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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 14, 2021

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July was world’s hottest month on record, US agency says

‘New record adds to disturbing and disruptive path that climate change has set for the globe,’ top climate official says of data

A man checks his car buried in the mud after floods and mudslides killed about three dozens of people, in Bozkurt town of Kastamonu province, Turkey, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. (AP Photo)

At least 40 killed in severe floods in northern Turkey

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day. August 11, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Heavy to extreme’: Mild heatwave to settle across Israel starting Saturday

Internally displaced Afghan families, who fled from the northern province due to battle between Taliban and Afghan security forces, sit in the courtyard of the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque in Kabul on August 13, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Biden faces mounting blame for chaotic Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

By Shaun Tandon

US embassy in Kabul told to get rid of sensitive material as Taliban advance

By AFP

Britain’s former headquarters in Afghanistan overrun by Taliban

Taliban nears gates of Kabul as embassies prepare for evacuations

By Elise BLANCHARD

Israelis line up to receive coronavirus vaccines at a vaccination station operated by the Magen David Adom ambulance service, in Tel Aviv, on August 14, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM orders opening of overnight stations in other cities

Overnight mass vaccine drive held at Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square

Vaccine stations to operate until 4 a.m. Sunday, with aim of getting shots in arms of partygoers, youngsters who aren’t yet immunized; those over 50 can also get boosters

Illustrative: Medical staff receive their third COVID-19 vaccine shots at Meir Medical Center in Kfar Saba, on August 13, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

52-year-old woman hospitalized after likely allergic reaction from COVID booster

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services in the Health Ministry, at a press conference in Jerusalem on June 23, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top health official opposed boosters for over-50s, citing insufficient data

Bus driver Muhammad Kak was assaulted near the West Bank town of Shvut Rachel, August 13, 2021. (courtesy)

Arab bus driver hospitalized after assault by apparent anti-mask settler

Muhammad Kak says he asked man to mask up, but the latter, realizing he was Arab, started swearing at him, then attacked him mid-drive; police arrest 21-year-old suspect

Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at the Health Ministry, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 14, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Health official under threat: ‘My son asks why people call me a child killer’

A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

Swastikas daubed on French vaccination centers, in apparent Nazi comparison

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Actor Daniel Donskoy makes a toast with guests Helene Shani Braun, center, and Laura Cazes on Germany's 'Friday Night Jews.' (Christian Pries/JTA)

Jews in German media are largely limited to Holocaust films

All clichés are on the table in German TV’s ‘Friday Night Jews’ talk show

Tied to a year-long sponsored celebration of 1,700 years of Jewish life in Germany, state-sponsored program uses humor to familiarize Germans with Jewish culture

Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Pandemic travel: Brave or foolish?

Getting away meant we were able to ‘wind down’ in a powerful way, we enjoyed each other’s company, and we read our books at a speed we cannot achieve at home

I used to judge ex-Orthodox Jews. Then I started listening to them

If we dismiss those who are critical of the Orthodox world, we miss out on our greatest means of improvement. Those voices are our checks and balances

Our community can and must do better for Jews of color

The vast majority have faced discrimination in Jewish settings, yet they aren’t giving up their sense of shared history, collective memory, or Jewish values

All the king’s horses

We are easily tempted to rely on whatever strategies have served us well already, but if we cannot adapt to new ideas and better technology, we are sure to fail

'Coexistence isn’t just a slogan for conferences'

Chabad rabbi tweets unusual 3-week Jewish heritage road trip deep into Turkey

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Mendy Chitrik, chair of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, works to support Jewish life in Muslim countries while busting cultural myths

Israeli students going to school in Tel Aviv, on April 18, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Postpone start of school year by a month, urges minister

Public Security Minister Omer Barlev argues that Jewish High Holiday period, rising coronavirus cases warrant delay to October 1; education minister rejects proposed postponement

Police at a temporary checkpoint outside Jerusalem's Old City, on September 19, 2020, during a nationwide lockdown on Rosh Hashana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Just 1 in 3 Israelis expected to abide by a new lockdown if imposed — report

Analysis

With government facing growing trials, Lapid shines spotlight on Morocco ties

As COVID-19 spirals and some diplomatic appointments are questioned, FM uses personal charm and mutual interests to make progress in Rabat

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks in Rabat, Morocco, on August 12, 2021. (Lazar Berman)

Wiesenthal Center urges UN to nix Durban anti-racism meet over past antisemitism

By ToI Staff and AFP

Rabbi Abraham Cooper tells Antonio Guterres it’s time for the world body ‘to finally bury Durban, not celebrate it’

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, center, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders outside City Hall, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota at the Capitol in Washington, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Progressive US Jewish groups slam AIPAC over ads targeting Ilhan Omar

A screenshot of a porn video depicting Nazis raping a Jewish woman. (FOA via JTA)

Porn sites fail to remove antisemitic content, says watchdog

By Cnaan Liphshiz

New apartments buildings under construction in the Beit El settlement in the West Bank with the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the background, October 13, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

US State Department pans Israeli plan for new settlement homes

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Spokesman says expected approval of several thousand new housing units ‘will make achieving a two-state solution much more difficult’

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces over work at Hebron’s Tomb of Patriarchs

By Emanuel Fabian

Bennett said blocking Gantz from meeting with PA chief Abbas

Israel to permit entry of Gaza merchants for first time in 18 months

By Emanuel Fabian

Maia Levy watches footage from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the documentary 'The Viewing Booth.' (Courtesy of Atzmor Productions/ via JTA)

Interview

Filmmaker follows young US Jew who ‘watched’ the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Andrew Lapin

More Headlines

Iranians, mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic, cross a street in the capital Tehran, on July 3, 2021. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

With death toll near 100,000, Iran to impose 6-day COVID ‘general lockdown’

By AP

The Mughrani Bridge entrance to the Temple Mount compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, on November 07, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Israel to partially renovate hazardous bridge to Temple Mount — TV

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Painter and sculptor Igael Tumarkin in 2004 (Flash 90)

Sculptor, painter Igael Tumarkin dies aged 87

Leon Kopelman, in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

Last known surviving fighter of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies at age 97

Arnold Schwarzenegger talks on stage about his dreams and actions to fight the climate crisis in Vienna, Austria, Thursday, July 1, 2021. (AP/Lisa Leutner)

Smack DownArnold Schwarzenegger pans anti-maskers as ‘schmucks’

File: Jews pray on a street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, Ukraine, September 20, 2006. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Ukraine okays Uman pilgrimage for vaccinated arrivals

By JTA

The leader of PiS Party, Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski speaks during a campaign convention in Warsaw, Poland, October 8, 2019, (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s ruling populists risk isolation in bid to stay in power

By Bernard OSSER

Greenblatt's Deli and Fine Wine Shop posted a farewell message on its website on Thursday, August 12, 2021, after shutting down for good. (Screenshot)

Last pastramisLA loses a century-old Jewish deli as Greenblatt’s shutters permanently

By JTA and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on April 29, 2019, photographers capture images of suspect Mark Steven Domingo, arrested in connection with an alleged terror plot targeting Southern California sites, in Los Angeles. (Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)

California man, a convert to Islam, guilty of plotting to bomb far-right rally

By AFP

Part of the permanent exhibition of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. (The University of South Carolina via JTA)

University of South Carolina to open Anne Frank Center

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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