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One bloke named convincing, but now the Jews are waking heard from a certain professor in CUNY Norman, who was with me in Kerem up to the fact that they must abandon how life has become a living nightmare through my father’s side, but she and her B’Yavneh years ago, is married to a cous- their liberal darlings in Corbyn’s party. for any pro-Israeli professor or student brother Jerry yblc”t were as close to us in of mine from England, and we spent On the way back from Baltimore, we on campus. Hunter College, Brooklyn et as fi rst cousins, maybe closer. It happens some time catching up on the latest. I gave a lift to two of my British cousins’ al are rife with BDS proponents. I have that she married Dr. Yoel Jakobovits, my asked him if things were really as bad as sons who had to catch a plane at JFK. been witness to Orthodox students suf- fi rst cousin through my mother’s side.