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Saturday July 4, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clinton, Fayyad meet
Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.
Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire
The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.
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.
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.
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.
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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