their children without help from their parents — until now

Bat-Zion Susskind-Sacks

The presumption of Jewish guilt

The as-yet unproven charge that Jews perpetrated the Duma arson attack could have disastrous consequences

A cartoon of two doves bearing the American and Iranian flags defecating on the head of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Switzerland apologized after the cartoon was shown by the Swiss ambassador to Iran at a business conference in Zurich on August 27, 2015.

Switzerland ‘regrets’ cartoon of doves defecating on Netanyahu

Swiss Foreign Ministry calls image shown by its ambassador to Iran at Zurich conference ‘questionable’ and ‘tasteless’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jewish community leaders in Florence, Italy, on August 28, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because ‘science and technology are stronger than any boycott’

This photo from March 2012, shows a part of a subterranean system built by Nazi Germany in what is today Gluszyca-Osowka, Poland. According to Polish lore, a Nazi train loaded with gold and weapons vanished into an underground mountain tunnel like this one at the end of World War II. (AP)

Missing Nazi gold train ‘discovered’ by Polish radar

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Official says he saw shape of underground platform, claims to be ‘more than 99 percent certain’ that rail cars exist

Gal Hirsch (screen capture: YouTube)

Hirsch rebuffs ‘lies intended to foil police chief pick’

Nominee for police commissioner hits back after report that FBI is investigating graft at a company linked to him

Steve Maman (left) shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (Courtesy Steve Maman)

Yazidi leaders demand ‘Jewish Schindler’ prove he’s saving people

By JTA and ToI Staff

Steve Maman’s Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq project claims to have freed almost 130 Islamic State-held sex slaves

Hannah Elyse Simpson, a Jewish transgender woman from New York, right, with Jewish gay activists on August 12 in Salzburg. (Eighteen:22/Picture on the Fridge/via JTA)

Will increasing LGBT acceptance shift the tide for gay Jews too?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Austrian launch of international Jewish gay organization, Eighteen:22, comes on the heels of the Jerusalem gay pride parade stabbings

Forensic officers stand in front of a truck inside which were found a large number of dead migrants on a motorway near Neusiedl am See, Austria, on August 27, 2015 (AFP/DIETER NAGL)

Austria truck death suspects to appear in court

By AFP

Hungarian court to decide on fate of 4 suspected smugglers, while Europe reels as waves of refugees die trying to reach its borders

Workers of the Eshkol Water Filtration Plant, walk amongst the carriers' pipes and tunnels, at the plant in Northern Israel. The central filtration plant at the Eshkol site in Israel is the fourth largest plant in the world and the first of its kind in the country. It was constructed in June 2007 by Israel's National Water Company Mekorot. The plant filters water pumped from lake Kinneret. February 16, 2014. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Middle East, Israel to be water scarce by 2040 — report

WRI study says Gaza will run out of drinking water in 5 years; climate change, population growth to make region among most ‘extremely highly stressed’ for water

Taxis in a flooded parking lot in Hoboken, New Jersey. (AP/Charles Sykes)

Rising sea levels are unavoidable, NASA warns

By Kerry SHERIDAN

An anti-Semitic and anti-Israel cartoon shared by an Austrian pro-Palestinian group on Facebook

Vienna Jews: City ignoring Muslim anti-Semitic incitement

By JTA

Community complains over caricature of men in Mideastern garb pouring water into hole with Orthodox Jew holding Israeli flag

A water walk at the Majrase Nature Reserve near the Sea of Galilee. (Photo by Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Where the Golan’s rivers flow into the Sea of Galilee

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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American glamour model Tila Tequila poses in a version of a Nazi uniform in front of Auschwitz in an image she posted on Facebook. Tequila was evicted from British reality show Celebrity Big Brother on August 28, 2015 after her pro-Nazi views emerged on the program. (screen capture: YouTube)

Big BotherUK reality show boots glamour model over Hitler support

Illustrative: Travelers standing in line at the departure hall at Terminal 1 of Ben Gurion International Airport (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ben Gurion Airport staff to halt flights in brief Sunday strike

In this Tuesday, April 1, 2014, file photo, Noel Biderman, chief executive of Avid Life Media Inc., which operates AshleyMadison.com., poses by a hotel room window overlooking the Imperial Palace grounds during a photo session in Tokyo. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

In wake of hacking, Ashley Madison CEO steps down

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli Bridge player Lotan Fisher at an international tournament in 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Bridge too farTeammates accuse top Israeli bridge players of cheating

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from the Belz Hassidic dynasty attend the wedding ceremony of Rabbi Shalom Rokach, the grandson of the Belz Rabbi, to Hana Batya Pener in Jerusalem on May 22, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Pew study reveals gulf between US, Israeli ultra-Orthodox

This image of Syrian-Palestinian refugee Adul Attar carrying his daughter while selling pens on the streets of Beirut went viral in August 2015, leading to donations of more than $116,000. (screen capture: YouTube)

Donors give Syrian refugee $116,000 after image goes viral

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, January 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel to train Japanese ‘cyber’ warriors

By David Shamah

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