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Updated 02/09/10 @ 03:45PM EDT

• Elie Wiesel said he would not cry if the "pathologically sick" Iranian president was assassinated.
• Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, the founder and president of Touro College, has died.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he will submit a bill allow Israelis living or traveling abroad to vote in national elections.
• Some 20 tons of frozen chicken wings from the former Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse were given to a local zoo.
• The Florida Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a Jewish death row inmate.

• Some Canadian lawmakers fear the Conservative government's staunch support of Israel risks triggering a backlash against Israel and Canadian Jews.
• An elderly man said his Toyota car's accelerator stuck, causing him to crash into the steps of a New York City synagogue.
• At least 11 students were arrested for interrupting a lecture by Israel's U.S. ambassador at a California university.
• Israel's interior minister has asked a Jerusalem municipal committee to consider legalizing a Jewish building in an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood.
• Israel's deputy foreign minister is visiting Britain after receiving assurances from the British government that he is not at risk of arrest.

• Israel's ambassador to the United States and the U.S. envoy on anti-Semitism will address a plenum featuring the theme of civility in the Jewish community.
• North Korea and Iran are the countries posing the gravest threats to U.S. interests, Hillary Rodham Clinton said.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly has agreed in principle to hold indirect peace negotiations with Israel brokered by the United States.
• A Jewish former banker was elected the vice president of Costa Rica.
• A descendant of forcibly converted Spanish Jews who immigrated to Israel and became a rabbi is returning to Spain.

• Israel's Supreme Court ordered the release on bail of two pro-Palestinian activists who were arrested in Ramallah.
• The residents of a Jewish building in eastern Jerusalem were given a reprieve when the municipality canceled distribution of evacuation orders.
• The New York Times' public editor recommended that the newspaper's Jerusalem bureau chief be reassigned because his son joined the Israeli army.
• Germany's top Jewish leader plans to step down to make way for a new generation of leaders.
• Israel's Gaza operation last winter spurred a record number of anti-Semitic attacks in Britain during the past year.

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