{"id":1347,"date":"2017-01-13T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T14:08:08","slug":"timing-out-in-the-levant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Timing Out in the Levant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m happy to be in Israel on the Friday morning before Shabbat, when the country takes a break from politics and from time itself, switches from the contemporary Israel to an eternal space. \u00a0 The seaside city of Nahariya is like most resorts in winter – a bit tawdry, strange to itself, a place that shivers at sixty degrees.\u00a0 The Levantine stain is on the once white tile. \u00a0It’s on the white Mercedes and on the third-generation white Bauhaus buildings.\u00a0 Souk alleyways have given way to ’60s alleyways, little stainless steel stands that sell falafel (everywhere), hummus and salads.\u00a0 Mattress stores and cheap clothes on street side racks and aging Russian furriers watch women pass by in fake furs.<\/p>\n

We arrived Thursday night when the full moon was shining over the darkened desert hills. \u00a0Now people are now shopping for their challahs, their chicken, their pomegranates, oranges, salads. \u00a0 As the sun warms the early afternoon, people sit talking in outdoor cafes.\u00a0 The faces, even in the predominant Jewish community, are fascinatingly diverse.\u00a0 It makes you ask, What is a Jew? \u00a0In the meantime, green parrots walk on the\u00a0 electric wires between shaggy eucalyptus trees. \u00a0Shabbat Shalom.<\/p>\n

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