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What Matters Most On Monday, September 18, 2017

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Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian Army. (Screen capture)

Iran army chief vows to raze Israeli cities if it makes ‘wrong move’

By Tamar Pileggi

General Abdolrahim Mousavi says warning that the ‘Zionist regime’ will not survive next 25 years does not mean it will actually last that long

Hezbollah fighters filmed near Israeli border raring for battle

By Stuart Winer

Iran: US undermining nuke deal with ‘unacceptable demands’

By AFP and ToI Staff

UN says Americans unjustly held in Iran part of ’emerging pattern’

By Jon Gambrell

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan waits for the start of the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, September 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Trump says US will dump Iran deal if watchdog doesn’t bare teeth

By AP and ToI Staff

Ahead of meeting with Netanyahu, White House says it won’t accept ‘weakly enforced’ pact; IAEA chief defends agency, says no Iranian violations found

Israel claims UN ignored intel on secret Iran nuke sites — report

Mossad chief said pushing to ‘act now’ to prevent Iranian nuclear bomb

By Raphael Ahren and Raoul Wootliff

Trump eyes nuclear threats as UN confab kicks off

By Carole LANDRY

Interview'Iran in Syria is the most important issue for Israel today'

Lobbying against Iran deal, PM to ‘connect dots’ to Syria, UN envoy says

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu, expected to push Trump on nixing pact, will also devote UN speech to explaining how nuke deal allowed Tehran to meddle in Syria, Danny Danon says

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon speaks to the media prior to a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Middle East on May 11, 2017. (Mark Garten/UN Photo)

Rivlin cautions foreign diplomats over Iranian threats to destroy Israel

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

America’s envoy says UN ‘Israel bashing’ becoming more balanced

By AP and ToI Staff

In shadow of Israel-Diaspora Western Wall crisis, PM meets US Jewish leaders

By Raphael Ahren

Nordic Resistance Movement sympathizers participating in an anti-immigrant demonstration in central Stockholm, November 12, 2016. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

Neo-Nazis parade through Swedish city ahead of Yom Kippur march

German architect Albert Speer, who knew Hitler as ‘a nice uncle,’ dead at 83

By AFP and ToI Staff

#GasTheSynagogue trends after St. Louis synagogue opens doors to protesters

By JTA

New York exhibit allows virtual ‘interviews’ with Holocaust survivors

By Karen Matthews

Ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrating in Jerusalem against a court ruling that rejected legislation deferring mandatory conscription into the Israel Defense Forces, September 17, 2017. (Israel Police)

Alleged use of excessive force by cops to be investigated

Violent clashes as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox rally against IDF draft

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

8 protesters arrested after clashing with police, blocking roads; video footage shows police throwing demonstrators to the ground, punching and kicking them

Police chief says cops were too violent at ultra-Orthodox riot

By Stuart Winer

Officials to look into police violence after clash with ultra-Orthodox

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hebrew media reviewFam fatale

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Donald Trump are seen prior to their meeting at the Palace Hotel in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2017.(AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Live updates (closed)

Trump to Netanyahu: ‘There is a good chance for peace’ with the Palestinians

By Raoul Wootliff

PM responds that any reconciliation efforts must ‘go together’ with increased cooperation between Israel and Arab world

6:14 pm

Polish party leader denounces anti-Semitism, praises Israel
6:09 pm

Eiffel Tower starts work on anti-terror upgrade
6:07 pm

New York Center for Jewish History backs new head against right-wing attacks

Pomegranates at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on August 25, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Pomegranate's link with learning may not be far from truth

Jewish New Year fruit may hold seeds of hope for brain disease sufferers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli neurologist, nanotech expert make pomegranate oil capsules that send antioxidants where they can have the most effect

Nefesh B’Nefesh sets up grants to boost ‘Zionist innovation’

Teva sells remaining women’s health line in deals totaling $1.38 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Portable apple and honey pie pops for Rosh Hashanah

By Sherri Silver

An Aeroflot Airbus A330-200 seen departing from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on June 17, 2011. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

Dangers of smoking

Israeli faces Russian jail for trying to open plane door mid-flight to smoke

Passenger’s drunken mid-air shenanigans could see him spend six months behind bars under new law

Marthe Cohn being filmed by director Nicola Hens for the upcoming documentary 'An Unusual Spy.' (Courtesy)

WWII HeroesFor years she kept her past a secret, even from her husband

The 4’11” Jewish woman who entered the lion’s den to spy on Nazi Germany

By Alex Suskind

‘I was very lucky,’ says 97-year-old Marthe Cohn, the subject of a new documentary that highlights her near-impossible missions

The Ziv family, who were among those evacuated from the illegal Amona outpost, pose for a photo with their children in their temporary residence in the Ofra settlement on February 10, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Have Amona ‘refugees’ found a recipe for post-evacuation success?

By Jacob Magid and Video by Luke Tress

Despite over 7 months in a cramped Ofra dorm, the 42 families evacuated from an illegal outpost are poised for a better fate than those of past razed settlements

Defense minister hails the settlements, but cautions the settlers

Jordan king said to urge Israel to wrap up embassy shooting probe

By Stuart Winer

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Mark Zuckerberg, the kiddush cup is a start

Of all people, you are in a position to stop anti-Semitism on Facebook!

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

The most persecuted people on earth

A Rosh Hashanah prayer for the Rohingya people is incumbent upon all who care about healing God’s kingdom

Katriel Reichman

Tips to fight addiction over the holidays

Show your loved one support during this season of celebration — and its great potential for disappointment

I have been a smoker for 63 years

Yes, smoking is bad for your health, but the new IDF anti-cigarette policy impinges on soldiers’ rights

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Illustrative: Newborn babies in a hospital ward (Flash 90)

The name gameTamar, Mohammad, top Israel’s baby name list

Host Stephen Colbert dances onstage during the 69th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (AFP/Frederic J. Brown)

Simmering anger over Trump takes center stage at Emmy Awards

By AP

President Donald Trump listening to a question from a member of the media after he returned to the White House from Florida, Sept. 14, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Clip Trump retweeted showing Clinton hit with golf ball has anti-Semitic origin

By JTA

Israelis with disabilities seen at the Knesset in Jerusalem during a special session on September 18, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After months of protests, Knesset debates stipends for disabled

By Marissa Newman

Iraqi Kurds celebrate while urging people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Iraq supreme court freezes Kurdistan referendum

Then-Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq vice president warns against ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan

By AP and ToI Staff

Michael Hamill and two other Florida police officers. (Gainesville Police Department /Facebook)

‘Hot cop’ from Hurricane Irma selfie suspended over anti-Semitic Facebook posts

By JTA

Water from Addicks Reservoir flows into neighborhoods as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rise in Houston, Texas, August 29, 2017. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Texas woman who is Jewish and lesbian asked to stop working at food pantry

By JTA

Ahmed al-Assam, 19, from Tel Sheva in southern Israel, has been missing in Turkey, September 2017. (Courtesy)

Family of Israeli teen missing in Turkey says no way he crossed into Syria

Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, September 15, 2013. (Brian Rasic/Getty Images/JTA)

HallelujahSting, Costello to salute Leonard Cohen year after death

By AFP

Elana Sztokman and the entrance to the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion campus in Jerusalem. (Sztokman photo: Courtesy of Sztokman; HUC photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)

Free agent'I don’t think Orthodoxy is a healthy place for women'

Formerly Orthodox, this feminist Jewish leader found a new home in Reform

By Josefin Dolsten

Past head of Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Elana Sztokman says her new denomination puts people first and gives women agency in their own lives

Clockwise, from top left: Carrie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, Leonard Cohen and Zsa Zsa Gabor. (Getty Images/via JTA)

Lost members of the tribe

11 inspiring Jews who died in 5777

By Gabe Friedman

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