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What Matters Most On Monday, October 17, 2016

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Mexico's ambassador to UNESCO, Andres Roemer (YouTube screenshot)

Don’t quit over Jerusalem vote, Israel urged Mexico’s UNESCO envoy

Andres Roemer, who is Jewish, walked out of last week’s session, in protest at his country’s support for anti-Israel resolution. His Israeli counterpart implored him to reconsider resigning

Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles lit from the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 30, 2016, during the Orthodox Easter ceremonies.(AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

UNESCO’s Jerusalem resolution ignores Christian roots, too

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With increased archeological findings of a Byzantine presence prior to the Muslim conquest, the historical holy site is clearly linked to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity — and not necessarily in that order

US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Kenansville, North Carolina, on September 20, 2016. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

North Carolina GOP office torched, graffiti nearby slams ‘Nazi Republicans’

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump blames ‘animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems’ for incident; daubing warns: ‘Nazi Republicans leave town or else’

GOP strategists see only an epic collapse stopping Clinton presidency

By Thomas Beaumont

As Trump rails against ‘rigged’ elections, Pence says GOP will accept will of the people

By Laurie Kellman

Good nightTrump calls for end of SNL after spoof ‘hit job’

By AP and ToI Staff

Iraqi forces deploy in the area of al-Shurah, some 45 kms south of Mosul, as they advance towards the city to retake it from the Islamic State group jihadists, on October 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraqi forces seek to deliver death blow to IS in Mosul

By Ahmad Al-Rubaye, Abdulhamid Zebari and Jean-Marc Mojon

Head of US-led coalition backing multi-pronged offensive warns it could take weeks to oust jihadists from city it declared a ‘caliphate’

US: Mosul push is ‘decisive moment’ in anti-IS campaign

By AFP

Retaking Mosul: a complex offensive of many parts

By AFP

Syria rebels capture Dabiq, where IS had promised apocalyptic battle

By Maya Gebeily and Dave Clark

In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, author Thomas Harding shows passports of his grandparents in London. Harding is doing what other descendants of Holocaust victims would find unimaginable: applying for a German passport. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

'It's about reconciliation'

For Jews in post-Brexit Britain, German citizenship is no longer verboten

By DANICA KIRKA

Descendants of those who fled Hitler are rethinking long-held beliefs about a country that once sought to destroy their families

6 sins American voters should repent

Like Yom Kippur, this election season is a ‘Mirror Moment’ for the nation

Alan J. Avery-Peck

How Jacob Neusner mainstreamed Jewish studies

The late scholar applied academic methods to the study of Talmud, opening arcane texts to broad scrutiny

This file photo taken on July 16, 2016 shows French far-right Front National (FN) party president Marine Le Pen addressing a press conference in Nanterre, near Paris regarding the July 14 attack in Nice. (AFP/ ALAIN JOCARD)

Le Pen vows to ban kippas, all ‘religious symbols,’ in public if elected

By ToI Staff and AP

Leader of far-Right National Front party says French people must make ‘sacrifices’ to combat Islamic extremism

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish men walking near Chabad headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, May 12, 2008. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

2 brothers wearing prayer shawls attacked on Yom Kippur in Brooklyn

By JTA

Men left badly beaten after being targeted as ‘f***ing Jews’; police investigating incident as possible hate crime

Berlin dinner party featured in 'Germans & Jews' (First Run Features)

Guess who’s coming to dinner, in Germany

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Two Israeli F-15I 'Ra'am' fighter jets during maneuvers (CC BY-TSgt Kevin J. Gruenwald/USA/Wikimedia)

Israel in 2012 mulled leaking ‘plans’ of Iran strike from Saudi base

By Tamar Pileggi

Latest WikiLeaks email dump indicate Israeli efforts to counter Tehran nuclear program included spreading rumors of impending IDF attack

Palestinian members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terror movement, display Qassam home-made rockets during an anti-Israel military parade on August 21, 2016 in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas test-fires long-range rocket into sea off Gaza

Terror group often conducts trial launches to improve range, accuracy; latest comes less than 2 weeks after twin strikes on southern Israel

Palestinian soccer team Hilal al-Quds poses with a poster hailing Palestinian terrorist Mesbah Abu Sabih, who killed two Israelis in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on October 9, 2016. (Facebook)

Police arrest Palestinian soccer coach whose team posed with photo of terrorist

Maher Abu Sanina faces incitement charges after members of club hold up banner hailing Mesbah Abu Sabih, who killed 2 Israelis in a shooting spree last week

Maarouf, a 12-year-old Syrian boy waits to be rescued from the rubble of a building following a reported air strike on the the rebel-held Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo on October 16, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/THAER MOHAMMED)

Dozens killed as airstrikes target Aleppo residences

By Karam al-Masri and Maya Gebeily

Local rescue worker says Russian jets carried out ‘massacre’ in one neighborhood, bombing multi-story building

Looking for the strongest people at a different kind of Iron Man competition, in Haifa, on October 20 (Courtesy City of Haifa)

Earth, kites and clay, and a host of other Sukkot activities

By Jessica Steinberg

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11 year-old Alma Deutscher poses for a photographer in the hallway of The Wiener Musikverein in Vienna on October 6, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)

Putting on your own opera, in Vienna, aged 11

By Simon Sturdee

The remains of a car that was blown up on Tel Aviv's La Guardia street on October 16, 2016. One man was killed in what was said by police to be a gangland killing (Channel 2 screenshot)

Tel Aviv man killed in suspected gangland car bombing

L-R: Princess Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth, Winston Churchill, King George VI and Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on May 8, 1945 (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)

For King and Country UK devised WWII plan to save royal family from Nazis

Oshri Malsa, 22, was killed in a car crash in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday October 16, 2016. (Courtesy)

Israeli tourist killed in South Africa car crash named

Kuwait's ruling emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah dissolved parliament by royal decree on Sunday

Kuwait’s ruler dissolves parliament citing ‘security challenges’

By Jon Gambrell

Illustrative photo of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on October 13, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

From the webPosters in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim ask women to avoid main street

A photo on Instagram belonging to an account with Iranian fashion models that was censored by the regime in May 2016. (Instagram)

Posing a threatIran detains 11 members of online modeling network

By AP

In this Friday, June 24, 2016 file photo, Vote Leave campaigner Boris Johnson arrives for a press conference at Vote Leave headquarters in London . In the crucial days before Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson embraced Britain’s “leave campaign,” he wrote a newspaper column explaining why Britain should remain inside the European Union _ but those forceful words were never published before Britain’s June 23 vote. The Sunday Times has now published Johnson’s pro-EU column, which outlines his fears about leaving the EU on SUnday, Oct. 16, 2016. (Mary Turner/Pool via AP, File)

Before Brexit vote, Boris Johnson wrote pro-EU column

By Gregory Katz

Young Jewish adults from all over the world participating in the Taglit Birthright program celebrate 10 years of Birthright at an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

30,000 visited Israel over the summer with Birthright

By JTA

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