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A tragicomic story about Barack Obama trying to extricate an American woman from an abusive marriage to a Palestinian man.
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"In 1960, Schumacher was hidden by his grandparents, Breslov Hasidim, to prevent his parents, who had recently immigrated to Israel from Russia, from bringing him up as a secular Jew.
After refusing a court order to return the child, his grandparents hid him first in Israel, and later smuggled him out of the country dressed as a girl (Claudine) with a French convert by the name of Ruth Ben-David (later changed to Ruth Blau). He spent two years in Europe, first in France, then in Switzerland.
In March 1962, when Israel began looking for him in earnest, Schumacher was once again smuggled out of Europe and brought to America, again dressed as a girl.
Once in America, Ben-David met Gertner, an ultra-Orthodox woman from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who was willing to hide Schumacher in her apartment.
From March until August, Schumacher, whose name was changed to Yankele Frenkel, was kept alone in the house, unable to leave.
Meanwhile, a tempest raged in Israel. Schumacher's grandfather, Nachman Starks, was put in jail. The couple who hid Schumacher in Israel were arrested. And gradually other links in the chain of people tied to Schumacher were uncovered by the security services. "
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