JTA: The Global News Service of the Jewish People

Updated 05/17/12 @ 02:30PM EST

• The Obama administration said it would rush $70 million to Israel in order to enhance its Iron Dome missile defense system, with more money in the pipeline.
• Longtime Jewish journalist Neil Rubin has joined JTA as an associate editor.
• A number of Jewish museums and other cultural institutions across Europe will be participating in the annual European Night of the Museums.
• A Toronto Islamic school has lost the right to use a public school for its classes after anti-Semitic teachings were discovered in its curriculum and posted on its website.
• Israeli security forces razed several structures at two illegal West Bank outposts.

• Israeli troops fired at armed Palestinians who came too close to the border fence with Gaza despite warnings.
• Six people were arrested in Scotland for creating an anti-Semitic Facebook page.
• Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in a new Cabinet in a move that could spell the end of a Fatah-Hamas unity government.
• The International Olympic Committee officially rejected a request to hold a moment of silence for the Munich 11 at the London Olympics this summer.
• A Jewish woman suing her congregation over the burial of a non-Jewish woman in its cemetery has settled her lawsuit.

• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are collaborating to develop pediatric-specific medical technologies.
• The Reform movement and the National Council of Jewish Women opposed a Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act.
• The Jewish Council for Public Affairs expressed concerns about "fracking," a technique used to extract underground deposits of natural gas.
• Citing personal reasons, Gideon Aronoff, the CEO of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, is resigning.
• 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.

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