He writes that on a trip to Bangkok during Yom Kippur, he and his wife were able to visit a synagogue of Mizrachi Jews—Jews who come from Arab communities in the Middle East—and was taken aback at the different way in which they prayed, compared to Jews from European communities.
Escribe que en un viaje a Bangkok durante Yom Kippur, él y su esposa pudieron visitar una sinagoga de judíos zizrachi —judíos que vinieron de comunidades árabes en el Medio Oriente— y que se quedó desconcertado por las diferentes maneras en que rezaban, y comparó las comunidades judías con las europeas.