And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense …

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

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Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to…

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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

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