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Updated 07/06/09 @ 04:04PM EDT

• U.S. Jewish groups are planning a mass push in September to press for Iran sanctions.
• Ehud Barak said progress was made in his meeting with George Mitchell, but there is also "still a way to go."
• An Iranian blogger who claimed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had Jewish ancestors was arrested and detained, an Israeli newspaper reported.
• Israel Aerospace Industries reportedly has taken itself out of contention to sell fighter jets to India following pressure from the Pentagon.
• The World Jewish Congress called on the chief of Formula 1 racing to resign after he praised Hitler for having "gotten things done."

• Empire Kosher poultry is launching lines of organic and antibiotic-free poultry.
• The country’s largest Jewish federation announced that its 2008-09 fund-raising campaign dropped 11.5 percent from the previous year.
• Israeli archeologists uncovered an ancient quarry whose stones were likely used to build the Temple walls.
• More than 750 competitors from the United States arrived in Israel to compete in the 18th Maccabiah Games.
• A Jewish soldier from the Seattle area was killed in a Taliban attack on a U.S. army base in Afghanistan.

• Activists detained after trying to break the Gaza blockade on a ferry are set to be deported from Israel.
• The front doors of a suburban New York synagogue were spray-painted with swastikas.
• Witnesses from Israel testified before a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations during the Gaza military operation.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the term "two states for two peoples" during a meeting of his Cabinet.
• Israel is "entitled" to decide for itself how to respond to Iran's nuclear program, Joe Biden said.

• A sitting Israeli Knesset member gave birth to a baby boy.
• Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in an interview invited President Obama to visit Damascus.
• Demonstrations against a decision to open a Jerusalem parking lot on Shabbat continued for the second week in a row.
• Israeli officials said that an Israeli submarine passed through the Suez Canal during a drill, a report denied by Egypt.
• Convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk was declared fit to stand trial in Germany.

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