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What Matters Most On Friday, August 28, 2020

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Kimberly Guilfoyle prerecords her address to the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC on August 24, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

‘Israel’ and ‘elites’: The Republican convention sends mixed messages to Jews

Some speakers cite moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem as evidence that Trump is a man of his word, but others mention the ‘elites,’ often used as a dog whistle term for Jews

Lee Zeldin, one of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, in dead-heat race

Trump lashes Biden on White House stage, amid series of national crises

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Reporter's notebookAt the Republican convention, unconventional messaging for American Jews

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, attends a meeting between Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, August 20, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker-Pool/ Getty Images/ AFP)

Kushner says NBA players lucky to be rich enough to ‘take a night off from work’

US president’s son-in-law, senior adviser criticizes basketball players for striking in protest against police violence, says he will contact LeBron James to discuss issue

Kyle Rittenhouse, left, with backwards cap, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 25, 2020, with another armed civilian. (Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP)

Teen charged with homicide in Kenosha protest shooting that killed 2, wounded 1

By STEPHEN GROVES and Scott Bauer

Beth Hillel Temple on August 26, 2020. (Julio Rosas/Twitter)

‘Free Palestine’ spray-painted outside Kenosha synagogue during protests

Mitzpe Kramim. (Gideon Mermelstein)

High Court orders razing of outpost homes, but okays legalization of others

Justices approve legal tactic used by AG to legitimize homes built on Palestinian land, but says it can’t apply to Mitzpeh Kramim, because it wasn’t built in good faith

Police raze wildcat West Bank outpost established in memory of slain rabbi

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

For 2nd time in month, Palestinian village vandalized in apparent hate crime

Border cop lightly hurt by stone slab hurled at him in East Jerusalem clashes

Smoke rises in the distance after IDF planes carried out airstrikes on Hamas targets near Gaza City on August 28, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

After volley of rockets fired at south, IDF again strikes Hamas targets in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

6 projectiles launched at south pre-dawn in apparent response to earlier Israeli bombing of terror group’s sites; exchange follows Hamas threats of an impending ‘message’

Palestinian men prepare to release balloon-borne explosive and incendiary devices toward Israel near Rafah, along the Israel-Gaza border, on August 21, 2020 (Fadi Fahd/Flash90)

Hamas: Truce talks have failed, Israel will receive ‘messages’ within hours

Smoke rises in the distance after IDF planes carried out airstrikes on Hamas targets near Gaza City on August 28, 2020. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas: ‘We will exact a heavy price from anyone who lays siege to Gaza’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and his book 'Morality,' which will be available Sept. 1 in the United States. (Courtesy of the Office of Rabbi Sacks)

Interview

LAURA E. ADKINS

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks warns ‘cultural climate change’ eroding collective morality

With release of his new book, former UK chief rabbi discusses cancel culture, restoring morality and Israel’s missed opportunities

Former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (United Synagogue via JTA)

Lord Sacks says US rabbis making ‘big mistake’ with political endorsements

By PHILISSA CRAMER

El Al planes are parked at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on April 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

El Al plane listed for historic Israel-UAE trip with dialing code flight numbers

By AP and ToI Staff

Israel Airports Authority announces Monday and Tuesday’s scheduled routes — LY971 and LY972 — in a nod to international phone numbers for the two nations

A video of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking during the Republican National Convention plays from the Rose Garden of the White House, on August 25, 2020. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Pompeo’s Jerusalem speech violated Hatch Act, complaint says

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

Illustrative: A mohel arranges tools for a circumcision ceremony. (Getty Images via JTA)

Tip included

With no mohels around, New Zealand man circumcises his own son

Jews in country rely on circumcisers from Australia to perform ceremony, but a coronavirus travel ban prevents them from coming

Israeli Bratslav worshipers held at an airport in Ukraine, August 27, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Fuming over Uman ban, Bratslav sect vows to never back Netanyahu again

Hasidic sect blames PM for Ukraine closing its skies, foiling pilgrimage; dozens of worshipers held for up to 17 hours at Ukrainian airports, despite ban not yet taking effect

Newly appointed housing minister and former health minister Yaakov Litzman, at his installation ceremony at the Housing Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18, 2020. (Olivier FitoussiFlash90)

Litzman: UTJ could quit the coalition if there is a lockdown over High Holidays

Illustrative: Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky meets with rabbis in Kyiv, May 6, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Kharkov/via JTA)

Ukraine president pitches foreigners, especially Jews, to invest in his country

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Campers at Camp Young Judaea Texas hold a Hebrew sign that translates as 'We love you.' (Courtesy of authors)

You thought you learned Hebrew at Jewish summer camp? Think again

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Haviva Ner-David

Lessons from my 13-year-old son at his pandemic bar mitzvah

When you’re 13 and you can only invite 10 friends to your big event, and you discover that you’re happiest with even fewer, you have your priorities straight

What if Seth Rogen wasn’t (entirely) wrong?

If we want our young people to take Israel seriously, we must offer them a sophisticated discussion on peoplehood, history, and culture, not a list of wars and conflict

When life says: Revise your plans

Even when you are a frail grandmother in an unpredictable world, a broken leg is easier to fix than a broken heart

Does love conquer all?

For all that the emotion is at the heart of religious experience, it plays second fiddle to justice, which helps maintain a healthy order in society (Ki Teitzei)

Then-police commissioner Roni Alsheich (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony for Alsheich at the start of his term, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Ex-police chief who oversaw Netanyahu probes: He’ll be convicted…if he’s tried

In interview promoting new book, Roni Alsheich says only question is whether PM will manage to grant himself immunity; hopes he’ll will resign long before verdict

Top cop pushes back on claims of police violence at anti-Netanyahu rallies

Hundreds of anti-Netanyahu protesters block roads in Tel Aviv and Haifa

Netanyahu made hundreds of thousands of shekels from overseas account — report

One of the VIP tours set up with staff at the Israel Museum on the occasion of its reopening following the extended coronavirus closure (Courtesy Israel Museum)

Israel Museum offers capsule tours led by staffers during reopening

By Jessica Steinberg

Times of Israel Opinion and Blogs Editor Miriam Herschlag, left, interviewing educator and singer Neshama Carlebach, right, for the Behind the Headlines online video series, August 26, 2020. (Screenshot YouTube)

Behind the Headlines

WATCH: Neshama Carlebach on thriving in the shadow of her father’s mixed legacy

In online ToI interview, daughter of Jewish music icon Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach discusses the posthumous sexual misconduct charges against him, and life after leaving Orthodoxy

Ana Light (Courtesy)

With provocative paintings, young artist channels pandemic lockdown angst

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Inmates of the German concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, stand in line during an attendance check, December 19, 1938. German car parts maker Continental says it used slave labor from the camp during World War II. (AP Photo)

Germany’s Continental says it used slave labor to supply Nazis, test shoe soles

Flames from the LNU Lightning Complex fires leap above Butts Canyon Road on August 23, 2020, as firefighters work to contain the blaze in unincorporated Lake County, California. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Israel to send firefighters to help battle California blazes

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of a police patrol car in Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Times of Israel/Stuart Winer)

2nd woman files complaint against rabbi accused of indecent assault — report

Bette Midler arrives at the Tony Awards in New York, June 11, 2017. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bette Midler apologizes for mocking Melania Trump’s accented English

Shamir Medical Center personnel at the hospital's coronavirus ward of Shamir in Be'er Ya'akov, near Tel Aviv, August 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With over 2,000 daily virus cases, Israel’s death toll reaches 891

Illustrative: Students and teacher at Hashalom School in Mevaseret Zion, near Jerusalem, May 17, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

50,000 Israeli kids lack basic school supplies, 20% without computers, internet

A copy of ‘Drunk History’ on a background of Jewish stars. (Getty Images / Emily Burack for Alma/ via JTA)

This show is historyThe top 10 Jewish stories on ‘Drunk History’

By Emily Burack

Family and friends of Gadi Vichman attend his funeral in 2012. (Screenshot/ Channel 2)

Beersheba police to pay murder victim’s family millions for neglecting calls

A woman looks at a caricature by Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj depicting the leader of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, holding a dove with Israel's flag on it, spitting in his face, with Arabic writing referring to Israel's opposition to the sale of US F-35 aircraft to the UAE, on August 27, 2020. (AFP)

Rights groups urge release of Jordanian jailed over cartoon on Israel-UAE deal

By AP

Illustrative: Police officers stand guard after a knife attack August 23, 2018 in Trappes, west of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

‘No Jews or sluts allowed’ daubed on French street named for Holocaust survivor

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Then National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, left, walks with his twin brother, Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, right, after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, during a public impeachment hearing of US President Donald Trump's efforts to tie US aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents, November 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Yevgeny Vindman, brother of impeachment witness, files whistleblower complaint

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister official residence in Tokyo on August 28, 2020. (Franck Robichon/Pool/AFP)

Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe announces resignation for health reasons

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