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Pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Oxford University protest the appearance of Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, Feb. 8, 2010. (John Rifkin) Alpine skier Michael Renzin, left, and the brother-sister ice-dancing team of Roman and Alexandra Zaretsky comprise the Israeli delegation for the Winter Olympics in Vancover, Canada. (The Olympic Committee of Israel / Flash90 / JTA) Some 150 seniors diced a ton of fruits to make what was called the largest Russian fruit salad in an event marking the New Year for Fruits in Moscow at the Chabad-Lubavitch Shaarei Tzedek senior center, Jan. 31, 2010. The fruit salad was later distributed to the needy. (Chabad.org) The IDF relief team in Haiti waits to board an El Al plane home, Jan. 27, 2010. All Haitian patients under Israeli care were transferred to other hospitals. (Joe Shalmoni) Two South American immigrants to Israel dance at a Jewish Agency for Israel welcoming ceremony in Jerusalem on Jan. 28, 2010, for some 100 new olim from South America. (Brian Hendler) Actor Sean Penn, right, greets Joseph, a 20-year-old Haitian who received life-saving surgery, at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps field hospital in Port-au-Prince. (Joe Shalmoni) Israeli President Shimon Peres speaking before the German parliament, or Bundestag, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Jan. 27, 2010. (Office of the President of Israel) Capt. Ori Nurick leads in transporting an injured woman into the Israeli army's field hospital in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010. (Joe Shalmoni) Rabbi Shaul Offen, right foreground, reading the Torah at the Israel Defense Forces Medical Unit Field Hospital Camp, Port-au-Prince, Jan. 22, 2010. (Joe Shalmoni) Israeli President Shimon Peres, flanked by NASA administrator Charles Bolden and Rona Ramon, widow of the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, displaying a special plaque presented by Bolden showing photographs that Bolden took from space while on a space mission to launch the Hubble telescope. (Office of the President of Israel) The Israel Defense Forces' medical and rescue team in Port-au-Prince rescuing a Haitian government worker who was trapped for five days before evacuating him to an IDF field hospital, Jan. 17, 2010. (IDF / Flash90 / JTA) An Israeli and others carry a wounded Haitian to a field hospital set up by the Israeli army in Port-Au-Prince, Jan. 18, 2010. (Zaka / Flash90 / JTA) Haitians are living in makeshift camps erected on the golf course in Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the impoverished island nation's devastating earthquake, Jan. 16, 2010. (Marco Dormino / UN Photo) Oren Hudida of Neve Ziv, in The Galilee, planting a pine tree as the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund starts the planting season of Tu B'Shvat. (Dror Artzi / KKL-JNF Archive) Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, receiving the the Wiesenthal Center's Righteous Among the Nations Award in Los Angeles on May 12, 1994 from Rabbi Marvin Hier, the center's founder and dean, and actress Whoopi Goldberg. Gies died on Jan. 11, 2010 at the age of 100. (Bart Bartholomew / Simon Wiesenthal Center) Israel Antiquities Authority workers during the archaeological excavation of the oldest building ever found in Tel Aviv, estimated to be 7,800-8,400 years old, Jan 10, 2010. (Assaf Peretz / Israel Antiquities Authority) Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of the Chabad-Lubavitch educational and social services divisions, greets the consul general of France, Philippe Lalliot, during Lalliot's tour of Chabad's international headquarters in Brooklyn, Jan. 8, 2010. (Menachem Kozlovsky / lubavitch.com) Leading scientific voices and policymakers from Manitoba, Canada, and Israel gather in Jerusalem for the Israel Water Symposium hosted by Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund aimed at boosting international co-operation on key water issues, Jan. 10, 2010. (Ancho Gosh / Jini Photo) Jewish settlers protesting the government's decision to freeze settlement building in the West Bank by breaking a house they built from ice near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house, Jan. 4, 2010. (Miriam Alster / Flash90 / JTA) French immigrants hold up their Israeli ID cards after receiving Israeli citizenship at a ceremony held by the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, Dec. 29, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Birthright Israel participants, on a tour marking the 10-year anniversary of the program, dance as they are welcomed at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport, Dec. 29, 2009. (David Karp) Max Weinberg, the "only Jew" on "The Tonight Show," singing a song just for Mormons in response to Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Mormon, writing a Chanukah song. (NBC.com) President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama look on as a child lights the Chanukah candles at a White House reception, Dec. 16, 2009. (White House Photo by Samantha Appleton) Naveed Haq, who shot six women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in July 2006, enters the courtroom on Dec. 15, 2009, to hear the verdict in the second trial against him. (Joel Magalnick / JTNews) White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, second from right, lights the "national menorah" in a crane with Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, second from left, and his son, Rabbi Levi Shemtov, as a photographer captures the scene, Dec. 13, 2009. (Israel Bardugo for American Friends of Lubavitch) Representatives of all 14 state Jewish federations convening at theannual Brazilian Israelite Confederation convention in Sao Paulo, Dec.6, 2009. (Conib) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dances a Chasidic circle dance with Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and community members from around the state during the 16th annual Chabad-Lubavitch menorah lighting ceremony in the state Capitol rotunda, Dec. 11, 2009. (Sterling Franken-Steffen / Chabad.org) Orthodox Jewish boxer Dimitriy Salita takes on Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky in a game of chess while on his first visit to Israel, Dec. 14, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, far right, talks to Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, second from right, in Budapest Dec. 10, 2009, in a meeting arranged by Chabad-Lubavitch of Budapest. This was Wiesel's first visit to the country of his birth since the Holocaust. Also seen in the picture, from left, Chabad Rabbis Baruch Oberlander and Shlomo Koves, and Wiesel's wife, Marion. (Emih-zsolt Dememcs / Chabad.org) Young Bnei Menashe, from India's northeastern border states of Manipur and Mizoram, celebrate Chanukah. (Courtesy of Yochanan Phaltual) Abraham H. Foxman, right, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, presents director Steven Spielberg with an award at a star-studded gala dinner in Hollywood Dec. 9, 2009. (Robert Lurie) West Bank settlers and their supporters, including yeshiva students, try to block traffic entering Jerusalem to protest settlement freeze, Dec. 7, 2009. (Abir Sultan / Flash 90 / JTA) Participants in the "President's Panel: Into the Future" at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's international biennial convention in Cherry Hill, N.J., include Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly; Cantor Stephen Stein, executive vice president of the Cantors Assembly; Rabbi Steven Wernick, executive vice president and CEO of United Synagogue; and Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, Dec. 7, 2009. (United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism) Rabbi Arthur Schneier, second from left, founder of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, smiles after being presented Spain's Order of Civil Merit by U.N. Ambassador Juan Antonio Yanez-Barnuevo, second from right, and Spanish Ombudsman Enrique Mugica Herzog, right, in New York, as former New York City Mayor Edward Koch looks on, Dec. 7, 2009. (Appeal of Conscience Foundation) Israeli Minister of Interior Affairs Eli Yishai, left, met with Noam Shalit as he continuing meetings with cabinet ministers as part of efforts to lobby support for a prisoner swap. Dec. 2 2009. (Abir Sultan / Flash90 / JTA) Accused war criminal John Demjanjuk is wheeled into a Munich courtroom on Nov. 30, 2009 for the first day of his trial in a photo taken by one of the few survivors of the Sobibor death camp, Thomas Blatt. (Thomas Blatt) Parliament member Barry O'Farrell addresses the first-ever Chanukah celebration at the New South Wales Parliament House, as Chabad Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, who presented a menorah to the legislature, looks on, Dec. 1, 2009. (Ingrid Shakenovsky) Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the former chief Sephardi rabbi of Israel, at a meeting for 35 new immigrants from Yemen at his home in Jerusalem called on the remaining Jews in the Arab country to make aliyah, Nov. 25, 2009. (Sasson Tiram / Jewish Agency for Israel) Yuri Foreman, left, the recently crowned World Boxing Association super welterweight champion, distributed turkeys at the Met Council in Brooklyn to help hundreds of families celebrate Thanksgiving along with Asaf Shariv, center, consul general of Israel in New York, and Joel Lion, the consul for media affairs, Nov. 24, 2009. (Shahar Azran) Hundreds of demonstrators protesting along Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Brazil, Nov. 22, 2009. (Leonardo Goldfarb / Rua Judaica) Some of the 150 Jewish Agency emissaries in North America, with Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, gather at an annual conference outside Baltimore, Nov. 23, 2009. (David Karp) Hadassah National President Nancy Falchuk, center, is flanked by Nancy Brinker, right, founder of Susan G. Komen For The Cure, and Komen official Jennifer Luray in Falchuk's New York office as they meet to discuss the groups' partnership in the fight against breast cancer, Nov. 20, 2009. (Hadassah) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, is greeted in Salvador by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and a Jewish Brazilian state governor, Jacques Wagner, Nov. 19, 2009. (Manu Dias / AGECOM) Yuri Foreman addressing the media after capturing the WBA super welterweight title from Daniel Santos in Las Vegas, Nov. 14, 2009. (Catch Miura) Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, left, and Israeli President Shimon Peres meeting in Brasilia, Nov. 11, 2009. (Jose Cruz / Abr) Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Esti Ginzburg and Dean Stern, host and co-chair of a fashion show showcasing Israeli designers in New York on Nov. 11, 2009. More than 15 Jewish organizations co-sponsored the event, which attracted some 800 young Jewish professionals. (Maya Barkai) Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries dancing during a procession toward Lubavitch world headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 11, 2009, following the completion of a Torah scroll in honor of the six slain terror victims at the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, in November 2008. The scroll, written by Chabad's 4,000 emissaries from around the world, will be sent to the Mumbai Chabad House. (Baruch Ezagui / lubavitch.com) Catheline Manville of the University of Central Florida holds the Havdalah candle during a ceremony at the close of the annual Chabad on Campus International Student Shabbaton in Brooklyn, N.Y., where hundreds gathered from more than 100 campuses worldwide/ (B. Lifshitz / Chabad.org) Attendees of the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly gather at the Marriott Hotel in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009. (Robert A. Cumins / Jewish Federations of North America) Young Palestinian girls learn with Israel trainers to defend against sexual assault and other acts of violence as part of the Impact program at The Israel Women's Martial Arts Foundation in Jerusalem, Nov. 8, 2009. (Kobi Gideon / Flash90 / JTA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America, Nov. 9, 2009. (Robert Cumins / Jewish Federations of North America) Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, left, Charles Bronfman, Michael Steinhardt, and Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, commit to increasing the number of Jewish young adults visiting Israel at an event held on the eve of the GA in Washington, Nov. 8, 2009. (David Karp) Jack Terpins, president of the Latin American Jewish Congress, seen here with Caridad Diego Bello and Rabbi Yossi Schildkraut, attended meetings in Sao Paulo to talk about religious integration, Nov. 5, 2009. (Conib) Rabbi Capers Funnye, a cousin of Michelle Obama, dances at the Jewish Agency's absorption center for new immigrants in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, Nov. 4, 2009. (Brian Hendler) Israeli President Shimon Peres at his residence in Jerusalem with members of a panel of Israeli Ethiopians during the first Israeli celebration of the Sigd holiday, when Ethiopian Jews mark their yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion, Nov. 2, 2009. (Israeli Government Press Office) Young Israeli Ethiopians performing at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Nov. 2, 2009, in a celebration of the Sigd holiday marking Ethiopian Jews' yearning to return to Jerusalem and Zion. (Israeli Government Press Office) Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, left, salutes celebrated Irish tenor Ronan Tynan after his rendition of "God Bless America" before the Anti-Defamation League's annual meeting on October 29. (David Karp) J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami speaking at the group's first conference in Washington, Oct. 26, 2009, as Rabbi Eric Yoffie looks on. (J Street) Some of the seven descendants of the ancient Jewish community of Kaifeng, China, arriving in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport, Oct. 20, 2009. The descendants, who were brought by the Shavei Israel organization, were issued one-year entry permits. (Michael Freund) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, a guest speaker at the opening of the annual meeting of the Jewish Agency's board of governors, looks on as Johanna Arbib-Perugia, chairwoman of the world board of trustees of Keren Hayesod, greets Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky in Jerusalem, Oct. 25, 2009. (Brian Hendler) At the initiative of JNF-UK and KKL, a group of 25 British hikers aged 9 to 79 trekked four days from the Mediterranean to the Sea of Galilee trying to raise awareness and funds to deal with the Israeli water crisis. (KKL Archive) A group of Rollerbladers and skaters in Tel Aviv show their support for alternative forms of transport on Oct. 17, 2009, the international day of climate action organized by "350," a campaign to raise climate crisis awareness. (Ronen Avihav / 350.org / Creative Commons) Rescue services members on Oct. 17, 2009 take out the body of a child who was among the six members of the Oshrenko family found stabbed to death in their torched apartment in Rishon Lezion, Israel. (Roni Schutzer / Flash90 / JTA) Gush Katif residents uprooted from their Gaza Strip community four years ago breaking ground for the Young Israel of Bnei Dekalim synagogue in Givat Hazan in southern Israel during the intermediate days of Sukkot. Approximately 150 former families from Neve Dekalim now reside in Givat Hazan, a community that expects to grow to 500 families. (National Council of Young Israel) The Dalai Lama said he had much to learn from Jews during a Shemini Atzeret visit to the Adas Israel Congregation sukkah in Washington on Oct. 10, 2009. He is flanked by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, left, and Cantor Jeffrey Weber. India's Bnei Menashe celebrate Sukkot in the northeastern state of Manipur on Oct. 6, 2009 with lulavim and etrogim sent from Israel. (Shavei Israel) Palestinians shout at Israeli border police officers blocking the entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on Oct. 04, 2009. (Mohammar Awad / Flash 90 / JTA) More than 5,000 Christians from nearly 100 nations gathered at Ein Gedi on Oct. 2, 2009 for a dinner and concert to usher in Sukkot at the annual Feast of Tabernacles sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem. (Matthias Guggisberg / ICEJ) Sukkot fill the fervently Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood Batei Ungarin at the holiday. (Kobi Gideon / Flash 90 / JTA) Workers unload markers for 266 previously unmarked graves of indigent Jews at the Mount Richmond Cemetery on Staten Island, N.Y., on Sept. 30, 2009. The markers are part of the Hebrew Free Burial Association's Leave Your Mark campaign. (David Karp) Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi Aaron Gurevitch blows the shofar at the opening of the first synagogue in a Russian jail, in the city of Yartsevo. (Chabad.org) Hadassah members take part in a rally Sept. 24, 2009 near the United Nations against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regime in Tehran. (Courtesy of Hadassah) Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel speaks at the New York rally against the Iranian government on Sept. 24, 2009. (Courtesy of Hadassah) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, rear left, and President Obama, flanked by Israeli and U.S. officials, speak prior to their Mideast summit on Sept. 22, 2009 in New York City. (Avi Ohayon / GPO / Flash 90 / JTA) Irving Kristol, the Jewish thinker known as the "godfather of neoconservativism," died on the eve of Rosh Hashanah. (The American Enterprise Institute) Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, embracing Assaf Ramon at his Israel Air Force pilot's graduation ceremony in June 2009. Assaf, son of the late astronaut Ilan Ramon, was killed in a flight training accident on Sept. 13, 2009. (IDF) Revelers celebrating the final total of $7,523,869 at the 29th Annual Chabad Telethon on Sept. 13, 2009. (Bardugo.net) Rabbi Joseph Potasnik right, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis, and Imam Shamsi Ali, left, of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York at a welcoming reception for Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan, center, by the Board of Rabbis at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York on Sept. 10, 2009. The event also was a farewell tribute to Edward Cardinal Egan. (David Karp) Los Angeles Lakers star Ron Artest and Rabbi Chaim Cunin of Chabad of California prepare to shoot some hoops on Sept. 9, 2009 in a promotion for the Chabad Telethon that was taking place four days later. (Mushka Lightstone) A group gathers for kabbalistic meditation at Camp Sukkat Shalom on Sept. 3, 2009, one of several Jewish-themed camps at Burning Man, a festival held annually in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. (Ben Harris) U.S.-convened talks between Israelis and Palestinians are likely to go ahead despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approval of 455 new homes in West Bank settlements. (Alex Kolomoisky / POOL / Flash90 / JTA) U.S. pop singer Madonna performing in Tel Aviv on Sept. 1, 2009 on the last stop of her "Sticky and Sweet" concert tour. (Amir Meiri / Flash90 / JTA) Gilboa Deputy Mayor Eid Saleem, center, flanked on the left by Jenin Gov. Qadoura Qadoura and by Gilboa Mayor Daniel Atar, makes a point at news conference in New York on Aug. 31, 2009 during a U.S. tour pushing their coexistence project. (Eric Albert) Rabbi Stuart Weinblatt, right, director of the Israel Advocacy Office of the Rabbinical Assembly, hanging a mezuzah in the office of Israel's U.S. ambassador, Michael Oren, in Washington on Aug. 18, 2009. (Congregation B’nai Tzedek) Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky speaks on the first day of school at the Lipman Jewish Day School in Moscow on Sept. 1, 2009. (Jewish Agency) Grover mulls his selections at the open-air market Machane Yehuda with the help of an Israeli girl during the filming of "Shalom Sesame" in Jerusalem on Aug. 28, 2009. (Koby Gideon / Flash 90 / JTA) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel meet in Berlin, Aug. 29, 2009. (German Federal Press Office) Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League honors tennis star Venus Williams on Aug. 26, 2009 for criticizing Dubai official for blocking an Israeli player from competing in a tournament there. (ADL) Sen. Edward Kennedy meets with Lubavitch officials at an event in 1987 celebrating the 85th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. (Chabad.org) Sen. Edward Kennedy, right, who died Aug. 25 at age 77, receives an award in 1979 for his efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry from Burton Levinson of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. (NCSJ) One of about 700 new Yeshiva University students moves into her dorm at the university's Beren Campus, Aug. 23, 2009. (Yeshiva University) At the start of a trip to Europe, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in London, Aug. 25, 2009. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / FLASH90 / JTA) A swastika painted on a sign in front of the office of U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.) illustrated the increasingly raucous nature of the health care debate. (Office of U.S. Rep. David Scott) A spacious edifice from the Roman period (third century CE) that was exposed recently in City of David excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority apparently was a mansion. (Israel Antiquities Authority) North American immigrants wave as they arrive in Israel on a flight organized by Nefesh B'Nefesh and the Jewish Agency for Israel from New York, July 7, 2009. (Sasson Tiram) Paul Goldenberg, the national director of the Jewish community's Secure Community Network, speaks at a domestic terrorism seminar on Aug. 14, 2009 in Hamilton, N.J. More than 200 security professionals from New Jersey attended the seminar, which was sponsored in part by the network. (SCN) Participants at a candlelight vigil in Washington on Aug. 3, 2009 remember two Israelis slain at a Tel Aviv LBGT youth center. (Kitra Cahana) Mourners gather in Jerusalem's Zion Square on Aug. 2, 2009 to remember two young Israelis killed in a shooting at a Tel Aviv gay community center the previous evening. (Miriam Alster / Flash90 / JTA) U.S. special envoy George Mitchell, left, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak before their meeting in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2009, is emphasizing Syria as part of a regional peace package. (U.S. Department of State) Imam Nicola Isa Abd Al-Haqq Benassi of Italy pauses to read an exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on July 22, 2009. Benassi was part of an interreligious mission of two dozen European imams and rabbis sponsored by The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. (Ron Sachs) Rabbi Michel Serfaty of France presents Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, with declaration of principles expanding an American-led initiative to combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia to Europe at a meeting in Washington on July 23, 2009. (Ron Sachs) A delegation of more than two dozen European imams and rabbis in New York to discuss international diplomacy visit Yankee Stadium on July 20, 2009 for the Yankees-Orioles game. (David Karp) From left, Rabbi Marc Schneier and Russell Simmons, leaders of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, and Muzammil Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America, arrive at United Nations headquarters on July 20, 2009 with more than two dozen European imams and rabbis to discuss ways the Muslim and Jewish communities can better work together. (David Karp) A nighttime rendering of the National Museum of American Jewish History on Philadelphia's Independence Mall, which is scheduled to open in November 2010. (Polshek Partnership Architects) Australian golfer Roy Vandersluis marches into the opening ceremony at Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009 for his record ninth consecutive Maccabiah Games. (Peter Haskin) The chief rabbi of Uruguay, Moti Maarabi, prays at the Western Wall after a welcoming ceremony for 150 South American emigres brought to Israel by the Jewish Agency on July 17, 2009. (Brian Hendler) (Brian Hendler) President Obama meets with Jewish community leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on July 13, 2009. (White House) Flag-bearing participants at the opening ceremonies of the18th Maccabiah Games show off the countries they represent as they march into Ramat Gan Stadium on July 13, 2009. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90/JTA) Australian Governor General Quentin Bryce, visiting the New South Wales headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, holds the child of Dovid, left, and Sima Slavin, right, directors of the soup kitchen at the headquarters. (Ingrid Shakenovsky/Chabad.org) Members of the U.S. Maccabiah team participate in a group b'nai mitzvah in Jerusalem on July 6, 2009. (Maccabi USA) Natan Sharansky, right, the new chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, welcomes new South African immigrants during a ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on July 7, 2009. (Brian Hendler) North American cantors, wrapped in a Torah scroll, chant morning prayers on July 2, 2009 on the grounds of the Auschwitz death camp during their tour of Poland organized by the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture. (Piotr Malecki) 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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