“Romania has the majestic castles, medieval towns, great hiking and wildlife, and cheap skiing of much of the ‘undiscovered’ former Eastern Bloc…. Horse-drawn carts jostle for space against fast cars whose drivers are talking money on mobile phones; farm workers watch The Apprentice on satellite in their medieval farmhouses. No longer the weird kid of… Read More Dracula Romanticism
One could argue that these [today’s] ‘plagues’ are fundamentally different than the ones in the Passover story because they can be seen as humankind’s own creations and not sent by God. – Dan Weiss, Only 10 plagues? Early Egyptians had it easy Buenos Aires – Most Jewish kids I knew when I was growing up… Read More Why Is This Night…?
“Whether Moldova or Transnistria are nations is a question for 100 or 400 years ago.” – Ryan Lanham, Identity Unknown Buenos Aires – I knew nothing, truly nothing, about the nation-state of Transnistria, as it is known in English, or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as others know it. It’s a conflict which I’ve probably seen… Read More Declaration of Dinner