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Updated 02/22/12 @ 12:22PM EST

• Talks between the United Nations nuclear watchdog and Iran on an agreement to monitor the latter's nuclear program have ended without progress.
• The New York Mets can prevent a kosher vendor from selling its wares on Shabbat, a federal judge ruled.
• The United States and Israel clearly differ in their assessment of the threat posed by Iran, U.S. Sen. John McCain said in Jerusalem.
• The Knesset rejected two bills that would have required all Israeli citizens, including the haredi Orthodox, to serve in the military or national service.
• Suspected terrorists with links to Iran and Hezbollah were arrested in Azerbaijan, while bombs intended for use against Israeli targets in Thailand's capital were discovered hidden in inexpensive portable radios.

• Anne Frank was baptized in a Mormon proxy ritual in another case of a Holocaust victim discovered to have been baptized posthumously this month.
• Israel is the eighth most-favored country by Americans, a Gallup poll found.
• Jewish groups praised the Obama administration and Congress for $10 million in new homeland security grants while noting that the allocation was nearly halved from last year.
• At least seven of the Obama campaign's 35 co-chairs are Jewish, including Alan Solow, a leading figure in the organized community.
• An Iranian soccer team canceled a game against a Serbian club because its coach is Israeli.

• The leaders of Israel's cottage cheese boycott are calling for a new boycott over the high price of chocolate bars.
• Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the Tal Law, which allows yeshiva students to delay their military service, is unconstitutional.
• Chicago philanthropist Larry Goodman has contributed $3 million to a housing and community involvement program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
• President Obama will address the annual AIPAC policy conference.
• Jewish groups condemned Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for anti-Semitic attacks by government-controlled media on the opposition's presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski.

• Jewish groups are ramping up pressure to have a prestigious German prize withdrawn from a Palestinian pastor who is accused of making anti-Semitic statements.
• Several Jewish groups joined an interfaith coalition calling on presidential candidates to refrain from using religion as a political wedge issue.
• Jordan's King Abdullah in a meeting in Amman with a delegation of Jewish leaders praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for working to bring the Palestinians to the peace negotiating table.
• Jewish students at the London School of Economics and members of the university's Palestinian Society clashed during an Israel Apartheid Week protest.
• Khader Adnan, a Palestinian held in an Israeli jail without charge, agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike.

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