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For this month’s South-East Asia adventure we catch up with Benjamin Blech and his girlfriend Nang, the pair of them tackling the road from Luang Prabang to Phonsavan in North Central Laos. It was one fateful day in Luang Prabang, during a three-month tour of South-East Asia, twenty-four hours after my friend and I had decided to cross one of the remotest parts of the country on two beat-up old Suzuki’s that first brought us together…  ‘You’re crazy’ she said, standing with perfect elegance under a bright red umbrella, her dark vivacious eyes smiling back at me in the scorching A...

Table for Five: Beshalach One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist It came to pass when Pharaoh let the people go, that God did not lead them [by] way of the land of the Philistines for it was near, because God said, Lest the people reconsider when they see war and return to Egypt. -Ex. 13:17 Rabbi Elchanan Shoff Advertisement “God didn’t lead them [by] way of the land of the Philistines ki karov hu.” “For it was near” is certainly a fair translation of “ki karov hu.” Daas Zekenim, a medieval commentary on Torah offers another reading. “Ki ka...