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What Matters Most On Friday, October 20, 2017

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Blood runs from the lip of a man wearing a shirt with swastikas after he was punched by a protester outside a University of Florida auditorium where white nationalist Richard Spencer was preparing to speak on October 19, 2017 in Gainesville, Fla. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Only 30 supporters for Richard Spencer attend

White supremacist leader shouted down at University of Florida

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Decrying ‘Nazi hate,’ hundreds of protesters rile Charlottesville rally organizer Richard Spencer as he attempts to address supporters amid heavy security

Illustrative: Swastika graffiti. (Flash 90)

Jewish woman plans to leave swastika vandalism on her garage

By JTA

Anthony Scaramucci departing from “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in New York City, August 14, 2017. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images via JTA)

Scaramucci reportedly loses speaking gig over Holocaust tweet

By JTA

Former US President Barack Obama, right, speaks as he campaigns for Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam during a campaign event at the Greater Richmond Convention Center October 19, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Obama bemoans politics of racism, fear, in return to spotlight

By AP

Former US President George W. Bush speaks at a forum sponsored by the George W. Bush Institute in New York, Thursday, October 19, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

‘Bigotry seems emboldened’ under Trump, George W. Bush charges

By AP

Rabbi Shalom Lewis apologized for a September 2017 Rosh Hashanah sermon in which he said the alt-left posed a bigger problem for the US than the alt-right. (Congregation Etz Chaim via JTA)

Atlanta rabbi regrets sermon that cast the left as enemy of the Jews

Pamela Buchbinder (Screen capture YouTube)

Manhattan psychiatrist charged with attempting to murder her son’s father

By JTA

Pamela Buchbinder said to have enlisted her young cousin to bludgeon and stab Michael Weiss, who survived attack

Yahya Sinwar, the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends the opening of a new mosque in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on February 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Hamas chief: We won’t discuss recognizing Israel, only wiping it out

Yahya Sinwar says ‘no one in the universe can disarm us,’ likens belief that terror group will relinquish weapons to ‘Satan dreaming of heaven’

Quoting Arafat, Palestinian mission in Colombia calls for Israel’s destruction

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vow to step up fight against Israel

Netanyahu hails US demand that Hamas renounce terror, recognize Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Saleem Sharif, with Winston, outside the health clinic in Nazareth where he works. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

It's often a dog's life for both Winston and his owner

Nazareth’s only guide dog owner is trailblazing just by walking down the street

By Dov Lieber, Video by Luke Tress and Gabe Carroll

Canines, traditionally considered impure in Islam, are a rare sight in Arab towns. Saleem Sharif and his labrador Winston are working to fight stereotypes against them both

Truck allegedly stolen by a Palestinian man who intended to use it for a ramming attack, October 20, 2017. (Israeli Police)

Police: Palestinian nabbed with stolen truck, planned ramming attack on soldiers

After chase through Rishon Lezion, cops arrest Ramallah resident who allegedly admitted to plan to kill troops

Labor party leader Avi Gabay leads a Zionist Union faction meeting at the Knesset on July 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor chief: Settlements represent the ‘beautiful face of Zionism’

By Alexander Fulbright

Shifting further rightwards, Avi Gabbay lauds settlers’ ‘determination,’ says Israel must retain Jordan Valley, stresses imperative for national unity

AnalysisDo numbers lie? Making sense of Israel’s latest batch of settlement approvals

Labor leader Avi Gabbay, left, attending a news conference in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2017; Yair Lapid attending a conference in Herzliya, June 22, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90; Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Israel’s centrist leaders vie to replace Netanyahu – by taking his side

By Andrew Tobin

Israelis take part at the SlutWalk march in central Tel Aviv, on July 8, 2016. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Israeli women having been saying #MeToo for years

By Andrew Tobin

A Facebook page started in 2013 has collected thousands of testimonies of sexual abuse, and numbers have ramped up since Weinstein allegations became public

This file photo taken on October 5, 2015 shows Harvey Weinstein, US film producer and executive producer of the TV series "War and Peace," posing during a photocall at the MIPCOM audiovisual trade fair in Cannes, southeastern France. (AFP/ VALERY HACHE)

Los Angeles police open Weinstein sex assault investigation

By AP

Police arrest 120 ultra-Orthodox protesters during anti-draft ‘day of rage’

Demonstrators block roads, burn trash in Jerusalem over arrest of seminary students for failing to appear at induction center

Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrating in Jerusalem against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Hebrew media review#NotAllUltra-Orthodox

By Joshua Davidovich

Women of the Wall pray with a Torah scroll at their monthly prayer session, October 20, 2017. (Hila Shiloni)

Six Day War vets, Women of the Wall scuffle with guards at Western Wall

President Reuven RIvlin attends US Independence Day celebrations at the US ambassador to Israel's residence in Herzliya on June 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Amid crises in Diaspora ties, Rivlin shifts schedule to speak at major LA event

By Raphael Ahren

Right wing Jewish teenagers wearing stickers that say 'Kahana was right' and 'Revenge' seen giving the finger and yelling at Arab women sitting inside the tram in central Jerusalem during a large right wing protest against Arab terrorism, July 1, 2014, in response to the kidnap and murder of three Jewish teens (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Divided IsraelPoll: Half of Israelis say negative feelings toward Arabs will never change

A new statue of the Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura, which was unveiled on October 14, 2017 in the Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa. (Courtesy)

Israeli envoy warns of growing trend as Ukraine unveils statue of anti-Semite

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Memorial erected in Vinnitsa to Symon Petliura, who was blamed for commanding pogroms that killed tens of thousands of Jews

Austrian Chairman of the Austrian People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz (R) is welcomed by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen before a meeting at the Hofburg palace in Vienna on October 20, 2017. (AFP/APA/Hans Klaus Techt)

Austria’s Kurz tapped to form government, expected to include far right

By Simon Sturdee

In this Nov. 9, 2005 file picture watch towers and a barbed wire fence of the former Nazi death camp Majdanek outside the city of Lublin in eastern Poland are photographed. (Photo credit: AP/ Czarek Sokolowski,file)

Ex-Nazi Majdanek guard, 96, charged with complicity to mass murder

By AFP

Oxford University. (Shutterstock)

Oxford University accused of ‘social apartheid’ for low number of black students

10 of elite institution’s 32 colleges accepted no black British students in 2015; Cambridge, where 6 colleges took no UK black students, blames low application rates

Naomi Marmon Grumet

Taking back the mikveh

The Eden Center insists on a zero-tolerance policy for harassment at the ritual bath, to rid a source of purity of #MeToo’s

Mansplaining Israel-style

To all who, like Blazer’s Raanan Shaked, find curbing their base impulses oppressive: #MeToo is #NotAboutYou

We need to meet the Haredim halfway

6 counterpoints to the sad, disgusting, and frankly embarrassing Haredi ‘Day of Rage’

The trace of God

The flood taught humanity to think, not of oneself, but of the human other as the image of the Divine (Noach)

Rabbi Ari Berman at his investiture ceremony inaugurating him as president of Yeshiva University, September 10, 2017. (Courtesy)

Interview

Yeshiva University’s new head plans to bring Modern Orthodoxy into the future

By Yaakov Schwartz

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Ex-IDF soldier Elor Azaria is flanked by family and supporters as he arrives to begin his sentence at the military prison in Tzrifin, on August 9, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebron shooter Elor Azaria asks president for pardon

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

Zoulika Aziri the mother of the Merah brothers leaves the courthouse in Paris, France, Wednesday, October 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Trial of Toulouse shooter’s brother reveals chaotic family of a French jihadist

By Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Illustrative image of an El Al plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al slapped with $40 m. class action lawsuit for illegal cancellation fees

An IDF Merkava tank drives near the border with Syria on the Golan Heights on November 28, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

IDF tanks strike Syrian army post after errant mortar fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War in Jerusalem on June 5, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Barak claims tense Netanyahu-Obama relations scuttled gift of free F-35s

By Alexander Fulbright

Nassim Ouadi, a 33-year-old French-Algerian, who, together with his 44-year-old Tunisian girlfriend, has been sentenced to prison after allegedly been found kissing in the car near the Tunisian capital, October 8, 2017. (Screen capture)

The crime of huggingTunisia jails couple for ‘public indecency’ over car canoodling

By AFP

Crews work on a border wall prototype near the border with Tijuana, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in San Diego. Companies are nearing an Oct. 26 deadline to finish building eight prototypes of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Prototypes for Trump’s wall, including Israeli model, take shape on border

By AP

Robert Kraft, center, with Marshall Faulk, right, and, in rear, from left, Ron Yary, Roger Staubach and Dave Casper, June 15, 2017. (Hillel Kuttler via JTA)

Touchdown in IsraelTV film debuts on Kraft and NFL Hall of Famers’ visit to Israel

By Victor Wishna

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