tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54710367637981846732012-01-01T15:44:30.269-08:00Allan Schapira's BlogAllan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-51392552864865318292012-01-01T15:33:00.000-08:002012-01-01T15:44:30.281-08:00Musings on the deadI was an impressed and puzzled 14 year old in 1963, when reading in the newspaper that the writer Jean Cocteau (about whom I knew nothing) had died of sorrow a few hours after hearing of the death of Edith Piaf (whom I had often heard on radio and liked for her passionate cutting-blade voice). Over the last days of last year, I came to remember those two, as I read about the death of Cesaria Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-54683864978595497222011-12-18T04:11:00.000-08:002011-12-18T04:21:37.490-08:00Solid~ao e sodadeYesterday died Cesaria Evora and today Vaclav Havel.They had smoked too much, but they were right. Hundreds of peopkle were killed by floods in Mindanao, because they were poor. The world seems lonelier, much lonelier.Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-60176296813535670352011-05-22T21:38:00.000-07:002011-05-22T21:44:52.568-07:00The Debased Roman Catholic Church of The Philippines<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-12983931278648870082010-07-13T05:20:00.000-07:002010-07-13T06:22:24.480-07:00José Saramago died on 18 June 2010and most of the necrologues tell mainly about his political statements, which, as I have noted in this blog in 2008, could sometimes be too emotional, in addition to often being too dogmatic, even bordering on a certain kind of blindness.But these observations should not be allowed to detract from what is far more important. It is a gross understatement, in my view, to label Saramago, as the Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-12367830005614325492009-11-15T02:48:00.000-08:002009-11-15T04:07:04.738-08:00BacalhauWith the Vatican and the Israeli right wing still reeling from my latest denouncements and obscurantist clerics of all denominations trembling for what may be in store, I have decided to take a short break, so as to give unto the world one of the food recipes, for which I am justly famous - though among a group that is still too limited. It is of course my variant of Bacalhau à Gomes de Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-30220716209966090782009-08-31T13:11:00.000-07:002009-08-31T13:17:22.279-07:00REPLY FROM ITAMAR SHAPIRA TO ALLAN SCHAPIRAby email on 30 August 2009I don't perceive Yad Vashem as a place that should give you details and facts about the holocaust, nor does Yad Vashem perceive itself as such and therefore within Yad Vashem I guided "educational groups": schools, yeshivas, "Birthright" and others. Yad Vashem declaratively has educational weeks, sessions, to the IDF (army), youth movements, high schools and with Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-6387826607691994062009-08-25T12:46:00.000-07:002009-08-27T13:20:01.625-07:00Father Jekyll and Monsignore HydeGo to a village. No, I mean go to a village in a catholic country, and look for its centre. If it is a rich country like Italy or Spain, it may be a shopping centre, a restaurant, a memorial. If the place is poor, it is the church and you will most likely find that this is not because of its more or less ancient stones, but because the Pater behaves as a father. Around the world, there must Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-40631463047218049492009-08-16T09:45:00.000-07:002009-08-16T13:54:13.434-07:00Open letter to Itamar ShapiraDear Itamar,I was moved, when I saw the news about you and Yad Vashem in April this year. According to the press, you were fired because you told a group of Yeshiva students about Deir Yassin and suggested to them that there are parallels between the Nakba and the Holocaust.You were right, but I think Yad Vashem was also right to fire you. Certainly, the Holocaust's lessons would derive from Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-67601108473602208302009-01-31T09:35:00.000-08:002009-02-02T13:30:32.772-08:00RIGHTsJanuary 2009Israel has a right to defend itself.Outcome at the end of this month:More than 1300 + 14; or 1300/14; or 1300 - 14; or?Meanwhile:The election committee of Israel's parliament decided to exclude the two main Arab parties from the parliamentary elections in February alleging that they are disloyal to Israel. The decision has been overturned by the Israeli judiciary. Thanks.On 25 Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-44028524273580724642008-12-20T18:22:00.000-08:002008-12-20T18:36:00.742-08:00Voyage through GermanyThe traveller left the reunion of dormitory mates, who had shared a “corridor” at the Egmont Kollegium in Copenhagen nearly 40 years before, a little early. The venue was the house of one of the mates and his wife, near Haderslev, in southern Jutland. A lot had been achieved during Saturday: A superb lunch in the garden, an excursion to Christiansfeld with a guided tour Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-18407448574616031792007-12-23T03:32:00.001-08:002007-12-23T03:34:49.460-08:00Ka’ du li’ røget sild vs. champorado? 0n a strange intersection of Danish and Philippine culturesDanes of my and possibly other generations should remember this song, which was part of the repertoire for group spirit fostering and boredom reduction in summer camps in the 1960s: Ka’ du li’ røget sild? Ka’ du li’ røget sild? Ka’ du li’ røget sild med chokoladesovs?Det smager vœldig godt - det’ godtDet smager vœldig godt -det’ godtDet smager vœldig godt med chokoladesovsAllan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-67955735705642524312007-12-23T03:25:00.000-08:002007-12-23T03:30:23.194-08:00Malaria 2007: Turning back the clock to march forwards with closed eyes<!--[if !supportFootnotes]--> As much as I would like to point to progress in 2007 comparable to last year’s advances, I feel compelled to point out that in international health, a development is taking place that may lead to wastage of resources, disillusionment, and ultimately loss of human life. A number of global leaders have now turned their eyes to elimination and eradication of malaria,<!Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-92080188656004733782007-12-22T05:45:00.000-08:002007-12-22T05:55:54.231-08:00Allan's duckThis delicious posting had been inadvertently removed during much of 2007. My abject apologies - it shall not happen againWARNING: THE PROBLEM WITH BLOGS IS THAT THE LATEST POSTING APPEARS ON TOP. YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO ENJOY THIS FANTASTIC RECIPE, BEFORE YOU HAVE CAREFULLY READ THE TWO POSTINGS BELOW! LET YOUR CONSCIENCE DECIDE. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS BY THE WAY! Allan’s canard à l’Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-79791629418091506582007-01-07T09:34:00.000-08:002007-01-07T09:53:58.796-08:00Andrew Spielman in memoriamProfessor Andrew ('Andy') Spielman, Harvard School of Public Health passed away on 20 December 2006. Together with Dr Jackie Cattani and Professor Michael Reich, Andy was my mentor during my year at Harvard in 1987-8. Very quickly I came to like and respect his intellectual curiosity, his strong principles and his warmth and humour. His perspective on disease control was that of a biologist ,Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-25666491383650122102006-12-21T10:03:00.000-08:002007-03-20T13:47:14.250-07:002006 - The year of circumcisionsFor sure, the two greatest advances of humankind this year, as far as can be judged on this day of winter solstice, were on the genital front, although in opposite directions for the two genders involved. The international public health establishment, still dominated by men, paid most attention to male circumcision. In fact, the publication of data indicating a clear protective effect of Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5471036763798184673.post-33246084262605841962006-12-08T05:49:00.000-08:002006-12-25T04:12:18.283-08:00Article on malaria control published by The LancetThe below text was published online by The Lancet on 7 December 2006, and in the printed journal on 16 December (The Lancet 2006; 368:2111-2113). As copyright has been assigned to The Lancet, the text may not be reproduced without written permission from The Lancet or me.Subscribers to The Lancet can find the published article at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/Allan Schapirahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07773151424847523412noreply@blogger.com