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What Matters Most On Friday, October 5, 2018

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Femi-Nazis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Duped academic journal publishes rewrite of ‘Mein Kampf’ as feminist manifesto

To highlight alleged intellectual bias in university ‘grievance studies’ programs, three scholars write 20 absurd papers; seven are accepted to top publications

Perpetrators of an elaborate hoax against academic journals (from left) mathematics Ph.D. James Lindsay, UK academic Helen Pluckrose and philosophy professor Peter Boghossian. (courtesy)

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and senior IDF officers visit an exercise simulating war with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group on September 4, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

‘The holidays are over,’ Liberman warns Hamas heads

By Judah Ari Gross

In a tweet, defense minister hints to leaders of Gaza terror group that Israel is ready to go to war over border violence

In Jerusalem, Merkel says Palestinians must accept Israel as Jewish state

By Raphael Ahren

Israel media reviewMessaging before war: 8 things to know for October 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense minister orders IDF on high alert at Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on June 22, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

US envoy Greenblatt discusses Israeli-Palestinian peace plan with senators

Negotiator does not provide new details of the plan, which Trump has promised to unveil within the next four months

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, October 4, 2018. (Haim Zach/Government Press Office)

Hosting Merkel, Netanyahu accuses Abbas of ‘choking’ flow of funds to Gaza

Palestinians burn a poster of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a protest against Israel and the PA in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 14, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

AnalysisAs Gaza worsens, Abbas controls fate of US peace plan

By Josef Federman

Analysis

The rise, fall and worsening plight of a Palestinian would-be mayor of Jerusalem

Aziz Abu Sarah launched an improbable campaign last month to become the capital’s first Palestinian mayor; now he’s not sure he can even go on living in the city

Aziz Abu Sarah, who withdrew last week from the mayoral race in Jerusalem, at the American Colony Hotel in September. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Iranians raise anti-US and anti-Israel signs during a demonstration following the weekly Muslim Friday prayer in the capital Tehran on September 28, 2018. (AFP / STRINGER)

US targets Iran and its proxy groups in new counterterror blueprint

By AP and ToI Staff

DC calls Tehran the ‘world’s central banker of international terrorism’ for supporting Hezbollah, Hamas and others; strategy urges sharing burden of fighting terror with allies

Aly Raisman poses for Sports Illustrated, with a message to abuse survivors (Aly Raisman / Instagram, via JTA)

Blaming the victimIran’s supreme leader uses Aly Raisman’s assault to promote hijab

By JTA

In this photo taken on September 12, 2018, Commander of United States Central Command Joseph Votel speaks during a meeting with the Gulf cooperation council's armed forces chiefs of staff in Kuwait City. (AFP PHOTO / Yasser Al-Zayyat)

Top US general: Russia’s S-300 deployment in Syria a ‘needless escalation’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)

Yemenite families of disappeared children file class-action lawsuit

Suit seeks to force the state to accept responsibility for at least 69 children who disappeared from state institutions in the 1950s

Illustrative image of travelers seen at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Government said to use Canary Mission blacklist to bar visitors

By ToI Staff and JTA

As court upholds deportation of student Lara Alqasem, official document confirms right-wing website that names and shames campus activists used to prove anti-Israel history

Screen capture from video produced by Canary Mission, a site that blacklists pro-Palestinian activists. (YouTube screenshot/ Canary Mission)

San Francisco federation once funded secretive blacklist of anti-Israel students

By JTA

Screen capture from Joel and Ethan Coen's 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.' (Netflix/screenshot)

Film review

Coen Bros. draw guns and chuckles in six-part, existentialist Western flick

By Jordan Hoffman

Nobel Peace Prize 2018 winners Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege, left, and Nadia Murad, public advocate for the Yazidi community in Iraq and survivor of sexual enslavement by the Islamic State jihadists. (AFP)

Nobel Peace Prize honors fight against sexual violence, in nod to #MeToo

By AP

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi former captive of the Islamic State, and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege honored for combating sexual violence as a ‘weapon of war’

In this file photo taken on June 21, 2016, human rights activist Nadia Murad arrives at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America/Mark Wilson)

Nadia Murad: From jihadists’ slave to global champion for women

By Sarah Benhaida

In this file photo taken on March 18, 2015, Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege poses at Panzi Hospital, on the outskirts of Bukavu, DR Congo. (AFP Photo/Marc Jourdier)

Denis Mukwege: Brave healer of Congo’s most horrific wounds

By Samir TOUNSI

Crematoria at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz I. Their construction was a prelude to much larger crematoria complexes later constructed at Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Warning: Graphic images

Outsourced mass murder: How Topf & Sons engineered genocide from its boardroom

By Matt Lebovic

Stephen Bannon in Errol Morris's documentary, 'American Dharma.' (Courtesy)

Review

On film, Bannon’s 2016 election strategy is crafted into an electrifying caper

By Jordan Hoffman

US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, September 27, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Saul Loeb)

Kavanaugh says he ‘might have been too emotional’ at hearing

By Alan Fram and LISA MASCARO

Supreme Court nominee defends impartiality in op-ed aimed at winning over last three undecided senators, as lawmakers ready for vote after FBI report released

Protesters occupy the Senate Hart building during a rally against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on October 4, 2018. (AFP / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS)

Thousands of protesters march on Washington as Kavanaugh vote nears

By AFP and AP

Pray it forward

The prayers of others changed everything for me when I was dying; now, I want to do the same for a sick friend

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

A test for the University of Michigan

It’s time to implement policies that will protect students once and for all from professors’ petty BDS politics

Chana Tannenbaum

The Plan A and Plan B of creation

What humanity can learn from the sins of the earth and the moon

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

When the beginning happens twice

Was the Bible’s opening line so bad that the tale of creation had to be told again? (Bereishit)

Senator Bernie Sanders waving in Concord on the day of the primary elections in New Hampshire, Feb. 9, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Bernie or bus

Sanders saves woman’s life, goes back to work like nothing happened

By JTA

Staffers only found out senator stopped pedestrian from being hit by traffic after she shared it on Facebook

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Waiting in the wings

El Al among world’s most consistently delayed airlines

Only Egyptair and Ethiopian Airlines rank below Israeli carrier in terms of punctuality, Flightstats September figures show

In this Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, file photo, Drew Barrymore, a cast member in "Going the Distance," arrives at the premiere of the film in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Never been interviewedEgyptAir insists ‘surreal’ Drew Barrymore interview not fake

By AP

More Headlines

Retired judge Hila Gerstel attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset, on January 27, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police recommend closing probe of judge over Sara Netanyahu case

In this photo taken on July 4, 2017, Meng Hongwei, president of Interpol, gives an address at the opening of the Interpol World Congress in Singapore. (AFP Photo/Roslan Rahman)

Interpol chief is missing, French police say

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pose for photographers ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on October 5, 2018. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev)

India buys Russia’s S-400 defense system, straining US ties

By AFP

Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan., talks to supporters during a parade in Overland Park, Kansas, September 29, 2018. (Charlie Riedel/AP)

Sink or swimCongressman of Israel skinny-dipping infamy struggles for reelection

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Woman, 62, extradited to Israel over abuse of disabled son

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife Sara in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After five-hour grilling by police, Netanyahu says graft probes are ‘boneless’

Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)

Swedish far-right party submits motion calling for circumcision ban

By JTA

In this photograph taken on September 28, 2018, Bosnian Croat supporters of HDZ, the Croat Democratic Union, the most influential political party among Bosnian Croats, cheer during a pre-election rally in the northwestern Bosnian town of Livno. (AFP Photo/Elvis Barukcic)

In ethnically split Bosnia, ‘others,’ including Jews, are on the outside

By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC

Illustrative image of Palestinian schoolgirls in their small playground in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, on March 30, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Outgoing Jerusalem mayor lays out plan to oust UNRWA from city

Ari Fuld (Facebook)

Arab MK accuses terror victim Fuld of ‘executing’ his killer; Likud MK protests

Walter Laqueur in 1981. (Fred Sweets/The Washington Post via Getty Images and JTA)

Walter Laqueur, terrorism scholar who fled the Holocaust, dies at 97

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a chocolate ice cream sundae. (Wikipedia/TheCulinaryGeek/CC BY)

Frozen assetsKarachi ice cream vendor becomes unwitting billionaire

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