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 female mosquito is most active from dusk to dawn. For three years we slept with nettings ove...

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...

Youth Short Story Competition 2023 2nd Prize! 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 ...

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...