Mr. PAJAUD: I think black artists feel almost like Jonah and the whale.

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But as readers of the Old Testament know, Jonah emerges from the whale a changed man, redeemed and willing to carry on God's work.

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Imagining the prophet Jonah boarding his ship in Jaffa just days before he was cast into the sea and swallowed by a whale, I piled into the Israeli girls' car and continued my strange little pilgrimage.

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