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    • Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to  Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.

    • CARSON, CA - JULY 31:  Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California. From Getty Images.

      CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.

    • A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.

    • LONDON - JULY 25:  Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England. From Getty Images.

      LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.

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    • Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium  at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008. From AP Photo by Mark Baker.

      Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.

    • A model displays a creation by Formfit Rogers during a fashion show in Cali August 21, 2008. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.

      A model displays a creation by Formfit Rogers during a fashion show in Cali August 21, 2008.

    • NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City. From Getty Images.

      NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.

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    • RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19:  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver. From Getty Images.

      RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.

    • RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19:  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver. From Getty Images.

      RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.

    • RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19:  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver. From Getty Images.

      RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.

    • MARTINSVILLE, VA - AUGUST 20:  Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a campaign event at the Patrick Henry Community College August 20, 2008 in Martinsville, Virginia. Obama is expected to announce his Vice Presidential candidate before the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 25th. From Getty Images.

      MARTINSVILLE, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a campaign event at the Patrick Henry Community College August 20, 2008 in Martinsville, Virginia. Obama is expected to announce his Vice Presidential candidate before the start of the Democratic National Convention on August 25th.

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In this Feb. 21, 2008, file photo, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, left, speaks with Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, right, during a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The family of the Polish social worker sendler who is credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust says she has died. Sendler's daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, says her 98-year-old mother died Monday, May 12, 2008, morning in a Warsaw hospital. Sendler organized the rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation. From AP Photo by ALIK KEPLICZ.
6 months ago: In this Feb. 21, 2008, file photo, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, left, speaks with Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, right, during a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The family of the Polish social worker sendler who is credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust says she has died. Sendler's daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, says her 98-year-old mother died Monday, May 12, 2008, morning in a Warsaw hospital. Sendler organized the rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation.
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  • Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger is seen before inaugurating the expansion of the Hungarian Jewish Cultural Center and its new Keren Or synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, June 22, 2008. Yona Metzger, the highest Jewish religious leader, is on a tour visiting nine European countries and arrived to Hungary Sunday to meet top politicians and Jewish leaders to get a line on the current situation of the Jewish education. From AP Photo by Bela Szandelszky.
  • (R-L) Israel's President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and Defence Minister Ehud Barak attend a ceremony marking Jerusalem Day at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem June 2, 2008. Jerusalem Day marks the anniversary of the capture of the eastern part of the city. Israel annexed East Jerusalem as part of its capital in the 1967 Middle East War in a move not recognized internationally. From Reuters Pictures by REUTERS.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, center, stands with President Shimon Peres, center right, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, left, and Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, second from left, at Jerusalem Day ceremonies at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, Monday, June 2, 2008. Thousands of Israelis marked the 41st anniversary of the annexation of the eastern part of Jerusalem by Israeli forces in the 1967 Six Day War. From AP Photo by TARA TODRAS-WHITEHILL.
  • Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger speaks during a service in a synagogue on April 28, 2008 in Amsterdam. Rabbi Metzger remembered together with around one thousand listeners the almost sixty year existence of the state Israel. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Chief Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger looks on during a service in a synagogue on April 28, 2008 in Amsterdam. Rabbi Metzger remembered together with around one thousand listeners the almost sixty year existence of the state Israel. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • BEN GURION AIR PORT, ISRAEL - MARCH 16: German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to the Israeli chief Rabbi Yona Metzger during an official welcome ceremony March 16, 2008 at the Ben Gurion International Airport. Merkel is on an official three-day visit to Israel. From Getty Images.
  • Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yona Metzger speaks to members of the Polish capital's Jewish community at the Nozyk synagogue in Warsaw on February 21, 2008. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Poland's chief rabbi Michael Schudrich presents a Jewish boy to Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi Yona Metzger during his meeting with members of the Polish capital's Jewish community at the Nozyk synagogue in Warsaw on February 21, 2008. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • In this Feb. 21, 2008, file photo, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger, left, speaks with Holocaust hero Irena Sendler, right, during a meeting in Warsaw, Poland. The family of the Polish social worker sendler who is credited with rescuing 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the Holocaust says she has died. Sendler's daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, says her 98-year-old mother died Monday, May 12, 2008, morning in a Warsaw hospital. Sendler organized the rescue of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation. From AP Photo by ALIK KEPLICZ.
  • TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - JANUARY 09:  President George W. Bush of the U.S.A. chats to Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger upon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport to start his land mark visit to the Middle East on January 9, 2008 in Tel Aviv, Israel. During his three day tour, Bush will visit Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Church of The Nativity in Bethlehem, and meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel vowed at a U.S. summit last year to aim for a two-state solution to the ongoing regional conflict by the end of 2008. From Getty Images.
  • (L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum and member of Cologne's Jewish community bring a Torah roll to the synagogue of Cologne during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • (L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, cantor Chaim Adler, Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum and Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed aTorah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (R) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) looks on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (2nd L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar (4th L) as Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L), Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum (5th L) and cantor Chaim Adler (C, top) look on during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed a Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (L) decorates a Torah roll during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (2nd L) decorates a Torah roll during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • (L-R) Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, cantor Chaim Adler, Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar and Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed aTorah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • (L-R) Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch, North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier Juergen Ruettgers and Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger attend a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Cologne's Cardinal Joachim Meisner (L) hands over the decoration for a Torah roll to Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger (R)l during a commemoration service 09 November 2007 at the synagogue in Cologne, western Germany. The synagogue reclaimed the Torah roll damaged 69 years ago to the day during the Night of Broken Glass pogrom against Jewish citizens and businesses. The valuable Hebrew Bible scripture arrived in Cologne after being restored in Jerusalem. During the night of November 9-10, 1938, a German Catholic priest, Gustav Meinertz, risked his life to rescue the heavily damaged Torah roll from the burning synagogue on Glockengasse street and hid it from the Nazis. From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
  • Israeli chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, left, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, right,stand together with other religious leaders at a lunch meeting in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Israel's chief rabbis issued a joint declaration Tuesday calling on religious communities worldwide to take responsibility for protecting all holy sites. From AP Photo by SEBASTIAN SCHEINER.
  • Israeli chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, second from left, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, right, sit across from each other during a lunch meeting in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Israel's chief rabbis issued a joint declaration Tuesday calling on religious communities worldwide to take responsibility for protecting all holy sites. From AP Photo by SEBASTIAN SCHEINER.
  • Standing from right: Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel's President Shimon Peres, Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Parliament Speaker Dalia Itizik, chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court Dorit Beinisch, Haim Ramon and Rabbi Yona Metzger, attend a memorial ceremony for late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 12th anniversary of his assassination, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007. Rabin was shot and killed by right-wing Jewish activist Yigal Amir on Nov. 4, 1995. From AP Photo by URIEL SINAI.
  • NAPLES, ITALY - OCTOBER 21:  Italian Premier Romano Prodi (2nd-L, facing camera) is photographed at a religious meeting with leading Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Anglican, Orthodox and other Christian representatives October 21, 2007 in Naples, southern Italy. At right, Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger. Pope Benedict XVI told rabbis, ayatollahs, priests and patriarchs from around the world that religion can never be used to justify violence, issuing an appeal from the crime-ridden city of Naples for faith to be an instrument of peace. From Getty Images.
  • NAPLES, ITALY - OCTOBER 21:  Italian Premier Romano Prodi (2nd-L) is photographed at a religious meeting with leading Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Anglican, Orthodox and other Christian representatives October 21, 2007 in Naples, southern Italy. At right, Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger. Pope Benedict XVI told rabbis, ayatollahs, priests and patriarchs from around the world that religion can never be used to justify violence, issuing an appeal from the crime-ridden city of Naples for faith to be an instrument of peace. From Getty Images.
  • Italian Premier Romano Prodi, second from left facing camera, is photographed at a religious meeting with leading Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, Anglican, Orthodox and other Christian representatives in Naples, southern Italy, Sunday Oct. 21, 2007. At right, Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger. Pope Benedict XVI Sunday told rabbis, ayatollahs, priests and patriarchs from around the world that religion can never be used to justify violence, issuing an appeal from the crime-ridden city of Naples for faith to be an instrument of peace. From AP Photo by CIRO FUSCO.


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