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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 9, 2018

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Jewish people take part in the priestly blessing ceremony during the Passover holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Arab and Muslim nations are home to just 27,000 Jews

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 14.7 million Jews around the globe

Jewish population growth rate remains far below global average; Israel’s 6.6 million Jews is world’s largest community; but Diaspora still has more Jews, with 5.7 million in US

Israel media reviewCount the Jews: 7 things to know for September 9

By Joshua Davidovich

Rivlin calls on Jews to unite, in English-language Rosh Hashanah video

UN chief, world envoys join Rosh Hashanah rite, throw ‘sins’ into East River

New US ambassador to Israel David Friedman kisses the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

No future president will reverse Jerusalem embassy move, US envoy says

David Friedman believes no party would take position ‘completely contrary to reality’ by moving mission back to Tel Aviv; insists Israel can do what it wants with settlements

Video footage appears to show a 16-year-old Palestinian shot while his hands were in the air in Gaza, September 8, 2018 (Screenshot)

IDF to probe deaths of 2 Gaza teens, including 16-year-old who raised hands

Israeli military says troops acted in accordance with regulations and the incidents will be examined by the appropriate authorities

Palestinians say two hurt by IDF fire after approaching Gaza border fence

IDF southern head: Gaza quiet isn’t in the cards for a decade, but port might be

Brother of Israeli held by Hamas appeals to Gazans to free him

The old razzle dazzle

Shiri Maimon set to spread some Funny Honey on Broadway as Roxie in ‘Chicago’

‘It’s starting to get real,’ the petite blonde tells ToI as she stands among musical theater royalty at NY’s Sardi’s restaurant

Israeli singer Shiri Maimon as Roxie in the Broadway production of 'Chicago,' August 2018. (courtesy)

Interview

Haviv Rettig Gur

Isaac Herzog sees hope for the Jewish Agency, and the fractured nation it serves

Locked in a slow but seemingly inexorable decline, the institution, still one of Israel’s most important charities, ‘doesn’t know how to tell its story,’ says its new boss

Illustrative: Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog, center, at an event at Ben Gurion Airport to welcome some 300 new immigrants from France on a special flight organized by the Jewish Agency, July 23, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

AnalysisWith a new leader, can the storied Jewish Agency buck 50 years of decline?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Rabbi Asher Faith carries a new Torah scroll being dedicated alongside the new congregation at the dedication of the prayer space in the Medieval Jewish Prayer House in Budapest, September 6, 2018. (Márton Merész)

In Budapest, a medieval synagogue dormant for hundreds of years is rededicated

By Yaakov Schwartz

Britain's former foreign secretary Boris Johnson reacts to seeing photographers taking his picture as attends the fifth cricket test match of a five match series between England and India at the Oval cricket ground in London, September 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Boris Johnson sparks furor with Brexit ‘suicide vest’ comparison

By Jill Lawless

Former foreign secretary’s remarks lashing PM May’s plans for leaving Europe should end his political career, says rival Conservative lawmaker

Italy's Interior Minister and Deputy-Premier Matteo Salvini attends a news conference after meeting Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in Milan, Italy, August 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

After Bannon talks, Italy’s Salvini announces plan to ‘save Europe’

By AFP

Demonstrators hold placards as they protest outside the headquarters of Britain's opposition Labour party in central London on September 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

UK Labour is being led by anti-Semites, former anti-racism watchdog head charges

2015 was the last year that Temple B'nai Brith families were allowed to use bread at the traditional tashlich ceremony at the Blessing of the Bay Boathouse in Somerville, Massachusetts. (Sharona Jacobs/ via JTA)

Down by the river

A Jewish atonement ritual (not the chicken one) gets an eco-friendly makeover

Since throwing bread into the river is now off the table, a community tweaks the tashlich ceremony to protect local wildlife

(Illustration by Charles Dunst/JTA; photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Rosh Hashanah needs a little preparation – we have a digital solution

By Wendie Lash, Lex Rofeberg and Estee Solomon Gray

Fertility specialist Dr David Smotrich in 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish doctor uses sperm taken 3 days after man’s death to give him heir

In highly unusual case, UK couple harvested son’s sperm and created a grandson using a donor egg and a surrogate, sidestepping several legal issues

Peta Jones Pellach

In Jerusalem, women say kaddish

Why I said the Ashkenazi kaddish, even though I’m a kitniyot-on-Passover Sephardi Jew

Chief Rabbi Mirvis writes LGBT+ Jews into the Book of Life

An unprecedented practical guide by an Orthodox rabbi to safeguard the well-being of those who have struggled daily

Ziona Greenwald

Uman for Rosh Hashanah – Not on my tab, please

There are only 2 reasons that other people’s Rosh Hashanah plans are any of my business

The wind in the hollow bone

I’m blowing shofar for the first time in front of the congregation, and, yes, I’m nervous about messing it up

Judith Colp Rubin

Making food and peace in the kitchen

Real women, I was raised to believe, did not belong in the kitchen. And yet I cook

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

The primal baritone burst of the shofar

What do you think about when the shofar blasts on Rosh Hashanah?

An election official casts a voter's ballot at a polling station during the Swedish general elections in Stockholm on September 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Polls open in Sweden amid heated debate on immigration

By AP and AFP

Far-right expected to make dramatic gains in European nation that took in the most Muslim asylum seekers per capita since 2015

German Jewish leader slams deep-rooted extremism after kosher restaurant attack

By David Rising

Far-right expected to make major gains as Sweden heads to polls

By Gaël BRANCHEREAU

On election eve, Swedish PM slams ‘Nazi and racist roots’ of far-right party

By JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and Vanessa Gera

Illustrative: Gazan Jumana Daoud carries her 7-month-old daughter Maryam at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem on February 20, 2017, as they meet for the first time since the baby's premature birth. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Palestinians: US cuts to Arab hospitals will have dire effect on healthcare

By ToI Staff and AP

$25 million funding being withdrawn by US covers 40% of costs in six East Jerusalem hospitals that treat West Bank and Gaza patients

Israeli car comes under fire in the West Bank; none injured

Fearing collapse amid UNRWA cuts, Israeli officials urge aid for Gaza

Pompeo slams Khamenei for hypocrisy over Palestinian aid funding

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A scuba diver checks coral reefs in the Red Sea off the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat, June 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Eilat coral reef defies expectations and regenerates after fish farming damage

By ToI Staff and AFP

The resilience of Red Sea coral fascinates scientists, who try to understand why the marine life fares well in heat and seems immune to the bleaching which plagues other reefs

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In this June 20, 2017, photo, Montana Rep.-elect Greg Gianforte responds to questions at his home in Bozeman, Mont., about an election-eve confrontation with a reporter. (AP Photo/Bobby Caina Calvan,)

Trump praises Republican congressman who body slammed Jewish reporter

By JTA

Transgender woman Atalia Israeli-Nevo, who says she was prevented entering Sinai by Egyptian border officials who said she could not cross due to her 'male' passport (Screenshot Channel 10)

Israeli transgender woman says not allowed to enter Egypt due to ‘male’ passport

Supporters of Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, light candles in the front of the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo, where he was admitted on September 7, 2018, after being stabbed while campaigning in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais State.
(AFP PHOTO / Miguel SCHINCARIOL)

Brazil presidential candidate Bolsonaro recovering after stabbing

By AFP

Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi speaks at a press conference on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on July 29, 2018, after finishing her eight month prison sentence for slapping an Israeli soldier. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Israel reportedly bars Ahed Tamimi and her family from leaving country

File: Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich (2nd-L) and Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevy (2nd-R) seen during a briefing at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, on June 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem police chief slams reports of quarrel with Alsheich

A military police officer speaks with imprisoned Israeli soldiers at Prison Four, Israel's largest military prison, located at the Tzrifin military base on Aril 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Army offers amnesty to deserters for festival season

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