The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.A. B. Yehoshua
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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