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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 26, 2015

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Former IDF chief of General Staff Benny Gantz speaks to the Washington Institute, September 25, 2015 (Washington Institute screenshot)

Former IDF chief says ‘hysteria’ over Iran deal is unwarranted

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Benny Gantz believes better accord could have been reached, but praises diplomacy’s success in preventing war, delaying bomb for 10-15 years

Iranian president tries to woo American press

By AP and ToI Staff

Work for a world free of nuclear weapons: Full text of pope’s speech to UN

Kerry, Zarif to meet on plan to end Syria conflict

By ToI Staff and AP

A still image taken from footage shot in the West Bank on September 25, 2015 apparently shows an IDF soldier hurling a camera belonging to AFP reporters to the ground. (screen capture: YouTube)

IDF: Troops who attacked reporters will face discipline

By AFP and ToI Staff

Army says soldiers filmed smashing AFP journalists’ equipment contravened regulations, incident under investigation

Foreign press group blasts IDF for attack on AFP reporters

By AFP and ToI Staff

Erekat: New Israeli measures against stone-throwers ‘dehumanize whole nation’

Amnesty: Woman’s West Bank shooting was ‘execution’

By AFP

Mahane Yehuda open market, not just fruit and veg (Shmuel Bar-Am)

In Jerusalem’s teeming Mahane Yehuda, rubbing shoulders (literally) with everyman

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The capital’s vibrant fruit and veggie mecca is a lot more besides, and the adjacent Ohel Moshe neighborhood is full of surprises, including a neon sign- adorned synagogue ark

Why Jews should not visit China

Massacres, genocide, and aiding Israel’s enemies all make keeping tourist dollars out of China a no-brainer

Lynette Nusbacher

What US war on ISIS?

According to Weinberger’s rules for when America should resort to combat, Obama has no case against Daesh

A new encyclopedia of Jew-hatred

A new book by Manfred Gerstenfeld details how the new anti-Semitism focuses all of its energy against Israel

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, holds up a Bible given to him by his mother as he speaks during the Values Voter Summit, held by the Family Research Council Action, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, in Washington (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Bible in hand, Trump woos evangelical Christians

Once a playboy, Republican frontrunner now laments Christianity under attack; set to host evangelical pastors next week for prayer session

Donald Trump at a campaign rally at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas on Sept. 14, 2015. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images/JTA)

Trump, Carson have Republican Jewish establishment worried

Longtime GOP Jewish donors and activists look on in dismay as the two presidential hopefuls lead the polls

Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (AFP)

Iran claims Saudi prince’s convoy triggered hajj stampede

Tehran’s Press TV: ‘Saudi authorities seek to hush up the entire story’; second Iranian news agency asserts death toll is 2,000

Saudi emergency personnel stand near bodies of Hajj pilgrims at the site where at least 717 were killed and hundreds wounded in a stampede in Mina, near the city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015. (STR/AFP)

Hajj stampede was fate, says Saudi grand mufti

By LYNNE AL-NAHHAS

Pope Francis arrives to celebrate Mass at Madison Square Garden, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, in New York. (AP/Julie Jacobson, Pool)

Pope Francis crowns New York visit with public mass

By AFP

Pontiff wraps up trip with celebration in Madison Square Garden where 20,000 pack indoor arena to take communion

Pope Francis visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City on September 25, 2015 and prays at "Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning" by Spencer Finch. Reposed behind this blue wall are the remains of many who perished at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001 (AFP/POOL/Susan Watts)

Pope prays at 9/11 Memorial after UN speech

By Jean-Louis De La Vaissier and Jennie Matthew

Pope Francis waves at the audience while sitting in the head of state chair after addressing the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Work for a world free of nuclear weapons: Full text of pope’s speech to UN

Francis hails deal with Iran as ‘proof of the potential of political good will and of law’

Speaker of the US House of Representatives John Boehner (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in 2011 (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Now Boehner can tell us what really happened with Netanyahu’s speech

Will the departing Speaker elaborate on his request to Israel’s envoy Ron Dermer to keep mum on invite to PM to address Congress?

Jewish educator Yoni Kaiser-Blueth, right, with incoming George Washington University freshman Yonah Bromberg Gaber at a recent Washington Nationals game, said that Sandy Koufax’s Yom Kippur decision 'resonates especially today.' (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)

Why generations of American Jews won’t bat on Shabbos

By Hillel Kuttler

Migrating Black Storks prepare to spend the night at a water reservoir before heading south at the Hula Lake in the Hula Valley (Photo by Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Anticipating Sukkot, Israelis hit the parks and forests

Tens of thousands visit the country’s nature reserves; some Kinneret beaches closed due to overcrowding

Illustrative photo of refugees waiting for registration outside the state office for health and social issues in Berlin, Germany, on September 25 2015. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP)

Germany sees many migrants falsely claiming to be Syrian

By AP

Officials say around a third of those seeking asylum lying about origin, out of belief Berlin gives preference to refugees from Syria

File: A file picture taken on September 21, 2015 shows a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah (top), the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, and portraits of pro-government force members killed in combat displayed on a street in the Syrian capital, Damascus. (AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)

Report: Syria arming Hezbollah with 75 Soviet-era tanks

Kuwaiti paper says 100 Iranian soldiers land in Damascus as Tehran, Moscow and Hezbollah work to prop up Assad regime

French President Francois Hollande, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, June 1, 2012. (AP/RIA-Novosti/Alexei Nikolsky/Government Press Service)

France warns Russia: Syria could be your ‘second Afghanistan’

French officials call Moscow’s decision to send troops to shore up Assad regime a ‘dangerous’ move

Afghan civil society members light candles during a vigil for victims of Friday's attacks, while gathering at the site of a truck bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Islamic State making inroads in Afghanistan, UN warns

By AFP

Local officials report support for the extremist group in 25 of the country’s 34 provinces

Chaimie (Jamie Elman) and Leizer (Eli Batalion) continue to ponder tensions between Jewish tradition and secular society in season 2 of 'YidLife Crisis.' (YouTube)

Irreverent Yiddish comedic web series back for season ‘tsvey’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Brian Epstein (left) with The Beatles on tour in 1964. (AP Photo)

Baby, You're a Rich ManBrian Epstein’s contract with the Beatles goes on sale

'Blood moon' lunar eclipse, April 15, 2014 (Photo: CC BY-SA Tomruen, Wikipedia)

Mormons tell followers ‘blood moon’ is not sign of the apocalypse

By AP and ToI Staff

Ambulances at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Boy, 5, dies in locked car; his cousin in grave condition

Kirk Douglas, right, with son Michael and grandson Dylan at Dylan's bar mitzvah, May 2014 (Infinity Kornfeld Studios/JTA)

Chant-manMichael Douglas gives Yom Kippur speech

By JTA

FIFA president Sepp Blatter smiles at the 65th FIFA Congress at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, Friday, May 29, 2015, where he was elected to a fifth term as FIFA boss (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP)

Swiss police probing FIFA head Blatter

By Graham Dunbar

A neighborhood in the Italian town of Specchiolla, where villas look from overhead like Nazi swastikas. (Screen capture Google Maps)

Inglorious BuildersItalian homes look like swastikas from above

From left, Raghad, Mohammed, mother Khawla Kareem, Reem and Yaman, a refugee family from Syria, wait outside an asylum seekers shelter in Heidenau, near Dresden, eastern Germany, Sept. 22, 2015 photo (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

Syrians in Germany face neo-Nazis, dismal conditions

By Kirsten Grieshaber

In this photo taken on September 5, 2015, a suspect identified by officials as Adem Karadag, is escorted by Thai commandos upon his arrival at a court in Bangkok. (AFP PHOTO/PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/FILES)

Enough proof to charge Bangkok bomb suspect — Thai police

By AP

Screenshot from a KCAL9 TV report on the arrest of Saudi prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud on sex crimes charges in Los Angeles. (KCAL9/screenshot)

Royal offenderSaudi prince arrested for sex crimes in LA

Hillary Clinton being interviewed by Lena Dunham for LennyLetter.com, September 2015. (screen capture: Politico)

Officials discover more work emails from Clinton’s private account

By Bradley Klapper

Plaque honoring anti-Nazis missing from Hitler’s WWII bunker

By AP and AFP

British opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn gestures as he speaks at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton, south-east England, on September 15, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL)

Corbyn in 2003: West ‘manipulated’ 9/11 to invade Afghanistan

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