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I’m a Jewish teen. I asked my neighbors what they meant by ‘Free Palestine.’

JL;DR SUMMARY In a piece from the New York Jewish Week's Teen Journalism Fellowship, Asher Gershenoff, a Jewish teenager from Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, explores the meaning behind the "Free Palestine" signs in his neighborhood. 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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BrooklynJewish IdentityZionismFree PalestineDialogueCoexistencePalestinian PerspectiveNeighborhoodSigns

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New York City, New York, United States
"This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Weeks Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York City to report on issues that affect their lives."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Every morning on my walk to the F train, I pass bright yellow signs hanging in the windows of houses along the quiet streets of Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn."
Windsor Terrace, New York, United States
"Windsor Terrace is a small, mostly residential neighborhood, where the same dogs are walked daily and American flags hang off of the brick row houses."
Borough Park, New York, United States
"Nearby neighborhoods like Borough Park and Crown Heights are home to over 96,000 Jews, but Windsor Terrace has a much smaller Jewish population."
Crown Heights, New York, United States
"Nearby neighborhoods like Borough Park and Crown Heights are home to over 96,000 Jews, but Windsor Terrace has a much smaller Jewish population."
New York, United States
"Still searching for understanding, I went to the March 28 No Kings march in Brooklyn."

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