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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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Members of Women of the Wall hold up a Torah scroll during a prayer service marking the first day of the Jewish month of Elul, on August 23, 2017, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Outcry as women asked to lift skirts, shirts at entrance to Western Wall

By Alexander Fulbright

Liberal Jewish groups say 4 female rabbinical students were intimidated, humiliated ahead of Women of the Wall prayer service

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their meeting in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

Netanyahu meets Putin to share secret intel on Iran threat

By Alexander Fulbright

In Sochi, Mossad chief reportedly presents ‘detailed intelligence’ to Russian leader on Iranian military presence in Syria

Iran extends reach with fight for land link to Mediterranean

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassam Mroue

UN atomic chief briefs Nikki Haley on Iran deal

By AFP

Lebanon army says in final stage of IS border battle

By AFP

Illustrative. An Israeli Air Force Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter, June 8, 2012. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90/File)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Steering malfunction to blame for fatal helicopter crash

By Tamar Pileggi

Palestinians say Trump must commit to two states before peace talks; Egyptian leaders meet Kushner despite aid cuts; UNIFIL says no evidence of weapon smuggling to Hezbollah

Billy Joel wears a jacket with the Star of David during the encore of his 43rd sold out show at Madison Square Garden on August 21, 2017, in New York City. (Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images via JTA)

Billy Joel wears yellow Star of David during New York concert

By JTA

As singer plays encore of ‘Goodbye to You,’ screen behind him flashes pictures of fired White House staffers Bannon, Spicer and Scaramucci

Should New York City remove statues of its anti-Semitic Dutch governor?

When American Jews fought Nazis — in New Jersey

By Josefin Dolsten

‘Adopt-a-Nazi’ campaign raises funds to counter white nationalist rally

By The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA

PA says 24 years of peace talks have achieved nothing

After US cuts aid to Egypt, Kushner snubbed in Cairo

By AP and ToI Staff

PA, Hamas rehash lie that Jews planned 1969 burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque

In this undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, in Islamic State group-held territory, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group ride tanks during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (Raqqa Media Center via AP)

2 Israeli Jews converted to Islam, joined IS in Syria

Woman, man who enlisted in terror group were both born in former Soviet Union and raised in Israel, according to Shin Bet; Interior Ministry set to strip citizenship of 19 jihadists

Jewish men pray during the holiday of Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on August 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

US State Department slams Israeli stagnation on religious freedom reform

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Annual report homes in on hot-button areas of Western Wall pluralism, conversion and who has the right to pray at the country’s holiest sites

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

Chief Rabbinate challenges court jurisdiction to rule on Western Wall deal

By JTA

Hateful graffiti sprayed on the Kehilat Ra'anan Reform synagogue in Ra'anana, November 24, 2016. (Yossi Cohen)

Suspect arrested in Ra’anana Reform synagogue vandalism

A view of Efrat, a settlement near Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

In settler elections, a choice between foreign and domestic

Oded Revivi boasts ability to relate to audiences abroad while Yigal Lahav argues that the next Yesha Council chairman must place greater emphasis on internal dialogue

From jail cells, settler youth call for defiance of administrative orders

Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman. (Clay Enos/DC Comics/via JTA)

‘Wonder Woman’ soars past ‘Spider-Man’ to biggest superhero origin movie ever

Pulling in over $404m in US and $800m worldwide, Gal Gadot’s character becomes among the highest Hollywood moneymakers ever

An archaeologist works on part of a 1,500-year-old mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, at the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, on August 23, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Outside Jerusalem’s Old City, a once-in-a-lifetime find of ancient Greek inscription

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

During a salvage excavation ahead of telephone cable infrastructure placement, archaeologists uncover a rare intact 1,500-year-old mosaic from the dawn of the Christian empire

A screenshot from a video of a 14-year-old boy in the Saudi city of Jeddah dancing the Macarena. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Dirty dancing

Saudi police detain boy for dancing the Macarena

Authorities accuse 14-year-old of ‘improper public behavior’ after video of him dancing in crosswalk goes viral

Julie Rosenzweig

Jerusalem: A library-poor city

Why does the capital city of the People of the Book have few options for kids to take summer refuge in the stacks?

Right sentiment, wrong star, Billy Joel

The yellow star was a forced badge of shame, but in a world with the State of Israel, no Jew is a helpless victim

Robert E. Lee and the month of Elul

Humanity’s cultural yardstick of values is fickle; better to uphold the personalized standards of God

What did you expect from an eclipse?

The transformative, renewed sense of fraternity with his fellow Americans that he’d hoped for was not to be

Widespread testing is credited with helping reduce the incidence of Tay-Sachs among Jews by more than 90 percent since screenings began in the early 1970s. (Courtesy of National Tay-Sachs and Allied Diseases Association/via JTA)

How Jewish activism has virtually wiped out Tay-Sachs

Riot police form a line outside the Phoenix, Arizona, Convention Center where demonstrators gathered to protest US President Donald Trump's speech at a "Make America Great Again" rally on August 22, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / Laura Segall)

Protests turn unruly after Trump’s Phoenix speech

By JACQUES BILLEAUD and Clarice Silber

Police disperse crowd of protesters with stun grenades, pepper spray after being hit by rocks and bottles outside Arizona venue

Parrots at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police arrest man for burning 80 parrots to death

Rishon Lezion resident suspected of killing birds over dispute with a tenant at a property he owns

An anti-Muslim swastika-bearing flier found on the streets of Alameda, California, August 21, 2017. (KRON4 broadcast screen capture)

Anti-Muslim fliers with swastikas found in California town

Incident in Alameda follows the vandalizing of a local synagogue and scrawling of a swastika on a car last week

US President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington Virginia, August 21, 2017, during a Presidential Address to the Nation about a strategy he believes will best position the US to eventually declare victory in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump official once called defender of Holocaust deniers a ‘national treasure’

Head of federal family-planning programs Teresa Manning agreed Joe Sobran was ‘the finest columnist of his generation’ years after the National Review fired him for anti-Semitism

Driss Oukabir, suspected of involvement in the terror cell that carried out twin attacks in Spain, is escorted by Spanish Civil Guards from a detention center in Tres Cantos, near Madrid, August 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Judge releases one Spanish terror suspect, remands two

By AFP

Mohamed Houli Chemlal and Driss Oukabir charged with terror related offences linked to deadly twin car-rammings and planned bomb attacks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (L) and US President Donald Trump. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb and Ed Jones)

Trump: Kim Jong-Un starting to respect US

By AFP

American president says his recent fiery rhetoric towards North Korea was ‘not strong enough’

Illustrative: The first Dreamliner purchased by El Al lands at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 23, 2017.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

First plane in El Al’s Dreamliner fleet lands in Israel

Boeing aircraft touches down at Ben Gurion Airport in ceremony attended by transportation minister, US ambassador

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East Jerusalem Palestinian bus driver Ramadan Jamjoum poses on August 24, 2017 after he returned $10,000 to a Jewish man who left it in his vehicle. The passenger had forgotten the cash in Bnei Brak, a city near Tel Aviv dominated by ultra-Orthodox Jews. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Palestinian bus driver returns $10,000 in cash left behind by Bnei Brak man

By ToI Staff and AFP

Peter Beinart (L) speaking at a J Street session on July 26, 2016. (JTA)

Holocaust tweet denialPeter Beinart mocked for tweet on daughter’s fear

Norbert Hofer, candidate of Austria's right-wing Freedom Party, FPOE, during a television debate, in Vienna, Austria, November 27, 2016. (AFP/JOE KLAMAR)

Austria Nazi camp survivors warn of far-right revival

By AFP

Mapped human gene (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli gene-crunching firm aims to cut data down to size

Hapoel Beer-Sheva players react at the end of the UEFA Champions League qualifying match against NK Maribor, August 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Borut Zivulovic)

Israel’s soccer champions narrowly miss spot in top Euro league

A Tel Aviv dog sports festive headgear at a celebration for canines held by the city on August 26, 2016 (Luke Tress)

Hebrew media reviewQuibbles n’ bits

By Joshua Davidovich

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