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October 2nd, 2009 | 14 Tishrei 5770
Vol. 10, Iss. 36
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OBAMA TO IRAN:
20 Terrorist’s THE WORLD IS WATCHING Released for Sign of Life from Gilad Schalit BY JEWISH VOICE STAFF
A SUKKAH OF PEACE: FINDING SERENITY UNDER THE STARS
The Israeli security cabinet on Wednesday morning approved the release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange for an upto-date video tape of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. The agreement has been hailed as the first concrete move toward freeing the soldier since he was kidnapped over three years ago.
BY SLOVIE JUNGREIS-WOLFF
he Schalit family welcomed the news about the deal str uck between Israel and Hamas. "The Schalit family wishes to congratulate the current negotiating team, led by Hagai Hadas, together with the Egyptian and German teams, on their significant achievement and is yearning to receive a first authentic proof of live from Gilad," a family statement read. "We wish to stress that although this is a first step in the right direction, the family will not rest until Gilad is freed after almost 1,200 days in which he has been held in a Hamas prison. Both sides must continue the determined process that has recently begun until the final result is quickly achieved," the statement concluded. The decision to release the Palestinian women came upon the recommendation of the team working for Schalit's release, headed by Hagai Hadas. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu congratulated Hadas and the team on their "professional work" away from the spotlight, and said, "it is important that the whole world will know that Gilad Schalit is
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An Iranian long-range Shahab-3 missile is fired in desert terrain at an unspecified location in Iran.The missile travels 800 miles. BY CINDY SAINE
The White House condemned Iran's latest missile tests as "provocative" and called on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to provide inspectors "unfettered access" to its nuclear facilities. ran's test-f iring of two long-range missiles came just days ahead of a rare and crucial meeting in Geneva on Thursday among diplomatic representatives of six major powers, including the United States, and Iranian off icials. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs had this reaction to the timing of the missile tests: "I would lump any of these into the provocative nature with which Iran has acted on the world stage for a number of years," said Robert Gibbs.
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Iran says it tests weapons to show its resolve to counter what it says are possible attacks by Israel or the United States. White House press secretary Gibbs said this is an important week for Iran. He said Iran can continue on its present course, even though the world has conclusive intelligence about its uranium-enrichment facility. "Or it can make a decision to step away from its nuclear weapons program and build confidence in the world," he said. Asked what Iran could do to improve the prospects of success at Thursday's talks, Gibbs said Tehran should provide immediate and unfettered access to its nuclear facilities to International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors. Iran admitted the existence of a uranium enrichment plant to the IAEA. But Tehran continues to maintain that its nuclear pro-
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Warren Buffet says that we have gone through an economic Pearl Harbor. We've read about our ‘financial tsunami', ‘recession sized depression', and ‘crisis of a lifetime'. I glance at today's paper and the New York Times screams out at me: "Jobless, Sleepless, Hopeless". am not married, my parents have passed away, so I am quite scared of what will happen if I do not land a job within the next couple of months...The thing I identified with most -- my work -- has left me feeling lost." We have come to define ourselves through our jobs and our bank accounts and when that is diminished we feel ourselves diminished as well. We live in a society where we equate our possessions with our self worth. The article goes on to say that the Rutgers University survey of the unemployed found most respondents lives corroded by despair.
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