ephemera

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As someone trying both to survive his own tribe, who seem to be angered by his claim to be a part of said tribe, as well as his tribe's enemies, who would be after him for basically the same reason, a neutral ground like Bosnia, specifically Sarajevo, might seem a logical place for work.  It's a beautiful city, and a very spiritually powerful place.  

The difficulty is precisely the reason for the attraction.  I transferred to a top-tier Jewish law school in New York, reasoning that I would be on more secure ground in the context of a religion of the God of Abraham.  But there are old hatreds afoot, ones that I was largely oblivious to at the time, and I was largely the outsider there.  The spiritual dangers that I might be oblivious to, in a more serious dimension, are my greatest hesitation, and the reason that I might look to cities more grounded in the East-West rather than a city the distinct spiritual power of which I've personally felt.