Aug 15, 2020
KADDISH FOR RABBI ADIN STEINSALTZ
If you are a Jewish traveller, in the mode of Benjamin of Tudela of blessed memory, you would make note of the particularities of the observances of different jewish communities…
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Aug 15, 2020
WILL PROTECTORATES BE BACK ?
WILL PROTECTORATES BE BACK When the Lebanese population were clamouring for the ageing political elites to step down and President Macron of France was visiting, one of the requests was…
Aug 15, 2020
JE SUIS UN JUIF MIZRAHI. IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO TALK TO, I AM HERE …
Here we are in Miami where the worst thing is the vitriol of the local and national politicians. I think of the winds hitting the fragile houses and farms of…
Aug 15, 2020
EVERY LITTLE TREE GIVES ITS LITTLE BIT OF SHADE ANCIENT WISDOM OF FULAE, THIS TIME FROM SENEGAL
Al Jazeera, the news channel based in Doha is unique among the news channels in the world( with the exception of the venerable BBC, that many of us grew up…
Aug 15, 2020
SONG AND DANCE FOR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON
La retirada La distancia entre los dos es cada día más grande. De tu amor y de mi amor no está quedando nada. Sin embargo, el corazón no quiere resignarse…
Aug 15, 2020
MANHA DE CARNAVAL MY LOVE FOR BRASIL STARTED WITH THIS SONG
Sometimes you hear a song that becomes imbedded in your memory, forever. I heard this song, while watching a Brasilian movie to an empty theatre many years ago in Brighton…
Aug 15, 2020
CRY FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN LEBANON
whose heart is not touched by what happened at the Lebanese capital city's port? 150 has died , thousands injured and hundreds and thousands made homeless. Initially the politicians blamed…
Aug 15, 2020
REMEMBERING WHAT MY INDIGENOUS TEACHERS TOLD ME ABOUT DIABETES CARE AMONG THE NATIVE PEOPLE
I will never forget the words of the elder, Adeline W. Here we were sitting at her modest home in the settlement of Indians out of the bling and business…
Aug 15, 2020
THE LOVELY BOULANGERIE OF THE SKY THAT IS PARIS
Out of nowhere,a sliver of a song drifts in Where did I hear it before The streets of Paris? Where at one time, I walked along the streets with my…
Aug 15, 2020
YET ONE OTHER REASON TO AVOID DRINKING COCA-COLA AND ITS FIZZY DRINKS COUSINS ..
If you are politically correct, you must avoid drinking Coca-Cola.. Confederate Colonel John Pemberton , wounded in the American Civil War and addicted to morphine , also had a medical…
Aug 15, 2020
Muito Obrigado. Cesaria Evora ..
It is 4 pm on a Friday in Miami and the sun is still strong . It was 4 pm on a week day, at Pont street in London, I…
Aug 15, 2020
WHAT DOES NEW ZEALAND HAVE THAT THE USA YANKS DO NOT HAVE ?
There are several lessons from New Zealand’s pandemic response. Rapid, science-based risk assessment linked to early, decisive government action was critical. Implementing interventions at various levels (border-control measures, community-transmission control…