Vila Gaúcha

Happy Easter, and to my Jewish friends at Vila Gaucha (if there be any) -- Happy Passover!
 

Shaná Tová, Gary
 

Ricardo, thanks for the sentiment. But apparently your Hebrew is as good as my Portuguese. Shana Tova means Happy New Year. The Jewish New Year is in the early fall -- your spring. But again, thanks.

By the way, I don't know if you know this but there are a lot of Portuguese and Spaniards who have Jewish ancestors because of the Inquisition. In the Inquisition Jews had to either convert, leave the country -- or else.

Maybe you and Nasi have a great, great, great, great . . . great grandfather who was Jewish way back in the 16th-Century. You never know.