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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 3, 2020

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US President Donald Trump leaves the White House for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on October 2, 2020 in Washington, DC (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

As president battles COVID-19 in the hospital

Trump adviser says it’s serious, president has some trouble breathing – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

2nd unnamed official tells CNN situation not deteriorating; third anonymous official says US president is currently okay but there are worries this could change quickly

White House says hospitalized Trump on remdesivir, but not supplemental oxygen

ExplainerTrump gets experimental drug aimed at curbing severe illness

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis

By AMANDA SEITZ and Beatrice Dupuy

US President Donald Trump, center, stands with Judge Amy Coney Barrett as they arrive for a news conference to announce Barrett as his nominee to the Supreme Court, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House’s cavalier approach to COVID-19 catches up to Trump

By Jonathan Lemire

Supreme Court nomination event eyed as source of infections; along with president, 2 key Republican senators, former Trump adviser, and 3 members of press corps found positive

Trump’s age, health woes raise his risk level in COVID-19 illness

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

What we know, and what we don’t, about Trump’s coronavirus

Trump’s COVID infection thrusts the world into uncharted territory

By Lori Hinnant and Foster Klug

Men hang decorations in a newly built sukkah in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem on October 2, 2020 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Joint meals, mass prayers: Scattered reports of Haredim defying rules on Sukkot

20 synagogues said shut down in Bnei Brak ahead of holiday; pictures on social media appear to show mass gatherings going ahead with little police interference

Workers from 'Hevra Kadisha,' Israel's official Jewish burial society, prepare a body before a funeral at a special morgue for COVID-19 victims in Holon, Sept. 23, 2020 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

8 months into pandemic, Israel is readying makeshift morgues. How did it happen?

By Marcy Oster and Gabe Friedman

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim on October 2, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In call with Haredi leaders ahead of Sukkot, PM says no relief on restrictions

Illustrative. An anti-Netanyahu protest encampment outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)

Activists rent home less than 1 km from PM protest camp; police fine them anyway

Law enforcement officers say they will return and give protesters further penalties despite lease showing they rented nearby apartment in keeping with new regulations

Coalition accused of shuttering small businesses to justify limits on protests

Gantz sets collision course with PM and Likud, vows to fill state attorney post

Farkash-Hacohen tapped as tourism minister after Zamir resignation

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech on October 2, 2020 in Les Mureaux, outside Paris. (Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP)

Speech comes after cleaver attack, amid Charlie Hebdo trial

Macron calls Islam a religion ‘in crisis,’ unveils plan to fight radicalism

By Laurence Benhamou and Jérôme RIVET

Radicals have ‘swooped in,’ says French leader; vows ‘no concessions’ in push to eradicate extremism in schools and mosques; warns Islamist ‘separatism’ creating counter-society

The aftermath of anti-Semitic vandalism at a kosher restaurant in Paris, Oct. 2, 2020. (Screen shot from Twitter/UEJF)

Paris kosher restaurant torn apart, vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti

By JTA

Street art in Tel Aviv by Imaginary Duck. (Lord K2)

Photo essay

The disappearing street art of Tel Aviv’s gentrifying Florentin neighborhood

IDF: Clip from Hezbollah tour of Beirut ‘workshop’ proves it’s a missile factory

By Judah Ari Gross

Army details how machinery seen at site is used to produce munitions, indicates equipment from another facility spirited away after being outed as belonging to terror group

The Rhosus ship (Wikipedia, CC BY)

Lebanon requests arrests of Russian owner and captain of Beirut blast ship

By AFP and ToI Staff

Humanity first, politics second

Sure, you can continue to criticize Trump’s handling of the virus, but Judaism teaches us to not rejoice at the fact that the US president is sick

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

My lovely lockdown sukkah

I unpack our boxes of decorations and realize that the government’s restrictions won’t really keep my children out, because they are there all around me

Sudanese deputy head of state Mohammad Hamdan Dagalo, popularly known as Hemedti, discusses normalization with Israel in Juba, South Sudan (Screenshot: Youtube)

‘We need Israel’: Top official says Sudan will have some ties with Jerusalem

By Aaron Boxerman

Deputy head of state Gen. Mohammad Hamdan Daglo suggests relations will stop short of full normalization, indicates split with civilian leaders

In this August 5, 2019, photo released by the US Air Force, an F-35 fighter jet pilot and crew prepare for a mission at Al-Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates. (Staff Sgt. Chris Thornbury/US Air Force via AP)

Bipartisan bill proposed to give Israel veto on US arms sales to Middle East

Rabbi Akiva Eger (Wikipedia)

How rabbi’s social distancing edict saved his community from pandemic… in 1831

By Adam Reinherz

Sen. Thom Tillis meets with Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court at the US Capitol, Sept. 30, 2020, in Washington. (Bill Clark/Pool via AP)

Virus spreads on panel handling US Supreme Court nomination

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

2 Republican senators test positive and say will quarantine until hearings for Amy Coney Barrett set to start; Democrats seize on announcements to call for delay in the process

Biden tests negative for coronavirus after meetup with Trump

By AFP

AnalysisTrump’s diagnosis rocks final stage of presidential campaign

ExplainerHow would a possible US presidential power transfer look under 25th Amendment?

By Jessica Gresko

An Orthodox Jewish man walks through the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn on Yom Kippur, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

After NYC’s threat, public mask-wearing increases in Orthodox neighborhoods

But some residents say it’s all an act to prevent the closure of religious schools, and masks are widely disregarded indoors and in synagogues

Illustrative: A Chabad emissary transports a mobile sukkah through New York City on a bicycle in 2014 (Courtesy of Chabad.org)

Sukkot is mostly celebrated outside, but that doesn’t make it safe from COVID-19

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits the Jewish Museum in the northern city of Thessaloniki, on September 28, 2020 (Giannis Papanikos / POOL / AFP)

How Greek Jews solved ‘dilemma’ of Pompeo’s visit to Thessaloniki on Yom Kippur

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ellis Island in 1905. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish Americans changed their names, but not at Ellis Island

By Kirsten Fermaglich

More Headlines

In this May 27, 2020, file photo, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison answers questions during a news conference in St. Paul, Minn.(John Autey/Pioneer Press via AP, Pool)

Keith Ellison to speak at Rabin memorial snubbed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Eli Rozenberg, the new controlling shareholder of El Al (Courtesy)

27-year-old yeshiva student officially granted controlling stake in El Al

Israeli Opera singers performing Hebrew favorites for the opera's newly broadened website (Courtesy Israeli Opera)

A change of tenorIsraeli Opera upgrades website with features for fans at home

By Jessica Steinberg

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan court as jury deliberations continue in his rape trial, on February 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Harvey Weinstein charged with more rapes in California

By AP

From 'Tea Time,' a 2014 Chilean film about five women and the decades-long friendship around the tea table, being shown on Docustream, the DocAviv online festival happening October 1-31, 2020 (Courtesy Docustream)

Movember -- meet DoctoberTel Aviv documentary festival launches streaming service

By Jessica Steinberg

FILE -- People at a pro-Israel demonstration in Frankfurt, Germany, on Jan. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)

Strategic Affairs Ministry announces aid for pro-Israel groups as funding dives

Staged photos of Aryeh Leib Tkatch of Krasnodar, Russia, in which he appears to have been killed. (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation via JTA)

Russian authorities stage rabbi’s death in undercover terror sting operation

By Cnaan Liphshiz

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking during the first presidential debate Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP/Julio Cortez)

Trump condemns Proud Boys, white supremacists in Fox News interview

By JTA and ToI Staff

Family members play in Washington Square Park in front of New York University on March 11, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

In bid to stop probe, NYU to adopt White House-backed anti-Semitism definition

Actor Rick Moranis is shown at an unknown location, in May 1994. A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that Moranis was sucker punched by an unknown assailant while walking on October 1, 2020, on a sidewalk near New York’s Central Park. Moranis took himself to the hospital and later went to a police station to report the incident, according to the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the incident and did so on condition of anonymity. (AP Photo/File)

Actor Rick Moranis sucker-punched while walking in NYC

A Swiss lottery card featuring the words 'gassed Jew' (CICAD)

Swiss lottery scratch card appears to feature the phrase ‘gassed Jew’

By JTA

Gal Gadot arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on February 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

No.3 Wonder WomanGal Gadot named third highest paid actress in the world

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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