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Current Events 86: A Farewell Toast

November 17, 2022 - For our final evening in Bucharest, Simona invited us to dinner at her home. Her house was far from the city center, in...

November 10, 2022 - We were rather downcast as we left the Great Snagogue museum and returned to the Choral Temple. It was such a fine, bree...

November 03, 2022 - After the Allies defeated the Nazis, over a hundred thousand Jews poured into Bucharest. Many were survivors of the camp...

October 27, 2022 - The Great Synagogue was doubly hidden. Its plain plaster walls masked a sumptuous interior. The ceiling was gorgeous, pa...

October 20, 2022 - The money and time for the synagogue's renovation were well spent, as the results were spectacular. The ceiling and wall...

October 12, 2022 - Our levity yielded to solemnity when we met Simona and our Israeli friends at the Choral Temple, Templul Coral in Romani...

October 06, 2022 - After a lengthy dinner with Simona and our friends from Israel, Miri, Petra, HL and I took a costly taxi ride back to ou...

September 28, 2022 - For our first dinner together, our friends and we went by taxi to Bucharest's central historic district of Lipscani. Sim...

September 20, 2022 - It was late afternoon when we arrived at one of Bucharest's premier tourist attractions, The Village Museum. It was situ...

September 14, 2022 - While everyone was questioning Egmund, the hero of the Revolution, HL took pictures of the Kretzulescu Church. The Ortho...

September 07, 2022 - Whatever its artistic or civic merits, the Impaled Potato was an incongruous addition to Bucharest's central plaza. The...

September 01, 2022 - Bucharest was the largest, most densely populated city on our tour, with more than two million people. It had the fastes...

August 24, 2022 - As we approached Bucharest, the countryside yielded abruptly to equipment yards, truck depots and exurban excrescences f...