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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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Israelis do yoga on an empty Tel Aviv street, on Yom Kippur, on September 23 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Minor violence as sweltering Yom Kippur comes to an end

2,220 people treated by medical teams for bike injuries, dehydration; several stone-throwing incidents reported

IDF troops arrest Palestinian carrying explosives in Jordan Valley

Palestinian witness disputes Israel account of woman’s death

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Obama highlights hope in Yom Kippur message

By JTA

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with university students in Tehran, Iran, July 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

In Hajj message, Iran’s leader castigates Israel and the US

Khamenei urges Muslims to ‘understand your divine responsibility’ in the face of American ‘evil’

NYC street art highlights campaign against Iran’s rights abuses

By LEJLA SARCEVIC

Iranian military chiefs deride US passivity, scoff at Republicans

By ToI Staff and AP

Ad featuring kids, mushroom cloud slams Democrat for backing Iran deal

By Erica Werner

Tali Shaltiel, an Israeli physician, taking a Syrian child from a dinghy that arrived at a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Boaz Arad/IsraAID)

When Israeli volunteers help Syrian, Iraqi and Pakistani refugees

By Gavin Rabinowitz

One man who was receiving treatment from IsraAID doctor Tali Shaltiel kept asking, ‘Tell me the truth, is she a Jew?’

The Children of the Kindertransport sculpture, outside Liverpool Street Station in London (John Chase, 2006)

100 Jewish clergy urge UK to take in more Syrian refugees

By JTA

David Horovitz speaks to the UJIA Annual Dinner in London on September 21, 2015 (Blake Ezra Photography / UJIA)

Analysis

Strategies for Israel, and those who love her

By David Horovitz

Strong-arming the sides isn’t going to solve the Palestinian conflict or wider hostilities, ToI editor says at UJIA dinner in London; gradually changing the tone, deepening understanding, tackling extremism at its roots, just might

Working for peace in 5776

On building bridges despite groups like SJP who reject any opportunity for dialogue with pro-Israel students

Yom Kippur 2 o’clock — 1973

The gift of firsthand memory of the moment that war began and lives changed

Outrage erupted over the appointment of Dimitris Kammenos, a minister notorious for anti-Semitic and homophobic remarks, to the Greek government on September 23, 2015. (screen grab: YouTube)

Outcry as anti-Semitic 9/11 doubter joins Greek government

By AFP

PM Tsipras gives transportation portfolio to Dimitris Kammenos, notorious for racist and homophobic remarks

A September 23, 2015 segment on Yom Kippur by Chicago's WGN news inadvertently used a Nazi emblem. (Screenshot)

Local US news station uses Holocaust badge for Yom Kippur story

By ToI Staff and JTA

Chicago’s WGN News apologizes for illustrating report on Jewish holiday with graphic of ‘Jude’ star

A priest inspects the damage caused to the Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha, on the Sea of Galilee, in northern Israel, which was set on fire in what police suspect was an arson attack, June 18, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel to compensate church torched by Jewish extremists

By AFP

Attorney general, Justice Ministry determine arson attack on Christian site a hate crime; church officials to seek NIS 7m.

A view of Derbent, in Dagestan, Russia. (CC BY-SA 2.0 Bolshakov/Wikipedia)

Israeli delegation booted from ceremony in Russia’s Derbent

Israeli dignitaries were invited to celebrate 2,000th anniversary of Dagestani city, but their participation was canceled at last minute

President Barack Obama and Pope Francis stand at attention during the playing of the national anthems during a state arrival ceremony for the pope, Sept. 23, 2015, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Pope at White House: Climate change action can’t wait

By Nancy Benac and Nicole Winfield

Pontiff calls for ‘responsible recognition’ of warming planet, need to protect religious liberties; set to deliver first ever papal address to Congress

Gal Hirsch (screen capture: Channel 2)

Amid accusations, Hirsch dropped as top cop candidate

Public Security Minister Erdan says former IDF chief not suspected of anything; search for new Israel Police commissioner continues

Jayson Littman, founder of the gay Jewish “social start-up” Hebro, at the “High Homodays” party in 2014. (JTA/Santiago Felipe)

Gay Jews celebrate ‘High Homodays’ — with an eye toward matchmaking

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

400 gay Jewish men gather for annual Manhattan party, a highlight of the Hebro — an amalgam of ‘Hebrew’ and ‘brother’ — social calendar

In this photo provided Friday, Aug. 7, 2015, by the Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants, Muslim worshipers attend Friday prayers in a mosque in the central Syrian town of Qaryatain. (Rased News Network, a Facebook page affiliated with Islamic State militants via AP)

Why 58 recruits, from 17 countries, defected from Islamic State

UK think tank catalogs tales of disillusion, urges governments to use the stories as psychological warfare against brutal terror group

In this Monday, Sept. 21, 2015 photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, while performing Tawaf, an anti-clockwise movement around the Kaaba and one of the main rites of the annual pilgrimage, known as Hajj, in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

More than 2 million Muslims in Saudi Arabia start hajj

Pilgrimage traces paths of Prophets Abraham, Ishmael and Muhammad; starta in Mecca before heading to nearby tent city of Mina

The Valley of Tears (Emek Habaha), where Israel stopped the Syrians in 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels: Yom Kippur

A Valley of Tears where Israel stopped Syria in 1973

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Far right party National Front leader Marine Le Pen poses for photographers before addressing reporters at the party's headquarters in Nanterre, west of Paris, Sunday May 25, 2014.(Photo credit: AP/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Marine Le Pen to stand trial for Muslim-Nazi comparison

By AP and ToI Staff

Pharrell Williams performs at the 57th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP)

BDS protest at Pharrell Williams’ S. Africa gig

By JTA and AFP

The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts (Brandeis University/via JTA)

US Jewish studies professors struggling to find work

By JTA

Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his home in Irving, Texas on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Dallas ‘bomb’ boy quits school that suspended him

By ToI Staff and AP

In this Thursday, June 4, 2015 file photo, Canadian Al-Jazeera English journalist Mohamed Fahmy, left, and his Egyptian colleague Baher Mohammed listen in a courtroom in Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Sissi frees 2 Al-Jazeera journalists

By Merrit Kennedy and Maram Mazen

A Hasidic man expressing his views to an anti-kapparot activist in Brooklyn, New York, Sept. 17, 2015. (JTA)

Chicken suitChicken-swinging ritual spurs two lawsuits

By Julie Wiener

The 'Broad City' girls do Yom Kippur (Comedy Central Screenshot)

Treif comedy‘Broad City’ girls remind us why Yom Kippur is so hard

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man participating in a kapparot ritual, in which a chicken is swung over one's head in the belief that one transfers the sins from the past year into the chicken. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Clucked upAnimal rights activists, chicken swingers brawl

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