US-Jewish researcher shares medical Nobel for enabling mRNA COVID vaccines * Chief rabbi: Jews who eat non-kosher ’get stupid’ * Deri’s $5,000 etrog * Obit: Alice Shalvi

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Monday, October 2, 2023 Presented by [Urban Moshav]( [Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó win Nobel in medicine for enabling mRNA COVID vaccines]( By Agencies and ToI Staff US-Jewish and Hungarian co-researchers’ cited for contribution to ‘unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of greatest threats to human health in modern times’ [Sephardic chief rabbi claims secular Jews who eat non-kosher food ‘get stupid’]( By ToI Staff In latest inflammatory remarks, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also says non-religious Jews ‘don’t find fulfillment in life’ and are ‘jealous’ of the ultra-Orthodox [ToI podcast / Daily Briefing Oct 2: Rabbis’ state salaries are real pork barrel, say opposition heads]( By ToI Staff Obituary Jessica Steinberg [Alice Shalvi, trailblazing feminist and educator, dies at 97]( The Israel Prize laureate, longtime principal of Jerusalem’s revered Pelech school for girls and founder of Israel Women’s Network, was an agent for change from our sponsor [The First Jewish Urban Cohousing Community Opens to Families]( Berkeley Moshav reimagines Jewish communal future by re-creating the village models of the past. 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