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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 27, 2020

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The leader of the Jewish community Max Privorozki (R) is pictured on October 10, 2019 in Halle, Germany, a day after the Yom Kippur attack outside a synagogue there in which two people were shot dead. (AXEL SCHMIDT / AFP)

'Why didn't police arrive immediately?'

A year after Halle terror attack, Jews who were there still looking for answers

A shooting that killed two on Yom Kippur last year has underscored rising anti-Semitism in Germany, but investigations in its wake reveal even more disturbing systemic shortcomings

A year after Yom Kippur synagogue attack, German Jews remain uneasy

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Paris cleaver attack suspect says he acted over Charlie Hebdo cartoons

By AFP and ToI Staff

France vows to protect its Jewish community on Yom Kippur after stabbing

By AP

Hospital team members work at the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 23, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Q&A interview'Coronavirus is not going to go away anytime soon'

Israel could see 3rd, 4th lockdown, warns top UK epidemiologist who moved here

By Nathan Jeffay

Michael Edelstein answers ToI’s questions, from risk of outdoor Yom Kippur prayers to herd immunity; lauds Swedish model; and cautions: ‘Real make or break comes after lockdown’

Yeshiva students study in separation capsules in Jerusalem on September 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over a dozen ultra-Orthodox yeshivas become coronavirus hotels as cases mount

Israeli soldiers wear face masks at a police roadblock in Tel Aviv during the nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, September 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

IDF cancels leave for combat troops, soldiers in training amid coronavirus surge

By Judah Ari Gross

Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy during a press conference in Jerusalem about the coronavirus on July 13, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Health Ministry chief: Lockdown to continue, Israel near ‘point of no return’

Chezy Levy says he believes Israel won’t roll back closure immediately after holidays; positive test results, currently nearing 15%, have to first go below 10%

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a new coronavirus lockdown, on September 13, 2020. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu admits mistakes made, as record 8,315 new coronavirus cases confirmed

Ronni Gamzu at his office near the central Israeli city of Lod, September 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Ahead of Yom Kippur, coronavirus czar apologizes for failing to avert lockdown

Yom Kippur Op-ed

Who by plague? Far fewer, if we can rediscover a spirit of mutual responsibility

COVID doesn’t distinguish between Orthodox and secular, left and right, Jew and Arab. But it does have its limits. Whatever our leaders’ failures, we, the people, can help stop it

President Reuven Rivlin lights a memorial candle for coronavirus victims during a video message ahead of Yom Kippur, September 27, 2020. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rivlin calls on Jews to light Yom Kippur memorial candle for COVID-19 victims

Medical workers deliver a patient to the Maimonides Medical Center on September 14, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

3 New York Hasidic Jews die of COVID-19 as cases in Orthodox communities mount

An Israeli protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from a bridge in the Jezreel Valley on September 26, 2020. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Israel media review

You have sinned, you have betrayed: What the press is saying on September 27

By Joshua Davidovich

With Yom Kippur here and COVID-19 running wild, the media looks at who’s spreading infections, who’s trying to stop them, and who should be atoning; plus, the journalist’s ‘vidui’

ToI videoToday, penitents kiss the Kotel's stones through face masks

WATCH: Israel at prayer, in masks and capsules, September 2020

Filmmaker Ricki Rosen brings sights and sounds of Israelis worshiping during the High Holidays at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, and in Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan

With a social distancing barrier, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man and an Israeli soldier pray ahead of Yom Kippur at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, September 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown

By Joseph Krauss

Jewish men pray for forgiveness (Selihot), at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City on September 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

On night before Yom Kippur, pandemic lockdown keeps Western Wall mostly empty

On Yom Kippur, what if we can’t forgive our enemies?

At this time of rage and rancor, it’s hard not to hate – truly hate – those whom we oppose. Can we just let ourselves off the hook this year?

Angels and dust: Yom Kippur with Leonard Cohen

The Day of Atonement doesn’t mean we stop doing wrong; it means we can pause and appreciate how God’s patience with humanity allows us to continue to grow

Last year in Jerusalem

What does a non-religious Jew do on Yom Kippur in Jerusalem, when there are no tours, or open restaurants or shops? And yet, it was one of the most moving experiences of my life

Meni Even-Israel

On Yom Kippur: One essence, one body

I might wish I had more beautiful, nicer relatives, but they are all still my own bone and flesh and blood

This combination of pictures created on September 25, 2020 shows a photo taken on September 23, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks at the Black Economic Summit at Camp North End in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In this file photo taken on September 24, 2020 US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida. (JIM WATSON and Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Republican Jewish group: Biden must apologize for comparing Trump to Goebbels

By ToI Staff, AFP and Jacob Magid

Ahead of Tuesday’s debate, Democrat likened US president to Hitler’s propagandist

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks about the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after he arrives at New Castle Airport, in New Castle, Delaware, September 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden likens Trump to Nazi Goebbels, says he’s ready for debate ‘lies’

By AFP

In this combination of file photos, former US vice president Joe Biden speaks in Wilmington, Delaware, on March 12, 2020, left, and President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2020. (AP Photo, File)

How Trump and Biden are preparing for the first presidential debate

By Steve Peoples and Zeke Miller

US President Donald Trump (L) introduces 7th U.S. Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court in the Rose Garden at the White House September 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump nominates conservative Amy Coney Barrett for US Supreme Court

By Zeke Miller, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Barrett praises Ruth Bader Ginsburg, says she will be ‘mindful of who came before me’; Republican senators gear up for swift confirmation before election

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden leave a ceremony to honor the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as she lies in state at National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on September 25, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Greg Nash - Pool/Getty Images/AFP)

Biden urges US Senate not to confirm Supreme Court nominee before election

By AFP

Cantor Yitzhak Meir Helfgot (left) and composer Rafi Biton sang a high holiday duet, composed by Biton after Helfgot was ill with the coronavirus and recovered (Courtesy Rafi Biton)

In song and prayer

Two liturgical voices join forces for high holiday prayer duet

By Jessica Steinberg

Cantor Yitzhak Meir Helfgot, recently recovered from coronavirus, and composer Rafi Biton collaborate for reworked ‘Avinu Malkeinu’

Chairs are set up for a socially distanced service at Congregation Ohr Hatorah in Atlanta. (Courtesy of Rabbi Adam Starr via JTA)

Want to attend a US online Yom Kippur service? Here are some options

By JTA

Israeli protesters gather during a demonstration amid a second lockdown in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on September 26, 2020. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

5 arrests, some clashes as thousands protest against Netanyahu

By ToI Staff and Aaron Boxerman

Dozens temporarily detained during Jerusalem rally said by organizers to draw 16,000; protesters targeted in incidents in capital, Tel Aviv; law banning rallies set to pass Tuesday

Likud MK Miki Zohar reacts during an Arrangements Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 13, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Coalition whip Zohar: Government must be disbanded ‘as soon as possible’

Israeli protesters gather during a demonstration amid a second lockdown in front of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, on September 26, 2020, to protest the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Health minister: Law limiting protests, prayers will be advanced Tuesday

An undated photo of Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (R) and Egyptian Petroleum Minister Tarek El-Molla speaking during a meeting of the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum, in Cairo, Egypt. (courtesy, Israeli Energy Ministry)

Analysis

Mistake to leave Turkey out of new East Med gas club – international expert

Cooperation must include adversaries, says energy expert Brenda Shaffer, doubting that either East Med gas pipe to Europe or big Israeli role in Europe-bound Gulf oil will take off

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)þf

Israel confirms it will hold US-mediated talks with Lebanon over sea border

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN. headquarters, September 29, 2018. (Mary Altaffer/AP)

At UN, Syrian FM calls Turkey the main terrorism sponsor in region

By Edith M. Lederer

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaking in a pre-recorded message played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York, September 22, 2020. (UNTV via AP)

Rouhani accuses US of ‘atrocity’ over sanctions, blames ‘Zionists’ for woes

Iranian president decries the damage of recent American punitive actions, says US administration will yet ‘bow down before the Iranian nation’

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

Jailed Iran rights lawyer ends hunger strike over health concerns

By AFP

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani, right, welcomes Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein for their meeting, in Tehran, Iran, September 26, 2020. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iraq’s foreign minister makes first visit to Iran

By AP

The main gallery in Jerusalem's Musrara museum, now using digital reality to display a new exhibit during the 2020 coronavirus (Courtesy Musrara)

A Jerusalem museum ventures into VR and 3D imaging to open new exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Musrara brings to life portraits and videos of an exchange program with Native Americans in new digital format

Baltimore Orioles starting pitcher Dean Kremer throws a pitch to the Tampa Bay Rays during the second inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

From Mideast to AL East: Major League Baseball’s first Israeli blooms

By David Ginsburg

More Headlines

Attempts to rescue six Palestininans who fell into a cesspit in a southern West Bank village, September 26, 2020 (video screenshot)

Six Palestinian family members drown in West Bank cesspit accident

A SPYDER surface-to-air missile is fired in a test in an undated photograph. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.)

Czech Republic inks deal with Israel to buy air defense system

By Judah Ari Gross

Likud party MK Yehudah Glick in Tel Aviv, September 6, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Former MK and Temple Mount activist Yehudah Glick plans to run for president

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok at a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, August 21, 2019. (AP Photo, File)

Sudan’s PM rebuffs tying Israel relations with removal from US terrorism list

The late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in her signature lace jabot, one of which was donated by Ginsburg before her death to Tel Aviv's Museum of the Jewish People. (Courtesy Supreme Court of the United States)

Accessory to the factRBG’s signature collar and book join Museum of Jewish People

By Jessica Steinberg

Jimmy Julius Karow in Israel (CBS screenshot)

Pedophile who fled US to Israel signs plea deal in rape of Israeli girl

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