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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 9, 2017

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Volunteers in Atlanta’s Orthodox Jewish community coordinate homes for evacuees from Hurricane Irma, which is set to hit Florida this weekend. (Courtesy of Adam Starr via JTA)

Jews fleeing Hurricane Irma are taking refuge in Atlanta’s synagogues

Workers dismantle the facade of a funhouse at an amusement park ahead of Hurricane Irma in Daytona Beach, Fla., Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Magnitude of Irma drives massive evacuation from Florida

By Curt Anderson and CLAIRE GALOFARO

'Like returning stolen goods back to the thief'

Despite protests, US to return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq

By Josefin Dolsten

Historic Iraqi Jewish Archive had been found in flooded basement of the Iraqi secret services headquarters in Baghdad after Second Gulf War

Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)

Food bought at Machneyuda, HaMotzi, other J'lem restaurants

16-page draft indictment of PM’s wife details vast monthly spend at top eateries

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

State claims Sara Netanyahu pretended there was no chef at official residence, and misused over $100,000 in public funds to bring in meals

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife, Sara, as they enter the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 14, 2017. (AFP/Heidi Levine, Pool)

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the lobby for encouraging Bible study, at the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, January 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu says wife’s indictment will ‘evaporate’

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a cultural event in Ra'anana on July 15, 2017. (Flash90)

Ex-defense minister calls for Netanyahu to resign ‘immediately’

By Alexander Fulbright

People sleep on the street following the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico's Pacific coast in Juchitan de Zaragoza, state of Oaxaca, September 8, 2017. (AFP/Pedro Pardo)

Race to rescue survivors from ruins of Mexico quake

By Yemeli ORTEGA

Death toll climbs to 61 as Hurricane Katia makes landfall in the country’s east, bringing fears of floods and mudslides

Scene from 'Red Trees' (Cohen Media Group)

Only 12 Jewish families survived Nazi-occupied Prague

Impressionistic visual essay ‘Red Trees’ reinvents Holocaust film genre

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Opening September 15, lyrical documentary about a father’s survival and immigration to Brazil allows his filmmaker daughter to learn his family’s tragic story for the first time

Far-right is driving German anti-Semitism, government says

By JTA

In this April 29, 2017, file photo, Steve Bannon, chief White House strategist to US President Donald Trump, tours The AMES Companies, Inc., with the president in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Bannon targets disloyal Gary Cohn in first interview since White House exit

By Catherine Lucey

Former Trump aide vows to be the president’s ‘wing man outside,’ criticizes Catholic church over immigration stance

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of NY, accompanied by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 7, 2017. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

Deal with Trump, GOP retirements have Democrats riding higher

A coded letter written by a 17th-century Italian nun, who claimed it had been dictated to her by the Devil. (Wikimedia Commons)

Satanic enigma

17th-century nun’s ‘letter from the Devil’ finally decoded

341 years later, researchers in Sicily turn to the Dark Web for a program to decipher mystery text

Image from an advertisement for a hotline for male Arab victims of sexual assault. (Courtesy)

First-ever Arabic hotline for male victims of sexual abuse opens in Tel Aviv

Initiative launched after study found Arab boys nearly 60% more likely to be victims than their female counterparts

Satellite image of a CERS facility near Masyaf reportedly hit by an Israeli airstrike overnight Wednesday, September 7, 2017 (screen capture: Google Earth)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Why Russia may not respond to the alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria

Moscow may well turn a blind eye to attack on Assad’s chemical weapons depot; the Syrians and Iranians might want to pause too

One of Israel's first two F-35 stealth fighter jets flies alongside an F-16 on its maiden flight as part of the Israeli Air Force on December 13, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Lebanon to file UN Security Council complaint against Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

File: Arab and Kurdish fighters with the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces move toward the front line to battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 22, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)

Syrian army in race with US-armed fighters for eastern Syria

By Bassam Mroue

Ben Caplan in 'Old Stock' (Stoo Metz)

'My own ancestors landed in Canada right here'

Klezmer troubadours sing the Jewish refugee experience in new musical

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Using a shipping container as a set, Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch teams up with folk artist Ben Caplan to tell her ancestors’ story

Rohingya scuffle to get aid from local volunteers at Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 8, 2017. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Desperation spreads in Rohingya camps as food stocks dwindle

By muneeza naqvi

More than a quarter-million Rohingya Muslims have arrived in Cox’s Bazar region in Bangladesh in past two weeks, fleeing persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

Displaced Rohingya refugees from Rakhine state in Myanmar walk near Ukhia, at the border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, as they flee violence on September 4, 2017. (AFP/K.M. Asad)

US Holocaust Museum ‘horrified’ by Myanmar attacks

A litmus test for David Myers

If he lambastes Israel without also criticizing the Arab position then he has failed the test

Those we lost on the journey

On a moving memorial to the thousands of Ethiopian Jews who died during the trek to Israel through Sudan

Gerald L. Zelizer

This year, my sermon will be political

It’s time for rabbis to say out loud: President Trump has tilled the soil of hate, racism and anti-Semitism

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Pupils sit in their classroom in the Francois Masson primary school on the first day of the new school year on September 4, 2017, in Marseille, southern France. (Boris Horvat/AFP)

French ex-principal: My school was not safe for Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Carter and his wife Anna Scott in New York City in 2010. (CC BY SA 3.0 David Shankbone/Wikipedia)

Stepping downWhen retiring Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter pretended he was Jewish

By JTA

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh greets supporters during a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Hamas militant group in Jebaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, December 12, 2014 . (AP/Adel Hana)

Haniyeh makes first trip to Egypt 4 months after election as Hamas head

By ToI Staff and AFP

Leah and Simcha Goldin with Ambassador Danon at the UN, September 8, 2017 (Courtesy Israel mission to the UN)

Parents of fallen soldier held by Hamas make appeal at UN

Israeli forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on August 12, 2017. One man was injured and the Palestinian assailant detained. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terror attacks against Israelis drop following harsh July

A statue of Benjamin de Oliveira, Brazil’s first black clown, was found vandalized with a swastika on September 6, 2017 in the city of Para de Minas. (screen capture: YouTube)

Swastika spray-painted on statue of Brazil’s first black clown

By JTA

Illustrative photo of police tape at the JCC in Nashville, Tennessee, after the community center received a bomb threat on January 9, 2017. (Screenshot: The Tennessean)

US Jewish groups get security funding despite talk of rollbacks

By JTA

West Hall at Tufts University (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Tufts University activists call Israel a ‘white supremacist state’

Varian Fry (Courtesy US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Symposium to honor journalist who saved Chagall, other artists from Nazis

By AP

A combination image shows then-Saudi Defense Minister and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (L) during a press conference in the capital Riyadh on April 25, 2016; and Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani (R) attending the 136th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Riyadh on December 10, 2015. (AFP/Fayez Nureldine)

Qatari, Saudi leaders have a phone call, start new dispute

By Jon Gambrell

Deevee Kashi is the founder and CEO of Deed, a startup that offers an easy way for millennials to volunteer. (Courtesy of Kashi/via JTA)

Kind apps'I have a hybrid mentality when I’m doing business'

With Deed, a former nightlife promoter makes Tinder for volunteering

By Josefin Dolsten

Targeting New York millennials, Israeli-American Deevee Kashi’s app has fed nearly 70,000 hungry, mentored 5,000 youth, and even brought some couples together

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