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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 13, 2022

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Law enforcement officers detain a person outside the Chautauqua Institution after author Salman Rushdie was stabbed at the facility, in Chautauqua, New York, August 12, 2022. (Charles Fox via AP)

Rushdie on ventilator after stabbing; suspect said to support Iran’s IRGC

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Agent says ‘the news is not good’ as author, subject to Iranian death fatwa, remains in hospital; police arrest Hadi Matar, who reportedly has sympathies for Shia extremists

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, about 75 miles (120 km) south of Buffalo. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)

Salman Rushdie, whose writing sparked Iranian death fatwa, stabbed on stage

By Joshua Goodman

Author Salman Rushdie speaks during the Mississippi Book Festival, in Jackson, Mississippi, on August 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Iran media hails stabbing of ‘apostate’ Salman Rushdie, praises assailant

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blood stains mark a screen as author Salman Rushdie, behind screen, is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture, Friday, August 12, 2022, at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)

Iran blamed over stabbing of Rushdie: ‘Result of 30 years of regime’s incitement’

By Stuart Williams

Activists, opposition groups note Iranian supreme leader has reiterated support for Khomeini’s fatwa calling to kill author, say $3 million bounty on his life remains on offer

Local police and the FBI block the area around the home of Hadi Matar, suspected of stabbing Salman Rushdie, in Fairview, New Jersey, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Attack on Rushdie follows series of threats against Iran’s opponents abroad

In this file photo taken on February 17, 1989, Iranian women are seen holding banners which read 'Holly Koran' and 'Kill Salman Rushdie' during a demonstration against British writer Salman Rushdie in Tehran. (Norbert Schiller/AFP)

‘No one will any longer dare offend Islam’: The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie

By Claude CASTERAN

Fady Hanona, in an undated photo. (LinkedIn)

NY Times cuts ties with Gaza freelancer who called to kill Jews ‘like Hitler did’

Pro-Israel media watchdog publishes list of social media posts by Fady Hanona, who is credited in six Times articles on latest round of fighting

A young girl is seen climbing a Palestinian Islamic Jihad observation post on the border with the Gaza Strip, August 5, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Footage shows IDF delayed strike on Islamic Jihad position due to young girl at site

By Emanuel Fabian

An image shared by the former director of Al Jazeera declares 'same killer' behind deaths of Jesus, Palestinians. (Screenshot)

Ex-Al Jazeera chief tweets that ‘same killer’ behind deaths of Jesus, Palestinians

Yasser Abu Hilala later deletes image ‘to prevent confusion,’ says everyone can understand it ‘in their own way’

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks on the anniversary of the death of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shown in the poster at top center, at his mausoleum in Tehran, Iran, June 4, 2022. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader to Islamic Jihad: You have proven you can ‘crush the enemy’

After flare-up with Israel last week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tells Gaza terror group’s leader Iran ‘stands with you,’ downplays divisions with Hamas

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani waves as he leaves after talks at the Coburg Palais, the venue of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna on August 4, 2022. (Alex Halada/AFP)

State media: Iran to accept nuclear deal compromise if it gets sanctions assurances

By AFP

Michael W. Twitty prepares matzah balls with ginger and cayenne pepper for Passover, April 2022. (Johnny Shryock)

Recipe inside

Jew of color Michael W. Twitty’s ‘Koshersoul’ is ‘a challah braid’ of a food memoir

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Now on shop bookshelves, the award-winning author’s new book is a wild ride that includes culinary history, recipes and personal experiences of Jews of African descent in America

Trump investigated under the Espionage Act

FBI recovers ‘top secret’ documents during raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker

Federal judge unseals search warrant showing that trove seized included ‘sensitive compartmented information,’ which would harm US interests if revealed

The notice filed by the Justice Department to the US District Court South District of Florida informing the judge that lawyers for former President Donald Trump did not object to the government's motion to unseal the search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, is photographed Friday, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Former US president Donald Trump gestures as he departs Trump Tower, August 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general's office for a deposition in a civil investigation. (AP/Julia Nikhinson)

ExplainerHow Trump may have broken laws, including Espionage Act, with Mar-a-Lago documents

By Clark D. Cunningham

Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former president Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, August 9, 2022. (Giorgio Viera/AFP)

Report: 11 sets of ‘top secret’ documents recovered in raid on Trump home

By Chris Lefkow and Michael Mathes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd from right) meets at his Jerusalem office with the ambassador to the US, Ron Dermer (right); White House adviser Jared Kushner (center); US Ambassador David Friedman (second left); and special envoy Jason Greenblatt, on July 31, 2019. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Backing Netanyahu, Dermer pans Kushner claim ex-PM went rogue with annexation pledge

Like Likud chief, ex-Israeli envoy points to exchange of letters by 2 leaders, which purportedly saw US commit to backing move, but the memos were more complicated than that

Former US president Donald Trump arrives at Trump Tower, in New York, August 9, 2022. (Yuki Iwamura/AP)

Israeli intel, Iran missiles: Trump’s history of playing loose with classified info

By Paul Handley

Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, addresses a crowd gathered to commemorate the establishment of the freedom of the press in America at Mount Vernon, New York, October 28, 1933. Prominent editors, publishers and journalists were present. (AP Photo)

Interview'Hitler says he expects there will peace for a long time'

Bad news for the Jews: How six US and UK media moguls aided the nascent Nazi regime

By JP O’ Malley

In ‘The Newspaper Axis,’ historian Kathryn S. Olmsted details how prior to WWII, press barons including William Randolph Hearst worked to sway the public toward Hitler’s line

In 2021, American immigrants again moved to settlements far more than other arrivals

By Judah Ari Gross

Fresh figures released by Central Bureau of Statistics show roughly one out of every 10 people who arrived to Israel from the US made their way to a West Bank settlement

Illustrative: A housing complex where Mike Huckabee, who is now the US Ambassador to Israel, laid bricks, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on August 1, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel/File)

Discomfited by the 7 weeks of consolation

The 10 times that ’speaking tenderly’ appears in the Bible are enough to call into question just how kind, loving, or gentle we can expect this speech to be

V’Etchanan and Tu B’Av: What is love?

Moses’ advice on how to maintain a relationship with God is easily translated into advice on how a couple maintains a successful marriage – how timely!

Leaked memo shows Israeli support for law blocking Jews from Bosnia’s leadership

By David I. Klein

Bosnian FM says ‘hard to fathom’ how Israel could support controversial legislation, which is backed by ethno-nationalist parties but opposed by many Bosniak politicians

Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic speaks during a press conference with Elizabeth Truss, Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)

Election workers count ballots in Jerusalem on March 25, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Shin Bet said to fear Russian and Iranian interference in upcoming election

Agency launches ‘Operation Defend our Democracy’ to thwart such attacks, is also concerned that Israelis themselves may rile up political discourse due to MKs escalated rhetoric

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot attends the INSS conference in Tel Aviv on April 12, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief said to make demands of parties as he mulls Knesset run

TV report says Gadi Eisenkot wants to join a ‘ruling party’ that holds internal primaries, amid talks on joining Yesh Atid or Blue and White

With climate bill passed, Democrats deliver on top policy concern for American Jews

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

While not often pegged as a Jewish issue, US community overwhelmingly considers climate change a priority for politicians, polls show

Flames burn near the Klamath River during the McKinney Fire in the Klamath National Forest northwest of Yreka, California, July 31, 2022. (David McNew/AFP)

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, surrounded by House Democrats, poses after signing the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 during a bill enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

US Congress approves Democrats’ climate and health bill, a Biden triumph

Members of the public stand on what was an ancient packhorse bridge exposed by low water levels at Baitings Reservoir in Yorkshire as record high temperatures are seen in the UK, Ripponden, England, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Low water levels at the reservoir have revealed the remains of the ancient road flooded to build the reservoir in the 1950s. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Drought declared in several parts of England after driest July in over 80 years

By Anna MALPAS and James Pheby

Supporters of Iran-backed Shiite Coordination Framework attend a rally to denounce their rivals, followers of an influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who stormed the parliament last month and have since been holding a sit-in outside the assembly building in Baghdad, Iraq, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Rival rallies in Iraq underscore inter-Shiite power struggle

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Supporters of Iran-backed factions hold protest in Baghdad to denounce followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, as jockeying for power has left country in political limbo

A woman takes out an aid package from an electric car owned by the Jewish Federations of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 1, 2022. (Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of Ukraine/ via JTA)

'Volunteers can't wait at gas stations while bombs fall'

In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars as fuel crisis hinders aid delivery

By Cnaan Liphshiz

As costs of food, medicine and gasoline rise along with the number of recipients who require them, humanitarian groups maximize efficiency ahead of what they see as a long haul

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Noga Hirschfeld, 40, and her father Prof. Yoram Hirschfeld, 78, in undated photos (Courtesy)

UK charges man with killing 2 Israelis, injuring 3 others in hit-and-run

Illustrative: An ambulance at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

14-year-old girl fatally struck by car in Petah Tikva

Police cruisers in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood, where a 4-year-old boy was critically hurt after allegedly being choked by a relative, August 13, 2022. (Israel Police)

4-year-old Jerusalem boy critically hurt; police suspect relative choked him

The scene of a bus crash on Jerusalem's Shamgar Street on August 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Driver blames malfunction for deadly J’lem bus crash that killed mother, 2 daughters

Lesbian author, poet and playwright Elana Dykewomon, photographed at her home in Oakland, Calif., on May 1, 2022, died Aug. 7, 2022. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryElana Dykewomon, influential Jewish lesbian author and playwright, dies at 72

By Andrew Esensten and PHILISSA CRAMER

Illustrative: Maccabi Tel Aviv fans during the UEFA Champions League playoff round second leg soccer match between Switzerland's FC Basel 1893 and Maccabi Tel Aviv at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv on August 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

10 Maccabi Tel Aviv fans sentenced in Greece for possession of firecrackers, flares

By AP

(L) Memphis Grizzlies forward Omri Casspi dunks during the second half of the team's NBA basketball game against the Sacramento Kings on January 25, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn.; (R) Justice Minister Gideon Saar arrives for the first weekly cabinet meeting of the new government in Jerusalem on June 20, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/Brandon Dill/AP, File)

Surveillance firm owned by Omri Casspi’s dad reportedly tracking justice minister

Police investigators on the site of the attack in Cetinje, 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, Montenegro, Friday, August 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Risto Bozovic)

Montenegro man kills 11 in shooting rampage, is shot dead by police

By AP

This 2014 illustration made available by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle.(Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File)

Polio detected in NYC sewage, suggesting virus circulating among unvaccinated

By Karen Matthews and Mike Stobbe

Policemen provide security for pilgrims in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 26, 2020. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)

Suspect kills himself with explosive belt to avoid arrest in Saudi Arabia

By AP

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