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Interior Garden Scape.jpg

Interior Garden Scape.jpg

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling fruits and vegetables along the side of the road. It was an orgy of color and hard to resist eating!

This is another typical street scene in Jaipur. People selling...

Dogs napping on the grass outside Isa Khan Niyazi's Tomb

Dogs napping on the grass outside Isa Khan Niyazi's Tomb

This black kite and I watched each other out the window each morning as I read my email and drank coffee. Then one morning it decided to say hello, flew over to the window, and tried to atta ...

This black kite and I watched each other out the window each...

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Detailed Marble Inlay-5.jpg

Late Dinner @ Pamela’s

Idan and I return to the spot of my first trip to Puerto Rico. The restaurant at Numero Uno. I can’t even recall when I first came to this location! this time around I had one of the best meals I have ever had, all on this romantic stretch of beach under [...]

A Little Caribe Never Hurt

Sitting in the room sipping rum and coke. Ah…La Isla De Encanto.

Shakshuka!

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I am not 100% certain of the origin of the magical dish known as shakshuka! I am told it means mixed up in Arabic and its prevalence in Israel has something to do with the influx of Jews from Arabs lands.

I am told it is made from roasted peppers of various kinds, tomatoes and spices [...]

Danny Sanderson, Gidi Gov and Friends

Another fun Dor Chadash event. Idan and I went to Symphony Space to see and hear them perform. Now I admit I have almost no cultural context to properly place these people within. However, I am guessing from Idan’s comments and from the reaction of the audience that they represent cultural or musical superstars in [...]

Umm Kulthum-أم كلثوم

I admit I know almost nothing about Arabs and the Arab world. My perspective is unrecoverably linked to the Israeli-Terrorist conflict, 9/11 and beyond. My interactions with Arabs have been limited either “westernized” ones and pleasant or in Israel and Jordan where they were not unpleasant but not exactly feel-good either.

In realizing that a larger [...]

Ivri Lider Live at Avalon NYC

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Idan and I went to see Ivri Lider at Avalon. The concert was pretty amazing. He is a very entertaining performer. But the funniest person on stage is truly the drummer!

Honey! We are out of stones!

In Talmudic times people would use sharp edged stones to remove fecal material from the rectal area after defecation. And in typical form, there is a discussion in the Talmud about the size and number of the stone one is allowed to carry on Shabbat. I am not a fan of paper, as my brother [...]