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I almost got my daughter kicked out of her Jewish preschool over a map of Israel

JL;DR SUMMARY Jay Deitcher recounts a personal and controversial experience at his daughter's Jewish preschool involving a map of Israel that omitted the Green Line, sparking a heated debate about the representation of Israeli-Palestinian boundaries. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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PalestineSocial MediaTwo State SolutionJewish PreschoolReligious InstitutionsGreen LineMapsCommunity ConflictPolitical Sensitivity

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Israel
"Often folks dont pay attention to the images surrounding them, so you find maps slapped on walls that wipe clean either the Palestinian claim or the Jewish claim to the lands known as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza."

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