White supremacist arrested for threatening Pittsburgh synagogue trial jurors: Hardy Carroll Lloyd, who was charged on Thursday, has long been known to the FBI. The convicted felon was sent to prison in 2019 for urging “lone wolves” to kill Jews, and has been free since 2020. He could now face up to 35 years in prison. Read the story ➤

Obituary | She survived the Holocaust, and her book on a wartime rebellion inspired the Daniel Craig film Defiance: Nechama Tec, a famed sociologist who died this month at 92, “saw European Jewish survival in the tragic 20th century as a matter of exceptionalism,” writes Benjamin Ivry. She also observed that while in ghettos and concentration camps, Jewish women typically showed more psychological fortitude than their male counterparts. “However tough the circumstances, Jewish women instinctively carried on with their traditional role of trying to keep the family alive.” Read the story ➤

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Joe Biden and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. (Getty)

Opinion | Biden and Bibi both need a big win. Is a deal with the Saudis their answer? There are reports of a potential treaty, brokered by Washington, between Riyadh and Jerusalem. “What to make of all this?” asks Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the U.S. Read his essay ➤

On the other hand: Noa Shusterman Dvir, a national security researcher, writes in an OpEd that normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia is “a fantasy.” Read her essay ➤

Speaking of Israel: A woman sat shiva for her living sister because they disagree on Israel. Should they reconcile? Our Bintel Brief advice column says boundaries might help mend this sister split. 

Ballerina Mia Slavenska performs as Salome in the summer of 1950. (Getty) 

How a scandalous Jewish no-goodnik captured the imagination of the world: Salome, the seductress known for requesting the head of John the Baptist, has long fascinated the Christian world while occasionally inspiring its antisemitism. But a new study notes how Jews were not immune to the scandalous story, going so far as to translate Oscar Wilde’s play of the Jewish princess into Yiddish. She appealed to performers as varied as Fanny Brice, Ida Rubinstein and Sarah Bernhardt. Read the story ➤

And one more: Iran’s Jewish languages are dying. Can intrepid linguists save them before it’s too late?

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

The evacuees were all flown to Addis Ababa, and some continued on to Israel. (Israel Embassy in Addis Ababa)

?  Israel said it rescued and evacuated more than 200 Israeli citizens and Jews on Thursday from a conflict region in Ethiopia where a militia is fighting government forces. (JTA)

?  The Secure Community Network, which works with Jewish institutions across the U.S., sent a letter to Elon Musk, urging him to de-verify prevalent antisemitic accounts that incite violence. (Twitter)

⚖️  A man accused of tossing antisemitic flyers onto Palm Beach County properties in Florida earlier this year pleaded guilty this week to three criminal charges. He was sentenced to 12 months probation. (CBS 12)

??  Hundreds of American Jewish academics and other public figures, in two letters published in the past week, are calling for U.S. Jewish groups and President Joe Biden to draw a closer link between Israel’s judicial overhaul and its treatment of Palestinians. (JTA)

??  The U.S. secured a prisoner exchange deal with Iran that includes the release of five Americans and unfreezes $6 billion in Iranian assets. Mike Pence, a GOP presidential contender, assailed Biden for “the largest ransom payment” in history to the mullahs. (New York Times, Twitter)

⚽  The German Cup is an annual soccer competition started under the Nazis in 1935. This Sunday, a Jewish team founded by Holocaust survivors will take part. (AP)

Shiva call ➤  Robert Beren, an oil magnate, Republican donor and philanthropist to Jewish causes, died at 97.

Long weekend reads ➤  In Budapest, a “guerrilla-like” group is mobilizing against the alleged takeover of a historic synagogue … A German man is accused of posing as a Jew and peddling a fake, antisemitism-laced Holocaust story … The time Oppenheimer met Ben-Gurion to discuss Israel’s nuclear quest.

ON THE CALENDAR

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On this day in history (1942): Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr received a patent for developing a frequency-hopping system to keep radio systems from jamming. The technology, which Lamarr invented alongside the avant-garde composer George Antheil, was later crucial in developing GPS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth systems. Although Lamarr, a Jewish immigrant from Vienna, hid her religious identity in Hollywood, she privately helped seek reparations for Jews. 

Sunday is the third anniversary of the announcement of the Abraham Accords.

VIDEO OF THE DAY

Forget Barbie and Oppenheimer. The new movie everyone will be talking about is Adam Sandler’s comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, which debuts Aug. 25 on Netflix. Based on a popular 2005 novel, the film stars Sandler’s real-life daughter Sunny as the bat mitzvah girl and was shot over six weeks last summer at Congregation Beth Tzedec in Toronto. Watch the trailer above.

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Thanks to Laura E. Adkins, PJ Grisar, Beth Harpaz, Jacob Kornbluh, Rebecca Salzhauer and Talya Zax for contributing to today’s newsletter. You can reach the “Forwarding” team at [email protected].