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President Obama is meeting with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

Four dozen prominent Christian leaders asked Congress and other world leaders to call for immediate sanctions on Iran.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his army would "cut off" the hands of those who attack his country.

Talk show host Glenn Beck has called for a day of "Fast and Prayer for the Republic" that coincides with Yom Kippur.

A Spanish government ministry disqualified an Israeli university from an international competition for being in "occupied territory."

The Quebec Jewish Congress is coming to the aid of a Montreal taxi driver who has been ordered to remove Jewish artifacts from his cab.

Saudi Arabia's U.S. ambassador said his country would not engage in peace talks without major Israeli concessions.

At least 5,000 people attended a free Rosh Hashanah Under the Stars service at a park near Baltimore.

A historic synagogue was rededicated in Ukraine decades after it was closed by the Communist Party.

A Spanish court indicted three alleged former Nazi death camp guards.

An Israeli Arab from eastern Jerusalem was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers after running a checkpoint near Bethlehem.

Israeli Consul General Yaakov Dayan urged American Jewry to support Azerbaijan.

Two Orthodox Jewish organizations filed a brief in the case of a brain-dead man whose family wanted to keep him on life support despite doctors' wishes.

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