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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 19, 2015

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Illustrative image of an Israeli shell exploding in Gaza on Thursday, July 17, 2014. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Israeli jets bomb Gaza Strip after rockets fired at south

Strikes follow rocket attacks on Sderot, Ashkelon claimed by Islamic State-affiliate group; no injuries reported

Iron Dome intercepts Gaza rocket over Ashkelon

Rocket fired from Gaza strikes Sderot; no injuries

Egyptian army begins flooding Gaza tunnels

By Tamar Pileggi

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks to CBS on September 18, 2015. (screen capture: CBS 60 Minutes)

‘Death to America’ chants not personal, Rouhani says

By AFP and ToI Staff

In interview set to air Sunday, Iranian president says countrymen ‘respect American people,’ ‘not looking for war with any country’

UN nuclear chief heads to Iran, seeking progress on probe

Measuring hatredWas Hitler’s anti-Semitism different than Khamenei’s?

Netanyahu to address US Jewish gathering in DC

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Israeli Border Police patrol a street in Jabel Mukaber after clashes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood on September 18, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Masked rioters, police clash anew in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AFP

Protesters hurl petrol bombs at Border Police in Jabel Mukaber and Isawiyah; bus driver lightly hurt when vehicle pelted by stones

Jonathan Leener

What my Hasidic neighbors taught me

In Williamsburg, an unexpected Yom Kippur lesson about welcoming a new neighbor

Lynette Nusbacher

Those other refugees from Aleppo

Helping collect donations for Syrian migrants while also remembering the Jews who were forced to flee

Jeremy Corbyn waves on stage after he is announced as the new leader of The Labour Party during the Labour Party Leadership Conference in London, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

New UK Labour leader Corbyn claims vague Jewish heritage

By JTA and ToI Staff

Far-left, anti-Israel head of opposition says there was ‘a Jewish element in the family’ generations ago, ‘probably from Germany’

UK Labour party laeder Jeremy Corbyn presents a call-in show on Iran's Press TV in 2010. (screen capture: YouTube)

Iranian official welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s win

Former Soviet missile defense forces officer Stanislav Petrov poses for a photo at his home in Fryazino, Moscow region, Russia. On Sept. 26, 1983, despite the data coming in from the Soviet Union’s early-warning satellites over the United States, Petrov, a Soviet military officer, decided to consider it a false alarm. If he had decided otherwise, the Soviet leadership could have responded by ordering a retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

32 years ago, this man saved the world

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at London's Stansted Airport, north of London on September 18, 2015. (AFP Photo/Pool/Evan VucciI)

Kerry: Assad has to go, but timing can be negotiated

Secretary of state calls on Russia and Iran to convince Syrian president he must step down, says ending conflict is of utmost urgency

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on April 13, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ POOL / SERGEI ILNITSKY)

Abbas to meet Putin in Moscow next week

By AFP and ToI Staff

Visit of PA president comes as Netanyahu also heads to Russia, now an increasingly central Middle East player

Rabbi Joseph Potasnik is Fire Chaplain for the City of New York. He is host of ABC's 'Religion on the Line' and does commentaries for WINS radio. (From the book, 'Rabbis: The Many Faces of Judaism,' by George Kalinsky)

This NY radio rabbi’s interfaith spirit is on fire

By Cathryn J. Prince

Illustrative photo of rebels from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front in Idlib Province, northern Syria, January 11, 2013 (AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Al-Qaeda in Syria executes 56 regime troops, monitor says

By AFP

Al-Nusra Front and Islamist allies said to have shot the fighters ‘execution-style’ inside military airport in Idlib

Sheikh Muhammad Ayed delivers a speech at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque (screen capture: YouTube, MEMRI-TV)

Breed and conquer Europe, al-Aqsa preacher exhorts Muslims

WATCH: Sheikh Muhammad Ayed says European countries want migrants dead, but needs them for labor

Migrants push forward to be taken by Slovenian police officers from the Rigonce-Harmica border crossing to the registration center in the nearby Slovenian town of Brezice, on September 19, 2015 in Rigonce. AFP/ JURE MAKOVEC)

Over 17,000 migrants trapped in Croatia after border crackdown

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Zagreb returns 3,000 to Hungary, over 1,000 make it into Slovenia; almost 7,000 arrive in Austria en route to preferred destination Germany

Migrants and refugees demonstrate at Istanbul's Esenler Bus Terminal as they wait for buses to the Turkish-Greek border after authorities withheld tickets to Turkish border towns on September 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/OZAN KOSE)

Syrian girl dies as another refugee boat sinks off Greek coast

By AFP

5-year-old drowns when boat holding 26 people goes down trying reach Greece from Turkey; coastguard says 11 people rescued

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Syrian family swaps hell of war for Vatican hospitality

By AFP

Family of four from Damascus becomes first beneficiaries of pope’s call for every parish in Europe to take in refugees

Yale history professor Timothy Snyder (screen capture: YouTube)

Climate change could cause second Holocaust, says Yale historian

By Gabe Friedman

According to Prof. Timothy Snyder, the struggle to feed populations may ‘encourage new variations on Hitler’s ideas’

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt gets new government, a week after previous cabinet quit

By AFP

Sissi swears in former oil minister Sharif Ismail as PM, days after former administration resigns over corruption scandal

While abstinence and Jewish law are taught in Jewish day school classes, so are the reproduction system, menstrual cycles and sexual relationships. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Images/via JTA)

In sex ed, US day schools teach kids how to make smart choices

By Suzanne Pollak

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Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, in Cannes in 2011. (Shutterstock)

Veil of secrecyBar Refaeli gets no-fly zone wedding

A Nile soft-shelled turtle pictured from the Nahal Alexander walk. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travelsA turtle diary on the Alexander

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

A view of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Andreas Tille/Wikipedia)

Wiesenthal Center tells Jews not to go to Reykjavik

Pope Francis (L) meets with US President Barack Obama on March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (photo credit: AFP/SAUL LOEB)

Holy timingObama to host Pope Francis on Yom Kippur

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Carnegie Hall (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Perelman to leave Carnegie Hall chairmanship after 8 months

By JTA

Visitors top up their glasses with treated seawater at a desalination plant near Hadera, Israel. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

SoCal looks to Israel to solve its water problems

By David Shamah

The University of California, Santa Barbara. (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Coolcaesar/Wikimedia Commons)

U of California’s new tolerance rules fail to condemn anti-Semitism

By Amy Taxin and JULIE WATSON

Andy Alpern's Panoramic Sukkah with images of Israel (Courtesy: Andy Alpern)

A sukkah la vistaA photographer’s view of Israel, from a sukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

Thomas A. Shannon Jr. (screen capture: YouTube, US Embassy to Brazil)

Obama taps career diplomat for No. 3 State Dept. post

A Hainan Airlines 767 jet (CC BY-SA ChrisW, Wikimedia Commons)

Chinese carrier to introduce direct flights to Tel Aviv

President Barack Obama, wearing a yarmulke, speaks at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, Friday May 22, 2015, as part of Jewish American Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Blind faithDo 1% of Americans really think Obama is Jewish?

By Gabe Friedman

Arab Israeli Christian students hold placards during a protest in Jerusalem to demand more funds for Christian schools, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Israel’s Christian schools turn to Putin as budget row reaches LA

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