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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 23, 2016

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Missouri Senate candidate Jason Kander, a Democrat, seen in a campaign ad, October 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

35-year-old Jewish Dem’s surprise challenge in Missouri could determine Senate control

By Erica Werner

Jason Kander, former Army captain, calls Republican rival Sen. Roy Blunt a ‘Washington insider’ in battle shaped by presidential race

Throws a CurveballFormer baseball star: Why do Jews back Democrats?

Trump lays out plan for first 100 days in ‘Gettysburg Address’

By Mandel NGAN and Jerome Cartiller

AnalysisDespite polls bump, Clinton can’t shed ‘dishonest’ image

A scene on 41st Street, the shopping and dining district of Miami Beach’s Orthodox Jewish community, Oct. 14, 2016. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

In Miami Beach, Trump’s Orthodox supporters are less vocal, and less sure

‘You can’t be for Hillary in this community,’ says one Republican activist. ‘But how can you be for Trump?’

Porn star says Trump offered her $10,000 to come to his hotel room

By AFP

AnalysisDespite polls bump, Clinton can’t shed ‘dishonest’ image

Trump vows to sue ‘every one’ of his female accusers

By Josh Lederman and Jill Colvin

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves to the crowd during a rally in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 11, 2016. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Turned off by democracy

Rouhani: Trump-Clinton is choice between bad, worse

‘Do we want such a democracy and election in our country?’ Iran’s president asks of US presidential debates

Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi (Avi Hyman Communications)

4 days later, PA still detaining Palestinians for visiting settler leader’s sukkah

By JTA and ToI Staff

‘It is absurd that having coffee with Jews is considered a crime,’ Efrat mayor says; calls for release of 4 Palestinians held for attending festive peace event

West Bank, Gaza to be closed off for Simhat Torah holiday

By Judah Ari Gross

Fatah MP booted from party over perceived overtures to Abbas rival

Palestinian shot in leg with rubber bullet outside settlement

By Judah Ari Gross

An Orthodox Jew stands facing the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. (Lucie March/Flash90)

Another UNESCO panel to vote on text erasing Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

By Raphael Ahren

Agency’s World Heritage Committee set on Wednesday to approve resolution that makes no mention of Jewish or Christian links to holy city

Ahead of new vote, UNESCO chief vows to combat ‘distorted visions’ of history

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Coalition chairman seeks bill to bar Israelis from speaking to Security Council

Police arrest 19 East Jerusalem residents for Yom Kippur riots

By Judah Ari Gross

Passengers sleep at Ben Gurion International Airport, on March 19, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

Take our breath away

Israeli researchers close in on a way to beat jet lag

Weizman Institute scientists say a decrease in concentration of oxygen in air could help ‘reset’ biological clock, helping travelers readjust to new daylight hours

Avi Liberman's Comedy Road

Analysis

How Avi Liberman paved a Comedy Road to Israel

By David Horovitz

Year after year for over a decade, remarkably, dozens of top American comedians have been coming to Israel to raise morale and money. ‘Comedy Road,’ a new filmed account of these implausible tours, is both sidesplitting and moving

While Bibi was slamming me on Facebook

Instead of railing about a UN appearance, Netanyahu should be addressing the immorality of occupation

Why settlers carry guns

On criticism that Jews in Israel’s Gush region are armed while Arabs are not: Look who’s attacking whom

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Take Rouhani to the Holocaust museum

As long as Iranian leaders spew Jew-hatred, Western powers should add a little history lesson to state visits

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Simchat Torah: Rush and stagnation

Restarting the public Torah reading acts as therapy, jolting those who delve into the text out of scholarly malaise

Maggie Wheeler, right, and Emile Hassan Dyer are the co-founders of the Golden Bridge Community Choir in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Wheeler/JTA)

Oh. My. Gawd. Janice from ‘Friends’ is a choir director

By Douglas Gladstone

Korin Allal in the sukkah of Shira Hadasha on Saturday night, October 22, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Solomonic sense

For Israeli rocker Korin Allal, a time to go acoustic

By Jessica Steinberg

Veteran singer brings her latest album, ‘Ecclesiastes,’ to the sukkah at Shira Hadasha, a Jerusalem liberal Orthodox synagogue

Prof. Shmuel Hauser, chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, seen at the Finance Committee in the Knesset. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israeli regulator to attorney general: Give me the power to shut binary options

By Simona Weinglass

Securities Authority chairman Hauser seeks authority to ‘eradicate’ fraudulent Israel-based industry fleecing vast sums from victims worldwide

An illustrative photo of a bride and groom taking portraits prior to their wedding, in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2015. (Flash90)

Russian-speaking Jews seek matchmakers to find them a find

Smoke billows behind Iraqis as they arrive at refugee camp in the town of Qayyarah, south of Mosul, on October 22, 2016 (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Two killed, hundreds hurt by fumes after IS torches sulfur plant

By W.G. Dunlop and Laurent Barthelemy

Toxic gas from factory near Mosul causes breathing and vision problems for residents, force US troops to wear masks

Investigators take samples from sand near a part of a missile that was suspected of carrying chemical agents, according to activists, in the countryside of Ain Terma, Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen, File)

US condemns Assad’s ‘defiance’ on chemical weapons use

By AFP

White House slams Syrian regime after United Nations report pins 3 chlorine attacks on government forces

Smoke rises after an airstrike in the Sinai city of Rafah as seen from Gaza on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)

Egyptian air force hammers Sinai jihadists, 70 said killed

By Stuart Winer

Pre-dawn strikes on Islamic State-aligned group injure another 70, destroy vehicles

Palestinian terrorists from the Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel, used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for the next conflict with Israel, as they take part in military training in the south of the Gaza Strip, on March 3, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas member killed in Gaza tunnel collapse

By ToI Staff and AFP

At the 12 Angels launch event in Tel Aviv, on October 19, 2016. From left to right: KamaTech CEO Moshe Friedman; Tel Aviv-Yafo Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau; investor Dov Moran; iAngels Chairman David Assia; iAngels Founding Partner Mor Assia; and iAngels Head of Partnerships & Legal Lilach Danewitz. (Courtesy)

KamaTech, iAngels launch first VC fund for Haredi entrepreneurs

12 Angels venture capital to invest $5 million in 30 ultra-Orthodox start-ups over the next three years

The Israeli startup Paratrek created an augmented wheelchair that allows people with paraplegia to go on hikes as a result of a Tikkun Olam Makers makethon. (Courtesy of Paratrek)

Israel start-ups display disability tech in Australia

By Shoshanna Solomon

With a range of offerings from an online support community to extreme sports, assistive technology firms will meet investors, government officials in Sydney this week

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Illustrative photo of a nursery in a Jerusalem hospital's maternity ward. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Posing as doctor, man allegedly rapes maternity patient at Jerusalem hospital

By Stuart Winer

Paramedics at the site where a woman died on road in the West Bank after she and a man were attacked, October 23, 2016. (MDA spokesperson)

Israeli woman killed in West Bank car in apparent armed robbery

By Stuart Winer

The National Library in Florence. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikipedia/Gryffindor)

After 50 years, Judaica damaged in Florence flood restored, exhibited

By JTA

Muslim men pray near Rome's ancient Colosseum to protest against the closure of unofficial mosques, October 21, 2016 (AFP Photo/Gabriel Bouys)

At Colosseum, hundreds of Muslims rally over mosque closures

By AFP

Daniel Friedman, founder of the tailoring shop Bindle & Keep, during a fitting with Ashley Merriman, a client of the shop who came to try on a new custom-made androgynous suit, October 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Catherine Triomphe)

Jewish bespoke Brooklyn tailor suits gay, trans clients to a T

By Catherine TRIOMPHE

US actress Scarlett Johansson smiles at the opening of the Yummy Pop gourmet popcorn shop in the Marais district of Paris on October 22, 2016. (Benjamin Cremel/AFP)

Film foodieScarlett Johansson turns popcorn girl in Paris

By AFP

Delegates gathering inside the Baghdad Convention Center, where the Council of Representatives of Iraq, the country's unicameral parliament, meets. (Wikipedia/James (Jim) Gordon/CC BY 2.0)

In surprise vote, Iraqi parliament bans alcohol from the country

By AFP

People wait outside for the opening of Google's pop-up store in New York on October 20, 2016. (AFP/Jewel SAMAD)

Hebrew media reviewThe war on error messages

By Joshua Davidovich

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