Guest AuthorJuly 27, 2014
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On New Year’s Eve 1949, a rickety Greek fishing boat deposited my mother and me on the shore of Haifa, Israel. With us were 400 other refugees, the floating debris of the Jewish people. I was 12, my mother 48 and Israel 7 months old. (In this story, numbers have an astounding symmetry.) Israel’s population […]