A Yale University alumnus has donated $1 million to the campus Chabad House. Brad Berger, a private investor from Los Angeles who graduated from the university in 1977, made his pledge to the $6 million capital campaign on Sunday, the Yale Daily News reported Tuesday. The building when it reopens in 2012 will be called the Berger Family Building, according to the newspaper.
The violence roiling Tunisia hasn’t put the country’s 1,500 or so Jews in serious jeopardy, but Jewish organizations are increasingly concerned about their fate as massive anti-government protests continue.
Running a television show is the sort of job that rarely leaves you with free-time on your hands, but during the writers\’ strike of 2007, “24” executive producer Howard Gordon suddenly found himself with just that – free time, and no scripts to write. So he decided to try his hand at a novel instead. Gordon\’s debut effort, an international thriller titled “Gideon\’s War,” hits shelves this month.
The United States was advised by a German think tank to use \”covert sabotage\” to disrupt Iran\’s march toward nuclear weapons, a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals.
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