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• Expressing outrage over past U.S. failures to block support for Iran's energy sector, AIPAC is calling for swift action from the U.S. government.
• Vice President Joe Biden denounced a decision to authorize new Jerusalem housing starts as "undermining the trust" that he needs to advance peace while in Israel.
• David Kimche, the Israeli spy who played a key role in Israel's 1980s entanglements with Iran and Lebanon, has died.
• A Brooklyn rabbi was found guilty of sexually assaulting a male teenager.
• The Reform movement should encourage interfaith couples to stay in the Jewish community, a task force proposed.

• Israel's U.S. ambassador has offered to return to the California university where students interrupted his speech last month.
• Israel announced its interest in producing electricity from nuclear energy at a conference in Paris.
• Twelve prominent American Latina leaders are visiting Sephardic heritage sites during a mission to Israel.
• A Barcelona bookshop owner was sentenced to prison for the crime of “honoring and justifying genocide.”
• The plight of Falash Mura will be resolved within a year, Israel's interior minister promised.

• The Reform movement strongly protested the advancement of a civil union bill to the floor of the Israeli parliament.
• Israel will allow the U.N.'s secretary-general and a top European Union official to enter the Gaza Strip from Israel.
• Arnold Forster, an attorney who had a nearly 60-year career at the Anti-Defamation League, has died.
• A group of neighbors has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the expansion of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
• The president of Brazil, who has sparked controversy by his continued relationship with Iran, will visit Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.

• Americans for Peace Now met with Israel's deputy foreign minister and raised concerns over the ministry's treatment of a J Street delegation.
• Toronto's York University has suspended a student accused of running an anti-Semitic Web site.
• U.S. special Middle East envoy George Mitchell announced the start of proximity talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
• One of the top defenders in the NBA had the word "defense" inscribed in his hair in Hebrew, as well as in Japanese and Hindi.
• The U.S. Department of Justice declined to intervene in the case of a convicted kosher meat executive, despite a plea from several Orthodox rabbis.

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