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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 10, 2019

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Jeffrey Epstein, center, appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein dies by suicide in cell

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jeffrey Epstein in New York City in 2005. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)

Court records: Epstein ducked sex abuse questions in deposition

By Larry Neumeister and Jim Mustian

Foiling infiltration, IDF kills four Gazans armed with rifles, RPGs, grenades

Palestinians spotted during attempt to scale barrier into Israel; army says troops opened fire when grenade hurled at soldiers; military aircraft strike Hamas post

This photo released by the IDF shows a collection on weapons, including rifles, RPG launchers, grenades, bold cutters and knives carried by four Gazans who tried to cross the border into Israel, August 10, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says large-scale terror attack thwarted as troops prevent Gaza infiltration

Israeli soldiers stand guard during a house-to-house search operation in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem on August 8, 2019, following a stabbing attack that killed Dvir Sorek, 19. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

IDF arrests 4 suspects in deadly West Bank stabbing attack

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri, second right, and a Hamas delegation, in Tehran, Iran, July 22, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Hamas: Hezbollah and Iran will join war if Israel tries to ‘break resistance’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Official from Gaza-based Palestinian terrorist group tells Lebanese paper of understandings reached in Tehran meeting last month

Iran unveils ‘upgraded’ missile defense system with ‘high capabilities’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran says Israeli involvement in US-led naval mission a threat to its security

By Agencies and ToI Staff

France says it ‘needs no permission’ for Iran dialogue after Trump swipe

By AFP

Singer Jennifer Lopez performs onstage during her concert on the beach of North Coast city of New Alamein, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo on August 9, 2019. It was Lopez's first concert in Egypt. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

J-Lo concert draws 2,000 in Egypt, singer unfazed by BDS calls after Israel gig

Ministers attend show by popstar Jennifer Lopez, who played in Tel Aviv last week, despite protest by Israel-boycott group

A girl waves a rainbow flag during a concert organized in solidarity with Lebanese indie band Mashrou' Leila in Lebanon's capital Beirut, August 9, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Hundreds attend Lebanon protest concert after show by gay-friendly band canceled

By AFP

Andy Ruiz, right, punches Anthony Joshua during the seventh round of a heavyweight championship boxing match, June 1, 2019, in New York. Ruiz won the bout. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Saudi Arabia accused of ‘sportswash’ for hosting world heavyweight fight

By AFP

Steny Hoyer speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 22, 2019,(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Steny Hoyer has a tough job: Uniting Democrats on Israel

Sarah Silverman poses before an Emmy For Your Consideration event for the Showtime series "Who Is America?" at Paramount Studios, on May 15, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Sarah Silverman warns pastor who calls for her death is going to get her killed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jewish comedian shares video of Adam Fannin’s anti-Semitic tirade in which he says she’s ‘a God-hating whore of Zionism’ who is ‘willing to put Jesus to death again’

Illustrative: Klan members salute during a KKK rally in Justice Park, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Jewish security experts call for 9/11-style response to fight white supremacists

This image provided by the FBI shows Patrick Crusius, the suspected gunman who opened fire in an El Paso, Texas, shopping area packed with people during the busy back-to-school season Saturday, August 3, 2019. (FBI via AP)

Police: El Paso shooting suspect said he targeted Mexicans

By CEDAR ATTANASIO, Jake Bleiberg and Paul J. Weber

Mohammed Ahmad, left, and Eran Nissan speak at a New Voices Leadership event on Capitol Hill, July 11, 2019. (Ron Kampeas)

US politics

Palestinian, Israeli discover a shared past when they meet as Washington interns

A British teenager, hooded, who accused seven Israelis of gang rape arrives at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus, to face charges of making a false allegation, July 29, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)

Israeli man donates $9,000 to UK teen who accused Israelis of rape in Cyprus

Aryeh Fraser calls contribution to crowdfunding campaign a ‘humanitarian donation’ as GoFundMe page for woman’s legal defense surpasses its goal

Dr. Andrew Rehfeld (courtesy of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion)

Interview

First non-rabbi head of Reform seminary says it’s time to redefine liberal Jewry

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Liel Zahavi-Asa

What Dvir Sorek’s picture won’t tell you

Don’t judge others by the externals: don’t believe yourself superior, and don’t teach the next generation the hatred that leads to more pain and suffereng

Words that last

What would we say if we knew what we were saying would be our last? A unlikely comparison between William Henry Harrison and Moses (Devarim)

Tal Paz-Fridman's 'The Uniqueness of Waves XXV,' taken at dusk at the Tel Aviv port; for this photographer, the series is a practice of photographic meditation - an attempt to calm the inner waves with awareness of the here and now (Courtesy Tal Paz-Fridman)

Through the lens, photographer finds solace in the land

By Jessica Steinberg

Yelchin was also an avid photographer and avant-garde filmmaker. (Lurker Films/via JTA)

Killed by his own car at 27, Jewish movie star Anton Yelchin also hid an illness

By Stephen Silver

Andy Kindler has frequently referenced the Holocaust in his comedy. (Courtesy of Just for Laughs/via JTA)

Comedy

Jewish comic Andy Kindler says Donald Trump is the joke that keeps on giving

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Palestinian Muslim worshipers pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound at Jerusalem's Temple Mount on May 10, 2019 on the first Friday prayers of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Waqf calls for mass prayers at Temple Mount to stop Jews visiting on Tisha B’av

US Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at the Israel Hayom forum in Jerusalem on June 27, 2019. (Gideon Markovitz)

US peace envoy: There’s ‘no international consensus’ on Mideast conflict

By Eric Cortellessa

A campaign billboard of the Blue and White party in Larnaca, Cyprus. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Foreign influenceEven on vacation, Israelis can’t get away from election ads

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, July 7, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu grumbles over insufficient support for him on right

By Alexander Fulbright

Rabbi Gilberto Venturas and his wife, Jacqueline. (Courtesy of Sinagoga sem Froteiras via JTA)

Descendants of forcefully converted Jews open mikveh in northern Brazil

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Aaron's Tomb near Petra, Jordan. (CC BY-SA Joneikifi, Wikipedia)

Jordan to reopen Aaron’s Tomb after closure over alleged Jewish praying there

Andrew Anglin runs the anti-Semitic Daily Stormer website. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Woman awarded $725,000 in lawsuit against neo-Nazi website founder

By AP

A screenshot of Iraqi-born Jimmy Al-Daoud who died in Baghdad two months after being deported from the US, August 2019. (Screenshot/BBC)

Iraqi national dies months after being deported from US; body to be returned

By AP

The Russian city of Severodvinsk, west of Arkhangelsk, the administrative center of the oblast, near the Nyonoksa test site on the White Sea where five were killed on August 9, 2019. (Perov V via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA)

Russia nuclear agency says 5 dead in missile test explosion

By AFP

Illustrative: Krystyna Danko receives flowers from From the Depths founder Jonny Daniels in her Warsaw apartment on her 102nd birthday, July 9, 2019. (From the Depths via JTA)

Polish woman who saved adoptive Jewish family from Holocaust dies at 102

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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