Mark Twain famously said, “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Interestingly, this adage has spurred the oft-quoted saying, “History is stranger than fiction.” Thankfully for us, sometimes tax history truly is stranger than fiction.
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This is the fourth article in the series,
“Black and Jewish: Memoir of a Shifting Self” which is being published exclusively on the Blogs of the “Times of Israel”.
I am African American, Jewish, Israeli, and American, and I served in both the Israel Defense Forces and the United States Army. My culture is a rich “Third Culture” which is a combination of both American culture and Israeli culture.