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    Ariel Sabar: A Time to Put Aside the Armor

    JBC Staff
    July 20, 2009

    Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

    Ariel Sabar, author of My Father’s Par­adise: A Son’s Search for His Jew­ish Past in Kur­dish Iraq, wrote an essay for last Sunday’s New York Times: A Time to Put Aside the Armor.

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