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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 5, 2017

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A man praying at the the century-old Ohel Shelomoh Synagogue in Kobe, Japan, June 26, 2009. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

There are so few Jews here 'we have to put aside divisions'

In Japan, observing Sukkot requires creativity, and sometimes a bit of smuggling

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Strict import regulations have forced the Island nation’s Jewish community to improvise — and have also encouraged rare interdenominational cooperation

In Calabria, rabbis and farmers continue a 2,000-year-old etrog tradition

By Rossella Tercatin

80-year-old arrested on suspicion of burning neighbor’s sukkah

Col. Liran Cohen, head of the IDF's air defense school, left, and Col. David Shank, of the US 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command, cut the ribbon to open the first American military base in Israel, inside the Mashabim Air Base, on September 18, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

N. Korea: US using new base in Israel to control Mideast

Pyongyang accuses America of plans for world domination, citing recently inaugurated air-defense station in Negev

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran, October 4, 2017. (Photo released by Khamenei's office)

US seeks ‘new Israel’ in region, Khamenei says of Iraq Kurd referendum

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump speaks as First Lady Melania Trump (L) looks on as he visits the Metropolitan Police Department command center in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Nuke deal hangs in balance as Trump plans Iran policy speech

By Bradley Klapper and Matt Lee

Despite opposition from top aides, US president next week seen likely to declare landmark accord does not meet America’s national security interests

Over 180 Democratic House members urge Trump to re-certify Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Top Democrat Cardin to Trump: Don’t decertify Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Iranian nuclear negotiator said to get 5-year sentence for espionage

By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell

Rabbi Berl Fink being pulled over for speeding in Vermont. (Screenshot from Vermont State Police video)

Speeding Brooklyn rabbi handcuffed at gunpoint by Vermont police

By JTA

Rabbi Berl Fink traumatized by incident, family thought they were in a terror attack, says son; police say rabbi didn’t pull over for 4 miles

This undated photo provided by Eric Paddock shows his brother, Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock. On Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival killing dozens and wounding hundreds. (Courtesy of Eric Paddock via AP)

Las Vegas gunman reportedly fired at fuel tanks in attempt to create blast

By ToI Staff and AP

Two bullets fired by Stephen Paddock hit containers but did not cause explosion, with experts explaining jet fuel inside hard to ignite

Trump in Las Vegas: ‘America truly a nation in mourning’

By Catherine Lucey and Jill Colvin

Nir Barkat sends message of sympathy to Las Vegas mayor

By JTA

Islamic State latches onto global attacks as it fights for survival

Shambolic address leaves PM humiliated, weakened

Cough, prankster make May’s British Dream speech a nightmare

By Jill Lawless

British prime minister plagued by a cough and interrupted by Simon Brodkin, while parts of the backdrop fell down as she was speaking

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May coughs as she delivers a speech on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the Manchester Central Convention Centre in Manchester, England, on October 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Paul Ellis)

From our partnerJewish prankster interrupts Theresa May’s conference speech

The Jewish prankster who rang in the new year with ‘crappy’ routine on Britain’s Got Talent

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Teacher at London Orthodox nursery says she was fired for living with boyfriend

By JTA

Illustrative: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends the inauguration of the National Holocaust Memorial in Ottawa on September 27, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Canada Holocaust memorial omits any mention of Jews, anti-Semitism

Heritage minister says offending plaque now removed, will be replaced with new one ‘that reflects the horrors experienced by the Jewish people’

Can cyber technology solve the Anne Frank and Raoul Wallenberg mysteries?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Far-right German lawmaker quits over colleague’s Nazi guilt remark

By AFP

Polish institute rebuffs historian who said Nazi invasion not that bad for Jews

By JTA

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson makes a statement at the State Department in Washington, DC, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Tillerson denies he weighed resigning or called boss ‘moron’

By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper

Secretary of state rebuts widely circulated story that he had to be convinced by Pence to stay on, insulted president’s intelligence after Boy Scouts speech

Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, watching as his team takes on the Chicago Bulls in Chicago, January 15, 2016. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images/JTA)

Mark Cuban says he is considering run for president

By JTA

Hamas commander Saleh al-Arouri. (YouTube screenshot)

Hamas appoints West Bank terror chief as its deputy leader

Saleh al-Arouri, expelled from Qatar earlier this year, will serve under Ismail Haniyeh in the terror group’s political bureau

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, right, meets with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Khalid Fawzi at the former's office in Gaza City on October 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas won’t disarm before peace deal with Israel, Egypt said to tell Abbas

File: Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah arrives at a cabinet meeting in Gaza City on October 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Palestinian Authority PM leaves Gaza after reconciliation visit

By AFP

Analysis

Raphael Ahren and Jacob Magid

By backing ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill, is PM leaning toward annexing settlements?

Comments by Netanyahu on a visit to Ma’ale Adumin this week were interpreted by some as a major move toward annexation. The true picture is a little foggier

A Jewish settler looks at the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, from the E-1 area on the eastern outskirts of Jerusalem, on December 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Sebastian Schooner/File)

Waiting for God’s apology

I lost a daughter to suicide and no prayer, holiday, or even fear will ever be the same

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Past unreal conditional

How to respond to the self-appointed modestly police when you don’t know the language

Alissa Thomas-Newborn

Why I went to Las Vegas after the deadly shooting

As Jews, we are called to walk in God’s ways, which means being with the broken-hearted and the vulnerable

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Reuven Schmerling, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Elkana, who was murdered and his body discovered in a storage facility in the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Courtesy)

Gag order placed on investigation into murder of Jewish man in Kafr Qassem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara visits cancer patients and their parents at a protest tent in Jerusalem's Sacher Park on June 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Draft indictment: Sara Netanyahu’s misuse of funds was systematic, deliberate

In this Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017 photo, Zakariya al-Jawawdeh accompanied by two of his sons, 14-year-old Lukman, right, and 10-year-old Omar, visits the grave of his 16-year-old son Mohammed who was killed, along with a Jordanian man, by an Israeli embassy security guard in the Jordanian capital in July 23. (AP Photo/Karin Laub)

Fatal embassy shooting casts long shadow over Israel-Jordan ties

By AP

The United States consulate in Istanbul (Public Domain, US State Department, Wikimedia Commons)

US ‘deeply disturbed’ by arrest of Istanbul consulate staffer

By Stuart Williams

The Supreme Court in session, illustrative (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Threats to Supreme Court test Israel’s democracy

By Tia Goldenberg

A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bedouin man suspected of forcibly marrying, raping Palestinian girl

Young leaders study Torah from source sheets at a Hillel International event, November 2016. (Hillel International/via JTA)

Jewish Education'The source sheet is like a set list'

This Torah study tool is everywhere — but you may never have heard of it

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Sefaria, a nimble online database of Jewish texts in both their original language and in translation, aids educators in making the ultimate source sheet

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