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Bernard Madoff, shown here in a mug shot, was sentenced to 150 years in prison on June 29, 2009 -- the maximum sentence allowed -- for bilking investors of up to $65 billion in a Ponzi scheme. (U.S. Department of Justice) Campers from Camp Sabra in Missouri arriving back at the Jewish Community Campus in Overland Park, Kan., on June 23, 2009 after the camp was shut down for a seven-day cleanup due to an outbreak of the swine flu virus. (Edmee Rodriguez) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a major policy address at Bar-Ilan University in Israel on June 14, 2009 for the first time endorsed a Palestinian state, but with conditions. (Michael Kramer/flash90/jta) President Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, flanked by Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel, left, Nobel Prize-winning memoirist, and Bertrandt Herz, president of the International Buchenwald Committee, placing white roses at a memorial at the former Buchenwald concentration camp during their visit on June 5, 2009. (German Federal Press and Information Office / Bergmann) Former Israeli president Efraim Katzir died May 30, 2009 in his home in Rechovot, Israel. He was 93. (Flash90/JTA) Late Israeli President Efraim Katzir, first from right, toasts Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis who had just arrived from Lubavitch world headquarters in New York on a mission from the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson on January 20, 1976. (Chabad.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington on May 18, 2009. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90/JTA) Residents of Ashkelon took to the streets on April 29, 2009 to celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut, Israel's Independence Day. (Edi Israel / Flash 90 / JTA) Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, May 4, 2009. (AIPAC) Israelis at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv stand silent for a two-minute siren on Israel Memorial Day, April 28, 2009. (Gili Yaari / Flash 90 / JTA ) Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, is arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy on April 27, 2009 while protesting the deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Darfur. (Save Darfur Coalition) American Jewish filmmaker Ami Horowitz rushes to the podium at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on April 23, 2009 to protest before being expelled from U.N. grounds. (Michael J. Jordan) Jen Taylor Friedman, Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski, Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg and Dr. Judith Plaskow participate in a panel discussion on Judaism and Feminism at the 92nd St. Y in New York City, April 23, 2009. (Daniel Sieradski) Some of the dignitaries who were among the nearly 10,000 people, primarily young Jews from around the world, protesting the Durban II conference in the March of the Living in Poland on April 21, 2009. (Yossi Selinger) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his fiery speech at the Durban Conference on April 20, 2009. (Michael J. Jordan) Wreats are laid April 19, 2009 in Warsaw during the annual memorial ceremony honoring the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. (Moshe Milner / GPO / BPH Images) President Obama hosts a Passover seder dinner in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House on April 9, 2009, with friends and White House employees and their families joining the Obama family. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza) Members of the Hevreh of Southern Berkshires and the Berkshire Minyan gather on the grounds of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., on the morning of April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years. (Toby Axelrod) Some 4,000 to 5,000 Jews gather at a Brooklyn, N.Y., intersection in the early morning on April 8, 2009 for the Blessing of the Sun, which is recited once every 28 years. (Leon J. Sternheim / Jewish Herald) Rapper-actor LL Cool J, center, is flanked by Russell Simmons, left, chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, and foundation president and founder Rabbi Marc Schneier after being honored by the group. (Foundation for Ethnic Understanding) In this handout image provided by the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), an Arrow anti-missile missile is launched from a testing ground on April 7, 2009 in central Israel. The Defense Ministry confirmed the successful test of the anti-missile system designed to protect the country from attack by Iran. (IAI / BPH Images) American rabbinical and Jewish education students protest plans by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to build a tolerance museum atop a Muslim cemetery in downtown Jerusalem, April 2, 2009. (Activestills.org) Israeli President Shimon Peres (seated right) sits next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and poses with the largest Cabinet in Israeli history on April 1 at the president's residence in Jerusalem. (Amos Ben Gershom GPO/BPH Images) Israeli President Shimon Peres (left) congratulates Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before posing with the new Israeli Cabinet at the presidential residence in Jerusalem on Wednesday April 1. (Amos Ben Gershom GPO/BPH Images) Israeli Arabs wave Palestinian flags as they protest a march by right-wing Israelis in the Israeli-Arab city Umm al-Fahm on March 24, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Flag-waving right-wing Israelis, protected by riot police and armored buses, march in the Israeli-Arab city Umm al-Fahm on March 24, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Israeli musician Idan Raichel speaks at New York University on March 23, 2009 at an event sponsored by USD Hagshama, the student division of the World Zionist Organization. Raichel sang some of his songs and answered questions. (David Karp) Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu peforming with the Israeli jam band Aharit Hayamim on March 14, 2009 at Shemspeed Massive Live, a concert event at the 92nd Street Y Tribeca in New York City featuring various up-and-coming Jewish musicians. (Daniel Sieradski) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses a reception for 100 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries on Parliament Hill in Ottawa as Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, second from left, vice chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational arm, and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, right, look on. (Chabad.org / Peter Waiser) Stanley Chesley, president of the Jewish National Fund-U.S., playing air hockey with children from Sderot on March 10, 2009 at the opening of a $5 million recreational facility in the southern Israeli city. The facility, funded by JNF-U.S., provides a respite for children in the Sderot area from Gaza-launched missiles. (Sasson Tiram) Jewish children who participate in the activities of the Jewish Agency for Israel in the Russian autonomous region of Birobidjan celebrate Purim in the snow. (Pavel Girin / Jewish Agency for Israel) Supporters of Gilad Shalit demonstrate for his release outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's residence in Jerusalem on March 8, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Israeli policewomen checks the scene near a damaged police car and bus after a driver rammed his bulldozer into both vehicles on March 5, 2009 in Jerusalem. In front of a Sholem Aleichem statue, Limmud FSU volunteers prepare to commemorate the 150th birthday of the famed author outside his house near Kiev, now a museum in Ukraine, on March 2, 2009. (Chaim Chesler, Limmud FSU) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lays a wreath in memory of Nazi victims during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on March 3, 2009. (Brian Hendler)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lays a wreath in memory of Nazi victims during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on March 3, 2009. (Brian Hendler)

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