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Last November, Qadisiyah Misad, 16, ran away from her family's home on the outskirts of Baghdad. Within days, one of her brothers and a cousin tracked her down on a city street and hauled her back home. According to Essam Wafik al-Jadr, the judge who prosecuted the case, one of Misad's brothers cornered his teenage sister in the living room; he then drew a pistol and shot several bullets into her. "The parents requested that the brothers kill her," says al-Jadr, who learned of the killing when Misad's body turned up in Baghdad's city...
...miles from their families. One of them is a 16-year-old girl named Rana who was raped by her neighbor last April in the city of Nasiriyah. When her family discovered what had happened, her brothers decided to kill her, since she was no longer a virgin. A cousin who was aware of the plan took Rana to a nearby Italian military base; she was later moved to Baghdad and finally to a secret location farther north. Having fled her family, she is unlikely ever to return home. "We hope to get a written guarantee from her parents that...
...actually likes living in the Diaspora and sees no reason for immigrating to Israel, I'm made uncomfortable by comments such as Merridor's and Sharon's. My Uncle Adam and his family live in Paris, and have no desire or intention to leave. My cousin Cathy and her children live in Israel, and they, too, have no intention of leaving. I have family in South Africa, the U.S., Canada, Australia, Mexico, Poland and Scotland, all of whom have declined the option of living in Israel. Those who tell Jews like Cathy they don't belong in Israel are quickly...
...have the talent or luck to become rock stars, billionaires or Presidents. The rest of us can only hope to be the cousin of the rock star, the best friend of the billionaire, the embarrassing sibling of the President...
...inter-relatedness. This summer I’m working for the New York Daily News, and, as it turns out, the business editor three rows over had dinner with my mom in Thailand 30 years ago because my mom’s teaching colleague and traveling companion was his cousin. Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it? And it doesn’t stop there. I met a friend two years ago at a dinner party and lost touch. This summer, amid hundreds of picnickers in Central Park, we met again...