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Given my interest in religion and science (I\u2019m even teaching my class on the subject this semester) this quote which Menachem Mendel shared<\/a>, and which apparently comes from Thomas Friedman\u2019s book<\/a>, From Beirut to Jerusalem<\/a><\/em> $\"\"$ , p.429, seemed worth sharing.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve only been to one of the two \u2013 like most human beings, I\u2019ve never been off the Earth \u2013 and so I can\u2019t compare. But with Neil Armstrong\u2019s passing, and my recent second visit to Jerusalem, and my interest in religion and science, I thought I would share this, and see what thoughts readers had about it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"