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Visiting Beit Shemesh, Where Religious Extremism Still Lives

Gary Perlin

Last month I visited Beit Shemesh, a city less than an hour’s drive from Jerusalem. We had read about some of the most noteworthy incidents there, such as when a young girl was spat on by an ultra-Orthodox extremist on her way to school. However, we could not

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