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Jerusalem Post/Magazine/Features

The question of context and identity

An American academic and his Israeli counterpart focus on the importance of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, its debt to America’s founding fathers and why anyone should care.

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John Trumbell painting 521
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BySAM SOKOL
DECEMBER 22, 2011 17:37
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