As Israel conducts its War of Justice against the Hezbollah swine, many of us feel it is important that we lend our personal support to Israel in any manner possible. The Washington Post has an article about a new campaign by American Jews to help their brothers and sisters under attack by jihadis..

An umbrella organization of North American Jewish charities said yesterday that it will seek to raise a minimum of $300 million in emergency humanitarian funds for Israel this year, one of the largest short-term goals in its history.

The fund drive drew immediate criticism from at least one prominent rabbi who called on American Jews to raise money for the reconstruction of Lebanon, not just Israel. But experts on Jewish philanthropy predicted that the campaign would receive broad support, following a well-established pattern of giving by U.S. Jews in times of crisis for the Jewish state.

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[Howard Rieger, president and chief executive of United Jewish Communities,] said that since Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid, triggering three weeks of fighting between Israel and Lebanese militants, UJC has spent $12.5 million a week to evacuate children and elderly residents of northern Israel beyond the range of Hezbollah rockets.

He said the additional funds would be used to set up summer camps for up to 15,000 displaced children in southern Israel, provide trauma counseling, create a $20 million fund for victims of the rocket attacks and their families, rebuild social services and refurbish bomb shelters that lack air conditioning and are in disrepair.

Doron Krakow, senior vice president of the UJC's Israel division, said the campaign is "fundamentally committed to helping Israeli communities under siege, and that means helping Israeli Arabs and Druze, as well as Jews."

There are, of course, some Jews opposing aid for israel and instead looking for support for the jihadis and their lebanese allies. I guess that is just proof positive that today, six decades after the Holocause, there still are would-be Kapos and judische Polizei in 2006, ready to cooperate with the enemies of the Jewish people rather than aid their brothers and sisters.

To learn more about the campaign, click here.

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