Nov 15, 2012
JEWS AND OBAMA AND HIS RE ELECTION
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE PROUD OF BEING JEWISH AFTER THE AMERICAN ELECTIONS One of the contradictions in American Politics is the way the Jews vote. In…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Oct 15, 2012
The Jewish Nobel Prize Winners
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE JEWISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS This week is a week of pride for Jews who take pride in being Jews. As each…
Sep 15, 2012
COMPASSION IS SPIRITUALITY
Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Compassion is a path to spirituality whereas being religious may not be, when ideologies may serve various masters, and not necessarily…
Apr 15, 2012
Noite de Saudade
A NIGHT FULL OF SAUDADE When did that word enter my vocabulary? Saudade.. Long before Cesaria Evora sang Sodade in 1994. An unbridled sensation of nostalgia, mixed with a tenderness…
Mar 15, 2012
AU REVOIR, FRANCE.. I WANT TO GO HOME
This morning the sun has risen and a bright morning is in store.. Just exactly one week ago, around this time, in Toulouse, a father took his two children to…
Mar 15, 2012
THE BOOKSELLER OF MOGADOR
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE BOOKSELLER OF MOGADOR Until 1956, when Morocco became independent of France, the popular seaside town of Essaouira (very popular with Americans…
Jan 15, 2012
SHALOM FROM A JEW IN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A JEW IN OMAN There is a sensation of welcome when you arrive at SEEB international Airport at Muscat, the capital city…
Jan 15, 2012
Letter to Mr HO, Mr Erudite of Malaysia re Daniel Kahneman
Dear Friend, Mr Erudite of Malaysia It is not often one reads an autobiographical sketch (no more than about four pages) and gets so engrossed in it, because of the…
Dec 15, 2011
ENDANGERED SPECIES this time LANGUAGES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ENDANGERED SPECIES THIS TIME LANGUAGES When we think of Endangered Languages, we usually think of isolated tribes in inaccessible regions of the…
Oct 15, 2011
American Ingenuity or Two Dollar A day Chinese Workforce?
STEVE JOBS, AMERICAN INGENUITY, TWO DOLLAR A DAY CHINESE WORKFORCE ON WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU? This week, the Jewish High Holiday week has been full of news of all sorts.…
Oct 15, 2011
A MIAMI YOM KIPPUR FOR A GOOD JEWISH NEW YEAR 5772
This has been an incredibly good evening. Before going to the Yom Kippur Evening Services at the Temple Israel, we decided to have dinner at Soyka. As if it was…
Oct 15, 2011
STEVE JOBS IN TEHERAN
Steve Jobs in Teheran This morning I received an email from Teheran, Iran: Steve Jobs has died. The news made every one sad, even here in Iran, where few people…
Oct 15, 2011
Learn to Love your Brothers and Sisters.. they are everywhere
One of the images burnt in my memory is that of an Israeli soldier carrying an elderly Ethiopian Jewish woman, during the clandestine airlifting of 10 000 Ethiopian Jews to…
Sep 15, 2011
Harvest Festival of the HoCank and the Jewish New Year
I stepped out of the gymnasium into the pleasantly chilled air of this waning days of the Northern Summer; I could still hear the drums and jingle of the dresses.…
Sep 15, 2011
NAURU AND DIABETES WISH YOU WERE NOT HERE
WISH THEY WERE NOT HERE.. At the recent meeting of the European Association of the Study of Diabetes (September 12-16, 2011) at Lisboa, Portugal, alarm was sounded by the troubadours…
Jun 15, 2011
SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUALITY
SYMBOLISM AND SPIRITUALITY Today my sister wanted me to go with her, to witness the end of the year ceremonies for her granddaughter who is graduating from Grade III. As…
Jun 15, 2011
SACRED TRASH OF CAIRO GENIZA: JEWISH REFLECTIONS
When you are Jewish, you can look at the world from the view point of the Other and feel left out or ostracized, depending upon the country and the century…
Apr 15, 2011
DAys in Portland with Family
the weather has been mild, I am so glad to be here. Mind wanders around the world but nice to know of deep affections here in Portland, Oregon. Last night,…