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Updated 02/19/12 @ 10:46AM EST

• Casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Adelson reportedly has plans to give another $10 million to a group supporting Newt Gingrich for the Republican presidential nomination.
• Israeli Arabs demonstrated against Syrian President Bashar Assad a day after the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning his crackdown on dissenters.
• Israel's Air Force struck two sites in the Gaza Strip after a weekend of rocket attacks on southern Israel.
• Palestinians worshipping at the Temple Mount attacked a group of Christian tourists with stones.
• The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said in an interview that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities would be "destabilizing."

• A Canadian journalist's reports from Israel have been declared biased and inaccurate by her own news outlet's standards watchdog.
• Jack Lew, President Obama's chief of staff, met with Jewish leaders in New York and fielded questions about differences with Israel.
• A Moroccan man who allegedly wanted to conduct a suicide bombing attack on the U.S. Capitol had considered attacking a synagogue, according to authorities.
• World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder criticized plans by the Polish government to change the way communal property is restituted.
• The Presbyterian Church USA moved a step closer to divesting from three multinational companies that do business in Israel and the West Bank.

• Andrew Silow-Carroll of the New Jersey Jewish News won the first David Twersky Journalism Award.
• Israel warned its citizens of possible terrorist attacks targeting them abroad.
• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed Iran's stated willingness to restart negotiations and called it an "important step."
• The popular Jewish animation outfit G-dcast is launching an artists' residency program in San Francisco.
• A gay magazine in Sweden has given a local rabbi its “Heterosexual of the year” award.

• The Israeli diplomat's wife wounded in a bomb attack in New Delhi returned to Israel.
• A Paris court upheld an earlier decision against far-right former presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen for “contesting” the Holocaust.
• The Carter Center called on the Israeli government to either charge or release a Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike.
• A group of U.S. Jewish, Christian and Muslim faith leaders will take a six-city tour of Indonesia, Jordan and Israel to discuss the role of religion in advancing peace.
• Jerusalem is bracing for possible snowfall over the weekend.

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