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Saturday July 5, 2008

Jesse Helms, the staunch Israel supporter in the U.S. Senate whose race-baiting nonetheless alienated many Jews, has died.

Federal officials arrested two alleged supervisors at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant in Postville, Iowa.

The Barack Obama campaign is launching Jewish outreach groups in major Jewish centers across the United States.

Militants fired a Kassam rocket from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev in another violation of a truce agreement.

The off-duty Israeli soldier who ended Wednesday's bulldozer rampage in Jerusalem is avoiding the limelight.

Israel's internal security minister drew fire for holding a politicized news conference during the Jerusalem bulldozer rampage.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel played down speculation that an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could be imminent.

A Ukrainian politician called for a purge of Jews in his country.

More than a dozen Massachusetts synagogues have signed on to a Pledge to Green.

Steven Spielberg's foundation has donated $1 million to the National Museum of American Jewish History.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Germany to sue an Iranian official who said that the "Zionist project" should be cancelled.

A Holocaust memorial in the western Ukrainian city of Lvov was vandalized.

The WUJS Institute adult study program will move from its long-time home in Arad to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

An exhibit of Hitler in a bunker was unveiled at a Berlin wax museum amid criticism.

Mahmoud Abbas condemned the Jerusalem bulldozer rampage and called for progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Congress and President Bush kept their pledge to boost defense assistance for Israel despite deadlock on budget issues.

Two Jerusalem teachers were among those killed in Wednesday's terrorist attack.


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