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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Laws of the Jungle
In Papua New Guinea, a land where hunters live by their arrows, and children wield machetes, there are tribesmen who be ...
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Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Greeting the Ghosts of Salonika
While Salonika served as a haven for centuries, it couldn’t save itself from the Nazi onslaught. Could this ancient city ...
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Monday, May 29, 2017
We’re All Igbo
We have been to many emerging Jewish-identifying communities around the globe, but we never imagined we’d find dozens of t ...
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Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Preserved in the Land of the Dodo
Mauritius doesn’t have a long Jewish history, but it turned into an unplanned prison refuge for a shipload of Jews outrunning the Nazis. Fascinated, we dropped onto that piece of ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Jewish Core in Island Lore
Madagascar, best known for lemurs, chameleons, rain forests, and the baobab tree, is also, according to island legend, one of the points of settlement of the Ten Lost Tribes. We h ...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Meat and Memories in Uruguay
Did a crypto-Jewish community in Uruguay date back to the 1700s? Today a dwindling modern community led by dedicated rabbi ...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Argentina’s Other Revolution
When we stumbled upon the town of Resistencia, we discovered not only a shul, but a veritable teshuvah movement in the ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
A Drop in the Ocean
It was the opportunity of my dreams: a week on a sailboat bobbing up and down on the ocean waves, not a soul i ...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The Untouchables Reach Out
Welcome to India of 2016 and how the incongruity of modernity and old-world behaviors affect this nation of over 1 bill ...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016
TRIBES LOST AND FOUND
We arrived in Manipur unannounced, to get a bona fide glimpse into how the Bnei Menashe really live. We found young ...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
50 Miles From ISIS
We got raised eyebrows as we boarded a plane to Iraq, yet Kurdistan proved to be a welcoming, friendly place where our yarmulkes elicited comments such as “We love Jews.”