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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 1, 2016

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Bill Clinton comforts Shimon Peres's daughter Tzvia (Elad Malka)

Photo essay

Emotion in high places: Stunning photos from the Peres funeral

Elad Malka immortalizes striking moments from an extraordinary farewell to a unique individual

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) attends the funeral of former president Shimon Peres Mount Herzl national cemetery in Jerusalem on on September 30, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/STEPHEN CROWLEY)

PA official: Abbas has no regrets over attending Peres funeral

Source says his presence sends message that Israelis do have partner for peace; top Fatah member objects to honor for ‘Zionist soaked in our blood’

PA official arrested after slamming Abbas attendance at Peres funeral

White House strikes ‘Israel’ from Jerusalem dateline on Obama’s eulogy transcript

By JTA and AP

Israel’s Arab leader defends party’s boycott of Peres funeral

US President Barack Obama seen at the state funeral ceremony for former Israeli president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Reporter's notebook

For Peres, a funeral as memorable as the man himself

We are alone now, alone with our mistakes, ran the subtext to Netanyahu’s strikingly moving speech, with no elder’s guiding hand to offer advice or admonishment

Amos Oz: ‘Where are the brave leaders, Shimon Peres’s successors?’

By AFP

After Peres funeral, Netanyahu meets with slate of world leaders

Without naming him, Bennett blasts PM for shaking Abbas’s hand at Peres funeral

Us President Barack Obama awaits aboard Air Force One, after calling former president Bill Clinton who later traveled back to the US with Obama. The two attended the funeral of former president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Screen capture Sky News)

Traveling in style

Clinton hitches ride home with Obama aboard Air Force One

‘Let’s go, Bill, I’ll take you home,’ yells president from top of plane staircase as both head back to US from Peres funeral in Israel

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton (JTA/Drew Angerer/Getty Images) and Republican rival Donald Trump (JTA/Christopher Gregory/Getty Images)

What can US rabbis say about Clinton vs. Trump during High Holidays?

By Eric Cortellessa

With the Jewish holy days looming, many clergy want to address the US elections, but are afraid to violate the terms of their synagogue’s tax-exempt status

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump answers a question during the presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Monday, September 26, 2016. (AP/David Goldman)

After Trump pushes Machado ‘sex tape’, his own adult film emerges

By Josh Lederman and Steve Peoples

Republican nominee continues to question ex-beauty queen’s character, but his allegations appear to backfire

Clinton moves to cement post-debate lead in pivotal Florida

By Andrew BEATTY

Trump: Presidential campaign could be good for my hotels

By Michael Biesecker

What does Gary Johnson’s running mate see in Peres?

'The Actor,' by Pablo Picasso. (Wikimedia)

NY Met sued for return of $100-million Picasso sold by German Jew before WWII

Complaint says Paul Leffmann sold ‘The Actor’ under duress in 1938 to fund escape to Switzerland; museum argues it has ‘indisputable title’ to piece

The Neue Galerie art museum in New York City (Ekem/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)

NY museum returns, buys back Nazi-looted painting

By JTA

The Cenacle, traditionally believed to be the site of Jesus's Last Supper. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

When a German refugee accidentally captured Mount Zion

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Soak up the history at one of Jerusalem’s holiest sites: the final resting place of King David, Jesus’s mother Mary and later, a dramatic battle in the War of Independence

Farewell to a people I love

In his address to the Knesset upon departing the presidency in 2014: ‘I am a citizen in love with my people’

Marxist Methodists savage Israel

Repulsed by the anti-Israel moral crusade by some in the Church, including a denomination founded by a Zionist

Avi Issacharoff

In honoring Peres, Abbas shows leadership

Op-Ed: Facing opposition at home, the PA president’s humane gesture to attend funeral shines even more, with Arab-Israeli MKs nowhere to be seen

It’s been 25 years since my last High Holiday service

As an ardent atheist, ritual hasn’t had a place in his life — here’s why he’s going to give it a try this year

Ambulances and police cars near the Qalandia checkpoint on Friday evening, September 30, 2016. (Screen capture YouTube)

IDF soldier moderately wounded in stabbing attack; assailant killed

24-year-old suffers injuries to upper body outside Qalandia checkpoint; some 200 Palestinians riot near crossing

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks on August 17, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Noel Celis)

Israel: Duterte must clarify ‘unfortunate’ Hitler remarks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Germany, US slam Philippines president for comparing war on drugs to Holocaust; Manila says he did not intend to ‘diminish profound loss of 6 million Jews’

First Lady Michelle Obama jokingly rests her arm on US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles alongside President Barack Obama (R) at a ceremony honoring US Olympians in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, September 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Obama hosts families of black athletes snubbed at Nazis’ 1936 Olympics

By STEPHEN WHYNO

President says it was African-American athletes ‘under gaze of Hitler’ who ‘put lie to notions of racial superiority’

File: Attorney General Loretta Lynch, accompanied by FBI Director James Comey, speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

On anniversary of Nuremberg trials, American AG lauds recognition of rape as war crime

By JTA

Loretta Lynch describes her frustration that it is easier to bring war criminals to justice after the fact than it is to stop their crimes

President Shimon Peres at a ceremony upon his reception of the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday, June 26, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Mr. Peres goes to Washington

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In this Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows a Civil Defense worker carrying a child out from under the rubble after airstrikes hit al-Shaar neighborhood in Aleppo. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Barrel bombs hit largest hospital in rebel-held Aleppo — NGO

By AFP

Syrian American Medical Society says just 6 operational facilities remain in eastern parts of city as regime bombards opposition areas

Players from the following teams, clockwise from top left: New York Mets, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants. (Getty Images via JTA)

Which Major League Baseball team is the most ‘Jewish’?

By Gabe Friedman

Author and motivational speaker Gabrielle Bernstein. (Screenshot)

Life got you down? There’s a catchphrase for that

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Sen. Bernie Sanders waving in Concord on the day of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, February 9, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/JTA)

Media mavensThe top 14 Jewish newsmakers of 5776

In this Sept. 26, 2015 file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Will Iran deal earn Kerry and Zarif a Nobel Prize?

Israeli police and medics at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jaffa where one person was killed and 11 others were wounded on March 8, 2016. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

GOP bill aims to halt funds for PA until it stops paying terrorists

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Iranian drone (AP/ISNA, Hemmat Khahi)

Iran says it built attack drone modeled on captured US craft

By AP

Senior British Labour Party activist Jackie Walker, 2016 (screenshot: YouTube)

UK Labour suspends Corbyn ally for questioning Holocaust Day

Anne Applebaum discussing her book 'Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe' in Berlin, Oct. 28, 2013. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/JTA)

Breitbart columnist attacks writer as ‘Jewish, American elitist’

By JTA

Marian Harper, owner of the Carnegie Deli, holds an overstuffed Pastrami sandwich (courtesy: Carnegie Deli)

Sorry, out of pastramiNYC’s famed Carnegie Deli to close at end of 2016

By JTA

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