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_surface_visiting_jewish_communities_around_the_world  Thirty
hours ago, I left a country whose Jewish population went from
300,000 to 3,000 in the past 60 years. I walked the narrow paths
between the houses where these Jews used to live, I breathed in
the air of the synagogues where they prayed every day, three
times a day. Over and over again I found myself asking, why have
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