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September 13, 2013
Kerry to talk peace, Syria with Netanyahu
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet next week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss peace talks with the Palestinians and the Syria crisis.
Budapest to receive $22 million Holocaust memorial center
Budapest will erect a $22 million memorial at a train station from which many Hungarian Jews were deported during the Holocaust.
U.S. authorities issue Sukkot advisories
U.S. authorities released travel guidelines for Sukkot. “TSA’s screening procedures do not prohibit the carrying of the four plants used during Sukkot – a palm branch, myrtle twigs, willow twigs, and a citron – in airports, through or security checkpoints, or on airplanes,” the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement, noting the dates of this year’s Sukkot holiday, from Sept. 18-25.
Thousands of kapparot chickens die in New York heat
Thousands of chickens designated for the pre-Yom Kippur kapparot ritual died in New York due to unseasonable heat.
Report: Syria hiding chemical weapons to avoid disarmament
Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons in a bid to complicate U.S. efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Across enemy lines, wounded Syrians seek Israeli care
Not a hundred miles from Damascus, a Syrian rebel lies in a hospital bed, an Israeli sentry at the door. Nearby a Syrian mother sits next to her daughter, shot in the back by a sniper.
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