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October 7, 2011, 2011| 9 Tishrei 5772 Vol. 7, Iss. 36
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Biden Blocks Pollard Pardon “Over my Dead Body,” Says Vice President
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Nobel-Winning Trio Includes Two Jews
By Elad Benari U.S. President Barack Obama was set to release Jonathan Pollard but his vice president thwarted the move, The New York Times has reported.
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Panetta Pans Israel, Props up Palestinians
Google and Israel Museum Collaborate on Historic Project Using ultra hi-res imagery and Google technology, Google and the Israel Museum created an interactive web archive that will enable users worldwide to explore the oldest known biblical manuscript as never before. hough the Dead Sea Scrolls are wellknown historical artifacts, until now no one but scholars and historians who made the trip to the Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Book had access to the information they contain. Some are only fragments, and while remarkably well-preserved, all are marked with the passage of time. Thanks to efforts by Google and Israel Museum, that has changed.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest known biblical manuscripts in the world, and are considered by some to be the archeological find of the 20th century. Sealed in jars for over 2,000 years, they were discovered by happy accident between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves on the northwestern shores of the Dead Sea. According to the Israel Museum, the manuscripts are generally attributed to an isolated Jewish sect, referred to in the scrolls as “the Community,” who fled Jerusalem and settled in Qumran in the Judean desert on the banks of the Dead Sea. They shed light on the development of the Hebrew Bible and other religious texts while providing insight into daily life in ancient Israel.
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ccording to the report, Vice President Joe Biden met last week with 15 rabbis in Boca Raton, Florida, when he was asked by one of them why Pollard, who was convicted in 1986, was still in prison. In response to the question Biden said, “President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time.’” He added, “If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.” Jonathan Pollard was found guilty of spying on the United States on behalf of Israel and sentenced to life in prison. Similar cases of spying for a friendly nation usually yield sentences of less than five years, but U.S. authorities have refused to release Pollard. Many observers believe Pollard is being singled out for harsh and cruel treat-
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