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Current Events 47: In the White City, Part 2

February 17, 2022 - The middle of the promenade was practically paved with café tables, Belgradians were sitting with friends, drinking, eat...
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Current Events 46: In the White City, Part 1

February 10, 2022 - After having breathed the elegaic atmosphere of the synagogue, we were ready to stroll along Knez Mihailov, or Prince Mi...
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Current Events 45: The Belgrade Synagogue, Part 2/ Sukkat Shalom

February 02, 2022 - The synagogue was grey and three stories high, with a facade that was bland at first glance, but then resolved itself in...
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Current Events 44: The Belgrade Synagogue, Part 1/ Sukkat Shalom

January 27, 2022 - I was doubly an outsider, a tourist who was also a Jew. Serbia had been declared Judenfrei by the Nazis and their collab...
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Current Events 43: The Cathedral of Saint Sava/ Hram Svetog Save, Part 2

June 11, 2021 - The secular creed of Communism had not eradicated Serbian Orthodoxy; rather, it was Communism that had been a temporary...
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Current Events 42: The Cathedral of Saint Sava/ Hram Svetog Save, Part 1

June 04, 2021 - One might have thought that Tito's memorial would be Belgrade's premier tourist attraction. That distinction, however, b...
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Current Events 39: Cramped Quarters

October 17, 2019 - Belgrade had the worst traffic that we had encountered. The city's population was over a million and a half, and there s...
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Current Events 38: The City of Dogs

October 10, 2019 - Belgrade is a city of dogs. In Kalemegdan Park, they were everywhere we went. Some were leashed, while others trotted, u...
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Current Events 37: The Victor

October 03, 2019 - Exploring beautiful Kalemegdan Park in its entirety would have taken all of the time that our tour had allotted for Belg...
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Current Events 36: The Fortress of Kalemegdan, Belgrade

September 26, 2019 - No one is certain how much of the Kalemegdan fortress is below ground, as the network of tunnels has not been mapped com...
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Current Events 35: Entering the White City

September 19, 2019 - We docked at Belgrade after cruising overnight from Novi Sad. We were in Serbia's capital for the hottest day of our jou...
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