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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 16, 2017

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'I just left Israel recently, I love Israel'

Trump to Jewish leaders: Hopes for ‘significant progress’ soon on Mideast peace

By Eric Cortellessa

In traditional High Holy Days conference call not including Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish movements, president condemns anti-Semitism

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

Some dismay as Trump holds very brief call with Jewish leaders, takes no queries

Full text of President Trump’s Rosh Hashanah call to Jewish leaders

In debut at UN, Trump to offer assurances, warnings

By Jonathan Lemire

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a press conference with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (out of frame), at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City, on September 14, 2017. (AFP/ Alfredo ESTRELLA)

In New York, Netanyahu says Israel will not tolerate Iranians on northern border

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Prime minister indicates main message of upcoming UN speech will focus on Tehran’s efforts to establish base in Syria

Tehran denies reports of planned Zarif-Tillerson meeting in NY

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defiant N. Korea leader says he will complete nuke program

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Edith M. Lederer

China provides $10 billion credit line to Iran

By AFP

From left: Whitefish Mayor John Muhlfeld, Rabbi Francine Green Roston and Paul Goldenberg, the director of Secure Community Network, August 25, 2017. The Jewish community in the Montana city was subjected to an onslaught of anti-Semitic harassment over the past year. (Courtesy of Goldenberg/via JTA)

'We all have neighbors who joined the Nazis'

The Jews of Whitefish, Montana, look ahead after a year of terror

While community of 60 in white supremacist Richard Spencer’s home town remains resilient, Rabbi Francine Roston says their lives will never be the same

Ambulances and police are seen at the at Parsons Green subway station in London after a bombing on the London Underground on September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

British police make ‘significant arrest’ in London train bombing

By AFP

Authorities say 18-year-old nabbed in port area of Dover, as terror threat level remains ‘critical’ after IS-claimed attack

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London, February 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Netanyahu says Israel stands with UK after subway bomb

By ToI Staff and AP

Armed British police officers stand on duty outside Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017, following a bombing on an underground tube carriage at the station. (AFP/ Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

Terror threat in UK raised to critical after London bomb attack

By Alexandra Del Peral

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a presser with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (out of frame), at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City, on September 14, 2017. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)

Analysis

On ‘post-army trek’ to Latin America, Netanyahu gets a break from domestic woes

Ahead of Trump meet and UN speech, PM does what he likes best: extolling Israel as a hi-tech and intel superpower. But his troubles are waiting for him at home

‘Canadian-Israeli businessman paid half-million shekels to ex-Netanyahu aide’

Israeli consulate in NYC briefly shut after death threat to PM, white powder

Prime 'Mochilero'After his own ‘trek,’ PM urges Israeli hikers to visit South America

Mezuzas on sale by Doorpost Blessings. (doorpostblessings.com)

'I’m following what the Bible says'

‘Christian mezuzah’ maker says Jewish roots behind her Doorpost Blessings

They look nearly identical to the ones that have adorned Jewish homes for millennia, but Karen Goode’s creations bear verses from the New Testament

A car is parked at a ramp leading up to the window of a Soviet-era apartment in Birobidzhan, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP/Iuliia Subbotovska)

Artists reimagine Stalin’s communist utopia for Soviet Jews

By AP

Exhibition shows works of US, European and South Korean artists, inspired by Russia’s ‘Jewish Autonomous Republic’ in Birobidzhan

Attacks on German synagogue ‘may have been anti-Semitic,’ police say

By JTA

Paintings of Hitler found in Austrian parliament

By AFP

Poland acquires gas chamber paintings by late Holocaust survivor

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Inset of promotional poster depicting Jennifer Lawrence in Darren Aronofsky's 'mother!' (Courtesy)

Festival reviewBiblical parables, lesbian Orthodox lovers and poker at TIFF

At the Toronto film fest, on the prowl for Darren Aronofsky’s (Jewish) ‘mother!’

By Jordan Hoffman

Times of Israel’s wandering film critic reports from the Toronto International Film Festival, on the ups, the downs, and the shameful flicks for the Tribe

Palestinian sports teacher Rajaa Hamdan (R) leads a football training session with young girls in the northern West Bank village of Deir Jarir, near Ramallah, on September 13, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Palestinian all-girl soccer team breaks cultural barriers

By Hossam Ezzedine

Hundreds of young women are enjoying an opportunity denied their mothers’ generation in the socially conservative West Bank

Illustrative: Tunisian women celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 14, 2016. (AP/Riadh Dridi)

Tunisia scraps ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims

By AFP

Illustrative: Israeli forces next to the security fence on the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF detains 2 Palestinians who entered Israel from Gaza

Ret. Cpt. Elgen Long and Shahar Azani, Executive Director StandWithUs, Northeast Region. Azani's grandparents and father were among those airlifted out of Yemen during Operation Magic Carpet. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

From Alaska with love'It was life or death and we were doing the best we could'

Final crewman from Operation Magic Carpet recounts heroic life-saving mission

By Cathryn J. Prince

Honored by Jewish orgs in NY this week, Ret. Cpt. Elgen M. Long, 91, flew in a two-year sortie that brought 50,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel between 1948 and 1950

Chelsea's Spanish striker Alvaro Morata attends a team training session at Chelsea's Cobham training facility in Stoke D'Abernon, southwest of London, on September 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

Soccer star tells Chelsea fans to stop anti-Semitic chant

By AFP

Spain’s Alvaro Morata says song boasting of hatred for ‘Yids’ sets a bad example for children attending matches

African migrants take part at a protest in Tel Aviv on June 10, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Unwelcome in Israel, African refugees dream of home

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Labeled ‘infiltrators’ and denied long-term solutions, thousands of largely Eritrean and Sudanese migrants live in limbo

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Israeli police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox Jews during an operation to arrest the attackers of soldiers at the Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on June 4, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox soldier attacked in Jerusalem neighborhood

Imam Sayed al-Ghitawi speaking at the al-Andalous Islamic Center in Montreal in 2014 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Montreal imam who asked Allah to ‘destroy the Jews’ will not be prosecuted

By JTA

Iraqi Kurds fly Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 15, 2017. (AFP/ SAFIN HAMED)

US urges Iraqi Kurdistan to call off independence vote

By AFP

The Golden Rose Synagogue in Dnipro, Ukraine. (CC BY-SA4.0 Skoropadsky/Wikipedia)

Four synagogues open in former Soviet Union ahead of Rosh Hashanah

By JTA

Lord Arthur Balfour and the Balfour Declaration (Wikimedia commons)

Balfour Declaration was a ‘humanitarian’ gesture, descendant says

By JTA

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)

Mayim Bialik, Michael Douglas join call for religious freedom in Israel

By JTA

Maya Serebryanaya and Valeriy Utvenko dancing at the Halom JCC in Kiev, August 2017. (Courtesy of Halom)

Dance partnersKiev’s new JCC celebrates marriage of elderly couple who met there

By JTA

Illustrative: Firefighters battle a fire in the northern city of Safed on July 16, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Toddler dies in East Jerusalem apartment building fire

Ahmad Abu Khawlah (5th-R), chief of the Deir Ezzor Military Council -- a coalition of Arab tribes and fighters that belongs to the broader US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces -- speaks during a press conference in the northeastern Syrian village of Abu Fas on September 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)

Russian airstrike hits US-backed fighters in Syria, wounding 6

By AP

Rachel McAdams attends the premier of 'Disobedience' at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2017, in Toronto, Canada. (Brian de Rivera Simon/Getty Images/AFP)

'A Stranger Among Us'Actress fails to go undercover as Orthodox Jew for ‘Disobedience’

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