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What Matters Most On Friday, September 9, 2016

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Donald Trump wears a tallit, or Jewish prayer shawl, as he's presented with a gift during a church service at Great Faith Ministries, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Detroit (Evan Vucci/AP)

Interview

Why did a Christian bishop give Donald Trump a Jewish prayer shawl?

By Eric Cortellessa

Bishop Wayne Jackson explains why he presented the GOP nominee with a tallit, and why many in his congregation wear one all the time

Why are some of Trump’s ‘worst’ tweets sent on Jewish holidays?

By Andrew Tobin

Setting up shop in settlements, Trump backers court US expats

By Josef Federman

Trump to Russian-funded TV: ‘Unlikely’ Moscow is trying to sway election

By Steve Peoples

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks to Channel 2 News in an interview broadcast on September 8, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Clinton to Israelis: Don’t trust Trump, be alarmed by him

He flip-flops, doesn’t understand, and has ‘no feeling’ on Israel, Democratic nominee tells Channel 2. Jihadists, she says, are urging Allah to ‘make him win’

Clinton to Israeli TV: Jihadists are praying for Trump to win

By ToI Staff and JTA

Clinton supporters say she is being judged unfairly

By Lisa Lerer and Catherine Lucey

3 Jewish things to know about Clinton’s numbers cruncher

US President Barack Obama at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015 (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Mite as well

Scientist names newly discovered parasite after Obama

By Seth Borenstein

‘It’s long. It’s thin. And it’s cool as hell,” says researcher of tiny flatworm; insists move an honor, not an insult

Volunteers help with registration while kids play at the West London Synagogue during a monthly drop-in day. (Courtesy West London Synagogue)

'The parallels with Jews in Nazi Germany are extraordinary'

Jewish London bridges gap for asylum seekers from Muslim countries

By Jenni Frazer

While beneficiaries are often unaware who volunteers on their behalf, synagogue drop-in spots have provided essentials for at least one refugee who was once taught to vilify Jews

What the ducks taught us

Why it’s a good idea to follow the instructions even when they don’t protect your water fowl

Helen Gottstein

Financial repentance

Lose the idea that self-deprivation is the mother of all virtues, and dive right into the risks of engaging fully

A Jew made my grandfather a priest

On the lasting impact of kindness, cruelty, and indifference in chance encounters

The greatness of humility

If you are the center of your universe, you miss the glory of others; put God first and live enriched (Shofetim)

Jose Meirelles, owner of New York's kosher Le Marais steakhouse (courtesy)

The Portuguese Catholic who serves French cuisine to New York’s Jews

By Cathryn J. Prince

People watch a television news broadcast showing a North Korean anchor announcing the country's latest nuclear test, at a railway station in Seoul on September 9, 2016. (AFP Jung Yeon-Je)

Israel condemns North Korea nuclear test, urges world to act

By ToI Staff and AFP

As Pyongyang celebrates and says it can mount warheads on missiles, Jerusalem joins international community in denouncing atomic testing

A South Korean official points to a map showing the epicenter seismic waves in North Korea, at the Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul on September 9, 2016, following news of another nuclear test by North Korea. (AFP/Yonhap)

North Korea: Test confirms nuke can be mounted on rockets

By AFP

Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

UN nuclear report on Iran hints at potential problem

By AP

While agency says Tehran largely abiding by accord, it is also manufacturing new centrifuge parts that may not be in line with deal

In this Feb. 10, 2016 file photo, Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisconsin, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

House Republicans press administration on Iran payment

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

In hearing blasted by Democrats as politically motivated, GOP lawmakers slam administration’s linkage of funds, hostages

Charles Baccouche chooses to remain in France and fight anti-Semitism in the courtroom, despite being eligible for retirement. (Courtesy)

‘No future for Jews in Western Europe,’ says French prosecutor

In a legal war on bigotry, Charles Baccouche, 70, fights anti-Semitism the only way he knows how — in the courtroom

In this Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016 file photo, Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Photo essay

Muslim pilgrims arrive at holy site ahead of hajj

By Nariman El-Mofty

Tens of thousands reach Mecca’s Kaaba as Islam’s annual pilgrimage rite begins Saturday

Israeli citizens suspected of membership in a local Islamic State. Clockwise from top right: Adnan Ala a-Din, alah Abu Salah, Fadi BAshir, Khaled abu Salah, Muhammad abu Salah, Husam Marisat, and Karim abu Salah (photo credit: Shin Bet)

5 Israeli Arabs sent to prison for joining Islamic State

Defendants given sentences of 2-6 years after confessing swearing allegiance to terror group and planning attacks on Israelis

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool)

Analysis

Russian Mideast push could hurt US influence… if talks occur

By Bradley Klapper

Moscow has clamored for years to host Israeli-Palestinian summit, but even after Thursday’s announcement there’s still no firm date or agenda

Illustrative: A Palestinian man casts his vote in the municipal elections in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on October 20, 2012. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Hamas, Fatah shed no tears over suspended local elections

By Avi Issacharoff

Both sides had something to lose if the vote had proceeded as planned in October, but the Gaza-based terror group had more at stake

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA court to make final decision about elections on September 21

Ruling scheduled after this week’s suspension of planned October 8 vote due to disputes between Fatah, Hamas

Israeli rescue workers at the site where a building collapsed in Tel Aviv's Ramat Hahayal neighborhood, September 6, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Fourth body found in rubble of Tel Aviv garage collapse

Rescue teams work to retrieve and identify remains; search efforts to find two other missing workers ongoing

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Adolf Hitler with Hermann Göring on balcony of the Chancellery, Berlin, March 16, 1938 (Bundesarchiv, Bild/Wikipedia)

Fuhrer furorAustralian student dressed as Hitler wins costume prize

By AFP

A swastika. (Wikimedia Commons)

Nazi hand stamps used to mark visitors to Ecuadorean jail

By AP

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon in April 2016 (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Israel’s UN envoy: Rise of social media linked to growing Jew-hatred

By AP and JTA

A handcuffed man is taken out of a building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine, south of Paris, on September 8, 2016 where female suspects, said to have been planning new acts of violence, were arrested. (AFP/Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt)

Gas cylinders terror plot foiled near Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral

File: Illustrative photo of cocaine (CC BY-SA Valerie Everett, Flickr)

CocacabanaIsraeli tries to leave Brazil with $500k’s worth of cocaine

By JTA

US gymnast Alexandra Raisman competes in the qualifying for the women's Beam event of the Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 7, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / Emmanuel DUNAND)

Taking Tokyo Aly Raisman: I’ll be back for 2020 Olympics

By JTA

Shia LaBeouf attending the 'American Honey' photocall during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival, May 15, 2016. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Shia LaBeouf rips Spielberg as ‘less a director than a f—ing company’

By Gabe Friedman

Natalie Portman showing her baby bump at the premiere of her film “Planetarium” at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, Sept. 8, 2016. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Aleph, meet BetNatalie Portman pregnant with 2nd child

By JTA

Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg attends a campaign event on February 24, 2015, in Netanya (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNetanya and Netanyahu

By Ilan Ben Zion

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