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Updated 11/21/08 @ 01:17PM EST

• Michael Mukasey left the hospital and his spokeswoman said the U.S. attorney general's collapse was probably a fainting spell.
• Two former national security advisers close to Barack Obama advised the president-elect to outline the contours of a Palestinian-Israeli settlement as soon as possible.
• A federal magistrate judge denied bail for the former plant manager of a kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa.
• Israeli forces are bracing for a major Jewish pilgrimage to Hebron.
• A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit Ashkelon's industrial zone.

• The financial crisis has delayed the restoration of Beirut's sole synagogue.
• Queen Elizabeth II conferred a knighthood on Shimon Peres.
• Michael Mukasey, the U.S. attorney general, collapsed during a speech.
• The Palestinian and Israeli first responder groups are the joint recipients of the first American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize.
• Desmond Tutu won this year's Fulbright Prize for International Understanding.

• Three Reform rabbis urged the Texas State Board of Education to reject a science curriculum that could allow the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in the schools.
• The United States will consider further steps to isolate Iran in the wake of revelations that it is close to manufacturing a nuclear weapon.
• Penny Pritzker turned down the position of commerce secretary in the Obama administration.
• The Palestinian Authority placed advertisements in four major Israeli newspapers endorsing the 2002 Arab League peace initiative.
• A proposal to ban male circumcision for children under the age of 15 could make its way to Denmark's parliament.

• Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet with President Bush at the White House on Monday.
• A Ukrainian lawmaker and prominent Jewish leader received a top honor from a Christian Orthodox leader in Jerusalem.
• A federal appeals court ruled that a painting looted by the Nazis should remain with the estate of its Jewish owner.
• U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has prevailed in his bid to unseat Rep. John Dingell (D-MIch.) as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
• The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel nixed a plan by its budget committee to cut its allocation to Birthright Israel by $1 million.

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