The War Rages and Life Goes On  Some outstanding people are featured in this issue. Aviva Lavi tells us about Assaf and Yotam Doktor, the owners of Ha-Achim Restaurant, who, one day after October 7, 2023 decided to help in the best way they could – to cook. They mobilized 3,000 people for cooking, packing, management and transportation in one ...

The 1930s. It was very difficult for a Jewish student to get into Medical School; it was very difficult for a Jewish doctor to get hospital privileges. That is why so many U.S. cities have Mt. Sinai, Beth Israel, and other Jewish hospitals built by the community to provide for Jewish doctors and the Jewish community. In the 1940s and 50s I lived in...

Reviewed by Morton Leibowitz Light By Dina Yehuda The first tablets written with God's hands were filled with light white fire on black fire they were easy to carry but when the people danced around the golden calf the light left the tablets, they became too heavy to bear. When we die our spirit leaves the body and we become light. We are shards of...

Wrap-Around Support for Israeli PTSD Sufferers  Text & Photos: Lydia Aisenberg The horrific, barbaric acts of Hamas-instigated terror carried out against Israelis on Shabbat, October 7, last year and subsequent ongoing hostilities in Gaza and on Israel's northern border with Lebanon, have brought about an alarming increase in the number of...

...to a little bit of Israeli life and history  My late, great uncle Harry Schur contributed an initial donation to the building of a retirement home called "Elternheim" in Israel in the early 1950s soon after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. It was the compilation of a series of black and white photographs in a presentation a...