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Yehuda Kurtzer, 35 Twitter: @YehudaKurtzer www.shalomhartman.org Growing up, Yehuda Kurtzer was accustomed to high-level discussions around the dinner table. His father, Daniel Kurtzer, is the former U.S. ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), and served in more junior positions in the American embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv during Yehuda’s childhood. In fact, the […]

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The first Yom Yerushalayim was a military victory. On June 7, 1967 (Iyar 28 on the Hebrew calendar), a Wednesday, Israeli soldiers captured the Old City of Jerusalem, reuniting the capital that had been divided, under Jordanian control since the 1948 War of Independence. Jerusalem Day was born, observed, by order of the country’s Chief […]

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Last Sunday afternoon, I was wheeled into an operating room in Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva, an anesthesiologist said laila tov, and a surgeon removed my left kidney, which was brought to an adjoining operating room and put into the abdomen of a twenty-three year old Israeli dental student from Georgia, FSU, whom I met […]

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