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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 10, 2020

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A Hasidic Jew walks past a closed synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss/AFP)

'Is Cuomo going to bring his sheriffs and close every shul?'

In Brooklyn, ultra-Orthodox Jews defiant in face of virus shutdown

By Peter HUTCHISON

Borough Park residents vow to hold religious gatherings despite restrictions in NY areas with high infection rates; accuse Cuomo, De Blasio of singling them out for backing Trump

Illustrative: Members of the ultra-Orthodox community gather to listen in on an interview with a journalist, October 7, 2020, in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NY judge upholds limits on indoor prayers, rejecting lawsuit by Jewish group

New York radio host Heshy Tischler. (Screenshot/YouTube via JTA)

Brooklyn anti-lockdown protest leader says he’ll be arrested for ‘inciting riot’

Interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

Sexually explicit memoir of women’s abuse in Nazi camps finally sees light

Second-generation trauma expert Helen Epstein publishes late mother Franci Rabinek Epstein’s manuscript, initially rejected in mid-1970s for being ahead of its time

Franci Rabinek Epstein and daughter Helen Epstein, New York, c. 1950s. (Courtesy of Helen Epstein)

A damaged house is pictured after floods in Saint-Martin-Vesubie, southeastern France, Oct.6, 2020 (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

French Jewish group raises funds for flooded town that hid Jews in Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Przemysław Czarnek (Courtesy via JTA)

New Polish education minister called Holocaust memorial a ‘scandal’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police officers in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, October 5, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police brace for virus rule violations at ultra-Orthodox Simchat Torah events

Some expected to carry on with customary dancing despite high transmission rates; police reportedly not planning to enter synagogues or scuffle with those holding Torah scrolls

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray in The Hurva Synagogue sukkah on Hoshana Raba, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 9, 2020. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Greatly disproportionate number of COVID cases among Israel’s ultra-Orthodox

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky at his home in the central city of Bnei Brak on September 22, 2020. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Sick with COVID, top ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in worsening condition

Men escape fire in Bat Hefer on October 9, 2020 (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Dozens of homes burn in some 250 fires throughout Israel over weekend

Blazes that forced thousands to flee their homes largely brought under control Saturday; officials say residents not in danger ‘at this stage’ as majority allowed to return

Firemen fight flames near the Kfar HaOranim settlemet in the West Bank, October 9, 2020 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Netanyahu mulls international aid plea as fires force thousands from their homes

Samuel L. Jackson taking part in a Benga initiation ceremony, Gabon. (AP Slave Ships Productions Ltd./Cornelia Street’s Ships Ltd.)

Director interview

Samuel L. Jackson joins Israeli filmmaker in docuseries on global slave trade

By Jordan Hoffman

Carol Green Ungar

COVID-19 hit my Orthodox Israeli town hard. Here’s how we stopped the spread.

Our rabbis, doctors and local government officials are all on the same page, and everyone – men, women, even small children – wears a mask

Joshua Hammerman

On Rosh Hashanah, the rabbi took a knee

Everything changed with that knee on the neck, and our stiff-necked people will rise up for justice; we will rise up to repair the world

Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl in Miami, Florida, Feb. 4, 2007. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Prince and the Jews: Late rock star’s best Jewish friend tells all in new memoir

By Stephen Silver

US President Donald Trump gives two thumbs up from the Truman Balcony upon his return to the White House in Washington from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for COVID-19, October 5, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Trump declares himself ‘medication-free’ as he resumes public speeches

By AFP

Democratic rival Joe Biden slams president as ‘reckless’ for planning return to campaign trail; US leader hopes Saturday speech will help dispel lingering doubts about his health

2nd Trump-Biden debate canceled after US president refuses virtual format

By AFP

What's in a name?Billy Crystal and Bill Kristol compete to endorse Biden

Pelosi unveils 25th Amendment bid, questions Trump’s mental fitness

By LISA MASCARO

US President Donald Trump removes his mask upon his return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 5, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Israel’s virus czar says Trump’s behavior after hospitalization ‘not good’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prof. Ronni Gamzu also concedes problems with politicians at home, intimates minister lied to investigators after violating closure, says some virus lockdown decisions political

In this Monday, Oct. 5, 2020 photo, President Donald Trump removes his mask as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump still contagious? Experts say it’s impossible to know

By MARION RENAULT

A medical staffer performs tests for the coronavirus at a drive-through at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Italy’s new confirmed caseload Friday passed 5,372, the highest levels since March. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

WHO: New one-day record as COVID-19 cases worldwide hit more than 350,000

By AP

Transporation Minister Miri Regev appears on the "Ofira and Berkovic" TV show, October 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Regev to ex-soccer star: Apologize to Likud or you’ll never be national coach

Transportation minister threatens TV host Eyal Berkovic for referring to her party as a ‘criminal organization’

Screen grab from video appearing to show attacks on protesters by suspected right-wing activists in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2020 (Screen grab/Facebook)

Gantz warns attacks on anti-Netanyahu protesters ‘could end in murder’

Orthodox residents of Borough Park burned masks and blocked city buses Tuesday night to protest NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo's announcement that he would impose new restrictions on areas with upticks in coronavirus cases. (Screenshots from WhatsApp via JTA)

NY Board of Rabbis condemns ‘shameful’ violence at Brooklyn coronavirus protests

By Cnaan Liphshiz

750-member rabbinic group says it won’t defend those who disregard health guidelines and endanger lives of those around them

In this October 4, 2020, file photo, two women walk with children during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Over 400 US rabbis back tough New York social distancing measures

Illustrative: Orthodox Jews at Brooklyn's Coney Island, April 24, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Orthodox Jew beaten on New York’s Coney Island boardwalk

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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US President Donald Trump gives thumbs up on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Maryland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Presidential pardonTrump drops the F-bomb on Iran

By ToI Staff and AP

A woman is handcuffed on Tel Aviv beach after she refuses to identify herself to officers trying to issue a fine for not wearing a facemask, October 9, 2020 (Screen grab)

Maskless woman handcuffed on Tel Aviv beach after refusing to give ID to police

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a building after a diesel tank exploded in the neighborhood of Tarik al-Jadida, in Beirut, Lebanon on October 9, 2020. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Fuel tank explosion in Beirut building kills 4 people

By AP and ToI Staff

A pair of suspects rob a supermarket in Holon on October 9, 2020. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Wielding ax, knife and pepper spray, two masked suspects rob Holon supermarket

Manchester bomber Salman Abedi (far right, red shirt) attends protest outside the UAE embassy in London, hours after he demonstrated against visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2015 (Screen grab/Daily Mail)

Manchester suicide bomber attended anti-Netanyahu protest 2 years earlier

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by as masked Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian protesters (unseen) gathering during a demonstration against construction on an Israeli outpost near the Palestinian village of Turmusaya and the settlement of Shilo, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, on October 17, 2019. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/ AFP/ File)

Settler youth filmed hurling stones at Palestinian town as IDF soldiers look on

Judge Amy Coney Barrett speaks after being nominated to the US Supreme Court by President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on September 26, 2020. (Olivier DOULIERY / AFP)

US liberal Jewish groups sign letter opposing Coney Barrett’s court nomination

Alexanda Amon Kotey, left, and El Shafee Elsheikh, who were allegedly among four British jihadis who made up a brutal Islamic State cell dubbed "The Beatles," at a security center in Kobani, Syria, March 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

British men accused of helping behead Islamic State hostages plead not guilty

By Matthew Barakat

Argentina's Diego Schwartzman plays a shot against Spain's Rafael Nadal in the semifinal match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris, France, Oct. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Schwartzman loses to Nadal in French Open semifinal

By Emily Burack

Illustrative: SS chief Heinrich Himmler in 1940, before construction of the death camps he oversaw. (Public domain)

One of the largest US cemetery companies quotes Nazi Himmler in its calendar

Blogger and model Stephanie Yeboah (Youtube screenshot)

UK magazine’s newly hired diversity champion apologizes for Holocaust tweets

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Elad Dvash-Banks, right, and his partner, Andrew, play with their twin sons, Ethan, left, and Aiden in their Los Angeles apartment, January 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

US court rules son born abroad to gay Israeli-American couple is a citizen

By brian melley

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