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What Matters Most On Friday, August 18, 2017

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Barcelona chief Rabbi Meir Bar Hen. (Screen capture YouTube.com)

Following attack, Barcelona’s chief rabbi says his community is doomed

By JTA

‘Europe is lost,’ says Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen. ‘I tell my congregants: Don’t think we’re here for good, and I encourage them to buy property in Israel’

Armed police officers patrol a deserted street in Las Ramblas, in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, August 18, 2017. (AP/Manu Fernandez)

Manhunt intensifies for Spain van attacker as death toll rises to 14

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tourist promenade that saw deadly terror in Barcelona reopens as driver in deadly assault reportedly named; officials say large group may be behind attacks; 1 Israeli still unaccounted for

‘I am not afraid,’ crowd shouts at memorial for Spain victims

Fourth person arrested as Spain reels from twin attacks

Israeli, world leaders condemn Barcelona terror attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Criticism mounts over Netanyahu’s response to US neo-Nazism

The PM is trying to balance his relationships with Trump and US Jews, who have been at odds over the Charlottesville events

18 Jewish House Democrats call on Trump to ‘stand up to hate’

By JTA

Jewish authors join chorus of condemnation against Trump’s ‘moral equivalency’

By Yaakov Schwartz

AIPAC in rare non-Israel statement rebukes Trump over Charlottesville

By JTA

Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum, head of Temple Har Zion in Mt. Holly, New Jersey (Courtesy)

Interview

Who better than a black female rabbi to talk race, bigotry and healing today?

By Cathryn J. Prince

At her New Jersey pulpit, trans-denominational Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum takes on the idea of ‘comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable’

An onlooker takes a photo of the Mar-a-Lago Resort as President Donald Trump is hosts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on February 11, 2017 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

American Friends of MDA moves fundraiser from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

By AP

Group raising money for Israeli emergency service joins two other charities in shunning Florida club, amid anger over president’s Charlottesville comments

Son of Rupert Murdoch, Apple CEO pledge $1 million each to ADL

By ToI Staff and JTA

InterviewJewish congressman: Trump’s Charlottesville reaction invites ‘repeat actions’

By Eric Cortellessa

Auschwitz memorial weighs in on US racial divisions

By AP

Ivanka Trump walks toward Marine One while departing from the White House, on February 1, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbi who converted Ivanka pans Trump over rally response

By JTA

Haskel Lookstein condemns ‘resurgence of bigotry and anti-Semitism and the renewed vigor of the neo-Nazis, KKK and alt-right’

InterviewJewish congressman: Trump’s Charlottesville reaction invites ‘repeat actions’

By Eric Cortellessa

Auschwitz memorial weighs in on US racial divisions

By AP

Trump decries Confederate monument removals, ‘history ripped apart’

By Julie Bykowicz and Jonathan Lemire

Palestinian Christian couple from the Gaza Strip leaves through the Israeli Erez crossing, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

More Gazans now allowed to travel abroad via Israel, but there’s a catch

Residents of the Strip must commit to not return for at least a year; some made to sign form after already crossing into Israel

Palestinian supporters of dismissed senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan shout slogans during a protest in Gaza City on December 18, 2014. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

UAE, other countries pledge $15 million per month to Gaza

The ritual baths of the Great Synagogue of Vilnius, excavated by a team of Israeli, American and Lithuanian archaeologists, summer 2017. (John Seligman/IAA)

Archaeologists uncover the heart of Nazi-razed Vilnius synagogue

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Discovery of ritual baths adds another dimension to reconstruct daily life of slaughtered community known as the ‘Jerusalem of Lithuania’

The Queens Museum (Leo Chiou/Wikimedia Commons)

Following outcry, NY Museum reinstates Israeli UN event

By JTA

Queens Museum, housed in building where General Assembly voted to partition Palestine, had canceled 1947 anniversary event under Palestinian pressure

The unnerved Jews of Charlottesville

When white supremacists divide America, police, rabbis, and local citizens of all nationalities need to join together to overcome

Hate has no home here

Americans across the US protested demonizing the ‘other,’ instead praising community and even each other’s differences

American Jews’ focus on Zionism

Every US Jew has the right to stand up to resurgent anti-Semitism without participating in a discussion about Israel

Pure SJW territory

‘Social Justice Warrior,’ the social media label that mocks liberals, has roots in the Torah, where it’s a good thing

Husam Zomlot, the PLO envoy to Washington, speaks to reporters in Washington, DC, Aug. 17, 2017. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Palestinian Authority demands two-state commitment from US

With Trump team to meet Abbas next week; Palestinian envoy to US urges administration to set out peace endgame, or Ramallah may take unilateral steps

Rasmea Odeh stands outside the Theodore Levin US Courthouse in Detroit, on August 17, 2017, for a final court hearing before she was deported for concealing her convictions in two Jerusalem bombings. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

Palestinian terrorist loses US citizenship, will be deported

Rasmea Odeh failed to reveal to US immigration authorities that she was jailed for 10 years in Israel for her role in 1969 Jerusalem bombing

Leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, arrives to the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 15, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Court extends Islamic cleric’s detention over incitement

By AFP and ToI Staff

Allegations against Raed Salah relate to a sermon he gave after deadly Temple Mount attack last month

Uruguayan workers salvage the eagle of World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay, February 10, 2006. (AP/Marcelo Hernandez/File)

Uruguay weighs fate of giant Nazi eagle salvaged from sea

By Leonardo Haberkorn

Officials poll Jewish community leaders and others over what to do with 800-pound statue taken from German ship, including possibility of selling it to raise money for army

Medical staff and policemen stand in a cordoned-off area after a van plowed into the crowd, injuring several people, in Barcelona on August 17, 2017. (AFP/Josep Lago)

Hezbollah says Barcelona attacker ‘tarnishing jihad’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lebanese terror group decries IS killing of innocent people; meanwhile, Jerusalem links Spain to Israel, calls for concerted effort against terrorism

Robert Castello, owner of the Dixie General Store, discusses his dislike of neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan in Chulafinee, Ala., on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. Castello and other supporters of Southern heritage fear that extremists are hurting their cause with protests like the rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

Southern anger: Nazis, KKK ‘hijacking’ Confederate debate

‘When I was growing up it was like a badge of honor to be proud of your Southern heritage,’ says Alabama’s Robert Castello. ‘To see it denigrated down to the point of Nazis is disgusting’

The pool at the Paradies Arosa hotel (Screenshot from Paradies Arosa/JTA)

Amid outcry over hotel signs, Swiss lawmaker raps Israel for tolerating haredim

By JTA

Roger Deneys later apologizes for post saying ultra-Orthodox Jews ‘prevent peace in Palestine’

Shir HaMaalot participants after Friday night services in Brooklyn, July 14, 2017. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

How these young Jews found spirituality outside the synagogue

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

This file photo taken on July 8, 2017 shows a member of the Ku Klux Klan holding a Confederate flag over his face during a rally, calling for the protection of Southern Confederate monuments, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AFP PHOTO / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)

NY apartment windows draped in Confederate, Israeli flags irk neighbors

Johnny Cash on his television series, “The Johnny Cash Show,” circa 1968. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images, via JTA)

'Poison in our society'Johnny Cash’s family slams neo-Nazi who wore fan shirt

By Gabe Friedman

Senator Pauline Hanson wears a burqa during question time in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017. (Jed Cooper/Australian Broadcasting Corp. via AP)

Under coverAnti-Muslim Aussie senator wears burqa in Parliament

View of the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Settler teens arrested for assaulting Arab bus drivers

Rabbi Asher Lopatin at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah in Riverdale, New York (Michael Datikash)

From our partnerTo mend bridges, ‘open’ Orthodoxy institutions consciously de-brand

By Johanna Ginsberg

A person is helped by Spanish policemen and two men after a van ploughed into the crowd, killing at least 13 people and injuring around 100 others, on the Las Ramblas Boulevard in Barcelona, Spain, on August 17, 2017. (AFP/Nicolas Carvalho Ochoa)

Hebrew media reviewLearning from carnage in the heart of Europe

By Adiv Sterman

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