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Claro - 6.6.26

I’ve been avoiding restaurants lately, but for Ezi’s birthday I decided to have his absolutely favorite people in a classy private room at Claro.  And for food and service and atmosphere it was perfect.  The guy in charge of our room was Elad, and he was perfect.  What with all that has been going on in our lives neither of us have any organizing energy left, so it was a blessing that Elad made it simple for us.  Even the powerpoint I prepared went smoothly.  

But the food, the food was magnificent.  Even the salads, which usually bore or repel me, were extraordinarily appetizing.  But the whole fish prepared in salt, was amazing.  The squares of entrecote and the pasta, assured that everyone would be satisfied with the main course. And the desserts that began with a mille-feuille that was so surprising I ignored the fact that the others had gobbled the chocolate mousse down before I got my spoon ready.  

I’ve been to Claro before.  Always loved it even though it was sometimes slow.  But this private room business was perfect.

 

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Genes - 6.6.26

Why did I write “genes”? There are so many other things to write about – the memorials we went to this weekend, the amazing birthday party for Ezi, the news that wraps me in question marks all over my system?  

But I wrote it and I have to keep my promise of not rewriting anything on this site.  I think it has something to do with this site about genetic testing of Jews:

https://youtu.be/-47k_9unbIU?si=l-oDpG0wVvwK9xwM

The whole concept of testing Jews because they live all over the world when usually populations with similar genes usually live in one place got me interested.  And then when they discovered that some of these genese remain even though they were so scattered – and they are similar to the ancient graves of people in this area of the middle east. wow! Now I know why I get such a thrill walking in this country.  I actually feel a physical connection.

Then I was talking with my 13 year old granddaughter last night and she was saying things that I remember saying when I was 13.  It was about the thrill of scary movies.  When i was older that thrill was replaced by the terror of it becoming reality.  And I was right. 

that happens a lot with grandchildren – but it may be I’m just reaching…

so i think I’ll move on to a different subject.

 

 

 

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save the date - 6.4.26

Save the date – June 25, at 6 p.m. at TAU, Gilman 496.  Probably dual language but the clips are worth seeing on their own.

 

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so much to say 6.3.26

So much going on – I feel like a mosquito in a nudist colony – i don’t know where to begin.  

It seems like this month is the one where we have finally given up waiting to see whether Trump will decide on a war or not.  Bibi, we know, wants a war because that will allow him to win the election in September.  The good of the country is not an issue.a

So even though people are getting killed up north every day, and the soldiers are holding back in Lebanon, Tel Aviv is gearing up for cultural activity to an extent I haven’t seen in a long time.  Will it be realized?  I don’t know.  With no funding, no international interchange, I can’t believe that our plans and desires can be fulfilled.

  

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Asher Reich

In his memory, I’m putting up one of 40 poems I translated of his poems:

 

HAIFA IN WINTER

 

Haifa in winter is a Japanese woodcut.

There rain silk awaits me, the softest of rains.

The shadow moth sleeps in the damp of the bushes,

and from the dreampuddles a mist slowly rises.

With the delight of clouds, Haifa in winter floats in the air,

and the horizon is sometimes a rice‑paper sail.

Then like a wound in the belly of the city

—the sun‑stained evening.

 

I will put them all online as soon as my neighbors start hounding me about rebuilding our building (the big fashion in the country right now) and I get through doing the slideshow for Ezi’s birthday.  The 2 funerals a week for the past month has totally messed up my schedule.

 

 

 

                                       

                      

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