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For generations jews have come to touch the stones of the holiest jewish site, the Western Wall. But over the years the area has become increasingly dangerous for women. They can only pray in an area one fifth the size of the men’s and in recent months have been attacked with chairs, rocks and vegetables, called derogatory names and even dragged along the ground.

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Video Book Trailer for Binnie Klein’s memoir, “Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind” (SUNY Press, 2010), the story of a middle-aged, Jewish, female psychotherapist who changed her sedentary life and took up boxing – this unlikely contender who had no previous experience with sports reconnected with her jewish heritage, the history of jewish boxers, the story of immigration, and experiences an unexpected transformation that proved that there ARE “second acts” in American lives

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