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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 27, 2016

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Sheldon Adelson, 2014 (Ethan Miller/Getty Images, via JTA)

‘Irked’ Adelson said to be holding off from funding Trump

Casino magnate who endorsed GOP nominee earlier this summer ‘has not done anything yet for Trump,’ according to Republican source

Stephen Bannon, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign chairman, attends Trump's Hispanic advisory roundtable meeting in New York, Saturday, August 20, 2016. (AP/Gerald Herbert)

Trump campaign CEO made anti-Semitic remarks, says ex-wife

By brian melley and Jill Colvin

Stephen Bannon’s former spouse claims custody battle over twin girls decade ago included him saying he didn’t want them ‘going to school with Jews’

Ex-Bush adviser Paul Wolfowitz slams Trump, may back Clinton

By AFP

Candidates capitalize on the ever-powerful Christian ‘religious vote’

NY state attorney says he was target of anti-Semitic Trump supporters

By JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas takes part in a prayer session ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan, in Ramallah on Wednesday, July 6, 2015. (Flash90)

Fatah said to beg Abbas: Cancel local elections, Hamas will win West Bank

TV report: Officials say victory for terror group will mean demise of president’s party, while Israel fears PA could be discredited by electoral loss

A swastika was painted on the trash can of Esther Cohen-Eskin in Haverton, Philadelphia August 19, 2016. (CBS3)

Town rallies around Jewish family hit by swastika graffiti

After her trash can was spray-painted with Nazi symbol, Esther Cohen-Eskin painted over it with a flower, starting a world movement

Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Anti-Semitic graffiti found at playground across from Lakewood yeshiva

By JTA

A person wearing an EEG cap (screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli scientists use nanobots and thoughts to control when drugs are administered

Researchers say new method monitors brain activity, could be used to preempt flare-up of mental disorders such as schizophrenia

A view of the Nahariya beach, on the shores of the Western Galilean city (Nati Shochat/Flash 90)

Trading the Sea of Galilee for the Galilee by the sea

By Jessica Steinberg

From Acre to Nahariya, the region abutting the Mediterranean offers the perfect getaway with its boutique hotels and gourmet eateries

Michael M. Adler

Democrats’ Israel support is irrefutable

The party platform calls a secure Israel ‘vital to the US’ and no candidate is more pro-Israel than Hillary Clinton

Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson

No contest: GOP is the pro-Israel party

Bipartisan support for the Jewish state is a fallacy: Republicans embrace Israel as an ally, Democrats do not

The spirituality of listening

Seeing may be believing, but hearing each other is the heart of every relationship, including with the Divine (Ekev)

Female and male army recruits stand in their room in the barracks at the armored battalion in Setermoen, northern Norway on August 11, 2016.
Norway has become the first NATO member to have compulsory conscription for women as well as men in the army. Recently, the first batch of army recruits joined the ranks in The Armored Battalion in the Norwegian Army located in Setermoen in northern Norway.

/ AFP PHOTO / KYRRE LIEN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY PIERRE-HENRY DESHAYES

Bras, tanks and guns: Norway’s women join the draft

By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES

Women join a demonstration organized by "Stand up to Racism" outside the French Embassy in London on August 26, 2016 against the burkini ban on French beaches. (AFP Photo/Justin Tallis)

French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban

By Claudine Renaud and Aurelia End

Beach towns vow to continue fining women wearing full-body swimsuit despite court ruling overturning the ‘clearly illegal’ restriction

People attend a funeral service for victims of the Italian earthquake, at a gymnasium arranged in a chapel of rest on August 27, 2016, in Ascoli Piceno, three days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing some 290 people. (AFP PHOTO/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

Flags at half mast as Italy mourns nearly 300 earthquake dead

By AFP

President Sergio Mattarella pays tribute to ‘extraordinary effort’ of more than 4,000 rescue experts and volunteers

Israeli security forces at the main entrance of the Qalandiya checkpoint, a key crossing point between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

2 Palestinians arrested with knives at West Bank checkpoints

Young woman detained at Qalandiya, 18-year-old nabbed in Hebron; IDF arrests fisherman off northern Gaza coast

Alex Schapiro studying for his bar mitzvah at the Spanish Synagogue of Prague in 2016. (Courtesy of Andrew H. Schapiro via JTA)

US envoy’s son has bar mitzvah at his ancestors’ shul in Prague

By JTA

Alex Schapiro performs Jewish rite of passage at Spanish Synagogue, where his relatives prayed before they fled the Nazis

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and former Turkish president Abdullah Gul (C) react after attending the funeral of a victim of the coup attempt in Istanbul on July 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)

Turkey arrests 3 former diplomats over attempted coup

By AFP

One of detainees was adviser to past president, while another set up 2013 meeting between ex-PM and alleged plot mastermind Gulen

Buenos Aires Holocaust Museum (screen capture: YouTube)

Nazi salute provokes Jewish students at Argentina nightclub

By JTA

‘Anti-Semitic attitudes’ toward ORT pupils by graduates of German-language school spark brawl in Bariloche

Illustrative: Women in the Kurdish-controlled city of Qamishly on August 13, 2016, mourn over a coffin during the funeral of several fighters from an Arab-Kurdish alliance, who were killed during battles with the Islamic State group (IS) in the northern Syrian city of Manbij. (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Analysis

Who is fighting who in Syria?

By AFP

What started out as a series of peaceful protests in 2011 has become a full-fledged civil war involving numerous local and international powers

Syrian rescue workers search for victims through the rubble of a building destroyed during a reported barrel bomb attack in a rebel-held neighborhood in eastern Aleppo on August 27, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED)

Syrian regime airstrikes kill 15 civilians in Aleppo mourning tent

By AFP

Human rights monitor says first barrel bomb hit site near mourners as second struck while rescue services arrived

The famously agitated Jewish comedian Lewis Black is returning to Broadway. (Clay McBride/via JTA)

Anger becomes comedian Lewis Black

By Curt Schleier

More Headlines

Jimmy Fallon as Donald Trump and Barbra Streisand performing a duet on the Tonight Show on Thursday, August 25 2016. (Screen capture YouTube)

Send in the clownsJimmy Fallon becomes Trump for duet with Streisand

By JTA

Gina Rodriguez in 2014 (Wikimedia Commons, Richard Sandoval, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Gina Rodriguez: Latinos can learn from Jews in breaking Hollywood barriers

US director Woody Allen poses on May 11, 2016, during a photocall for the film 'Cafe Society' ahead of the opening of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, southern France. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

Woody Allen: Anti-Semites are looking for a scapegoat

A worker paints a wall inside the mosque in Rovsingsgade in Copenhagen, Denmark, on June 16, 2014. (AFP/Scanpix Denmark/Thomas Lekfeldt)

Danish women-led mosque holds first Friday prayers

By AFP

A Tel Aviv dog sports festive headgear at a celebration for canines held by the city on August 26, 2016 (Luke Tress)

Woof and tumbleMassages for pups as Tel Aviv celebrates Dog Day

By AFP

Taj Patterson was allegedly beaten by a group of Hasidic Jews, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2013. (YouTube screen capture)

Judge to hear case of Hasidic Jew charged in brutal attack on gay man

By JTA

Hagai Felician, who in 2013 was declared a suspect in the deadly 2009 Bar Noar shooting in Tel Aviv, but whose case was dropped after a key witness against him was determined to have lied. (Flash90)

State to pay NIS 2.2m for wrongful indictment in Tel Aviv gay club shooting

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset, Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Canada’s former PM Stephen Harper quits politics

By Michel COMTE

Roseanne Barr speaks at an anti-BDS conference in Jerusalem, March 28, 2016. (CC BY-SA, monterey media, Flickr)

Roseanne says Clinton presidency will be ‘death of Israel’

In this March 3, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is welcomed to the stage by Maine Gov. Paul LePage at campaign stop in Portland, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

‘I’m after you,’ GOP governor tells Democratic lawmaker in obscene voicemail

By MARINA VILLENEUVE

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