Coming Home from Georgia to Jerusalem
When I was in Georgia last week, Hadas and I tried to learn some Georgian words. But it wasn’t easy! Georgian shares no connection with any other language outside of Georgia and the words tend to be long and difficult to pronounce, with long uninterrupted strings of consonants with nary a vowel in sight. For […]
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A Muslim, a Hindu, a Christian and an Orthodox Jew Walk into a Bar
Well, it wasn’t a bar. But yesterday my daughter Hadas and I found ourselves sitting around a table enjoying the company of 2 headscarved Egyptian Muslims, an Indian Hindu Brahman, and a Filipino Christian man working as a nurse in Saudi Arabia. We had all signed up for the same group tour of Georgia’s wine […]
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