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IT TOOK A TRIP TO ISRAEL TO CLOSE THE GAP BETWEEN US. BY JENNIFER NEW | "Pull back the curtain. Go ahead." My 2003 mother-in-law reaches over me and lifts a thin synthetic curtain that looks as though it were sewn by a newlywed, circa 1952. Below, the men in the synagogue are supposedly praying and observing the beginning of Shabbat, though 2003 it looks to me as though they're catching up on the week's gossip. 2003 But what do I know, a shiksa from Iowa standing in the women's balcony of an Israeli synagogue. With my straight blond hair and jet-lagged blue eyes, I don't belong here. And yet I do. I am with my mother-in-law. We whisper in each other's ears, lock arms and, days later, dance together. We are here in Israel to learn each other, to move irrevocably beyond our past.
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