I have not written an article for publication before and am feeling a little anxious.I very much want to write about my late husband Shloimy Alman. It's not very often that someone can be described as unique - Shloimy certainly was that. He was one of a kind. Shloimy was born Shulem Nachman Alman in 1950 to Sarah and Moishe Alman, both Holocaust su...

Zvika Pick, Israeli singer-songwriter and perennial pop star, passed away on August 14, 2022. In the summer of 1970 I visited Tel Aviv and discovered that the Hebrew version of Hair was auditioning for singers. I decided to try my luck, and was told to be at the Oasis Theater in Ramat Gan at 5 pm. Two young men and I waited to be auditioned on the ...

Next: A Brief History of the Future By Avi Jorisch Gefen Publishing House Ltd., 2022 235 Pages Imagine yourself hovering above Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal and try to visualize one of the most dramatic scenes in the Bible: the children of Israel shouting in prayer as they recite the blessings and curses that will determine their survival as a peopl...

Photos by Richard Halon Nina Zuck, coordinator of ESRA's community projects, describes the end-of-year celebrations of three groups of people ESRA helps  The biggest party in town  Students Build a Community Netanya After two years of Corona shutdown, it finally happened! 32 students, 120 kids, 120 parents, heads of the Community Centers,...

Photos and text: Lydia Aisenberg Sitting slap bang in the middle of a busy shopping area in the northern Jezreel Valley town of Afula is a starkly unattractive British built concrete block building constructed in the late 1930s, one of a network of almost 80 such fortified interrogation centers built throughout British Mandatory Palestine. The 2-st...