I've Always Hated That Welcome Home Thing, You Know, About Judaism

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i've always hated that, by the way, that welcome home thing like the idea that i don't belong in america. It's a sort of the implication of that. I'm not going to talk about that. But you talk about, you know, judaism being about a people and a book, it is also about a land. To tour here, to travel here to the north, say, to the golan, and to go to the town of gamla, which the romans destroyed about two thousand years ago, and find a synagogue,. is sobering. You don't expect it, that the jews have been here for two thousand plus years, mo

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