Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
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…
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…
Most westerners, americans of europeans, hardly know about the magnanimous Cuban efforts at Humanitarian Medicine. When people think of Humanitarian Medicine in the west, they think of flying out when…
There is no greater sorrow than recalling happy times when we are sad Dante Thinking about Cuba, for me is never sad, but the powerful forces that draw me to…
WHY DO I TRAVEL TO OMAN WHY IS IT SO SPECIAL When I sent emails from Salalah, Oman on a recent stopover there, a good friend of mine asked: Why…
Thoughts on Spirituality I have thought about it for long. One thing I can tell you what it is not: Rituals and Dogma like you mentioned in your email of…
JEWS OF MALABAR, A MAKE DO MENORAH AND THE CHANUKKIAH LAMP AMONG THE INDIANS This invitation arrived from Cochin, India today: As the Jewish community is dwindling in Malabar, more…
The Jewish Identity in Diaspora The Economist, published weekly, has to be one of the best brain foods that is published that frequently in the English Language. I have great…
As if to celebrate the Jewish New Year 5774, I noticed that the counter of page views on this blog has passed 100,000! When you think there are millions and…
Today is the First Day of September 2013 and in a few days time we would welcome the Jewish New Year. I hope to be in Brussels on Rosh Hashanah…
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INFLAMMATION AS THE COMMON PATHWAY TO CHRONIC DISEASES IN 2002, I was wandering around the streets of Johor Bahru, Malaysia when I came across books being sold at a Hindu…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LEE KUAN YEW AND HIS QUESTION FOR BERNARD LEWIS I quote verbatim, from Notes on Century: Reflections of a Middle East Historians…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Searching for Seder in Brussels I used to be very active in Jewish Student affairs when I was at school as well…
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Walking along this pleasant city, I was amazed at the similarities (at least superficially) that meets a visitor to the central part of the city. Retired moslem women from Maghreb,…
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