(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Just to the left of the entrance to the Clal Building on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem stands a gate leading nowhere ... and the Middle East. Paris headed the leading ...

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Our liturgy tells us that every morning, light breaks through the gates of the East as ... metaphor of the gate. This painting appears to be an abstract rendition of one of Jerusalem’s gates ...