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Quiet suits Jerusalem. Here, in the center of the world is where I've known the truest peace.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Posted by Lena Freund, Washington, DC Quiet suits Jerusalem. It's early on a winter Saturday morning outside the Dan Panorama Hotel and nothing is moving. As we walk through the first neighborhoods of Jewish Jerusalem, the streets are empty of all of the week's traffic; there is not a sound in this city except for our footsteps and the splash of a quiet rain hitting asphalt and concrete. Here, in the city at the center of the world, is the truest peace I've ever known. As author Naomi Shihab Nye wrote, "where does one go after here?" Read the rest of this blog »
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