{"id":3487,"date":"2025-03-23T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2025-03-23T22:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:33:29","slug":"the-shared-overlap-of-skullcaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3487","title":{"rendered":"The Shared Overlap of Skullcaps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Naiv\u00ebte, like a broken clock, gets it right twice daily. 
Jews and Muslims are cousins, are family, I hear 
in Morocco, from the taxi driver, the be-scarved woman <\/p>\n\n\n\n

guarding a blue synagogue. Even though they should be 
cranky, be-swearing food and drink; even as it\u2019s Ramadan, 
and the driver in baseball cap careens in his springy red taxi.
God gives us strength.<\/em>  Of Jews they smile, they glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In pious F\u00e8s, peace reigns. If you want to be sassy, 
you might wink about how Jews drink \u2013 
so the guide in his djellaba believes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, the muezzin erupts as the sun sinks;
He has also marked the start of Shabbat.\u00a0\u00a0The simultaneity\u00a0
of it, the shared overlap of skullcaps and wraps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Jewish friend says, \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing to be a Jew 
here.\u201d A rare bird: she came back. Her wish blows
like the Sirocco: \u201cif only all Muslims practice as they do in Morocco.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naiv\u00ebte, like a broken clock, gets it right twice daily. Jews and Muslims are cousins, are family, I hear in Morocco, from the taxi driver, the be-scarved woman  guarding a blue synagogue. Even though they should be cranky, be-swearing food and drink; even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1598,1595,1591,1592,1596,1593,1597,1594],"class_list":["post-3487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coexistence","tag-holy-month","tag-jews-and-muslims","tag-morocco","tag-people-of-the-book","tag-religious-brotherhood","tag-religious-tolerance","tag-shared-god"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4D5qU-Uf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3497,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}