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Updated 05/22/12 @ 04:03PM EST

• Israel failed to advance to the Eurovision Song Competition final for the second consecutive year.
• A leader of Yemen's Jewish community was stabbed to death at a market in the capital of Sana'a.
• Manny Pacquiao, the World Boxing Organization welterweight champion, will visit Israel, his Jewish promoter Bob Arum said.
• A claim by Iranian television that an alleged spy had an Israeli passport appears to be based on a crude forgery.
• A Brooklyn synagogue won a $250,000 grant for preservation through an online voting contest.

• Eight members of a northern Israeli family were killed when their car's brakes failed and the car rolled down a hill.
• Eric Greitens, the founder of an organization to reintegrate post-9/11 military veterans into civilian life, is the recipient of the 2012 Charles Bronfman Prize.
• A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 20 years to life for sexually abusing children in his Orthodox Jewish community.
 

• A New Jersey woman who was told to "tape down her breasts" has filed suit against an Orthodox-owned lingerie company claiming religious and sexual discrimination.
• Alan Gross expressed his gratitude to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington for its efforts to secure his release from a Cuban prison.

• Top Obama administration officials reassured Jewish leaders of their commitment to a tough posture ahead of Iran nuclear talks.
• A Talmud that took Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz 45 years to translate from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic into modern Hebrew is being published in English.
• The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said his agency expects to sign a deal with Iran to allow an investigation into the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
• U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman introduced legislation to allow Israel into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program.
• U.S. Reps. Nita Lowey and Eliot Engel introduced a resolution calling on the International Olympic Committee to honor the Munich 11 with a moment of silence at the London Games this summer. 

• Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli was voted the world's most beautiful woman on the annual Maxim Hot 100 list.
• A complaint leveled against the Guardian over Israel's capital city was decided in favor of the British newspaper.
• A Lithuanian synagogue was vandalized shortly after a memorial ceremony for the country's wartime prime minister, a Nazi collaborator.
• A South African university canceled a lecture by Israel's deputy ambassador to the country following a pro-Palestinian campaign of "intimidation and threats."
• Tamara Brooks, a noted choral conductor, and the wife and musical partner of singer-actor Theodore Bikel, has died.

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