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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 26, 2019

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during funeral services for Rep. Elijah Cummings, Oct. 25, 2019, in Baltimore (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, Pool)

Clinton appears to compare Trumps to Bible’s Ahab and Jezebel in Cummings eulogy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kushner’s Holocaust survivor grandparents invoked to defend his Mideast record

Trump’s latest Syria strategy of protecting oil called into question

By Sylvie LANTEAUME

Soros calls Elizabeth Warren the candidate ‘most qualified to be president’

By JTA

Melted butter (iStock)

Reporter's notebook

I can’t believe there’s no butter! ToI’s sleuth churns a spreading Israel crisis

By Simona Weinglass

Why is there no butter on supermarket shelves? Is it the fault of the farmers? The producers? The PM? The unions? China? Foodies? The weather?… Or are we milking fake news?

93-year-old former SS guard Bruno Dey in the concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig, arrives at the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. The prosecution accuses the 93-year-old man of aiding and abetting the murder of 5,230 people. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Ex-SS guard: I saw people led to gas chamber, didn’t know they were being gassed

By AP

‘I didn’t see anyone come out,’ says Bruno Dey, 93, being tried on 5,230 counts of accessory to murder for killings while he was at Stutthof camp

Police officers secure the area around a McDonald's restaurant near the shopping mall Olympia Einkaufzentrum OEZ in Munich on July 23, 2016, a day after a gunman went on a shooting rampage, killing nine people in a suspected terror attack. (AFP PHOTO/Christof Stache)

German authorities say 2016 shooting that killed 9 had far-right motives

By AP

Retired General Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White political alliance, is pictured after paying his respects in front of the coffin of the recently deceased former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar, in Jerusalem on October 22, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Report: Gantz tried for minority gov’t with Haredim, New Right — was rebuffed

Blue and White leader looked at option of coalition backed from outside by Liberman, according to TV report

American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Medicine Faculty buildings at Ariel University in the West Bank, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

TV: Adelson was adamant he’d do nothing untoward in Netanyahu’s media battles

A beach in Tel Aviv is nearly empty as temperatures drop across Israel, October 23, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Braving storm warnings, 70,000 Israelis flock to national parks

Thousands visit sites near Dead Sea, where weather service predicts flooding from rainfall accompanying rare storm; clocks in Israel turn back overnight

File: Tel Aviv is seen from the boardwalk of the Old City of Jaffa during stormy weather on January 16, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hours before it hits, forecasters unsure if storm will lash Israel or dissipate

Eric Fingerhut speaks to students at the Hillel Institute, a conference in St. Louis, in 2013. (Jonathan Heisler/via JTA)

Interview

Cathryn J. Prince

One year after Pittsburgh massacre, new JFNA head urges Jews to stand together

Six weeks into his job as CEO of Jewish Federations of North America, Eric Fingerhut’s to-do list includes anti-Semitism, bipartisan support of Israel and engaging youth

A view of Congregation B'nai Israel in Bridgeport, Conn. (Google Street View via JTA)

Connecticut synagogue evacuated after receiving 2 bomb threats

By JTA and ToI Staff

Police respond to an active shooter situation at the Tree of Life synagogue on Wildins Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, October 27, 2018. (Pam Panchak/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Anniversary of a massacrePolice wounded in Pittsburgh synagogue attack thank Jewish community for support

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Director Joseph Lovett with Carmen Gomez Gomez, examining a 14th-century tax document in the Toledo cathedral archives, in this still from 'Children of the Inquisition.' (Lovett Productions)

Director interview

How Jews expelled from Spain forged a diaspora with ties to 25% of Latin America

By Rich Tenorio

Zubin Mehta speaks to Channel 12 in an interview that aired October 25, 2019 (screenshot)

Maestro's regret

Mehta sorry he couldn’t play with Israel Phil. in Arab country

Departing as orchestra’s music director after almost 6 decades, Indian-born legend says ‘koykhes’ kept him going, and he’s not done with work yet: ‘My calendar is full till 2022’

In this file photo taken on August 22, 2019 Jonas Rothe, founder and CEO of Timeride, a company offering virtual reality tours through a still-divided Berlin, poses next to Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

30 years later, Berlin Wall comes back to life with virtual reality

By Deborah Cole

The dead will be placed in burial niches several stories high along the sides of the massive tunnels under the Har Hamenuchot cemetery. (Sam Sokol / JTA)

Squeezed for burial space, Jerusalem prepares an underground city of the dead

Micki Lavin-Pell

Let’s not allow Michal Sela to die in vain

Too often, those suffering highly entrenched marital difficulties put on an especially happy front, in order to hide the shame and pain

The genesis of love (Bereishit, Covenant & Conversation 5780)

I believe that relationships are where our humanity is born and grows, that by loving people we learn to love God and feel the fullness of His love for us

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A Technion lab that exploded on October 13, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Technion professor dies after suffering serious injury in lab explosion

The scene of a collision between a bus and car at I'billin Junction, October 26, 2019 (Magen David Adom)

Deadly weekend on roads continues with woman killed in crash between car, bus

A car hit by a vehicle that attempted to flee police on the Ayalon Highway, October 25, 2019 (video screen grab)

Three injured as car fleeing police hits 5 other vehicles on Ayalon Highway

Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei reacts after losing to Belgium's Matthias Casse in the semifinal fight in the men's under-81 kilogram category during the 2019 Judo World Championships in Tokyo, on August 28, 2019. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

Judo ban for Iran over refusal to face Israelis a wake-up call ahead of Olympics

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of activist Uzi Mushalem. (YouTube)

Ministers meet over posthumous pardon for ‘Yemenite children’ activist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a joint press conference in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on August 19, 2019. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Ukraine to open diplomatic mission in Jerusalem focused on tech

Palestinians riot by the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City, on October 11, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Several thousand Palestinians protest on Gaza border; 16 injured in riots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Vera Jourova, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium in 2014. (European Union Press Service via JTA)

EU official welcomes Czech resolution that calls Israel boycott anti-Semitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A page out of the Kennicott Bible, pictured at a press conference in Santiago de Compostela, Spain on Oct. 14, 2019. (Xunta de Galicia via JTA)

Copy of Hebrew Bible created in Spain by Jews returns there after centuries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Opioids, addiction, overdose (Illustrative, via iStock)

Teenager dies in Jerusalem from suspected drug overdose

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