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FEATURED STORIES In Central Africa, Israelis fuel development Cameroonian soldiers march in the country's 50th anniversary parade, May 20, 2010. Israel provides weapons training to Cameroon as part of the two countries' expanding bilateral ties. (Larry Luxner) Israeli training and investment is helping some nations in Central Africa build infrastructure, improve agricultural yields and modernize their armies. Read more » Israel agrees to ease Gaza blockade Israel's Security Cabinet agreed to ease the blockade on the Gaza Strip.Read more » Exchanging gifts on Yom Ha'Dad With the arrival of Father's Day, Yom Ha'Dad, it's a good time to think about what it means to be a real Jewish mensch dad, columnist Edmon J. Rodman writes.Read more » Op-Ed: Repairing a world shattered by Agent Orange On a trip to Vietnam, the president of The Jewish Council for Public Affairs saw the devastation wrought by Agent Orange. As a Jew, a rabbi and an American, he says we must act to find solutions to the horrors. Read more »

EDITORS' PICKS Discovering the Armenian genocide (Salon) Now that Turkey's prime minister has taken to bashing Israel, Jewish groups have stopped denying the Armenian genocide, reports Mark Arax, who says he lost his job at the L.A. Times for writing about the Turkish-Israeli pact to deny the genocide. Hezbollah's museum of jihad (Wall Street Journal) The terrorist group from south Lebanon that dominates the country's politics has erected a 15-acre, $4 million complex celebrating the fight against Israel. A day in the life of Shmuley Boteach (L.A. Jewish Journal) What's it like to be rabbi to the stars? Danielle Berrin reports. 36 under 36 (N.Y. Jewish Week) The newspaper comes out with its annual list of Jews under age 36 to keep your eye on. BREAKING NEWS The Obama administration announced new Iran sanctions. The Chabad center in Mumbai will have its first full-time rabbi since the 2008 terrorist attacks in that Indian city. As part of a proposal to regulate food information, the European Parliament voted to require that meat labels state the method of slaughter. At least two Jewish groups are boycotting a meeting requested by Turkey's ruling party. Alan Dershowitz is raising funds for a Republican challenger to an Illinois congresswoman in a race featuring two Jewish candidates. Two California city bodies called off votes on resolutions condemning Israel for intercepting a Gaza-bound flotilla. A Turkish humanitarian group that purportedly has ties to terrorism said it will send another flotilla to break the Gaza blockade. Tens of thousands of fervently Orthodox Jews gathered in Jerusalem to protest a Supreme Court order to integrate Ashkenazi and Sephardic girls in a West Bank school. Several Arab countries strongly favor tougher sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions, a new poll shows. Syria's President Bashar Assad said Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla increased the chances of war in the region. More than 1,000 pro-Israel supporters demonstrated at a rally in Sydney. Jews in Vienna reportedly have been facing almost daily harassment since Israel's deadly interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla. An Israeli soldier is facing charges in the shooting deaths of a Palestinian mother and daughter during the Gaza war. Hundreds of haredim rioted in Jaffa, attacking police officers with bricks and rocks, over an archeological dig.