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...discount on the rent. No chance.) Besides, Hinnom is deceptively pastoral; down in the valley I often see a white stallion grazing under an ancient olive tree. But I wasn't prepared for the living hell inside my neighborhood, Abu Tor. Here, Arabs and Israelis live next door to each other yet are divided by mutual fear and suspicion...
...flags down a cramped, Arabs-only bus because if he boarded one of the big, air-conditioned Israeli ones, passengers might think he was a suicide bomber. For their part, Israelis avoid the Arab side of Abu Tor. A Jewish-American widow who lives in the apartment building next door won't venture to the Arab-owned corner shop just 100 yds. (about 90 m) away, no matter how badly she needs a cigarette. And Abu Tor is no different from any other mixed neighborhood in the city; a survey last year found two-thirds of Israeli Jews would refuse...
...invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city's hermetic ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews, who cannot accept help from a fellow Jew on the Sabbath. "When three Arabs turn up at the door, it's the last thing the Haredi expect, but they're grateful," says Izhiman...
...July 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court validated proposed constitutional amendments that would outlaw same-sex marriage, opening the door to a possible referendum that could overturn the 2003 ruling by re-defining marriage in the Commonwealth...
...strike initiated by Columbia undergraduates, which ended on Friday night, was misguided in its methods, if not its professed aims. Seven students and one professor participated in the strike which, according to their blog, came about in response to the appearance of a noose on the door of an African-American Columbia professor, the University’s plan to expand into East Harlem and the ongoing racial controversy in Jena, La. The strike called for “a more systematic response to hate crimes from Public Safety, a more collaborative expansion effort from the administration, a revision...