Turkish military officers are in Israel to train to operate Israeli military technology, despite a breakdown in relations between the two countries.\n
Hillel at UCLA honored its longtime executive director, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, and his wife, Doreen, during the organization’s 12th annual dinner gala at Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel on May 5. Phylliss and Louis Mann were recognized for their support of Hillel with the Honorable Menschen Award, and fourth-year student Josh Khalili, a peer mentor, was tapped as this year’s exceptional student leader. Event chairs included Sara Aftergood, Laurie Levenson, Janice Kamenir-Reznik and David Suissa.
Ten new Chabad Houses for Jewish students will open on college campuses during the 2010-11 school term.
A new Iran sanctions bill in the U.S. Congress allows the president to waive penalties on countries cooperating with U.N. sanctions but denies the blanket exemption sought by the White House.\n
The chairman of Israel\’s National Security Council said that a Palestinian state is being built at the expense of the Jewish state\’s legitimacy,
“Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal,” the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote nearly 200 years ago.\n
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