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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 19, 2017

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Barcelona Jewish Community Spokesperson Victor Sorrenssen ( Screen Capture/ YouTube)

Barcelona Jews reject their rabbi’s predictions of doom after attack

By ToI Staff and JTA

We are a vibrant community and we will not leave our city, says spokesman after Chief Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen warns they have no future

Wounded Israeli woman recounts the crush and fear of Barcelona attack

Spanish police say terrorists planned larger attack

By Daniel BOSQUE and Marianne Barriaux

Spain terrorists showed ‘no sign of radicalization’: father

By Hamza Mekouar

Rescue workers move victims on stretchers after car plowed through a crowd of counter-demonstrators marching through the downtown shopping district August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

ADL, US mayors launch new anti-racism initiative after Charlottesville violence

By Eric Cortellessa

Frustrated with Trump’s response to white-supremacist violence, Jewish civil-rights group and 240 mayors team up to address bigotry and violence in America

Charlottesville says it provided protection to synagogue, refuting initial account

By JTA

Fear, resolve and more security at Charlottesville’s only synagogue

Windows smashed at Northern California synagogue

By The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA

In this Sept. 4, 2012 photo, Actor Kal Penn addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Citing Trump remarks, entire president’s arts council quits

By AP

Advisory committee slams president’s ‘many sides’ remarks after Charlottesville rally as ‘hateful rhetoric’

Confederate monuments across the US removed or vandalized

By AP

Evangelical advisers stay with Trump as others criticize him

Judgement DaySchwarzenegger: There’s no two sides to hatred

President Donald Trump shown before making a statement on the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 14, 2017. (Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)

President Trump, cast out the anti-Semites

By Matt Nosanchuk et al.

Op-ed: 11 former White House Jewish liaisons for Obama, Bush, Clinton and Reagan issue open letter to US president, pleading for ‘moral leadership to respond to the rise of hatred in the nation we love’

Steve Bannon attending a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House where Neil Gorsuch was administered the judicial oath, April 10, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/JTA)

Bannon: ‘The Trump presidency we fought for is over’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Departing chief strategist vows to battle for US leader from outside White House, but says administration will now ‘be something else’ than what he’d hoped for

Bannon says ‘going to war’ for Trump, returns to Breitbart

Trump ousts Steve Bannon from White House

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Was Stephen Bannon good for the Jews? A review

In this file photo dated Saturday, Aug. 21, 2004, Neo-Nazi sympathizers demonstrate prior to the beginning of a commemoration march for Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess in the northeastern Bavarian town of Wunsiedel where Hess was buried. (AP Photo/FILE)

Police separate neo-Nazis, opponents at Berlin march

By AP

Far-right extremists rally to mark 30th anniversary of the death of top Nazi Rudolf Hess, police restrict participation to avoid violence

The Paradise Apartments hotel in Arosa, near Zurich, Switzerland. (Courtesy of Paradise Apartments hotel via JTA)

First Person

I talked to the ‘anti-Semitic’ Swiss hotel owner and it’s complicated

By Cnaan Liphshiz

‘Despite the damning evidence and anger against Ruth Thomann, she is probably a tolerant person who, for lack of tact, is being pilloried internationally with devastating consequences for her business’

Miriam Jefferson (left) and Kalavati Mistry on their wedding day (YouTube screenshot)

Traditional marriage

Jew, Hindu in UK’s first lesbian interfaith wedding

Miriam Jefferson of Texas and Kalavati Mistry of Leicester finally tie the knot after 20 years

Naseema, a refugee from Afghanistan who did not give her last name, chops mushrooms for shakshuka, August 11, 2017. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Culinary boot camp prepares refugees for work in NY kitchens

Emma’s Torch, a nonprofit organization and brunch place named for Emma Lazarus, trains migrants to earn a living as professional chefs

President Trump is right, again

The real question is why is the left whitewashing Black Lives Matter and Antifa?

I went to Robert E. Lee high shool

A message to former San Antonio, Texas classmates: The time is long overdue for a name change

Wearing tzitzit, I condemn Trump

His civil rights activism was inspired, in part, by a direct, personal encounter with Martin Luther King

I killed a pigeon and I didn’t like it

It takes a certain kind of effort to squelch one’s humanity and drive a vehicle into a crowd of people

Young Palestinians take part in a military graduation ceremony at a Hamas summer camp in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Hamas summer camp teaches youths to ‘liberate Palestine’

By AFP

1,000 Gaza youngsters jump through fiery hoops, train with live fire for their graduation ceremony

Rescue personnel cordon off the area at the Turku Market Square in the Finnish city of Turku where several people were stabbed on August 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Lehtikuva / Roni Lehti)

Police investigating Finland stabbing as terror attack

By AFP

Officials say suspect in assault that left two dead, eight injured is a Moroccan asylum seeker who specifically targeted women

A view of Surgut, Russia, in 2009 (CC-BY SA Mariluna/Wikipedia)

Knife attacker in Russian city wounds 8, shot by police

By AFP

Assailant stabs passersby in northern city of Surgut before being killed; police say incident unlikely to be terrorism

Illustrative: An Islamic State terrorist waves the jihadist organization's flag (CC BY-SA Alatele fr, Flickr)

Israel’s former counter terrorism chief warns: IS will carry out chemical attack

Islamic State’s worst ‘is yet to come,’ warns Nitzan Nuriel

Soldiers holding a position in a mountainous area near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek during an operation against jihadist fighters, on August 17, 2017, in a photograph taken during a tour guided by the Lebanese army. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Lebanon army announces offensive against IS on Syria border

By AFP

Jihadists have been operating on country’s eastern frontier for several years

Study for 1917 Fire —Salonika” (2016) by Harry I. Naar (Courtesy of Naar via JTA)

A century ago, Jewish Salonica burned

By Devin E. Naar

From left: Rabbi Shalom Stembler, head of Chabad Poland; Polish actor and director Artur Hofman; Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's Law and Justice party; Jonny Daniels, head of From the Depths; and Rabbi Eliezer Gurary, head of Chabad Krakow, following their meeting in Warsaw, August 16, 2017. (Courtesy of From the Depths/via JTA)

Polish Jewish leadership spars over whether country is seeing rise in anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

While some claim heightened threats, leader of Polish Jewish umbrella organization dismisses them as a political play

Hans Wolfermann, Bunny, and Anne in 2015 at the bar mitzvah of a great-grandson. (Steve North)

Tribute

The improbable journey of German-Venezuelan-American wandering Jews

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on August 6, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO AND POOL / GALI TIBBON)

Opposition to propose bill forcing PM to resign if indicted

Barricades set up on the Boston Common where a 'Free Speech' rally is scheduled and a large rally against hate in solidarity with victims of Charlotestville will converge Saturday, on August 18, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)

Boston braces for right-wing rally, counter protests

By AP

Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)

Iran player breaks silence over ban for playing Israelis

By AFP

A screenshot from Huffington Post editor Lydia Polgreen's Twitter account from August 18, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter via JTA)

Oy, noHuffPost’s Bannon headline ‘Goy, bye!’ sparks backlash

By Josefin Dolsten

Grandmaster chess player Garry Kasparov scowles at the chessboard during a match against grandmaster Levon Aronian during day two of the Grand Chess Tour at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center in St. Louis on August 15, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / BILL GREENBLATT)

Kasparov shows flashes of past glory but comeback no dazzler

By AFP

A mosaic tile design meant to represent Times Square's status as the "Crossroads of the World" is part of the subway station's border, in New York, Friday, Aug. 18, 2017. Transit officials have decided to alter subway tiles at the station that have a design that's been compared to the Confederate flag, to make it "crystal clear" that they don't depict the flag. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Times Square subway tiles with Confederate flag look to be altered

By AP

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz as he speaks during Starbucks annual shareholders meeting in Seattle, Washington, March 17, 2015.(AFP/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / STEPHEN BRASHEAR)

Starbucks chairman questions America’s ‘moral fiber’

By AP

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