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Back in the Middle Ages, cartographers would draw maps of the world with the Holy Land in dead center, and if you never saw those maps you could pick up the Week in Review section of The New York Times and get the idea. On one page of the section, Thomas Friedman’s column, “Obama and […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315