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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 13, 2019

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Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah points to a map of Israel, and specifies potential targets, in a July 12, 2019, TV interview. (Channel 13 screenshot)

Nasrallah warns Israel could be ‘wiped out’ in war between US and Iran

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pointing to map of Israel, Hezbollah leader specifies the targets his terror group could hit, claims its precision missiles can reach Eilat

Gibraltar releases crew members of detained Iranian tanker on bail

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US House votes to limit Trump’s ability to strike Iran

By Andrew Taylor

Top US official marks AMIA anniversary with vow to step up pressure on Iran

Police stand in front of protesters at a demonstration at an ICE detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 30, 2019. (Naftali Y. Ehrenkranz via JTA)

'We’re witnessing an atrocity'

The Jews getting arrested at ICE centers are just getting started

Jewish activists behind Never Again Action are at forefront of civil disobedience campaign that deliberately uses Holocaust terminology to protest migrant detention centers

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent prepares to arrest alleged undocumented immigrants in Salem, Mass., June 19, 2018. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbinic human rights group calls planned ICE immigrant raids ‘inhumane’

By JTA

US Vice President Mike Pence tours a detention facility on the Texas border, July 12, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Pence tour of migrant center shows men crowded in cages

By AP

A wedding dress with an embroidered marijuana leaf on the front was displayed at the High Vibe Bride booth during the Cannabis Wedding Expo in Los Angeles in January 2019 (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Trends

Joint in holy matrimony? At many Israeli weddings, weed is the new whiskey

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: a rocket fired from Gaza over Israel, July 9, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

2 rockets fired from Gaza toward southern Israel; no injuries reported

Alert heard in Nir Yitzhak and Sufa, sending residents rushing to bomb shelters; projectiles fired hours after IDF increases Iron Dome missile defense batteries in south of country

Illustrative: Israeli security forces take cover on the side of a highway near the Gaza border as the incoming rocket siren is heard on May 5, 2019. (Noam Rivkin Fenton/Flash90)

Amid Gaza tensions, rocket sirens in south go off in false alarm

Palestinian demonstrators run away from the fence during protests along the border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 12, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

6,000 protest on Gaza border; IDF deploys more Iron Dome batteries in south

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks during a news conference in New York, July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Prosecutors urge no bail for Epstein, warn he could try to influence witnesses

By Larry Neumeister and Michael R. Sisak

Government lawyers say the billionaire has a ‘shocking lack of understanding’ of the gravity of his crimes, may spend the rest of his life behind bars

US labor secretary resigns amid scrutiny of sex abuse plea deal he gave Epstein

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Jill Colvin

Epstein philanthropy since sex plea included all-girl school

By Bernard Condon and ALI SWENSON

‘I was terrified’: Jeffrey Epstein accused of building a network of victims

By Thomas URBAIN

Newly elected Labor Party leader Amir speaks at a party conference in Tel Aviv on July 9, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Labor head says conflict with Hamas helping Netanyahu avoid peace talks

On campaign trail, Amir Peretz says PM would react differently if it were West Bank settlement fields being set ablaze rather than land in the south

Former PM Ehud Barak speaks during a press conference announcing the establishment of a new political party in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Labor and Meretz officials say Barak’s ties to Epstein hurt chances of merger

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent of Vermont, speaks during the National Education Association Strong Public Schools Presidential Forum, July 5, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Analysis

Bernie Sanders: Being first Jewish president would be ‘another barrier broken’

In wide-ranging interview, 2020 candidate shies away from questions on his personal life but wants voters to know he’s not grumpy all the time

Protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 12, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Over 150 activists staged a demonstration outside of the ICE offices in San Francisco to demand that immigrant detention centers at the southern border be shut down. Protests are being held in cities across the country. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says nationwide immigration arrests to begin Sunday

By Elliot Spagat and Colleen Long

Blue and White co-chairman Yair Lapid at the opening session of the new Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Lapid calls on US to boot Turkey from F-35 program over Russian missile deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blue and White MK warns that Turkey, Iran can ‘learn how to neutralize America’s most advanced weaponry’ if delivery of stealth fighters goes forward

Military vehicles and equipment, parts of the S-400 air defense systems, are unloaded from a Russian transport aircraft, at Murted military airport in Ankara, Turkey, July 12, 2019. (Turkish Defence Ministry via AP, Pool)

US weighing how to punish ally Turkey over Russian S-400 deal

By Robert Burns and Matthew Lee

Illustrative image of a person being arrested. (BrianAJackson via iStock by Getty images)

Franco-Israeli sentenced to 9 years in prison, fined for vast tax fraud scam

By AFP

Stéphane Alzraa, who was extradited from Israel, convicted of organized fraud and aggravated money laundering for involvement in $57 million ‘scam of the century’

In this file photo from April 11, 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election and data privacy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Facebook said to face unprecedented $5 billion fine for privacy violations

By AFP

Trees in the northern Negev, December 12, 2008. (Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

Munich’s Jewish Museum calls Negev forests ‘settlement policy,’ sparking outcry

By Cnaan Liphshiz

State-run institution uses loaded term to describe afforestation near Beersheba; employee protests the use of ‘anti-Semitic imagery’; JNF Germany: Display ‘painful, intolerable’

Israel’s China challenge

Viewing our second largest trading partner as either a goldmine or an existential threat is a risky simplification

Miscalculations

How Maimonides’ Letter to Yemen, sunshine in Yorkshire, and several pregnant virgins teach that we cannot predict the date of the Messiah’s arrival (Balak)

Rabbi Mira Rivera is passionate about building community among Jews of color. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

A Filipino-American rabbi aims to make other Jews of color feel at home in shul

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Film director Stanley Kubrick, in an undated picture during production of "The Shining." (AP Photo)

Kubrick’s bitter domestic side revealed in newly uncovered screenplays

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, talks with deputy leader Tom Watson, during the start of the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, September 23, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Corbyn allies lash Labour deputy chief for criticizing response to anti-Semitism

Stephen Jennings after police say they found in his car a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey during a traffic stop. (Logan County, Oklahoma Sheriff's Office via AP)

Nuclear stealUS police find uranium and rattlesnake in stolen car during traffic stop

By AP and ToI Staff

Worka and Wbjig Tekah hold a picture of their son Solomon Tekah, 19, who was killed by an off duty police officer, at their home in the Israeli city of Haifa, on July 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Wife of cop who killed Ethiopian-Israeli says race not factor, family in hiding

Mark Talisman speaks at a ceremony aboard the USS Harry S. Truman dedicating a Torah scroll, rescued from Lithuania, that was loaned with his help to the Navy vessel, June 24, 2007. (U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

ObituaryMark Talisman, champion of key law in fight for Soviet Jewry, dies at 78

By JTA

Sara Netanyahu arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on June 16, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former Netanyahu adviser said to tell police he was told: ‘Sara is the PM’

Benoit Wesly told police that he was tortured until he gave his assailants the combination to his safe. (RTV Maastricht via JTA)

Masked assailants waterboard, rob Netherlands Jewish leader

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The scene after a window fell on diners at the Seatara restaurant in Tel Aviv, July 12 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 13)

4 injured as sheet of glass falls from nearby building onto Tel Aviv diners

French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut is targeted by yellow vest protesters shouting anti-Semitic slogans, Paris, February 16, 2019 (Screen grab via Yahoo)

French ‘yellow vest’ protester handed suspended sentence for anti-Semitic abuse

By AFP

Egyptian craftsman Mohamed Ghaly adds the finishing touches on a semsemia that he made at the Canal 20 cultural museum in the northeastern city of Port Said at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal, on May 29, 2019. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Lyrical lyre lookalikeAncient Pharaonic harp strums new tune on banks of the Suez Canal

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