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Updated 05/16/12 @ 06:59AM EST

• A City University of New York investigation has cleared Brooklyn College and its provost of discriminating against Orthodox Jewish faculty in hiring and promotion.
• For the first time, Argentina will have a Jewish president, at least temporarily.
• A female Reform rabbi took her place on the religious council of Mevasseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem.
• The family of a Florida teenager killed in a Palestinian suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria.
• The U.S. House of Representatives debated a resolution that rejects containment of a nuclear Iran.

• Orthodox Jewish rapper Y-Love has announced that he is gay.
• A New Hampshire lawmaker was permitted back in the House chamber after apologizing three times for saluting and shouting "Sieg Heil."
• The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee named Darrell Friedman as interim CEO following the abrupt resignation of longtime CEO Steven Schwager.
• A suburban New York father is suing his school district over the anti-Semitic taunting of his son.
• Offensive lineman Mitchell Schwartz, a second-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, signed a four-year, $5.17 million contract with the team.

• Authorities in Cuba are ready to negotiate the status of jailed American Alan Gross, a senior Cuban official said.
• Seven historic synagogues in Krakow that are closed for most of the year will open for one night.
• The Greek government and Jewish community condemned the leader of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party after he denied there were gas chambers or ovens at Nazi death camps.
• An auction of jewels belonging to billionaire Lily Safra raised nearly $38 million for charity.
• Michael Siegal of Cleveland has been nominated to chair the board of trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America.

• Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel and of assassinating an Iranian nuclear scientist.
• The former principal of a Jewish school in Melbourne changed his statement in court to say he was aware of child molestation charges involving a former school employee.
• Jewish groups criticized a decision by a Rome judge to fine an Italian journalist who satirized a newspaper caricature of an Italian Jewish politician that many deemed anti-Semitic.
• Some Palestinians marked Nakba Day with riots and rock throwing, while a rally in Ramallah drew thousands and later turned violent.
• EMC Corp. acquired the Israeli storage systems start-up company XtremIO for more than $430 million.

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