(This story was written in 2018 during the time Jeannie lived in Senegal with her family.) This is my third year in Dakar. I am the spouse of the Israeli Ambassador in Senegal. It was the height of malaria season when our family of five settled in the termite-ridden residence of the posh neighborhood of Fann, August 2015. The malaria-transmitting f...

Text & Photos: Lydia Aisenberg Attempting to keep an underground clandestine arms production facility from being discovered by British Mandatory Palestine soldiers stationed nearby, members of a unique kibbutz, basically a decoy constructed on a hill near Rehovot, operated a very noisy laundry and bakery in order to drown out the 24/7 sounds of...

Final Story!!  Raspberries! Just to imagine the taste of the sweet juicy fruit made my mouth water. For days, I had been only eating meat since my family's bush was destroyed in a storm. I didn't understand why the tribe leader didn't let us take fruits from other families' bushes! We had been waiting for what seemed like an eternity until our...

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...