Le Monde mag has three pages on my city, saying how it's the model of respect and tolerance between communities while not losing their specificities. I checked and here are all the communities (not just ethnic groups, really "networks" for various things) I could find here. So, so diverse ( Read more... )

 I saw two interesting things recently at the doc ( Read more... )

You don't think the clothes look very similar?

(the pope and the chief rabbi of italy)


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-Ancient tribes, believing that metal blocked evil spirits, would pierce their ears so that the evil spirits wouldn't enter their body.
-Ötzi the Iceman had an ear piercing 7-11 mm (1 to 000 gauge in AWG) diameter.
-In Borneo, ear piercing is done to young boys as a puberty ritual; the mother will pierce one ear while the father pierces the other, ( Read more... )

Translation of the most fascinating parts of the article in Israel Magazine.

Rav Eliyahou Birnbaum visited the Shabtaist community, called "Donme" (turned around, converted) in Turkish, the descendents of the followers of the fake Messiah who converted to Islam.
They call themselves the Believers. Until 1924 most of them lived in Saloniki, before ( Read more... )