I will spare you the sightseeing details and go straight to an account of my last day in the country, which was devoted to "family matters". First, I had breakfast with Gerald Nachshen of the Zhitomir/London Nachshens, who is now living in Israel. I will send you a copy of one of the photos we took together. Other than our respective beards, it was pretty difficult to spot any family resemblance, but we each agreed to keep working on finding that elusive genealogical link.

Then I visited the yeshiva of the Boyaner rebbe, the Hassidic leader of whom Zaide Moishe was an adherent. Issie was kind enough to provide me with copies of Zaida Moishe's and Bubby Sarah's Yirzeit notices from the yeshiva, and when I flashed them at the entrance I got a royal welcome. I met a rabbi at the yeshiva, Rabbi Schlesinger, who remembered Zaida Moishe very well from his visits to the movement's other yeshiva in New York. It was very heartening to see, 30 years after his departure, that Zaida Moishe's name still carries a lot of weight in the right circles. In any case, it turns out that the Boyaner movement has a branch in Toronto, so one of these days I will see if I can get in touch with them and try and restore at least a thread of the old connection.

Finally, I met Boris and Lida, our Kishinev cousins, and they spent most of the day driving me around half the country. We visited the Soreq cave, Caesarea, Jaffa, and many places in between, and had a wonderful time together. I'll send some photos of them, too.