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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 11, 2017

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This combination photo shows actresses, top row from left, Gwyneth Paltrow, Rosanna Arquette, Mira Sorvino and bottom row from left, Rose McGowan, Angelina Jolie Pitt, Asia Argento and Ashley Judd, who are among the many women who have spoken out against Harvey Weinstein in on-the-record reports that detailed claims of sexual abuse. (AP Photo/File)

No one expected it to go this high

Weinstein scandal implicates ‘every corner’ of the movie business

By Lindsey Bahr

Accusers have come from everywhere — actresses you’ve heard of, actresses you haven’t, models, assistants, employees, a reporter and other young women in Harvey Weinstein’s orbit

US producer Harvey Weinstein and his wife Georgina Chapman arriving for the screening of the film 'Hands of Stone' at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 16, 2016. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)

Harvey Weinstein’s wife leaving him over ‘unforgivable actions’

Harvey Weinstein (second from left) celebrates with Gwyneth Paltrow (second from right) after receiving the Oscar for best picture for 'Shakespeare In Love' during the 71st Annual Academy Awards Sunday, March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin)

Harvey Weinstein accused of raping 3 women, assaulting Paltrow, Jolie and others

By AP

An inscription in the ancient Luwian language detailing the fall of the Hittite empire and the conquering of Ashkelon by the 'Sea Peoples.' (courtesy Luwian Studies)

Is this huge inscription our missing link to the biblical ‘Sea Peoples’?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Donald Blome (L), US Consul General in Jerusalem, is seen during the launch of a conservation project to preserve the Solomon's Pools as he visits the site in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on October 10, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Musa AL SHAER)

Temple-era pools near Jerusalem set for renovation

By AFP and ToI Staff

Chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) Heinz-Christian Strache attends a press conference at FPOe headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on September 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Joe Klamar)

In Austria, rise of pro-Israel, far-right faction forces Israel into corner

By Raphael Ahren

Anti-immigrant FPOe is set to become the country’s second-largest power on Sunday, which could lead to an improvement in bilateral ties — if Jerusalem stops boycotting the party

Move over AfD, here comes Austria’s far-right

By Philippe SCHWAB

Austrian far-right party suspends city councilor for alleged Nazi salute

Searching for Mr. ReichFar-right former ‘Mr Germany’ on trial for shooting police officer

By AFP

Leon Lewis receiving the Americanism Award from American Legion, in June 1939. (USC Libraries Special Collections)

American Nazi party'They wanted to start pogroms throughout America'

When Hitler sent his minions to LA: The true-life Nazi plot against Hollywood

By Rich Tenorio

It’s a piece of American history that sounds like an action movie — numerous Nazi plans to murder prominent movie stars, including Charlie Chaplin, foiled by a Jewish spy ring

US President Donald Trump speaking to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, October 7, 2017. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Trump is ready to decertify the Iran deal. What does that mean?

Stopping short of scrapping the 2015 nuclear pact, the US president is set to announce a major step towards weakening it. But myriad questions, and challenges, still remain

Iran’s FM warns of tough response if Trump acts against nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Schumer blasts Trump’s ‘indecisiveness’ in pushing off embassy move

By JTA

Trump retweets praise from pro-Israel account run by Haredi journalist

By JTA

This wanted poster, put out by the State Department on October 10, 2017, offers $7 million and $5 million rewards, respectively, for help arresting Hezbollah operatives Talal Hamiyeh and Fu’ad Shakr.

US offers millions for two of Hezbollah’s top operatives

By Eric Cortellessa

Iran’s Lebanese proxy is determined to attack American targets ‘as a critical component of its terrorism playbook,’ State Department says

US doctor lightly injured in Golan Heights by possible stray fire from Syria

Rejecting Israeli charges, Lebanese Army asserts it’s independent from Hezbollah

Israeli hospital gets grant to help Syrian refugees with hearing loss

By JTA

Hamas's leader Ismail Haniyeh (C-R) meets with Egyptian Intelligence Minister Khalid Fawzi at the latter's office in Gaza City on October 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Ignoring elephant in the room, Hamas-Fatah talks advance with Egyptian help

Head of Fatah faction says time not ripe to discuss dissolving Hamas’s armed wing, as Cairo reportedly plans US-backed international conference in Sharm el-Sheikh

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

IDF reports Palestinian gunfire toward Gaza border fence

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion Airport on May 23, 2017, at the end of Trump's visit to Israel (Coby Gideon / GPO)

Hebrew media review

Sticking it to the men

By Joshua Davidovich

From Hurricane Netanyahu to Hurricane Donald to Hurricane Harvey (Weinstein), powerful men are mostly unable to wiggle away from pressure in Wednesday’s papers

This file photo taken on January 12, 2016, shows the German-made INS Rahav Dolphin 2-class submarine arriving at the military port of Haifa on January 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Ex-defense minister: PM’s office acted to cancel submarine tender

Gary Rosenblatt

The defining line of Orthodox women rabbis

Will Rabbi Brander undo or uphold Rabbi Riskin’s legacy? The Modern Orthodox world wants to know

When teachers miss teachable moments

My local Georgia schools demonstrate historical injustice when they should refute it

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The unyielding Sefer Torah

On Simchat Torah, we dance with the same scrolls we have honored for millennia — and which are completely outdated

Aryeh Leibowitz

The historical power of Catalonia’s Jews

Spain was never part of that unique blend: Sefardic tradition, Tosafist methodology, and Provencal talmudic influence

A siege on the truth at NYU

A show about the 2002 standoff at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity is a perversion of history

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An employee of Kaspersky Lab works on computers at the company's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Israel said behind discovery of Russian cybersecurity hack into US intel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony marking 50 years of settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights, in Gush Etzion, on September 27, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Likud ministers slam Netanyahu over limited settlement construction

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers on the Golan Heights, Northern Israel, July 4 2007. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

24 rifle grenades, thousands of bullets stolen from IDF bunker

Former Qatari culture minister Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari. (Wikimedia/Creative Commons)

Qatari diplomat leads race for UNESCO chief

By AFP

KKK robes on display as part of Baltimore artist Paul Rucker's installation entitled "Rewind," September 21, 2017. (Ivey DeJesus/PennLive.com via AP)

College bans public from ‘disturbing’ art exhibit featuring KKK robes

By AP

Spain's defender Sergio Ramos r) controls the ball past Israel's midfielder Marwan Kabha during the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup European Group G qualifying football match between Israel and Spain at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem on October 9, 2017.
(AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Spanish soccer star meets family of policeman killed in Temple Mount attack

American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Adelsons and Sands Corp. create $4 million Las Vegas relief fund

By JTA

Nir Itach (Facebook)

Egypt releases Israeli tourist arrested with bullets in his bag

Maccabi Haifa's Ángel Rodríguez (3) makes a pass in front of Indiana Pacers forward Domantas Sabonis (11) during the first half of an NBA exhibition basketball game in Indianapolis, October 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Israeli-American Pacer chips in as Indiana downs Maccabi Haifa

By AP and ToI Staff

Former soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 months, later commuted to 14 months, for killing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant, arrives at the Tsrifin military prison in Rishon Lezion, on August 9, 2017, to begin serving out his sentence. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Army to withhold part of Elor Azaria’s discharge grant

Regina Barzilay, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. on Sept. 20, 2017. (CC-BY: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)

‘Genius grants’ to Israeli computer linguist, opera kingpin with Israeli parents

By AP and ToI Staff

White foam on Tel Aviv's Yarkon River, October 10, 2017 (Walla! screenshot)

White foam covers sections of Yarkon River despite cleanup efforts

Rabbi Shuki Reich (L), seminary head of the Susi Bradfield Women’s Institute of Halakhic Leadership, and Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (C), chancellor of Ohr Torah Stone, present Rabbanit Shira Zimmerman with her certification as a Spiritual Leader and Arbiter of Jewish Law at a ceremony in Jerusalem, January 3. 2017. (Ohr Torah Stone)

Why it’s easier to ordain Orthodox women in Israel than the US

While American efforts have been met with opposition from establishment groups, Israel’s own ‘Maharat’ rabbinical graduate program is quietly flourishing

5 sukkahs that double as progressive spaces

By Josefin Dolsten

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