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BETHLEHEM ROAD: Stories of Immigration and Exile, by Judy Lev
I begin today’s column with three photos of a falafel stand. Kind of innocuous, the sign that says “Falafel Oved” in the middle, the guy making the falafel on the right, and on the left, in the green box, a certification that the place is kosher, and below, in the red box, a note that they have a set of tefillin there for anyone who wants to use them.
That’s the Jerusalem of old, stuck in the middle of a trendy, much modernized neighborhood. Baka, as the neighborhood is known, was originally home to big villas owned by wealthy Arabs in the region … the cool Jerusalem air was a reprieve from…
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