(Baltimore Jewish Times) Aron U. Raskas - Barry Schuman, a Baltimore native, left his job at a prestigious New York law firm and, with his wife and children, did what Jews have done for centuries: they moved to Israel. They live today in Kochav HaShachar, a beautiful community of about 300 largely professional families in the heart of the Judean-Samarian mountains, just 18 miles north of downtown Jerusalem. Many observers bristle at the term "Judea and Samaria," dismissing it as propaganda invented by "settlers" for political ends. In fact, it is the canard of a "West Bank" that barely existed 40 years ago, when it was substituted into the lexicon of the debate in an effort to eradicate references to the great Jewish past. Throughout history, maps, photographs, and travel guides described these territories by their time-honored names: Judea and Samaria. Even UN resolutions - including the 1947 Partition Resolution - utilized those terms.
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