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Writer: Libbie Snyder

April 19, 2013
1:52 am

LEFT: Fireworks over the Knesset in in Jerusalem, April 15, 2013 (photo: Flash 90) RIGHT: Spectators and runners flee from explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, April 15, 2013. (photo: AP/WBZ TV)

Heartbreak Hell

Celebrating in Israel while terror struck in Boston: The whole world was upside down

By Libbie Snyder

November 22, 2012
5:01 pm

An Israeli reserves officer prepares to leave his Tel Aviv home on Thursday (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/ Flash 90)

Shocked out of my safe little world

Growing up in Newton, Mass., the scariest thing that had ever happened to me was getting a parking ticket… until this past weekend in Tel Aviv

By Libbie Snyder