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.
ELIAS JOSEPHAI, currently the best known COCHINI JEW in the world (check for him in Google, Youtube, BBC etc) is based in Ernakulam near his beloved synagogue which had been…
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One fringe benefit of being a International Humanitarian Physician who is an Anthropologist and is Jewish, is that the Jewish aspect is stressed a lot in countries where the inhabitants…
I have nurtured a love for smaller jewish communities around the world ever since I became aware of them and was able to visit them. Currently I live in an…
GREETINGS FROM ISRAEL. SHANAH TOVAH TIKKETEVU. It is so nice, my first ever time, that I am in the Land of Israel for the Jewish New Year I came across…
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I am dedicated to the welfare of the Indigenous peoples. I met Ticuna on one of my earliest trips to the Amazon and our relationship has only strengthened. On this…
I had made the special effort of going to the Brasilian Amazonian town of Benjamin Constant. It turned out to be a metaphorical death. I still feel it as I…
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0 0 1 1442 8222 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 68 19 9645 14.0 Normal 0 false false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A Brief Jewish History in Singapore…
A JEW IN QATAR AND OTHER STORIES It is sunny outside nary a cloud but haze over the multiple modern buildings that surround this bay in Doha, Qatar. this is…
0 0 1 612 3493 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 29 8 4097 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Microbial modulation of diabetes (type 2) Short-chain…
INVOLVEMENT AT WORK: WHERE THE BORDERS BETWEEN WORK, SOCIETY AND JOY MELT AWAY, TOUCHING ON THE SPIRITUAL WORLD I am at a purpose built office building in a small town…
The Jewish Community of Cochin, India is dead and has been dying for many years. As it usually happens, nostalgia begins to creep in and recreation efforts are undertaken. There…
While there has been historical references of mass conversions to Judaism, they have been extremely rare. All of us are aware of the King of Khuzars/Khazars who converted and his…
In Praise of SUGAR No one would be caught writing, In Praise of SALT, then why is an Endocrinologist who is socially committed to prevent Type 2 Diabetes and improve…
In recent months, I have met people with whom I immediately clicked, they are such good representations of the North American generosity, open mindedness and kindness. It was even amazing…
It is 5 pm on this Friday evening, 10 November 2017. The sun has eased its strength and squalls and the rain seemed to have left for elsewhere. I am…
