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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 7, 2017

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Brandeis University biology professor Michael Rosbash is one of the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Medicine. (Courtesy of Brandeis University via JTA)

Western society suffers chronic sleep deprivation, Jewish Nobel winner says

American neuroscientist Michael Rosbash won medicine prize for research on circadian rhythms, increasingly seen as having significant effects on our health

People pause at a Las Vegas memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at a concert in the city three days earlier, October 4, 2017. (AP/John Locher)

Las Vegas shooting'There has been an incredible response'

After massacre, Jewish Las Vegas mayor says, ‘Israel lives with this every day’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Speaking with The Times of Israel, Carolyn Goodman praises concert goers and first responders, says now is the time for healing

Melissa Gerber, left, and Sandra Serralde, right, comfort each other beside 58 white crosses for the victims of Sunday night's mass shooting on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, October 6, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AFP Photo/Robyn Beck)

Stymied police seek help in uncovering Vegas gunman’s motive

By Ken Ritter and MICHAEL BALSAMO

People carry a person at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images/AFP)

Terrorism, race, religion: Defining the Las Vegas shooting

By Lori Hinnant and JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

Children posing for a photo in hats that read 'Exodus 1947' in a displaced persons camp in Germany, September 1947. (Robert Gary/via JTA)

Preparing for their hoped-for future in Palestine

Incredible photos of Holocaust survivors from the SS Exodus up for auction

By Andrew Tobin

Under the hammer on October 31, journalist Robert Gary’s album of post-Holocaust life in DP camps is one of the highest-quality records to survive

Cambridge college sorry for confusion over Auschwitz photo on welcome pamphlet

French girl hospitalized following classmates’ allegedly anti-Semitic assault

By JTA

Poland slams Brussels museum over Holocaust exhibition

By AFP

Tal Silberstein, seen at Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on August 14, 2017. (Flash90)

Smear campaign by Israeli adviser threatens to sink Austria’s ruling center-left

Social Democrats in deep trouble after mudslinging attack on rival party, masterminded by Tal Silberstein, sends shockwaves through political establishment

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani answers a question during a press conference in New York on September 20, 2017, on the sidelines of the 72nd Session of the United Nations General assembly. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

Rouhani: 10 Trumps can’t roll back nuke deal benefits for Iran

By AP

Iranian president’s remarks come as US leader seen backing away from pledge to rip up nuclear accord, planning other measures instead

New US measures aim to show Trump is tough on Iran

By Deb Riechmann

Iran says missile program ‘non-negotiable,’ denies report it’s open to talks

By ToI Staff and AP

US approves $15 billion sale of advanced missile defense system to Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Sam Goodriche outside a cafe in Tel Aviv, Sept. 24, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)

'Israel should be No. 1 in the world in treatment of PTSD'

When battle-scarred Israelis go wild in India, this vet is there to help

By Andrew Tobin

Sam Goodriche’s Soul Talk aims to assist newly discharged soldiers in dealing with war traumas instead of trying to bury them

Grant Shapps making a speech at the Conservative Party Spring Forum in Manchester, north-west England, in 2015 (AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS)

Jewish MP leads fight to oust British PM May

By AFP

Battling insurgency led by former Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps, Theresa May claims she still has full support of her cabinet

Author Tova Mirvis. (Courtesy/Aynsley Floyd)

Interview'I was leaving not just a marriage but the religious world'

How one bestselling author left faith, family and fold

By Judy Batalion

Tova Mirvis comes out with a new memoir chronicling her divorce and departure from the denomination and community she grew up with

New York City police officers stand guard in Times Square on December 31, 2016. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

IS-inspired terror attacks targeting New York foiled by FBI

By AFP

Undercover agent helps nab jihadist cell targeting city’s subway and Times Square during Ramadan in 2016

Three charged in mysterious, failed terror-linked attack on Paris building

In first, IS urges women to join jihad and carry out terror attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Russia strikes kill 120 IS fighters, over 60 ‘foreign mercenaries’ in Syria

By AFP

Egyptian candidate to head UNESCO, Moushira Khattab (CC BY Mahmoud Khattab, Wikimedia Commons)

Rights groups urge UNESCO to reject Egypt’s nominee for new chief

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Key task for next head of UN cultural body is to regain US funding, suspended over perceived anti-Israel bias

Illustrative photo of Lebanese troops (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon says it arrested 3 spies working for Israel — report

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, at a rally to mark Land Day near the Israeli border with east Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, March 30, 2017. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Hamas claims to arrest senior Islamic State leaders in Gaza

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this May 4, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order aimed at easing an IRS rule limiting political activity for churches in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Citing religious freedom, Trump backing off Obama-era rules

By AP and ToI Staff

Reform Jews slam the move that lets employers opt out of no-cost birth control for workers; could override many anti-discrimination protections

First Mother?Ivana Trump speculates Ivanka could run for president in 15 years

By Jonathan Lemire

Poll: Just 24 percent say US under Trump headed in right direction

By Julie Pace and EMILY SWANSON

A pair of crises tests Trump’s presidential empathy

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace

When I drive on Shabbat

Every week I face the dilemma of whether to walk to synagogue in unbearable pain, stay home, or drive

Prayer, love and my son’s suicide

The High Holiday Unetaneh Tokef prayer doesn’t address this kind of pain or anger

Rabbi Jack Cohen

Bring down the roof

Dwell under the thin roof of the sukkah and become aware that you will not have your physical blessings forever

Kol Yisrael aravot

No matter how great you think you are, the humble willow branch does a fine job representing all Jews before God

The rooftop infinity pool at Isrotel's newest hotel, The Orient, in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Ori Akerman)

Jerusalem’s newest luxury hotel opens with a touch of the ‘Orient’

By Jessica Steinberg

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

Closing timeLeonard Cohen poems, finished in last days, to be published in final book

By AFP

George Soros speaks onstage at Lincoln Center on April 18, 2017, in New York City. (Andrew Toth/Getty Images for Physicians for Human Rights/AFP)

Congressman floats conspiracy that George Soros organized Charlottesville rally

By JTA

Chief Police investigator Jens Moeller makes a comment concerning the latest findings in connection with the Kim Wall murder case during a press conference at police headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. (Tariq Mikkel Khan/Ritzau via AP)

Danish police find decapitated head, other body parts in submarine case

By AP

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a press conference during a defense ministers meeting at NATO Headquarters in Brussels on February 5, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)

NATO, Kremlin defend nuclear deterrence after ICAN Nobel win

By AFP and AP

Russian-Jewish pianist Mikhail Klein (Screen capture: YouTube)

Final curtainRussian-Jewish pianist dies during performance

By JTA

People look at antique cars during the 31st annual 'Five Club' car collectors' meeting in Ramat Gan, Israel, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Photo essayIn Israel, antique car collectors find an escape

By Oded Balilty

Honor guards salute next to the coffin of former Iraqi president Jalal Talabani during a ceremony at the airport in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on October 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Shwan Mohammed)

Tens of thousands attend funeral of Iraq’s Kurdish ex-president

By AFP

In this file photo from September 13, 2017, activists from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) protest against the conflict between North Korea and the USA with masks of North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un, right, and US president Donald Trump, left, in front of the US embassy in Berlin, Germany. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)

AnalysisNobel says to Korea nuke players: We are watching

This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows US film producer Harvey Weinstein on the sidelines of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel in Antibes, near Cannes, southeastern France. (AFP Photo/Yann Coatsaliou)

Weinstein on ‘indefinite leave’ during harassment inquiry

In this Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 file photo, people are checked by security guards before entering a store at Red square in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

Moscow hit by 130 fake bomb calls, evacuates 100,000 people

By AP

An altercation between security guards and the family of a patient is seen outside the Ichilov Hospital ER, June 27, 2017 (Security camera footage/Courtesy Ichilov Hospital)

Man detained for attacking guard at Beersheba hospital

This image made from a video released February 15, 2015, by militants in Libya claiming loyalty to the Islamic State group purportedly shows Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits being led along a beach, each accompanied by a masked militant before the men are simultaneously beheaded. (AP Photo)

Libyan authorities recover bodies of Copts beheaded by IS in 2015

By AP

This year's Jerusalem Biennale challenged artists to seek watershed moments in their own history, and in that of the Jewish people; these are some of the works hung in the Underground Prisoners Museum, one of the eight locations of the art exhibitions (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A ‘watershed’ moment for artists at the Jerusalem Biennale

By Jessica Steinberg

On now, third annual contemporary Jewish art festival features 200 artists and 26 exhibitions at eight locations throughout the capital

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