Ops & Blogs | The Times of Israel » Jesse Shore http://blogs.timesofisrael.com The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 12:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Jewish Stories and Stupid Stories http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-and-their-stories/ http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-and-their-stories/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:15:42 +0000 Jesse Shore http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=90628 My mother told me this story about my grandfather: During Israel’s war for independence, my grandfather found himself in the States. His soul was nevertheless joined with those of his Zionist counterparts, who were trapped in—what was then—a dismal little strip of shell-bombarded Levant, several thousand miles away. (It is still a relatively apt portrayal [...]

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