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AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
In just over three hundred years, and in some cases even less, the American Indians had been forced to change their lifestyle, like no other people on earth. Forced to…
IT is so very important to me to say my Shabbat prayers here in this Moslem Country where they chant anti Israeli songs each day and the politicians call Israel…
IT is 14th of July 2014 Bastille Day Fete Nacional France Celebrations Parades Fireworks yes in France but I am in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Since I have family in France…
LESSONS FROM ISRAEL A visit to Israel is an eye opener, even those who keep abreast of what is happening there. On a recent short visit, I was amazed how…
I have been fortunate enough to be traveling on an irregularly irregular basis all around the world since 1993, and since 2002 fairly regularly to South East Asia. I have…
Nature vs Nurture Science vs Entrepreneurial While watching a short video about some of the eye boggling science that is coming out of Israel, I began thinking about Nature vs…
One of the earliest lines of Spanish Poetry that made me want to learn the tongue of Cervantes, was, read on my way from school in Sweden to home in…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF AN ENCOUNTER AT THE SYNGAGOUE IN RANGOON! Burma, or its modern name, Myanmar, had offered welcome to Iraqi…
What does it mean, Genetic Memory? We inherit genes from our parents, then learn our culture, our languages. Later on we go on to live in countries which are not…
AROUND THE WORLD EVERY EIGHTY DAYS I have been lucky to have been able to combine my profession (Medicine) , my passion (Anthropology) and Travel, almost always combining the three.…
I was mulling over an email while walking towards the Church, at the end of the street. My friend in Miami was talking about Shlomo Carlebach whose name had been…