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Tidbits: Bunning apologizes for Ginsburg diagnosis

By Eric Fingerhut · February 24, 2009

• A Hamas adviser gets a letter to President Obama by getting the head of UNRWA to put it in a stack of papers he was giving to Sen. John Kerry when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman visited Gaza last week. The White House says the letter is still at the consulate in Jerusalem.
• Sen. Jim Bunning apologized for pretending he's a doctor and proclaiming Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg only had nine months to live, reports Fox News. Meanwhile, Ginsburg returned to work and appeared in good health.
• The New Jersey Jewish News interviews the sole Jewish member of New Jersey's Advisory Commission on Faith-Based Initiatives, Rabbi Amy Small.