Imagine the following scene: Amid the pristine views from Mount Gerizim, in the heart of the small Samaritan community, as if it were a matter of course, two women who could be straight out of a different story are roaming around - Shura, who came from Ukraine and Lena, who arrived here from the plains of Siberia. Both are married to Samaritans. Shura is the daughter-in-law of the sect's high priest, Elazar Ben Tzadka, and is married to his son, Yair. A beautiful, blond Samaritan princess imported from the city of Kherson, in Ukraine.
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The implication made in the title isn't fair. We the Jews began taking foreign wives from the Pravoslav peoples way ahead of the Samaritans. It is us who made the "final break".
Posted by: Jay | December 05, 2006 at 04:12 AM