I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.
Jason AlexanderBoston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
Jason AlexanderDivorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.
Jason AlexanderBut one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.
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