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Laura Ben-David
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March 11, 2018, 1:59 pm
Laura Ben-David
When a Haredi man asked me to change my plane seat
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PHOTO ESSAY: Raising our spirits
Musical theater, by women for women, interrupts the heavy gloom of terror, to tell of a dramatic fight for Israel
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Laughing all the way to peace
Comedians Rabbi Bob Alper and Ahmed Ahmed help unite Jews and Arabs by finding the funny in stereotypes
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