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All at home with the Hasidim: Books
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Afew years ago in Jerusalem, a striking tableau vivant
presented itself to me: three young men, all roughly of the same
age, standing at the edge of a street within a few feet of one
another.
This trio consisted of an Israeli soldier, an Arab and a Hasidic
Jew. The soldier and the Arab were both dark and curly haired. The
young Hasid's blond hair was twisted into traditional sidelocks
beneath a large black hat. The others were tanned, he was pale.
They were swaggering and muscular, he was thin, bespectacled and
withdrawn, a ghost from old, cold Europe under the Middle-Eastern
sun. Who was ...
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