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  • To Michael Chabon, from biblical Hebron

    Yishai Fleisher|Jun 8, 2018

    (JNS)—At a recent graduation of Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, novelist Michael Chabon berated the Jewish community of Hebron: “I abhor an enclave, too, a gated community, a restricted country club, or a clutch of 800 zealots lodged in illusory safety behind a wall made from the bodies of teenage soldiers, gazing out in scorn and lordly alarm at the surrounding 200,000 residents of the city of Hebron,” he said. So, here are a few points to consider in answering Chabon: While today Hebron Jews number only 800, consider that together with o... Full story