“Now that you have an open ear among the media,” their e-mails clamored, “why won’t you speak up for your own people? Justice for West New Guinea!”

“They just settle themselves down and keep taking. And I don’t like people — or birds — that don’t know their place”

“Come to the big sing-sing,” Joe suggested. “It’s exactly what you’re looking for. Painted faces, traditional jewelry, lots of feathers and battle cries, all very photogenic”

“You’re Sarah, right? Listen, you don’t know me,” said a shaky voice over the phone. “I’m a cousin of Udel’s. I understand that you were with her in that cul— in that group she be ...

A quiet chuppah in the desert, that’s what he’d envisioned. A few brothers and sisters, and a reception with a lot of what really matters and very little fluff

I knew that according to the rules, she wasn’t supposed to be talking with me at all, since I’d left the kehillah

“My children will not go to school. We don’t need school,” he kept saying. “The white man has nothing to teach us”

I still couldn’t raise that arm all the way, or stretch it out in front of me. I was disabled. Handicapped. Maybe forever

Itzik sighed. “Levi, we’ve talked about this ten times already. I didn’t incite them. I’m the last person who’d go inciting anybody to kill Arabs

This didn’t quite look like his crowd, but somehow Itzik could see himself drumming together with them, being part of the circle and the pulsating sound