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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 20, 2020

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Bicylcists ride their bikes in a park in Tel Aviv, on September 20, 2020 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police give thousands of fines over holiday for closure breaches, as cases mount

Cafe in Tel Aviv gets NIS 5,000 fine for opening; 3 more deaths take national toll to 1,229; major test for lockdown expected Sunday evening in latest anti-Netanyahu protests

Day into 2nd lockdown, Israel registers 30 new virus deaths in 24 hours

AnalysisUS to hit 200,000 dead; Trump sees no need for regret

Tens of thousands take advantage of flights to flee Israel’s closure

This image provided by the Supreme Court shows Ruth Bader Ginsburg typing while on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in Italy in 1977 (Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via AP)

Rap ties, unruly children, elephant rides with Scalia: The stories Ginsburg told

By Jessica Gresko

A look at some of the late US Supreme Court justice’s favorite tales to audiences

A portrait of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is displayed at a storefront on September 19, 2020, in New York, New York. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images/AFP)

New York plans statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a ‘daughter of Brooklyn’

By AFP

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after receiving the American Law Institute's Henry J. Friendly Medal in Washington on May 21, 2018. (Jim Watson/AFP)

US feminists fear setbacks after loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Charlotte Plantive

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport, September 19, 2020, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump pledges to tap woman for court, pushes Senate to move fast on pick

By Jonathan Lemire, LISA MASCARO and Steve Peoples

US president says he’ll nominate successor to Ginsburg before November 3 vote despite Democratic opposition: ‘We win an election and those are the consequences’

Republican senator says US election winner should pick Ginsburg successor

By AFP

Ginsburg’s death potentially reshapes the US presidential campaign

By Steve Peoples

Ginsburg’s death draws big surge of donations to Democrats

By BRIAN SLODYSKO

From the blogs

I’m banned from the US for ‘association with a terrorist organization’

The ban is likely due to Turkish displeasure over my support for the Kurdish cause. Meanwhile, Turkey itself assists, backs and hosts Hamas

A child climbs onto the 'Ahava'/Love statue in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on December 21, 2006. In 1978, the American artist, Robert Indiana, created a 13-foot-tall steel sculpture. (Lara Hart /Flash90)

Mother knows best

Jewish dating app lets parents with a yen for grandkids set up adult children

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Photo of the Misaviv Hebrew Circle Calendar. (Courtesy)

Rosh Hashanah

Madison Margolin

Ring in 5781 with Jewish calendar that puts an artistic spin on time

The Misaviv Hebrew Circle Calendar ventures out of the box with its round format, celebrating a mystical concept that incorporates seasonal and life cycles, nature and femininity

Alex Edelman has embarked on several Jewish comedy projects during the pandemic. (Will Bremridge)

Jewish comedian helps rabbis nail delivery on High Holidays services

By PHILISSA CRAMER

‘Who by fire?’ isn’t just a metaphor this year, but…

…we still have time to change course: 4 steps you can take to fight the policies and inaction that continue to make climate change worse

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Would San Francisco State University invite the 9/11 hijackers to speak?

How will giving a stage to Leila Khaled, an unrepentant terrorist, enable students to broaden their intellectual horizons?

An overlook next to a mikveh, or ritual bath, at the Givat Titora archaeological garden. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Post-lockdown field trip? Visit some of Israel’s (320!) archaeological gardens

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo departs a meeting with members of the UN Security Council about Iran's alleged non-compliance with a nuclear deal at the United Nation in New York, August 20, 2020. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP)

Defying UN, Washington unilaterally asserts sanctions on Iran are back in effect

By Francesco FONTEMAGGI and Philippe RATER

Pompeo vows Trump administration will ‘impose consequences’ on any state violating ‘snapback’ sanctions to ensure Tehran ‘does not reap the benefits of UN-prohibited activity’

Photo composite: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (Hadi Mizban, Petros Karadjias/AP Photos)

Iran, Russia pan ‘illegitimate, reckless’ US claim UN sanctions back in force

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech marking the anniversary of the 1989 death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, June 3, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran said refraining from attack on US, fearing it could help Trump’s reelection

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad, left, visits Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Top Fatah official talks of ‘Zionist territorial designs from Nile to Euphrates’

Railing against Israel’s peace deals with UAE and Bahrain, Azzam Al-Ahmad claims Palestinians are defending all Arab nations from Israel’s expansion plots

View of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 29, 2018. (Aijaz Rahi/AP)

Dubai conglomerate Al Habtoor is latest UAE company to announce Israel plans

By ToI Staff and AP

Yehuda Sarna, Chief Rabbi of the United Arab Emirates, blows the shofar in Dubai, September 18, 2020 (video screenshot)

Welcoming in a new eraUAE’s chief rabbi blows shofar in Dubai in new video

A group of Germans who follow the QAnon conspiracy theory protest in Berlin, August 29, 2020. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

QAnon an old form of anti-Semitism in a new package, say experts

Some of those tracking conspiracy theory note its use of tropes, vocabulary of anti-Semitic propaganda and blood libels throughout history

A vandalized monument to Holocaust victims in Bogdanovka, Ukraine on September 15, 2020. (Eduard Dolinsky)

3 Holocaust monuments vandalized with swastikas in Ukraine and Russia

By JTA

Anne Frank in her school in Amsterdam. (Public domain)

Hong Kong company’s blush named for Anne Frank sparks complaints

By JTA

More Headlines

A view of the Leviathan natural gas processing rig from Dor Habonim Beach Nature Reserve, on January 1, 2020. (Flash90)

US said to redouble efforts for Israel-Lebanon maritime talks after Beirut blast

Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in her office in Tehran, Iran, on November 1, 2008. (AP/Arash Ashourinia)

Jailed Iranian female rights lawyer hospitalized following hunger strike

By AFP

Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer player Eran Zahavi seen at the final of the State Cup between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Maccabi Haifa in Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, on May 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nothing gold can staySoccer star Zahavi to join PSV Eindhoven, despite Turkish charm offensive

Pazit Vald (Facebook photo)

Woman embezzled $10m from YES; years later, police still can’t find the money

Supporters hold Italian flags during a center-right coalition rally of the Lega, Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia parties for the regional elections, on September 18, 2020, in Florence, Tuscany. (Carlo Bressan/AFP)

Italy defies virus to hold elections, as far-right plots seismic change

A picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows an Israeli tank near the border fence with the coastal enclave on August 1, 2019, following a firefight with a Palestinian gunman. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF detains 4 who crossed from Gaza Strip carrying knife

The home in Mitzpe Ramon where a husband stabbed his wife while she was on a video call with her parents on September 18, 2020. Screenshot/Channel 12

Man suspected of stabbing, seriously injuring wife in southern Israel

Shoppers clad in protective gear, including face masks and shields and latex gloves, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, walk through the Tajrish Bazaar in Iran's capital Tehran on April 25, 2020, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran virus deaths top 24,000 as country battles ‘third wave’ of pandemic

By AFP and ToI Staff

Liz Garbus speaks at the premiere of the Netflix film "Lost Girls" in Park City, Utah, Jan. 28, 2020 (Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Netflix via JTA)

All in the familyDirector of film on vote suppression: Activism a Jewish tradition

By Curt Schleier

In a Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 file photo, Rabbi Mendel Epstein, right, arrives for his trial at federal court in Trenton, New Jersey (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Raging rebbeNew film to tell story of rabbi who tortured men to force divorces

By JTA

Illustrative: A pile of newspapers (artisteer; iStock by Getty Images)

Detroit’s Jewish newspaper to seek sustainability by going nonprofit

By JTA

Law enforcement officers carry a woman to be transported by ambulance during a rally to protest against the Belarus presidential election results, in Minsk on September 19, 2020. (TUT.BY / AFP)

Belarus detains hundreds at protest, tries to muzzle opposition leader at UN

By AFP

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