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Updated 05/16/12 @ 02:39PM EST

• An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander reportedly ordered Hezbollah not to attack Israel.
• The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city.
• Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak will meet with his U.S. counterpart, Leon Panetta, in Washington amid reports that Iran may have achieved the capability to build a nuclear bomb.
• Ron Paul has effectively given up his presidential campaign but will not yet give up his delegates to Mitt Romney.
• A bishop for a traditionalist Catholic breakaway group said the relationship between Jews and Christians is a fundamentally antagonistic one.

• Arno Lustiger, a Holocaust survivor and historian who put a spotlight on Jewish resistance against the Nazis, has died.
• Israeli author Aharon Appelfeld became the oldest person to win the coveted Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
• A Pennsylvania congressman apologized for sending out a letter that called for Middle East peace negotiations between the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the comatose former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
• Teens from the East and West coasts and the Midwest were crowned champions in the National Bible Contest.
• Most African migrants in Israel are involved in criminal activity and should be imprisoned and deported, Israel's interior minister said.

• The Ford Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Anti-Defamation League to support research on anti-immigrant groups and continue anti-bias training for educators.
• Israel and Japan marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
• A City University of New York investigation cleared Brooklyn College and its provost of discriminating against Orthodox Jewish faculty in hiring and promotion.
• For the first time, Argentina will have a Jewish president -- at least temporarily.
• A female Reform rabbi took her place on the religious council of Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem.

• The family of a Florida teenager killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria.
• The U.S. House of Representatives debated a resolution that rejects containment of a nuclear Iran.
• Orthodox Jewish rapper Y-Love has announced that he is gay.
• A New Hampshire lawmaker was permitted back in the House chamber after apologizing three times for saluting and shouting "Sieg Heil."
• The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee named Darrell Friedman as interim CEO following the abrupt resignation of longtime CEO Steven Schwager.

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