Our elderly kohen died. This event was a great loss for the synagogue of my childhood in the Philadelphia of the mid-1950s. It also created quite a dilemma. How was the congregation going to replace him? Please understand. The elderly kohen was of my grandparents' generation. He was "shomer Shabbos" and relatively conversant in the technicalities o...

A WWII Historical novel Author: Susan Shalev 301 Pages eBook Pro Publishing ISBN 9798389851719 Reviewed by Jennia Ganit Chodorov A timely encounter of two star-crossed souls in an ungodly time of Hitler's rise to power in 1937 Germany recounts the ominous atmosphere and threatening surroundings in a palpable manner that can raise hairs of fear. Lil...

The "Real" Story Unlike the story told in the Otto Preminger film starring Paul Newman, which is based on the book by Leon Uris, the real saga of the Exodus began in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1928, when the President Warfield was launched. A luxury excursion boat for 500 passengers, it plied the Chesapeake Bay. It was named after Solomon Davies Warfi...

Israeli Succession Law allows almost absolute freedom of testation. A person has the right to decide how and to whom their property will be divided after their death, and can do so without exposing their will during their lifetime and without providing any justification. One of the aspects of this freedom is testamentary conditions. Testamentary co...

Even today, at the golden age of 92, you may find veteran Israeli artist Steffa Reis in her Tel-Aviv studio – painting, retouching, and reflecting, while listening to the sweeping sounds of classical music that are an important guiding dynamic in her work. Throughout the extensive body of Steffa's work, the Israeli landscape in all its manifestatio...