Jan 15, 2023
A VISIT TO ONE OF THE MANY SYNAGOGUES IN THE JEWISH BARRIO/GHETTO/MELLA/QUARTIER OF HOUMT SOUK, TUNISIA
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Jan 15, 2023
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM MIAMI BUT WITH A HEAVY HEART
As has been my custom for many years, on Friday Nights, regardless of where I am , Morocco, Malaysia or Miami, I would light candles and recite in Hebrew my…
Jan 15, 2023
JEWISH LIFE IN THE HOUMT SOUK TOWN IN THE ISLAND OF DJERBA TUNISIA
One gets the feeling that the life has not changed very much in this jewish neighbourhood of Houmt Souk for many years. The trading significance of Houmt Souk has been…
Jan 15, 2023
WHAT WOULD AN ANTHROPOLOGIST UNDERSTAND ABOUT THIS PHOTO ?
Look at the photo first without reading the captions. What do you see ? what do you feel ? that would tell more about you than the substance of the…
Jan 15, 2023
IN THE ISLAND OF DJERBA, AT LAST. 2023 HAS BEGUN WELL FOR TRAVEL .
A full day at Erridah in the island of Djerba, home of the DjerbaHood (as in neighbourhood )
Jan 15, 2023
I AM THE JEWISH MAQROLL. WELCOME TO MY MAGICAL WORLD
I am all alone in this house, the silence is so welcome. Most but not all, people in America are afraid of silence and they have to keep on chatting,…
Dec 15, 2022
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST MOURNS PELE: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM GRIEF, AS INDIANS WOULD TEACH US
The watch on the wrist makes a ping noise, BBC notification: The football great PELE has died, aged 82 and the Israelite Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paolo, Brasil. Most…
Dec 15, 2022
LIVING THE FRENCH PARADOX, AN EXPLANATION
In 1991, Serge Renaud, a scientist from the University of Bordeaux, coined the term the FRENCH PARADOX, after noting the relatively lower rate of cardiovascular diseases among the French compared…
Dec 15, 2022
HALCYON. MEMORABLE TIMES BUT THIS MORNING THINKING OF MAQROLL OF COLOMBIAN WRITER ALVARO MUTIS
Alvaro Mutis was a Colombian writer of prose and poetry and a good friend of Gabo, a contemporary from Bogota, who also lived in Mexico as an exile during the…
Dec 15, 2022
TRAVEL GUIDES/COMPANION NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING CITIES .. 2023
Anytime I see a List of places to visit in 2023 or something similar, I know those are the places to avoid. Yahoo Lists are hopeless written by people who…
Dec 15, 2022
IF WE APPRECIATE AND BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT WE HAVE, OUR HAPPINESS WILL MAKE OTHERS HAPPY
My UmonHon Indian teacher, Pierre said to me, appropriately after I had hurried to the Clinic of the tribe, without much attention to the blue skies, and an eagle following…
Dec 15, 2022
WHO BROUGHT FUFU TO BARACOA ? THE FRENCH FROM HAITI IN MY OPINION
WHAT IS FUFU ? FUFU is a food of African origin, which arrived with the slaves to the Caribbean region from West Africa. The slaves were forcibly brought over to…