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Jerusalem
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One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue to suffer? My grandmother Dodo thought it was because the goyim were jealous. The seder for Passover (which is a shame-faced simulacrum of a Hellenic question-and-answer session, even including the wine) tells the children that it's one of those things that happens to every Jewish generation. After the Shoah or Endlösung or Holocaust, many rabbis tried to tell the survivors th
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― Hitch 22: A Memoir
― Hitch 22: A Memoir
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Names were changed, traditions muddled, but all that matters in Jerusalem is what is believed to be true.
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― Jerusalem: The Biography
― Jerusalem: The Biography
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