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Updated 11/05/09 @ 02:23PM EDT

• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced he would not run for re-election.
• There is "nothing to be worried about" at a newly discovered uranium enrichment site in Iran, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said.
• A Jewish community center in Montreal opened on a Saturday for the first time.
• Union of Reform Judaism leaders stressed the group's consolidation of services at the start of its biennial conference.
• A bipartisan group of governors urged the U.S. Senate to pass an Iran sanctions bill.

• Two Jerusalem residents, one a former Hadassah hospital employee, were arrested for allegedly facilitating organ donation deals.
• Israeli students visiting Poland have been asked to stop wrapping themselves in the Israeli flag.
• Brazilian Jewish officials met Cuba's religious affairs minister to talk about religious cooperation.
• Hezbollah has denied any connection to a large cache of arms found on a ship intercepted by Israel.
• The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations did not attend a General Assembly discussion of the Goldstone report.

• Germany's Jewish community gave its top annual honor to the president of the German Football Association for his stance against anti-Semitism.
• The Hakoah Club -- the social, cultural and sports hub of Sydney Jewry -- closed after more than 30 years.
• President Obama said "Iran must choose" between its suspected nuclear weapons program and the international community.
• Two Bedouin men were indicted for vandalizing an archeological site in the Negev.
• The head of Interpol met with Argentine officials to reconfirm their commitment to recapture the Iranian terrorists accused of bombing a Buenos Aires Jewish center.

• President Obama's half-brother has a Jewish mother.
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel honored the memory of Holocaust victims in a speech to Congress.
• Jewish Republicans are hailing Tuesday's results in the New Jersey and Virginia governors' elections.
• Twenty Turkish students were arrested after they bombarded the car of Israel's ambassador to Turkey with eggs.
• Seymour Fromer, founder of the Magnes Museum in California, has died.

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