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I figured that I fit into the secular circles much more easily than I did the Orthodox women's circles, but I found out that I was mistaken.

I wasn't going to wind it around my head as many newly arrived Orthodox olim women were doing. I was planning on using the scarf as a neck scarf, as many secular Israeli women were doing. I figured that I would stroll over to the head scarf kiosk and see if there were any more beautiful head scarfs that I might want to buy for keepsakes. Shira, Sarah, and I were seated at a lone table at the coffee shop at the Jerusalem Gate hotel, trying to eat an entire Israeli breakfast and not succeeding when I had enough of sitting. I had had a few moments to retrace my steps to the head scarf kiosk at Center One shopping mall underneath the Jerusalem Gate Hotel. Little did I know that it was the blue head scarf that taught me an even larger lesson. I thought that the Israeli children would be focused on loving their new friends, the teddy bears and not have time to learn to hate. I thought that I was helping stem the tide of teaching prejudice by bringing over my loving teddy bears to Israel.

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I thought that I would learn from the Israeli children that they learned how to love and hate through play.

I thought that the Israeli children, either Jewish, Muslim, or Christian would be my teachers and show me that prejudice is taught. I thought that I was focusing on the teddy bear that would unite Israeli children as one.

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