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This week in the New Jersey Jewish News:

New Jerseyan Alisa Flatow died in a terrorist bombing in Israel a decade ago. Now her little brother is joining the Israeli army.

A Montclair mom sings hip songs for Jewish kids.

Menachem Rosensaft sees racism at work in Obamaphobia.

And I’m inspired by some idealistic Israeli college students:

The student village at Moshav Yahini looks every bit like the controversial settlements thrown up quickly by the “hilltop youth,” the radical wing of the settler movement. But there’s a big difference: Yahini is in the western Negev, not far from the Gaza border but well within the “green line” that separates Israel from the disputed territories. And the residents who built this village are not settlers intent on holding on to the territories, but college students who want to help expand the Jewish presence in the largely uncontested Negev and Galilee.