One of the things I like most about being Jewish is being part of a worldwide community. I can be on a different continent, speaking a different language, and yet I still have a place to go for Pesach (or Pesaj as it´s spelled here) that still feels familiar and welcoming. A very big thank you to Hilda Ayam for inviting me to her home for the first night of Pesaj, and to her synagouge for the second night, despite only having a tenuous friend of a friend of my parents´ connection. I also got lucky and met a cousin of an author whose book I´m reading for my independent study. A non-Jewish friend came with me also to the second night - he said he liked the Kosher wine because it reminded him of the communion wine at the Greek Orthodox church he goes to. I might go back Sunday - Yasser Abbed Rabbo and Yossi Beilen are speaking about the Peace process there. I´m not sure if they´ll be speaking English or Hebrew though.

Once thing you won´t get on this entry is photographs. Ever since the bombings of the AMIA (essentially the JCC) building and the Israeli embassy, photographing Synagogues or other Jewish buildings is not something you can casually do.