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...essentially pays for the rioting Toldot Aharon members of the Eda Haredim community as they perpetuate their own forms of hatred and, ultimately, disloyalty to the state. In just this month alone, they have protested, with the same stone-throwing intensity, the installation of a municipal parking lot near Jerusalem??s tourist-heavy Old City that would remain open on the Sabbath; in late June they protested (albeit much more peacefully than they have in years past) the city’s annual gay-pride parade...
...During roughly the same week that Saar decided to remove “al-naqba” from textbooks in Arab schools, a real “catastrophe” exploded in the usually quiet, solemn streets of West Jerusalem??s Mea Shearim neighborhood. There, Jews of the ultra-orthodox Toldot Aharon sect protested en masse the arrest of a mother of five, taken into custody for starving her three-year-old son until he weighed no fewer than seven kilograms. Toldot Aharon is among the most conservative Hasidic sects that constitute Jerusalem??s ultra-orthodox...
...Never mind the Jews who were expelled by Arab soldiers from Jerusalem??s Old City or the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Too “complicated” for Kennedy...
...quest for a Harvard education.In an outdoor campus café within spitting distance of “the security fence”—the wall constructed to separate (sometimes disputed) Israeli land from the territory of the West Bank—a dean of East Jerusalem??s most prominent university told me that three Harvard students had visited the West Bank last summer on behalf of Harvard’s admissions office.The hope and angst juxtaposed on the wall’s face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood...
...himself, his will to live is indefatigable.And the book’s most beautiful passages, its most cutting scenes, are when Kennedy plumbs this reluctant desire for life, finding it inextricably tied to art, to stories and song, as in the scene where Day belts out “Jerusalem?? before the entire fake POW camp:“And he can believe that he hears [his best friend] Pluckrose singing, that lovely awful voice, and they are here together again and yelling the England that will never...