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| International News From JTA |
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| Saturday July 4, 2009 |
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| Israeli army rabbi says women should not serve |
| The Israeli army's top rabbi spurred calls for his dismissal after he said women should not serve in the military. |
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| Holy texts charred in makeshift yeshiva |
| Holy books and Torah scrolls were defaced and burned at a yeshiva located at the site of the evacuated Homesh settlement. |
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| U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property |
| A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras. |
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| Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status |
| Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. |
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| Clinton, Fayyad meet |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel. |
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| Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire |
| The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border. |
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| Palestinian swine flu cases rising |
| A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise. |
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| Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false |
| Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false. |
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| Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam |
| Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam. |
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| Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard |
| A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party. |
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