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Behind the Aegis

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Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:14 AM Mar 2015

Michael Douglas finds Judaism and faces anti-Semitism

Last summer our family went to Southern Europe on holiday. During our stay at a hotel, our son Dylan went to the swimming pool. A short time later he came running back to the room, upset. A man at the pool had started hurling insults at him..

My first instinct was to ask, “Were you misbehaving?”

“No,” Dylan told me through his tears.

I stared at him. And suddenly I had an awful realization of what might have caused the man's outrage: Dylan was wearing a Star of David.

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Michael Douglas finds Judaism and faces anti-Semitism (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2015 OP
Great article Gothmog Mar 2015 #1
Thanks. Behind the Aegis Mar 2015 #2
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