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Updated 05/24/12 @ 12:18PM EST

• The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee approved language that would distinguish between Palestinian refugees alive in 1948 and their descendants.
• The Jewish Center in Manhattan hosted a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers on the first day of New York City’s Fleet Week.
• Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes reportedly said that the haredi Orthodox community is the only one in his jurisdiction in which sexual assault victims are harassed and intimidated.
• Talks between world powers and Iran on its nuclear program have stalled over Iran's reluctance to advance without sanctions concessions.
• The South African Jewish Board of Deputies was "very disappointed" with its meeting with Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on the labeling of products from the West Bank, a board spokeswoman said.

• Israel offered to pay $6 million to victims of the 2010 raid on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara, a Turkish lawyer said.
• Amnesty International blasted Israel for its blockade of the Gaza Strip in its annual report on the state of the world’s human rights.
• Egyptians are voting in their first presidential election since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak during an uprising more than a year ago.
• Police in New York say a man they have in custody has implicated himself in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz.
• Mitt Romney is meeting with about 30 major Jewish donors to his presidential campaign as part of a "constituents day."

• The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee increased spending for the security of nonprofit institutions and emergency assistance for the poor.
• The Orthodox Union welcomed a pledge by Mitt Romney to allow low-income families to use federal dollars to send their children to parochial schools.
• A bipartisan slate of 71 House members in a letter to President Obama said they backed diplomacy as the means to bring about Iranian nuclear transparency.
• The White House is celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month on May 30.
• France's state railroad signed an agreement with Yad Vashem to further the research into the deportation of Jews from France during the Holocaust.

• A demonstration in a south Tel Aviv neighborhood against illegal African migrants turned violent.
• Israel's Shin Bet security service said it discovered several Palestinian terror cells operating in the Hebron area.
• Belgium’s health minister said she was “profoundly troubled” by the behavior of her Israeli counterpart, Yaakov Litzman, after the haredi Orthodox minister refused to shake her hand at a conference.
• Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has created a one-minute video in the campaign to have the Munich 11 remembered at this summer's Olympic Games in London.
• Ten Israelis were arrested on suspicion of human organ trafficking.

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