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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 31, 2017

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Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court orders state to explain U-turn on pluralistic Western Wall plaza

By Tamar Pileggi

Justices level harsh criticism at government for ‘making a fuss’ and freezing a deal to create official pavilion for non-Orthodox prayer

Conservative Jews pray at the temporary egalitarian Robinson's Arch prayer pavilion at the southern end of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/Flash90)

Could a 1924 British Mandate law kill the Western Wall pluralistic pavilion?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A statue depicting Supreme Court justice Miriam Naor appeared near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Golden statue of Supreme Court president appears outside court

Gaza resident Mohammed Taluli's hand before it was operated on by doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center. (Hadassah Medical Center)

Israeli doctors successfully operate on Gaza ‘tree man’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party rally in Airport City on August 30, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM asks: 'Who finances, who organizes the left-wing demos?'

Netanyahu pummels media, accuses ‘fake news industry’ of trying to topple him

By Alexander Fulbright

At boisterous Likud rally, embattled PM slams anti-corruption demonstrations, saying ‘the goal of the protests is to indict me at any cost’

Likud MK Benny Begin speaks during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill, controversial legislation that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Knesset on December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK derides rise of ‘ridiculous’ new value of loyalty to party leader

Former deputy assistant to US President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka (YouTube screenshot)

Gorka: ‘Liberal elements’ of US Jewry ‘basically anti-Israeli’

By JTA

US's Haley: UNIFIL is supposed to prevent another war

Israel envoy hails ‘victory’ as UN expands Lebanon peacekeeping role

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UNIFIL given widened powers after US and Israeli called for it to do more to tackle Hezbollah arms buildup

A UNIFIL patrol near the Israeli-Lebanese border. (Hamad Almakt/Flash90)

US threatens to cut UN funding over settlement ‘blacklist’ – report

Minister says Israel may cut UN funding over settlement ‘blacklist’

Body of Iranian fighter killed and held by Islamic State returned

By AP

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

In renegade North Korea, some see a potential precursor of nuclear Iran

Israeli and US experts say Pyongyang can no longer be reined in, but there’s still a chance to thwart Tehran’s atomic ambitions

People watch a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 29, 2017. (AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)

AnalysisTrump determination to dent Iran nuke deal leaves experts scratching heads

By Eric Cortellessa

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) welcomes US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson before a meeting in Moscow on April 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

As bombers drill, Russia warns US against new North Korea sanctions

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley testifies during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill onJune 28, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Live updates (closed)

US blasts Iran over Hamas support, says regime showing ‘true colors’

By Marissa Newman

Nikki Haley says Gaza terror group’s ‘stunning admission’ on Tehran’s financial backing indicates Islamic Republic violating UN ban on arms exports

6:11 pm

US blasts Iran's Hamas support, says it shows regime's 'true colors'
5:56 pm

Mattis says he and Trump on same page on N. Korea
5:28 pm

‘Gas All Jews,’ swastika drawn on South African campus message boards

Josie Glausiusz

The Torah’s ‘marry-your-rapist’ law

It’s rules like this one that taught her to question unjust laws, even when they are written in the Torah

Gary Rosenblatt

Rabbis shouldn’t have snubbed Trump

Instead, they should have confronted the President directly over his incendiary Charlottesville response

Are the New Likudniks cheating?

Nope, joining the party in order to influence the primary elections is a kosher ploy in a smelly game

Israel is more than a story of conflict

The humanitarian reach of the Jewish state includes Haiti, Nepal, Japan, Syria, and even the United States

Interview

Bennett: Israel needs ultra-Orthodox to draft into workforce, not IDF

By Marissa Newman

Ahead of the school year, education minister reports increased ‘traction’ in encouraging East Jerusalem schools to adopt Israeli curriculum

Education Minister Naftali Bennett visits a school in Tel Aviv on May 10, 2016. (Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)

Illustrative: Students learning in an Israeli Hand in Hand school, where the curriculum is both in Hebrew and Arabic. (Courtesy: Debbie Hill)

Some education gaps between Jews and Arabs nearly closed, report says

By taking socioeconomic background of students into account, scholar says, differences ‘much smaller’ than previously portrayed

Israeli startup seeks to make back-to-school gloom less lousy

By Shoshanna Solomon

US President Donald Trump's peace envoy Jason Greenblatt (L) tours a Hamas terror tunnel near the Gaza Strip with Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai, on August 30, 2017. (COGAT Spokesperson's Office)

US envoy calls on Hamas to return soldiers’ bodies, prisoners

By Alexander Fulbright

During tour of Gaza border area, Jason Greenblatt condemns terror group for its ‘commitment to terrorist violence’

Protesters in London call to free Palestinian clown Mohammad Abu Sakha in January 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Israel frees Palestinian clown held without charge for 20 months

By AFP

Illustrative: Building in 2014 at the West Bank settlement of Ariel (Flash90)

Israel to advance plans for 3,000 settlement homes – report

Committee said to delay vote on new units to avoid giving Palestinians another grievance to air at the UN General Assembly next month

Illustrative: members of the Hilltop Youth try to rebuild a structure demolished by Israeli troops in the West Bank outpost of Maoz Esther, a hilltop site northeast of Ramallah, in May 2009. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Complaint filed against Liberman for calling hilltop youth ‘disturbed idiots’

(L-R) Yosef, Elad and Chaya Salomon who were stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in the Halamish settlement on July 21, 2017. (Courtesy)

Israel arrests Palestinian wedding singer who glorified Halamish attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘Hey you, who asks about real men, you will find them in Kobar,’ goes the song, referring to Omar al-Abed’s home town

Weapons that were found by soldiers during a raid in the village of al-Arush in the West Bank on August 31, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops shut radio station, find guns in predawn raids

By Judah Ari Gross

Houston residents and rescuers make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain following Hurricane Harvey, August 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Houston Jewish community ‘could take years’ to recover from Harvey

By Josefin Dolsten

Seventy-one percent of the city’s 63,700 Jews live in areas devastated by high flooding, including 12,000 seniors

Harvey death toll expected to climb as waters recede

By Tamara Lush and JUAN A. LOZANO

Not even Harvey could stop this family from publishing Houston’s Jewish paper

Haredi female psychotrauma pioneer heads to Houston with Israeli medics

By Andrew Tobin

More Headlines

In this Sept. 12, 2016 file photo Hubert Zafke sits in a courtroom ahead of his trial in Neubrandenburg, eastern Germany. (Bernd Wuestneck/dpa via AP)

German case against Auschwitz medic, 96, to be thrown out

By AFP

Jeremy Meeks poses for photographers upon arrival at the amfAR charity gala during the Cannes 70th international film festival, Cap d'Antibes, southern France, Thursday, May 25, 2017 (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Perp walkBar Refaeli to star in ad with ‘world’s hottest felon’

By Joshua Davidovich

Chef Mark Reinfeld spent time on a kibbutz. (Courtesy of Reinfeld/via JTA)

Chef wants to make vegan cooking the ‘new kosher’

By Elisa Spungen Bildner

This file photo from July 29, 2016, shows the main gate of the former German Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland fires tourism boss for ‘scandalous’ Auschwitz remark

By AP

Worshippers at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine (CC BY-SA Nahoumsabban, Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Bratslav elders seek to keep perimeter of Rabbi Nachman gravesite women-free

Pinchus Kahanovich. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Grave of influential Yiddish writer discovered at former Soviet gulag

By JTA

Rabbi Daniel Greer (JTA/YouTube screenshot)

Connecticut rabbi pleads not guilty to charges he sexually assaulted student

By JTA

Steven H Brooks. (Miami-Dade Police)

Miami police searching for man who threatened to shoot up synagogue

By JTA

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