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Israel drove me away from Judaism — the struggle to fix it led me back

This past summer, in the South Hebron Hills, a girl called down to me from the gnarled branches of a tree and knocked me in the head with a ripe, fuzzy weapon. “Mishmish!” I peeled open the almost unbearably sweet apricot. We walked in the shade of the grove, tasting and yelling out the Arabic […]