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#69: Author Adam Valen Levinson - The Ab...

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Adam Valen Levinson (@a_v_levinson), author of The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah is on the podcast today with a cautionary tale of becoming addicted to traveling to increasingly dangerous countries that don't like Jews. It turns out, they don't all think Jews are so bad and our preconceived notions of places like Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia aren't 100% accurate. ... Show More
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