You don’t mess with the Orit

By Orit Arfa

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/you_dont_mess_with_the_orit_20080624/

Since moving to Israel almost nine years ago, my life has been a chronic quest for physical and existential survival. Once the intifada exploded a few months into my arrival as a new immigrant, I went from a wide-eyed Zionist reveling in a relatively peaceful Israel to a searcher grappling with questions of Jewish life and death.

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