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By Samuel Scott
TEL AVIV, Israel — “Being a teenager sucks wherever you are.”
So replied 16-year-old Mayaan Shir, one of the volunteers at BuffyFest — the annual convention in Tel Aviv that occurred last Thursday evening — in response to a question on why an Israeli high-school student would like the American cult-television program “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
Shir had been helping with the ticket table at the… Continue reading