(New York Times) Dyan Zaslowsky - In May I visited Israel for the first time in 31 years, with my daughter Hilary. Hilary had just completed a college semester in Paris where she sampled nihilism served up with espresso, and was moved to generalize about the difference between the French national mood she had experienced and the Israeli one. In France nothing matters because we will all die anyway, she said. In Israel everything matters for the same reason.
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