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Making Things Complicated

Chaya Houpt

Observations on life in Jerusalem.

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The policeman near Damascus Gate watched me with a confused expression, as if he wasn’t quite sure what he was looking at.

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I’m not really here. I’m just checking in. I’m still on book hiatus.

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The day before the massacre in Sydney, I saw a post by Guy Branum, a Jewish comedian:

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