Travel

 I am in Antalya, Turkey for an interfaith meeting with Palestinian Christians and Muslims, part of a five rabbi delegation from Rabbis for Human Rights.  I’m looking forward to the dialog; in the meanwhile, I’ve already had my “welcome to Turkey” experience. We came as part of a charter, which other than us, was...
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(picture taken from the balcony of my apartment in Tehran, February 10, 1979)   As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”  I lived in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79.  I have the distinction of having been on the first official evacuation flight to leave Tehran in February of 1979.  Following the...
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Today, February 16, is a day that I celebrate my “Personal Purim.”  Purim is, of course, Judaism’s “spring time drinking holiday” when we celebrate deliverance from the hands of anti-Semites in Persia. The Jewish tradition also allows people or communities to celebrate a “personal Purim” to commemorate days when they were saved from disaster. ...
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