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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 24, 2017

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US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner (left), meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu meets Kushner as part of US peace push

By Alexander Fulbright

PM says peace is ‘within our reach,’ while Trump’s son-in-law says US president ‘very committed’ to brokering a deal

State Department: Endorsing two-state solution would make us biased

By Eric Cortellessa

US envoys meet Egypt officials after threatened snub over aid withdrawal

By AFP

Jordan king to US delegation: Two states the only solution to conflict

By Eric Cortellessa

Omar Al-Abed, in handcuffs, is brought to a courtroom for his trial at the Israel's Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Halamish terrorist chose home because he heard laughter – indictment

Military prosecution files 10 charges against Omar al-Abed, including 3 of murder and 2 of attempted murder

Controversial Islamist cleric indicted for incitement to terror

By Alexander Fulbright

Arab Israeli man charged with aiding Temple Mount terrorists

By Judah Ari Gross

Police allow one-day ‘trial’ for MKs to enter Temple Mount

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman seen at a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 16, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Pool/Flash90)

In apparent critique of Trump, US envoy says Charlottesville response ‘wasn’t fine’

By Raoul Wootliff

Ambassador David Friedman indicates he was unhappy with the president’s comments following racially motivated violence in Virginia

6 in 10 Americans reject Trump reaction to Charlottesville — poll

By AFP

Ex-top US intel official: Trump’s access to nuke codes ‘pretty damn scary’

By AFP

AnalysisWithin 24 hours, a pair of wildly different Trump speeches

By Julie Bykowicz and Jonathan Lemire

US President Donald Trump speaking on the phone in the Oval Office on June 27, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rabbis scrap High Holidays call with Trump in protest

By JTA

Reconstructionist, Reform and Conservative leaders say they cannot take part in annual tradition after Charlottesville response

Christopher Cantwell, speaker for Unite the Right, shows off his weapons in this screenshot from Vice documentary 'Charlottesville: Race and Terror,' screened August 14, 2017. (Screenshot)

White supremacist seen in Vice documentary arrested on felony charges

By AP and ToI Staff

Christopher Cantwell turns self in after warrant issued for pepper spraying a counter demonstrator during Charlottesville march

Violence in Charlottesville leads to soul-searching at ACLU

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

Conservative group okayed for San Francisco rally despite violence fears

By AP

Charlottesville covers Confederate statue with black shroud

By Sarah Rankin and STEVE HELBER

Miss Lebanon Emigrant Amanda Hanna (Facebook)

Lebanese beauty queen stripped of title over Israel visit

Strict anti-Israel laws lead to Beirut denying Amanda Hanna of her Miss Lebanon Emigrant 2017 crown

Live updates (closed)

PA hails ‘sincere’ peace efforts of Trump administration

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu says meeting with visiting US delegation ‘helpful’; EU slams Israel for dismantling Palestinian schools; 16-year-old injured in Jerusalem hit and run dies of injuries

Menny Naftali, the former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, at the Jerusalem District Labor Court, March 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM’s former housekeeper says report he may turn state’s witness ‘impossible’

By Raoul Wootliff

Rabbi Steven Kane of Congregation Sons of Israel, or CSI, and its Community Organic Farm in Briarcliff Manor, New York. (Courtesy)

Synagogues bet the farm on community-grown organic gardens

By Cathryn J. Prince

Access to spare land and urban farming awareness has congregants pitching in to feed local needy

Illustrative: A Jews vs. Nazis beer pong game in an Atlanta home. (Screen capture/WSB-2 Atlanta)

Atlanta private school student expelled for Jews vs Nazis beer pong

By JTA

4 others suspended after photo posted to social media shows them playing party game that local rabbi says will take Jewish students ‘a long time to get over, if ever’

Claims Conference representatives meet with German officials during Holocaust restitution negotiations in Israel in 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy Claims Conference)

Claims Conference negotiating with Germany over Holocaust reparations for Algerian Jewry

Although they were not forced into ghettos, Claims Conference says Berlin should compensate Algerian Jews for stripping citizenship and professions under Vichy regime

When should the Jews leave Europe?

The anti-Semitism facing France’s most vulnerable Jews isn’t state-sanctioned, but it’s still time for them to get out

The straw that made me join a synagogue

There were plenty of reasons to do it sooner — Charlottesville pushed her to finally take the plunge

Micah Streiffer

Strip-searching WoW — really?!

This effort to prevent the Women of the Wall from bringing a Torah to the Kotel subverts the Torah’s value of justice

Even in a total eclipse there’s light

President Trump has made clear that we are in an ultimate battle of contending ideas

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Bocharov Ruchei state residence in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

Netanyahu to Putin: Israel will act if needed against Iran in Syria

By Raoul Wootliff

‘We will act when necessary according to our red lines,’ PM says he told Russian president during 3-hour meeting in Sochi

Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, January 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)

Interior minister moves to strip IS fighters of citizenship

By AFP and ToI Staff

Announcement comes after Shin Bet releases list of 20 Israelis, including 2 Jews who converted to Islam, that joined the terror group

A police officer and a dog walk at the entrance of a telephone call center as they search the premises in Ripoll, Spain, Tuesday Aug. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Offline, cult-like, Spain terror cell evaded detection

By Marie Giffard

Analysts say family ties helped keep plot a secret, while imam was able to exploit terrorists’ young age to radicalize them

Illustrative: Disabled protesters demonstrate on a main road outside Kibbutz Yakum in central Israel on August 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Disabled protesters block highway during morning rush hour

Demonstration comes hours before court deadline for government to respond to petition on raising disability benefits

Israel's Ambassador to South Sudan Hanan Goder hands out food aid to villagers in South Sudan alongside government officials and representatives from Israeli humanitarian groups. (Israeli Embassy in South Sudan)

Israel provides food aid to South Sudan

Israel’s foreign aid agency, humanitarian NGOs hand out 6 tons of foodstuffs to villagers in drought-stricken region

A synagogue in Airmont, NY, a town that has seen its haredi population boom in recent months as families seek larger houses at a more affordable price. (Ben Sales/JTA)

With slurs and petitions, small-town Americans revolt as ultra-Orthodox move in

A dormitory at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. (John Phelan/Wikimedia Commons)

Brandeis University reopens after bomb scare

By JTA

Boston-area school briefly evacuated, shuttered after receiving threat

Sergeant Ilan Regenbaum, right, and his commander Maj. Omer Yuval of the Israeli Air Force Innovation Unit (IDF Spokesperson Office)

26-year-old from Atlanta wants the Israeli army to innovate like Google

By Shoshanna Solomon

Sure, ranks and discipline are important in the military, says the air force’s Sgt. Ilan Regenbaum, but the culture should allow good ideas to circulate freely

DayTwo's Lehi Segal (standing) discusses nutrition with members of Israel's national basketball team (DayTwo)

Israel’s national basketball team has new strategy – at mealtime

Israeli nutrition startup has program based on Weizmann Institute research to control blood sugar levels, which is crucial for athletes

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Miu Miu dress with a yellow star. (Facebook via JTA)

FascionistaPrada subsidiary drops clothing line featuring yellow stars

By JTA

Then-Democratic US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks as then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, October 9, 2016. (Rick T. Wilking/Pool via AP)

Clinton: My ‘skin crawled’ as Trump hovered on debate stage

By AP

Illustrative: An IDF Hermes 900 drone (Israel Defense Forces)

Air Force declares its newest drone, ‘The Star,’ operational

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli Navy Dvora-class patrol boat during an exercise on March 2, 2015. (Matan Portnoy/Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

Navy sailors throw salt at female soldier to ‘ward off evil eye’

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A prisoner behind bars. (sakhorn38/ iStock via Getty images)

Federal judge rules Idaho prisoners must be allowed kosher meals

By JTA

Jerry Seinfeld performs in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Comedians in cars getting contractsNetflix sets Seinfeld airing of special for September 19

By Yaakov Schwartz

Menny Naftali, the former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, protests outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 1, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe caretaker and the coalition chairman

By Adiv Sterman

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