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Updated 01/07/09 @ 12:11PM EST

• A warning that Jews should be vigilant about attacks in New York on Jan. 7 is a hoax, the New York Police Department said.
• The Catholic priest who vandalized a memorial to slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in New Zealand has rejected calls for a “full and unqualified apology.”
• A South African-born Jewish soldier serving in the Australian army was killed in Afghanistan.
• Anti-Semitic incidents in Belgium have surged in the wake of Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip.
• One of three Arab countries that maintain full diplomatic relations with Israel recalled its ambassador.

• Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted a truce plan for Gaza, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced.
• Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen resumed in the Gaza Strip following the expiration of a three-hour truce to allow in humanitarian aid and to let Gaza civilians restock provisions.
• Britain has seen a sharp rise in attacks on Jews since the start of Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
• A Ukrainian ombudsman has accused Israel of violating international law.
• Some 50 previously unseen drawings and paintings by Marc Chagall will be auctioned.

• Nearly two dozen Jewish members of Congress celebrated the swearing-in of the 111th Congress.
• President Bush stacked his final selection of appointees to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council with senior Jewish members of his administration.
• A Washington Post reporter is leaving the newspaper to join the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
• An Israeli spokesman said media coverage of the Gaza operation has been "relatively fair."
• Norm Coleman said he will challenge Al Franken's U.S. Senate victory in court.

• Several hundred people demonstrated for Israel in New York City.
• Gordon Brown called on the international community to help build the framework for an “immediate and sustainable cease-fire” in Gaza.
• Two suspects accused of helping to bomb an ancient Tunisian synagogue claimed they were innocent on the first day of their trial in Paris.
• Barack Obama said he will have "plenty to say" on the Gaza crisis in two weeks and will "hit the ground running" on brokering Middle East peace.
• Dozens of Palestinian civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian reports.

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