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Updated 11/08/09 @ 04:56PM EDT

• The only Jewish Republican in Congress said the Jewish community needs to "remove the blinders from our eyes" and speak out more vocally against threats to Israel and the Jewish people.
• The alleged Fort Hood shooter is a conservative Muslim, not an extremist, says an uncle who lives in the West Bank.
• A pro-Palestinian group is staging a weeklong protest at two British supermarket chains to force them to stop selling Israeli products.
• A leading Kadima Party member presented a plan to establish a Palestinian state within one year.
• President Obama called on Israelis to continue to pursue peace with the Palestinians in a video message screened during a memorial to Yitzhak Rabin.

• The United Nations secretary-general said he will send the Goldstone report to the U.N. Security Council "as soon as possible."
• Reform Jews should eat less red meat and consider more carefully what food they serve in their synagogues, the movement's leader said.
• Composer Richard Wagner's great-grandson criticized the music chosen to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall because it includes a composition by his "anti-Semitic" great-grandfather.
• The United States and Israel need to improve their communication, Jerusalem's mayor said.
• Norwegian prosecutors dropped a case alleging war crimes by 10 Israeli leaders during last winter’s Gaza military campaign.

• Palestinian activists attempted to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by knocking down a portion of the West Bank security fence.
• An evangelical Christian who promotes messianic Judaism will be the keynote speaker at a Birthright Israel alumni event.
• President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu will meet, officials said a day after Obama canceled a scheduled appearance before the Jewish federations' General Assembly.
• The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.

• The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to an Arabic-language newspaper.
• The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
• U.S. Jewish groups blasted the U.N. General Assembly for its endorsement of the Goldstone report into last winter's Gaza war.
• Israel delivered 20,000 swine flu vaccines to the Palestinian Authority ahead of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
• There is "nothing to be worried about" at a newly discovered uranium enrichment site in Iran, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said.

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