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Last update: 9th November, 2021 -- 5th Kislev, 5782    

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The Partisan's Trilogy

• That Cigarette
• The Existential Barber
• The Second Generation

• A Humbling Experience
• Making a Minyan, Literally
• YomShoa,5780
• Reactions to Yom haShoa and Second Generation Survival Essays
• A Partisan Survivor's Letter to His Cousin in Israel A Letter from Beyond the Grave
• My name is Menachem Kuchar I am a survivor
• Sixty-fourth Birthday Musings
• Another year, another year An Annual Introspection at Age 63
• An Examination of the Bassa Narrative in Light of Biblical and Rabbinic Sources
  Paper presented in Paris at the 3rd ISSAJ conference, November 2015
• Photographic Exhibition of Latest Work Yerushalayim, September -- October 2015
• Another Year, Another Narrative An Annual Introspection
• My Visit to Cameroon a very Jewish experience
• Yet Another Year Interesting and Challenging
• Shots from Africa Jewish Questions and Answers from Africa
• Praying for the Sick or Obnoxious Facebook Friends
• A Strange Savings Bank The Israel summer time wars -- religious or not so
• Another Year Has Passed Answering the Eternal Question
• My Facebook Photography Group
• Letter by my late father-in-law, Shalom Baruch, Sam Fisher from Palestine Israel to his grandfather in Warsaw, Poland
• My late father-in-law, Shalom Baruch, Sam Fisher
• And even more on My Lettuce Eating Habits and on the True Story of the Demise of Gush Katif
• More on My Lettuce Eating Habits and on the True Story of the Demise of Gush Katif
• Why I don't Eat Lettuce or The True Story of the Demise of Gush Katif
• An Israeli School Boy Faces the Atrocities of Jewish Life in Poland

A Travelogue: Visiting the "new" Jews of Africa

1. Arrival to Africa
2. Shabbat in Nairobi
3. The Road from Eldoret, Kenya to Mbale, Uganda
4. Visiting the Abayudaya of Putti
5. Visiting Kakungulu's House and Grave in Gangama, and the Abayudaya of Nabugoye and Namanyonyi
6. Return to Israel, the long way around

• Traps for Young Wedding Players -- a short guide to perplexed prospectives
• The End of Days -- The Ultimate Fulfilment of Prophecy
• Would the Real Menachem Kuchar Please Stand or Who am I?
• On Leaven, Sourdough, S'or and Hamets
• A Life Saved by Dog Biscuits
• More on Capos -- A moral dilemma
• The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But . . . by Howard Nissen
• The Truth Always Comes Out in the End -- Or does it?
• Remembering my Father on Yet Another Anniversary of His Death -- Yartzeit and Kaddish -- An examination of Death
• The Rise of Fair Consumerism in Israel -- From the perspective of both the buyers and of the sellers -- The saga of a rug purchase
• The Tale of the Sage and His Beadle
• A Search for Meaning in the Expanse -- How significant is a link in a chain?
• The History of My Family via My Grandmother's Candlesticks
• A Short History of Computational Machines, via my Israeli eyes
• Our Sages Tell Us Our Name is Engraved on Our Very Souls -- Our name is our very essense
• Ultimately It Boils Down to Greed and Stupidity -- Doesn't it always?
• Capos, Kapos and Nazi Murder Revisited -- How do Holocaust victims, and how should we, relate to Capos?
• On Fasting and Feasting on Tisha b'Av-Transition to the End of Days, the Messianic Era or Let the Festivities Begin
• Facebook conversations with Australian political novices and Hungarian rotten egg eaters -- how many degrees of separation?
• Simulating Reality, Prophecy and Physics Revisited -- "You don't ever want a crisis to go to waste; it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid." -- Rahm Emanuel
• Today is the 17th Day of Tamuz -- Why do we bother fasting?
• What the Price of Privacy -- Why do we insist on spying on ourselves?
• Who Will Ascend the Mountain of the Lord, Who Will Stand Erect in His Holy Place -- He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not sworn in vain against My soul and who has not acted with deceit
• Simulating Reality -- Responses and discussion on the original post
• Facebook and Styrofoam -- Man is a Social Creature
• Simulating Reality -- "I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice"
• Why Do Jews Love a Free Lunch? Anything, Anywhere and with Anyone
• The Present and Future of Communications and Social Media -- and the Messianic Age
• The Putrid Parable of the Capped CupCakes -- A picky porcine person's particularly prickly problematic predicament
• The New World Order via the Prophets of Israel
• It's All About The Dimensions, Three -- No Actually Four because it doesn't go away with time
• The Place of the Holy Temple Today
• The Road from Presov to Kosice -- A Mere Sixty Kilometres or an Eternity?
• Writing and Divine Providence
• The Damsel in Distress: The Distressing deTale
• It's a Matter of How You Say It
• On Matza, Soccer Balls and Red Wine or How long is a piece of string?
• Woosh, Plump, Ploop, Shhhhh
• On the Psychology of Sex and Wombats
• Stay Away from Bureaucracy. It will swallow you alive
• Noachide Meat -- Have we overstepped our dominion?
• Ode to a Body Plethysmograph or How to Manage a Hospital
• "My Life Story" by Edith Duci Gluck Kuchar Schwartz
• A Eulogy
• The Power of the Web -- Finding a manuscript and a family
• Another Year Has Passed -- Happy Birthday
• Why I Like to Photograph Reflections or Why Do I Always Do Things in Reverse?
• Interview with Me in Midrasz Magazine published in Poland
• A DisKosher Disdelight -- Almost eating out on Broadway
• What Was the Crime of the Sodomites? Jingoism, xenophobia or sodomy?
• The more things change, the more they stay the same -- On Babel, the New World Order, One World Government, Carbon Trading and Socialism
• What I Meant to Say -- Facebook and being Political Correctness
• On Spaghetti Makers, French Management and Assessing Personality
• My Holocaust Survivor Friends Tell It As It Is
• Three Holocaust Experiences: My friends tell me their stories
• "What Hath God Wrought" -- Language Detectives at Work
• "The End is Nigh" -- The clock ticks on -- another step towards the Final Redemption
• Preying on the Aged. Like Jeffrey Archer's Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
• On Speaking Hebrew: How to pronounce Hebrew words correctly and why this is important
• The Human Cost of International Travel -- Jet Lag
• I Love Gush Katif Cherry Tomatoes -- Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• More of Menachem on Meditation -- Pure meditation techniques from the first Jew
• What Makes a Soul? -- Will this be the last Tisha b'Av?
• Menachem on Meditation -- I didn't intend to worship idols
• A Taxi Ride to Yerushalayim -- or smuggling Jews into the Holy City
• What if my Liver were to Explode Half Way Through the Event? -- Government Sponsored Citizen Rip-Offs
• You're Known by the Company You Keep -- We were only taking back what was rightfully ours
• How Much Would You Pay to Get a Million Dollars?
• A Most Humbling, Though Frustrating Experience
• What Do Coffee, Tomatoes and Red Wine Have in Common?
• They're Out to Kill Us! and no, I am not paranoid
• Liars, Damned Liars and Insurance Agents
• On Messier Madoff and Ponzi and all those who were sucked in
• A Time to Pick Sides -- the time to sit on the fence has ended
• Of HUSSEIN Obama, Elie Wiesel, Cairo and Buchenwald
• Hevron in Those Days and Now
• The Secret Art of Bread Making and preparation of edible food
• The Conquest of Hevron, the City of Our Forefathers
• My First Writing Anniversary: Torah V'Avodah
• Whose Land Is This?
• Capos, Kapos and Nazi Murder Inc. Could the Germans have done it on their own?
• The Entire World Must be Upside Down! Passover Eve in Yerushalayim
• The Shattering of the Myth -- the Jews of the Galut/Disapora and the Jews of Israel
• Holocaust Memorial Day: Smuggling out of the Soviet Block
• The Smell Just Isn't Going Away
• Skeletons in My Closet or I think I may smell a rat
• Some Benefits in Discovering Your Long Lost Relatives
• Lust and the Use of the F Word
• The Edomite Nation in Our Time
• Tuesday, Purim: Having a Happy Purim and Surviving Mishloach Manot
• The Morality of Diet and Humane Eating -- How a Jew should view eating to live
• Memories of my Father
• The Edomite Nation in Our Time
• Cogito ergo sum -- I Think, Therefore I Am; I Don't Think, Therefore Perhaps I Am Not -- What's all this Doublespeak?
• Vibrant Colours and the Return of a King to Israel
• My Uncle the Soccer Star
• Preparing Pizza for Our Soldiers
• The Moon is Made of Green Cheese
• The Conned Con Artist or "He who laughs last, laughs best
• Confessions After Fifty-Six Years of . . . 
• Where am I? or perhaps Who am I?
• Wednesday in New York City: On-board a Transatlantic Flight: Thoughts on different Art Forms
• Hidden Beneath a Cowshed -- Chapter II
• Hidden Beneath a Cowshed -- Chapter I
• America Deposes One Hussein and Elects Another
• Is My Phobia of Fat Men Normal? Am I a racist?
• Plagiarism, Theft, Larceny, Fraud and Impersonation -- On the web and at university
• A Clandestine Affair -- Are we in the U.S.S.R. or something?
• Three Old Friends, a Sewing Machine and a Kidnapping
• So what's in a Name
• Returning Home after a Lengthy Absence
• Another Uncle and Another, Very Different, Holocaust Experience
• An Art Exhibition and a Slice of Pizza for an Israeli Pizza for an Israeli Soldier
• The Fear of Revenge and the Great Flood of 1959 revisited after Thirty Years
• Vintage Lenses on Digital Cameras -- a critque
• It's Absolutely Not Only About Numbers
• The Social Power of the Web or How to Influence Friends and Win People
• Old Harry, Music and the Lifesaver
• Setting the Record Completely Straight re My Aunts
• I Once Had an Uncle
• Learning from Experience -- Exhibiting Photographs in New York
• I Finally Meet My Father's Long Lost Relatives All Around the World
• Three Men Spend a Night in a Cold Birmingham Hotel Room
• My Month in the Hands of the Lubos
• We Were Such an Evil Bunch -- the real criminals emerge from the woodwork
• Don't Play With Your Model Railways in Your Bed
• Swimming with Orders of Nuns and Phyla of Crustaceans
• The Crimes of the Boy Downstairs
• My Book Theft Accomplices Speak Out
• Amelekites, Nazis and the Enemies of the Jews
• A Hassidic Story in Real Time
• Sunday, 9th Av: Rabbi Shurin, Tisha b'Av and Hevron -- an annual pilgrimage
• Tying Up a Few Loose Ends
• Government and Insurance Company Collusion -- little buttons and fat fingers
• A Story Finally Revealed -- the theft that wasn't
• Sunday, 3rd August -- another month: Chocolates and Antioxidants
• Just a Simple Misunderstanding
• On Political Aspirations: Do I have to Blog Daily?
• On Akubras, Avatars, Avocations and Slowly Growing Older
• On Worn-out Sports Shoes of Different Brands
• Selling on an Auction Site: my first attempt to make a buck on eBay
• You are Your Own Big Brother -- Your privacy on the Web
• On Holy Fruit and Vegetables
• On Locked Doors, Windows and Gates, and Open Source Software
• How Rumours Spread or how do you feel this morning, Bentley?
• Are Old People Just Dumb? or Did I just have a senior moment?
• "Strunk and White" and Me -- why I write the way I do
• Hang in there -- shabbos is coming The Lesbian Rabbi Lied to Me
• The Arabs are Taking Over from the Europeans
• The Seven Year Work Itch! by Nat Gordon
• Super-Highways in Israel and the poor little animals by Howard Nissen
• Of Hobgoblins and Bogeymen and Politicians
• Photography for Propaganda in the Arab-Jewish Conflict
• Who wants to drive in Israel?
• The Yellow Monstrosity: Who needs a phone book in 2008?
• The Cohen Gene, the Samaritans and the Ten Lost Tribes
• More on Social Entrepreneurs
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Truth is stranger than fiction
• You are what you eat, unless your food is raw
• Some Musings on the City of Efrat on it's 25th Birthday
• The Pleasures of Blogging
• I'm left-handed but nobody bothered to tell me
• The Samaritans and the Pascal Lamb
• Am I Really a Photographer?
• The Last Event at the Katif Hotel Before All Residents Were Evicted
• My Church or What Happens if you don't Appoint a Successor
• A generation living next to a Used Tractor Salesman
• Friday again (Sorry I had a bad week): A Noisy Gym
• Yom Yerushalayim -- Jerusalem Day
• Sef the Chocolate Monster Rides again!
• Will someone discover me and make me famous? The Photography of Menachem Kuchar
• It's all in the links
• I'm a Chocolate Nut -- Nuts for Chocolate -- Chocolate Addict
• My Home Town, EFRAT
• Vegans, Vegetarians, Raw Food and Whole Food, Plant based Diets
• Shemita, Shemitah, Shemitta, Shemittah -- the seventh, Sabbatical Year
• More on Google image searches
• Linguistics and Semantics
• Another sobering thought
• A sobering thought

• Monday, 18th May: And this was the start of my Blogging Career -- the entry point

Want to tell me something -- or have a look at my photograph galleries (each gallery from a different part of the world and representing a different theme - worship in Thailand, Eating Out in Bangkok, Sydney Harbour and Beaches, Hong Kong, New York and non location themes: the World in Reflection and Actualities in Black & Orange). I've also produced two benchers, birchonim: Gush Katif and Hevron (Hebron).