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		<title>Diplomacy By Other Means&#8211;&#8221;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
To: His Excellency President Rufus T. Firefly
From: His Notsogoodency Haim Watzman, Freedonian Ambassador to Israel
As you will recall from my earlier report, this morning I was summoned urgently to the foreign ministry in The Capital That Must Not Be Named. (As you know, the ministry is actually located in Jerusalem, but in accordance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/02/diplomacy-by-other-means-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/</link>
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		<title>To the Victor Go the Street Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg
My apologies to readers for being away for a while. My new article is up at The American Prospect.
Walking along the beachfront street in Akko recently with a social activist from the town&#8217;s Arab community, I looked up at a sign and saw I was at the corner of Shlomo Ben-Yosef Street. Then I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/01/to-the-victor-go-the-street-names/</link>
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		<title>Train Tale&#8221;&#8211;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
It’s six thirty-five a.m. as I pull my bike into Jerusalem’s Malha train station. The sun is rising over seam where the Pat neighborhood’s low, long public housing projects abut the houses of Beit Safafa. A handful of inchoate off-white clouds float through the air like empyrean amoebas, seeking to grab unwary prey [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/01/train-tale-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/</link>
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		<title>Marking it Up&#8211;Sami Berdugo&#8217;s &#8220;A Competition&#8221; in English</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
Every translator’s been there (and I was, just this week). A client says he showed your work to someone else, who proceeded to mark it up with improvements. The client deduces that you gave him a bad translation. Go convince him that there can be two good translations of a single text.
The final [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2010/01/marking-it-up-sami-berdugos-a-competition-in-english/</link>
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		<title>Bibi Zig, Bibi Zag</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg
So the furious reaction to Netanyahu&#8217;s settlement freeze has made you think that maybe, just maybe, it&#8217;s actually for real, and that he has become a pragmatist? Nope, he&#8217;s the same old Bibi, as I explain at the American prospect: 
&#8220;No Entrance To Bibi&#8217;s Freeze Inspectors,&#8221; reads the long, professionally printed banner hanging at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/bibi-zig-bibi-zag/</link>
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		<title>Ultra-Orthodoxy, Made in Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gershom Gorenberg
I have a new piece in Hadassah magazine describing how Israel created the ultra-Orthodox community as we see it today, with its life-time students, large families and poverty:
I’m standing in the Kerem Avraham neighborhood of Jerusalem. Across the street is the stone building where Amos Oz, Israel’s most famous novelist, grew up in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/ultra-orthodoxy-made-in-israel/</link>
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		<title>Successful New York Debut!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
Last monthafter Saturday morning services at Congregation Beth Elohim  in Brooklyn, I stood up in Rabbi Andy Bachman’s spacious study. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Were the personal stories of life in Jerusalem and Israel-forged humor of my Necessary Stories presentation going to click with the 50 sophisticated New Yorkers I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/successful-new-york-debut/</link>
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		<title>Rachel Goes for a Swim&#8211;&#8221;Necessary Stories&#8221; column from The Jerusalem Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haim Watzman 
“It’s their land and they can do whatever they want with it,” Roni shrugs. Now, I should explain that a Roni shrug is a geological event. His ninety-minute daily workout in the pool and the weight room has given him shoulders that undulate like a massif in an earthquake. At middle age, he’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/rachel-goes-for-a-swim-necessary-stories-column-from-the-jerusalem-report/</link>
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		<title>The Cotton Gin and the Jewish Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gershom Gorenberg
My new article on whether Israel is a democracy is up at The American Prospect:
Infant mortality among Arab citizens of Israel is two and a half times higher than it is among Jewish citizens. One out of two Israeli Arab college graduates is out of work. Arabs make up 6 percent of the civil [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://southjerusalem.com/2009/12/the-cotton-gin-and-the-jewish-problem/</link>
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		<title>Conscientious Objection in the Funhouse Mirror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Gershom Gorenberg
My new article on the right&#8217;s difficulties with the army is up at The American Prospect:
Driving through the West Bank recently, I picked up two hitchhikers. Both wore the long, thick sidelocks and extra-large skullcaps that have become the mark of young men on the religious right, especially among settlers. Since they were [...]]]></description>
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