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Taking My Stand, Amid War and Destruction

JL;DR SUMMARY Joanna Chen shares her personal experience volunteering with the Israeli organization, Road to Recovery, which transports Palestinian patients, primarily children, from West Bank checkpoints to Israeli hospitals for essential medical treatments. 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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West BankVolunteeringTikkun OlamPalestinian PatientsRegional ConflictRoad To RecoveryJoanna ChenIsraeli HospitalsHuman ConnectionCross Cultural Interaction

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Tel Aviv, Central District, Israel
"I took a sweet girl and her mother from Tarkumia checkpoint to Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv"
Tarkumia, Hebron, Palestinian Territories
"I took a sweet girl and her mother from Tarkumia checkpoint to Sheba Hospital near Tel Aviv"

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