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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 24, 2015

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Hajj pilgrims and Saudi emergency personnel carry a woman on a stretcher at the site where hundreds were killed in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015. (AFP/STR)

Death toll in Mecca hajj stampede jumps to over 700

By AP

Officials say at least 863 others injured in tent city at Mina in latest disaster to strike annual Muslim pilgrimage

Dozens dead in holiday attack on Yemen mosque

By AFP and Raoul Wootliff

Syria’s Assad makes rare appearance for Eid prayers

By AFP

From the webPalestinian woman is first to oversee Muslim wedding vows

A cone-shaped seal found in rubble excavated from the Temple Mount believed to date to around the 10th century BCE (Zachi Dvira, Temple Mount Sifting Project)

Tiny stone seal from King David era found in Temple Mount fill

By Ilan Ben Zion

Limestone engraved with animals believed to date from 10th century BCE, found in rubble excavated from site of former temples

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian throwing a rock at Israeli Border Police during clashes in East Jerusalem on September 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

Security cabinet backs minimum four-year sentences for rock throwers

By Marissa Newman

Ministers vote unanimously in favor of broader live fire orders against assailants, jail time for minors over 14

Hans Breuer at his pasture near Vienna, March 2015. (Courtesy of Hans Breuer/via JTA)

In Austria, a Jewish sheep breeder shepherds Syrian refugees

By Cnaan Liphshiz

WATCH: A video of Hans Breuer leading a car-load of migrants in a classic Yiddish tune receives both praise and jeers. But this son of Holocaust survivors says his help is instinctive

The 'Atomic Falafel' van that travels across the desert to serve fried chickpea balls to any customer (Courtesy Dror Shaul)

'A movie Iranians and Israelis can laugh at'

‘Atomic Falafel’ film mines nuclear arms race for mirth

By Jessica Steinberg

Dror Shaul’s latest flick mixes Persian and Hebrew with some English in a timely comedy about teens trying to save the region

Catholic boogie in a Jewish groove

A Dominican friar who finds a certain Jewish vibe that transmutes his soul and shows him the Jesus of the Gospels

The arc of the moral universe

The song Moses sings on his last day of life is about the eternal question of why bad things happen to good people (Ha’azinu)

Make yeshivas safe for LGBTQ youth

Educators are so afraid of being seen to ‘endorse’ homosexuality they fail to protect vulnerable students

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Jordan in January 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90/ File)

Analysis

Jordan’s king snubs Netanyahu over Jerusalem violence

By Avi Issacharoff

US diplomats urge Abdullah to help resolve tensions at Temple Mount holy site, but Amman refuses

Religious Jews visit Temple Mount, August 25, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Temple Mount closed to Jewish visitors, tourists for Muslim holiday

Defense minister eases restrictions on Palestinian access to site for Eid al-Adha, the Festival of the Sacrifice

Gal Hirsch, a former IDF brigadier-general who had been tapped to be the next head of the Israel Police, arrives to testify before the Turkel Committee vetting his appointment at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Former top cop candidate blasts ‘mudslinging’ as nomination revoked

In first statement, Gal Hirsch praises support from Netanyahu and Erdan, questions values of country, says he never asked to be tapped

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)

Anti-Semitic 9/11 truther resigns from Greek goverment

By AFP

Politician notorious for racist and homophobic remarks forced to step down 24 hours after receiving ministerial posting

The entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, with the slogan 'Arbeit Macht Frei.' (AP/Christof Stache, File)

Dachau building shelters refugees, homeless

By AFP and ToI Staff

Annex of former Nazi concentration camp — the first such site in Germany — houses about 50 people with no homes

In this Aug. 7, 2015, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, steps on the stage to speak at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Marco Rubio fundraiser held at mansion of Nazi items collector

Presidential hopeful holds Yom Kippur event at home of Harlan Crowe, who has signed copy of Hitler’s book; tickets cost $1,000-$10,800

Illustrative: B61 nuclear bombs on a rack. (Courtesy US Department of Defense)

Russia threatens response if US places new nukes in Germany

By AP

US says new weapons are upgraded versions of those in arsenal for decades

President Reuven Rivlin, right, and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon seen at a state ceremony marking 42 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on September 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Marking ’73 war, president calls for scrutiny of today’s leaders

By Stuart Winer

Rivlin warns against becoming ‘addicted’ to the illusion of military strength as happened in Yom Kippur war, says diplomatic future must be shaped

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Jewel Samad)

Analysis

Patronage and paralysis: UN marks 70 years of ineffectiveness

By Edith M. Lederer

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Sen. Chuck Schumer made a surprise appearance on 'The Daily Show' as Jon Stewart looked back at his Jewish moments as host, July 23, 2015. (Daily Show screenshot via JTA)

J marks the spot9 Jewish pop culture moments from 5775

By Gabe Friedman

British soldiers search a house in Tel Aviv for terrorists during a four-day curfew in 1946 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #18WATCH: The British search Tel Aviv in 1946

By Ramona Tausz

The Shirat Moshe Yeshiva in Jaffa, target of a September stun-grenade attack. (Screenshot from Google Maps)

Ex-prisoner charged with tossing stun grenade at Jaffa yeshiva

By Raoul Wootliff

Former IDF Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s not you, it’s Israel

By Marissa Newman

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