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      <title>When kids lobby against Israel, the problem is education, not politics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A congressman’s video reveals what happens when Jewish institutions teach children to see their own people through enemy eyes.]]></description>
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      <title>The sin of finishing exile</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scots were the philosophers of liberty; Jews became its practitioners. One articulated the idea. The other bore its cost.]]></description>
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      <title>American Jewish students need support and advocacy right now</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The time for half-measures and the careful separation between education and advocacy is long past.]]></description>
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      <title>UC Berkeley’s epic failure</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The administration refused to stop an antisemitic riot on campus.]]></description>
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      <title>Eight great Zionist reads for Hanukkah, one for each night</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This story of resilience, courage and bravery has a beautiful message that resonates across the generations. It inspires the teens of Club Z to take a stand for Israel and against anti-Semitism.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:29:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Countering intersectionality’s anti-Zionist hypocrisy by empowering the next generation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[All people deserve natural rights, yet intersectionality attempts to strip them from Jews and Israelis, and even worse, unites marginalized groups in a coordinated effort to do so.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:05:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Club Z combats silence in the face of anti-Semitism</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Equipping high school students with the education to become experts on Israel and to serve as effective leaders in their communities, who will ensure that anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism do not get a free pass.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:20:59 GMT</pubDate>
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