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Simon Stout

Feb 8, 2026, 3:14 PM

Why Jerusalem is More United Than America Right Now

Photo from Mahane Yehuda Market https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Mahane_Yehuda_Market_P1020256.JPG

I live in perhaps one of the most divided cities in the world: Jerusalem. Not only do the followers of the three Abrahamic religions vie for their place here, but Orthodox and secular Jewish communities struggle over what kind...

Nov 8, 2018, 11:32 AM

Why I’m Entitled to be Jewish and You are Too

The day I first realized that I was truly Jewish was the day I went to Auschwitz. I wasn’t taking the train to the gas chambers or anything but on a March of the Living tour with my Birthright...

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Simon grew up in the Midwest and immigrated to Israel in 2005. He has an MA in Education from Tel Aviv University and taught in the Israeli public schools for many years. Simon currently works for a Messianic nonprofit, resides in Jerusalem with his family, and is not so secretly a Bohemian at heart.

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