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seekers of truth and merchants of lies,
most elitist neighborhood of ultra-Orthodoxy at the time. My father was a rabbi, as
on-the-spot burials.
jealously protecting Him
the pursuit of science and the arts,
founded the Jewish Theater of New York,
a dramatist,
journalist and c...
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Germany today, its people and their most intimate thoughts.
a country I left
was both a frightening challenge and an exciting opportunity.
will report what I see,
what I think and feel at various turns.
is not always safe. To protect myself, I might at times give interviewees a different accent,
a few days in another occupied land, so that I’ll have an entity with which I can compare later on.
the German-speaking South
Tyroleans started calling themselves
Israeli citizens boycott Turkish Airlines because for
What’s the first thing I should do once in Israel? I ask them.
Weren’t they boycotting this city? Maybe Israeli media are not awesomely accurate, after all.
never knew that so many Jews even existed.
The heat I was expecting went the way of the blond lady: disappeared.
My destination: a Templar house in the German Colony of Jerusalem.
my first stop was Amsterdam’s Red Light District.
the Old City’s walls built by Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan,
“an ancient shopping mall.”
and I blend
the Shkhina, the Holy Presence,
this is the Wife of God.
he would like to tell us the history of the mountain itself,
And it is here that Adam and Eve walked around naked,
“The Temple was built by King Herod,
workers to create a massive, magnificent,
the majority of people interviewed believe Germany to be the greatest country on earth.
Herod is also a very mean man. He kills almost all the rabbis around.
Why did King Herod, a non-Jew, bother to build such a huge thing?
“Israelis,” he told me, “are the only people on Earth who don’t care for other people.
The Western Wall is only a tiny part of the huge compound now known as al-Aqsa,
third-holiest place in Islam
the Messenger of God, the Prophet Muhammad, flew to heaven,
at the gate there are cops, Israeli cops. “Are you a Muslim?”
finally they decide: “You’re Christian. No entry.”
the way of that old Jew, Christ.
half Muslim, half Christian.
reach the gate of the infidels, and finally I enter.
Tyroleans. Here the ones occupied, the Arabs, dictate to the occupiers, the Jews, that they, the Jews, must protect them, the Arabs, from their brethren, the other Jews, and from
Looks like paradise here.
keep walking till I spot a coffee shop frequented by local Muslims.
Yes, I am, by Allah! I’m declaring my Islamic faith today more than the most devoted of Taliban in Afghanistan.
hijab. Such an early age and they are already considered a sexual temptation.
