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‘Brother’s Keeper’ Day 12: Fewer Arrests, More Sites Searched

As Operation Brother’s Keeper approaches the end of its second week, IDF troops are making fewer arrests, but widening their search.

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U.S. Jewish organizations: Too weak to be their brother's keeper?

Forget the window-dressing of local rallies and hashtag activism: The major American Jewish organizations’ lack of an urgent, concerted, and effective response shows how weak they’ve become.

It is a sad state of affairs, but I have to agree. This has been coming for years as one side of the community seems to have decided that it would rather concern itself with broad social issues than issues that are specifically Jewish.

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Mahmoud Abbas’s wife undergoes surgery in Israel

Doctors operate on Palestinian leader’s spouse over the weekend at medical center near Tel Aviv.

So let me get this straight. Abbas presides over a "unity government" with Hamas, an acknowledged terrorist organization whose stated goal is to destroy Israel. He also presides over territories in which three Jewish teenagers were recently kidnapped. He also has repeatedly, embraced every opportunity he has had to attempt to de-legitimize Israel. Then, when his wife needs surgery, where does he send her? You guessed it....Israel. Unbelievable.

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Israel rescues Ukrainian Jews stranded by fighting

Jewish Agency came to the rescue of two Jewish Ukranian families after rebels seized control of Donetsk airport as they were waiting to immigrate to Israel, an agency spokesman said.

Once again Israel makes me proud. What other country does this?

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Jewish DePaul Student: 'I No Longer Felt Safe on This Campus'

This week, students at DePaul University are being asked to get involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and vote on a non-binding resolution that asks the university to divest from companies that do business in the Jewish State. But for some Jewish s

Do people NOT see what is going on here? The movement to divest from Israel is just a new (sounding) approach to antisemitism. Again, this is why you can no longer separate the vast majority of criticism of Israel from antisemitism.