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• A six-month strike by Israeli Foreign Ministry workers that jeopardized Israeli diplomatic relations with work slowdowns has been suspended.
• Four Torah scrolls that once belonged to a Southern California rabbi should be returned to his widow, a Los Angeles court ruled.
• A Torah was dedicated in the birthplace of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
• Ten past and present NBA players visited Israeli President Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem office.
• American Jewish attachment to Israel is holding steady, a new study shows.

• Pope Benedict XVI and Israeli President Shimon Peres discussed prospects for the new round of Middle East peace negotiations.
• Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky was in Budapest for the inauguration of the Israeli Cultural Institute.
• A Boston television station rescheduled the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate to avoid a conflict with the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
• Two Israelis were wounded in a West Bank shooting attack late Wednesday night, a day after four Israelis were killed in a similar attack.
• At the launch of renewed peace talks, Arab leaders called on Israel to sustain a settlement freeze and to negotiate final status issues.

• A settlers' umbrella group unilaterally ended the West Bank construction moratorium in response to the terrorist attack near Hebron.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak of conceding territory and sharing the land with the Palestinian people when talks are formally launched.
• President Obama pledged his support of Israel's security and called the shooting deaths of four Israelis at the hands of Palestinians a "senseless slaughter."
• Jews are being urged to oppose a church's call to burn Korans on Sept. 11.
• Amsterdam’s Reform congregation dedicated its new synagogue building in time for Rosh Hashanah.

• A prison can require an Orthodox Jewish prison inmate to keep his beard short, a federal judge ruled.
• A Boston television station is holding the initial Massachusetts gubernatorial debate on the first night of Rosh Hashanah.
• Israel would be willing to divide control over Jerusalem as part of a peace deal, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told an Israeli newspaper.
• Jewish leaders in Melbourne have severed ties with the city’s major broadsheet newspaper over its treatment of Israel.
• A French high school teacher was suspended for spending too much class time on the Holocaust.

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