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    1. My dad was born in Alabama in 1960. He was raised by an old Southern, White, Christian family, but his mother had converted to Judaism and she was trying to raise the kids Jewish. So their family had a fair mix of racists, anti-Northerners, progressives, and “undesirables” (i.e., people who were considered inferior). My grandmother eventually decided that this wasn’t a good environment to raise children Jewish, so in 1969 they packed their bags and moved to Ashdod, Israel, where they lived among refugees from North Africa. My father grew up in Israel, eventually met my mother, and they moved together to the United States to get away from the wars and intifadas that had killed so many of their friends.

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