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Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:00 AM

Beyond the Multiplex

It's Ambiguity Week! Plus: Orthodox Hasidim, Palestinian suicide bombers and the weirdest good film of the year.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:05 PM

Ushpizin

It's funny when you become a Ba'al Tschuva (i.e., someone Jewish and not religious who becomes religious); you realize that Observant Jews are first and foremost, people. The whole reason for the religious divide in Israel and elsewhere is precisely because there really isn't a whole lot dividing the secular, "modern" Jews from their observant, "fundamentalist" fellow Jews.

In other words, there are thousands of shades of black.

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