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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 4, 2022

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An anonymous cameraman secretly films Iranian protesters in Tehran on behalf of Israel's Channel 12, aired October 3, 2022. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘Shalom Ohad, I am with the protesters in Iran, filming with a hidden camera’

By Ash Obel and Agencies

Israel’s Channel 12 airs footage taken covertly on its behalf at Tehran protests, including interviews with demonstrators; ‘The people no longer want you,’ protester says of regime

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in a vote of confidence session for his proposed labor minister in Tehran, Iran, October 4, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Raisi tries to calm raging Iran protests as death toll continues to climb

A woman identified as Nasi cries during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious 'morality police,' in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Nasi's daughter was killed Jan. 8, 2020, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 passenger airliner killing all 176 aboard. (AP/Cliff Owen)

Biden: US to impose ‘further costs’ on Iran over protests crackdown

By Stuart Williams

A scene from the Broadway production of Tom Stoppard's play 'Leopoldstadt,' October 2022. (Courtesy/ Joan Marcus)

Theater reviewThis is a play that will be studied

Tom Stoppard’s alt-neu Broadway play ‘Leopoldstadt’ is 140 minutes of shock and awe

By Jordan Hoffman

Now running in NYC, the show is contemporary but reads like a classic, tracing a Jewish family through the surge and subsequent decimation of 20th-century Austrian Jewry

Tzvia, the Israeli woman who gave birth after reversing her menopause by transplanting part of her ovary which had been frozen for 20 years, with her baby and her physician Prof. Ariel Revel. (courtesy of Prof. Ariel Revel)

Israeli gives birth after menopause reversed with transplant of 20-year frozen ovary

By Nathan Jeffay

Doctor who froze and defrosted ovary ‘cried tears of joy’ when visiting baby born to 46-year-old woman; says success suggests child-bearing years could be extended

An exhilarating dive into 1000 years of European Jewry in Budapest’s Ashkenazium

Intense, intellectual, immersive Jewish studies: Why the Ashkenazium is an increasingly attractive destination for an MA

People ride bicycles and walk along empty roads in Jerusalem, on the evening of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, October 4, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur; security forces on high alert amid terror threats

Airport, trains, buses halt operations, airwaves go silent as Jewish Israelis mark 25-hour Day of Atonement; IDF imposes closure on West Bank, Gaza

Tens of thousands gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City for final 'selichot' services before Yom Kippur, on October 3, 2022. (Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

Tens of thousands visit Western Wall for final ‘selichot’ services before Yom Kippur

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Armed members of the Jewish community stand guard at a celebration in Monsey, New York, December 29, 2019, a day after a machete-wielding man stormed into a rabbi's home and stabbed multiple people as they celebrated Hanukkah in the Orthodox Jewish community. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Jewish gun owners sue NY leadership over law barring firearms in places of worship

Lawsuit says New York legislation infringes on constitutional rights to free religious expression and to bear arms; security expert warns against armed congregants

Interview

Former US envoy who worked on maritime deal claims Lebanon got 100% of its demands

Trump-era official David Schenker suggests agreement lacks mechanism to ensure funds Beirut acquires from subsequent gas exploration won’t reach Hezbollah

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with David Schenker, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, September 10, 2019. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

An Israeli Sa'ar Class 4.5 missile boat guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Karish gas field, in footage published by the military on July 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

High Court rules government must respond to petition over Lebanon maritime deal

Lebanese protesters take part in a demonstration in the border town of Naqoura, on June 11, 2022, days after Israel moved a gas production vessel into the offshore Karish field, a part of which is claimed by Lebanon. (Mahmoud Zayyat/ AFP)

Lebanon said to object to key points in maritime border deal with Israel

Report claims Beirut won’t accept Israel’s buoy-marked border, opposes joint signing ceremony; senior Israeli official says PM Lapid won’t compromise on national interests

Deputy Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Elias Bou Saab addresses the ongoing maritime negotiations between Israel and Lebanon during a live TV broadcast, October 3, 2022 (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lebanon denies it will pay royalties to Israel as part of maritime deal

Likud party chief Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media in Tel Aviv, October 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Lapid is giving away ‘sovereign territory’ to Hezbollah in maritime deal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Pick up your head and see the sun in the sky

Let’s be a little less focused this year, so we can rediscover the precious moments and human connections that are at risk of falling by the wayside otherwise

Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

The reluctant prophet Jonah: A model of what not to do

With serious threats to the world as we know it, we must rise above our insecurities and overcome our anger, shame, fear, and doubt to fix whatever we can

Religious Zionism MK Simcha Rothman remonstrates with a police officer for arresting Temple Mount activist Emanuel Brosh at the Eastern Wall of the Temple Mount on October 2, 2022. (Courtesy Arnon Segal)

Temple Mount activists, police feud over shofar-blowing near flashpoint site

By Jeremy Sharon

Activists seek to blow ram’s horn at Eastern Wall of Jerusalem’s Old City, where Muslim cemetery lies, but face police opposition despite court rulings upholding freedom of worship

Several Jewish influencers have endorsed the use of IV drips, including in preparation for the Yom Kippur fast. (Screenshots via Instagram and YouTube. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg/ JTA)

'I don't know if it's cheating, but I'm going to try it'

How concierge IV therapy went from Instagram trend to pre-Yom Kippur hydration hack

By Jackie Hajdenberg

As celebs like Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber popularize this ‘wellness’ treatment, Orthodox social media influencers tout the benefits of using the drips before the 25-hour fast

Iran hails successful launch of test ‘tug,’ capable of changing satellites’ orbit

By AP

Space agency chief hopes to use the spacecraft soon; US concerned Tehran’s space program could be used to improve its ballistic missiles

Illustrative. A satellite orbiting the earth (iStock)

People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on October 4, 2022. (Jung Yeon-je/AFP)

North Korea tests ballistic missile over Japan, forcing residents to take shelter

Josep Borrell, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Brussels ahead of the Association Council meeting with Israel (EU)

EU’s top diplomat presses Lapid on Palestinians at opening of Brussels meeting

By Lazar Berman

PM emphasizes mutual interests and values at start of first Association Council session in a decade

Illustrative. The Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank, on March 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court grants another delay in razing of West Bank Bedouin village

Israeli troops carry out searches following a shooting attack, in the West Bank village of Salem, near Nablus, on October 2, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF says shots fired at troops in northern West Bank; no injuries

British Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives for the main speeches on the second day of the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 3, 2022. (Paul Ellis/AFP)

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British PM Liz Truss says she’s ‘a huge Zionist and huge supporter of Israel’

At reception held by Conservative Friends of Israel, UK’s new premier pledges to take relations between London and Jerusalem ‘from strength to strength’

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh addressing a press conference in Ramallah on March 29, 2020. (Wafa)

Palestinian Authority PM warns against potential Jerusalem embassy move by Truss

German soldiers search rubble in Westerplatte for Polish survivors in Danzig, Poland on September 2, 1939. (AP Photo)

German minister tells Poland no chance for WWII reparations as Warsaw seeks $1.3t

By AP and ToI Staff

Poland’s demand includes cases of Jews killed by Poles during the Holocaust; Germany says matter is closed

This combination photo shows Benny Shlomo (top left) and the scene where Benny Shlomo and another man were shot in a suspected assassination in Azor, October 3, 2022. (Channel 13 screengrab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)/(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Police arrest 4 suspects from rival crime family after murder of Israeli mob boss

Men serving Jarushi crime family brought in for questioning hours after Benny Shlomo gunned down at Azor gas station in daylight; police warned gang leader his life was in danger

This combination photo shows Benny Shlomo (top left) and the scene where Benny Shlomo and another man were shot in a suspected assassination in Azor, October 3, 2022. (Channel 13 screengrab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)/(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israeli mob boss gunned down in broad daylight at gas station near Tel Aviv

Explainer

Simplistic version of a complex history: Why US politicians trivialize the Holocaust

The contemporary narrative highlights the American role in defeating the Nazis, but overlooks the country’s refusal to do more to save the victims

Illustrative: An internee at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany shouts, 'Shoot them, kill them as they killed our families,' as Allied troops, left, supervise German POWs cleaning up the liberated camp, April 27, 1945. (AP Photo)

Electricity cuts, costly bills push Gazans to seek out solar power

By Rosie SCAMMELL and Mai Yaghi

Estimates say one-fifth of Strip’s residents have installed panels; restaurant owner says investment in renewable source slashed energy outlay, allowing him to refurbish business

An illustrative photo of organic waste for composting. (Maerzkind via iStock by Getty Images)

In new push, government hopes to get Israelis to sort food waste from other trash

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Balad supporters wave the Palestinian and the party flag at campaign launch in Baqa al-Gharbiya on September 24, 2022. (Courtesy)

Balad party appeals its election disqualification to the High Court

A griffon vulture is released into the wild in the Negev highlands in southern Israel, after being marked and fitted with a radio transmitter. (Yuval Dax, INPA)

Hope... with feathersConservationists release 64 vultures equipped with radio transmitters

Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Liberman proposes easy entry for great-grandchildren of Jews, in wake of Ukraine war

By Judah Ari Gross

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences secretary general Hans Ellegren, center announces the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, from left to right on the screen, Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger, in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 4, 2022. (Jonas Ekstromer /TT News Agency via AP)

Physicists from US, France, Austria share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science

By AP

Former Keren Hayesod chair and government minister Eliezer (Modi) Zandberg on July 21, 2004. (Flash90)

Former Keren Hayesod chair, an ex-minister, convicted in ‘submarine affair’

By Jeremy Sharon

Zimtsterne, also eaten after Yom Kippur as a break-fast treat. (The Nosher/ JTA)

Gluten-free recipe insideGerman Christmas cookies turn traditional Yom Kippur break-fast treats

The Bank of Israel's main offices in Jerusalem, on August 12, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Bank of Israel hikes interest rate to 2.75% to bring inflation within target range

By Ricky Ben-David

A man, left, uses an ATM to withdraw money, as security stand guard outside A Bank Audi branch, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, September 26, 2022. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

At least 3 banks held up across Lebanon in one day, as rage mounts over cash limits

By Kareem Chehayeb

Head of the Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu at an election event in the Kiryat Yovel neighborhood of Jerusalem, September 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud legal adviser tells Netanyahu he can’t use party funds to promote his new book

In this file photo taken on December 15, 2015, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is introduced during the CNN presidential debate at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Trump files $475m defamation suit against CNN over coverage since 2020 election

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the "kapparot" ceremony on October 3, 2022, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Crying fowlEnvironment minister urges charity instead of ‘kapparot’ for Yom Kippur

Mayim Bialik (left) and Max Greenfield demonstrate the sounds and calls of the Rosh Hashanah shofar blowing on James Corden's 'Late Late Show' on September 29, 2022 (Courtesy YouTube screengrab)

A ram-bunctious timeMayim Bialik, Max Greenfield ‘blow shofar’ on ‘Late Late Show’

By Jessica Steinberg

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