ToI's weekly deep dive: Future is bright, says Jewish Agency head * Army vets heal by sifting through past * Medieval Budapest synagogue's renaissance

[toi_logo_white.png](?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=b68103a2d8-EMAIL_WEEKEND_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_09_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-b68103a2d8-55598597) [Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates](?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=b68103a2d8-EMAIL_WEEKEND_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_09_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-b68103a2d8-55598597) The Weekend Edition Sunday, September 9, 2018 [imp?s=167760&sz=728x90&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167761&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=167762&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=166778&sz=116x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=166779&sz=69x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8](  [F180723MA008-e1532482901806-640x400.jpg]( Interview [Isaac Herzog sees hope for the Jewish Agency, and the fractured nation it serves]( By [Haviv Rettig Gur]( [Locked in a slow seemingly inexorable decline, the institution, still one of Israel’s most important charities, ‘doesn’t know how to tell its story,’ says new boss](  Jewish New Year [Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, figures show 14.7 million Jews around the globe]( By [TOI staff]( [Jewish population growth rate remains far below global average; Israel’s 6.6 million Jews largest community in world; but Diaspora still has more Jews]( [000_NI6WJ-e1492080287555-640x400.jpg](  [A sweet new year / Hold the honey! A Rosh Hashanah cake for vegans]( By [Jessica Steinberg](  [Signs of the times / Mahane Yehuda graffiti artist tackles Rosh Hashanah themes]( By [Jessica Steinberg](  [NIW-Nathan-Lopez-Cardoso-Israel-9510-1530952824-200x200.jpeg]( [Nathan Lopes Cardozo]( [Rosh Hashanah: Fairy tales and humor](  [US vets combat PTSD by sifting through the past at archaeological dig in Israel]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [American Veterans Archaeological Recovery sends demobilized servicemen to excavate historic Beit She’arim as gateway to healing]( [39810784_1549289301842541_7097181037117046784_o-640x400.jpg](  [idcguy-1530953204-200x200.jpg]( [Jonathan Davis]( [Rosh Hashanah over Beirut](  [unnamed-200x200.jpg]( [1,020 untouched clay sealings discovered after two millennia in hidden cave]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [imp?s=167763&layout=marquee&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167764&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=167765&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=167766&sz=116x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167767&sz=69x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8](  [20180906173803_6C3A2818-01-400x400.jpeg]( [In Budapest, a medieval synagogue dormant for hundreds of years is rededicated]( By [Yaakov Schwartz](  [ber-e1535547552964-640x400.jpg]( ToI investigates [The ex-aides of a messianic, sex-convict rabbi fight from within to cast him out]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Bratslav hasidic leaders have issued a rare ban on Eliezer Berland, a cult leader seen as a modern ‘Sabbatai Tzvi’; the rest of the Haredi world is proving reluctant to follow suit](  Op-ed [Robert Philpot]( [Corbyn loathes Israel, and Labour’s new anti-Semitism rules won’t change that]( [His hostility to Israel outweighs any desire to mend fences with Jews, as shown by failed bid to declare it should ‘not be regarded as anti-Semitic to describe Israel as racist’]( [Corbyn-580-1-e1535560467909-640x400.png](  [AP_18235378646932-200x200.jpg]( [If Corbyn became PM, almost 40% of UK Jews would ‘seriously consider’ leaving]( By [TOI staff](  [israeliICJdelegation-200x200.jpg]( [Exclusive / Israel takes part in international court debate for first time in decades]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [imp?s=199791&layout=marquee&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=199792&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=199793&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=199794&sz=116x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=199795&sz=69x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8](  Making amends [Italian universities to apologize for expelling Jewish staff, students in WWII]( By [Rossella Tercatin]( [Eight decades after a widespread Fascist purge of Jews from academic institutions, universities to hold memorial ceremony on September 20]( [MussoliniBunkerHeader-640x400.jpg](  [SarahTS-cropped-1530951826-200x200.jpg]( [Sarah Tuttle-Singer]( [The ship that might have sailed](  [cable-car-pic-e1536241725558-400x400.jpg]( [Jerusalem Old City cable car plan savaged by architects, academics, tour guides]( By [Sue Surkes](  [Capture-1-medium.jpg] Reporter's notebook [Jacob Magid]( [JCC hoax bomber’s mental state clouds relationship between crime and punishment]( [20-year-old’s tough treatment at hands of guards appears to be based on his rap sheet, but raises questions about whether his autism is being taken into account]( [000_MX4ZY-e1490297270201-640x400.jpg]( [imp?s=167768&sz=300x250&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167769&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=167770&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=166778&sz=116x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=166779&sz=69x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167771&sz=300x250&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=167772&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=167773&sz=1x1&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8] [imp?s=166778&sz=116x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8]( [imp?s=166779&sz=69x15&li=adb46cec92&e={EMAIL}&p=b68103a2d8](  StartUp Israel [Taking cue from bats, Tel Aviv team creates robot that navigates via echoes]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Development shows ‘great potential’ for the use of sound in future robots; animals said to ‘routinely solve problems that engineers find very difficult’]( [1-5-640x400.jpg](  [Israel sets up new incubator in Safed to feed global interest in foodtech]( By [Shoshanna Solomon](  [Israel, US researchers develop software that predicts blood pressure instability]( By [Shoshanna Solomon](  [Fore! Israel drone system to drop food to North Dakota golfers]( By [Shoshanna Solomon](  People of the Books [In a forensic pilgrimage, a scholar asks, ‘What did Jesus look like?’]( By [Rich Tenorio]( [Prof. Joan E. Taylor continues a journey she began years ago on a kibbutz in Israel, as she examines the dress, skin tone, and hair style of the Christian Messiah in her new book]( [8430907017_82517fec7b_o-e1535801075829-640x400.jpg](  [Talaat1-200x200.jpg]( [Before the Holocaust, Ottoman Jews supported the Armenian genocide’s ‘architect’]( By [JP O’ Malley](  [Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F051673-0059_Adolf_Hitler_und_Eva_Braun_auf_dem_Berghof-e1535627190133-200x200.jpg]( [Investigation / Putin grants authors partial access to secret Soviet archives on Hitler’s death]( By [JP O’ Malley](  [Sharon-Vazzana-Performance-144-400x400.jpg]( [In ‘Monster,’ dance troupe channels innermost feelings about the female body]( By [Jessica Steinberg](  [DSC_3871-1530952295-200x200.jpeg] [Sally Abrams]( [My Days of Awe discovery: I have a half-sister]( [“On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed, How many will pass from the earth and how many will be created...” -Unetaneh Tokef prayer The second day of Rosh Hashanah had just ended last year when the email arrived. It contained the results of a DNA ancestry test I’d submitted a few weeks earlier. I went digging around in my DNA because I was hoping to find something 'interesting'. By 'interesting' I mean something beyond garden-variety Ashkenazi. Something more exotic than matzoh balls and brisket. 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