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...ongoing controversy fueled by the opening of an Israeli soldiers’ photo exhibit last week at Harvard Hillel has prompted attention from national Jewish organizations beyond Harvard’s Jewish community...
...presentation, content, and message, but, as a community, Hillel seeks modestly—but importantly—to spark debate and dialogue about Israel on campus. Our community is strong and united in its support for the State of Israel and in our embrace of the Jewish value of open discourse...
...bodies of the eight Jewish seminarians were draped in prayer shawls and laid out in unvarnished wood coffins. Each was buried with a Torah scroll stained in blood from the Thursday night rampage at their seminary where a young Palestinian, armed with a semi-automatic rifle and two pistols opened fire on 80 students, most of them teenagers, trapped in a library...
Many mourners had driven in from the Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories. The Mercaz Harav Yeshiva had produced many of the leaders of the settlers' movement, and the attack on the seminary was seen as a calculated blow by Palestinian militants against Israel's most ideologically motivated opponents to a Palestinian state. One senior police officer told TIME that Israeli security forces are on alert in the Palestinian territories for a possible revenge attack by settlers against Arab villages. In the old city, police barred Palestinian men under the age of 45 from attending the Friday sermon...
...religious parties, the religious-nationalist settlers are likely to intensify their opposition to the U.S.-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. It will now be harder, if not impossible, for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to comply with U.S. and Palestinian demands to close down illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank and freeze the expansion of existing settlements...