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Saturday, September 21, 2002

JERUSALEM -- At an open-air fruit stand in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, seminary student Samuel Bloch poked at a lemon-like citron, inspecting it with an exacting eye.

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