Arriving in Israel 30 years ago, I never imagined my Jewish identity, worn so defiantly and proudly through the antisemitism-laced Soviet years, would be revoked by the Jewish state. And there are hundreds of thousands like me
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What it’s like to be an 'official non-Jew' in a shamefully ethnocentric Israel
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