Grand opportunities foregone: choosing the glory of what’s right instead.

I came to Israel one month after the Six Day War, as a teenager with an Instamatic camera, Kodak slide film, a burgeoning love of photography and total awe for the wonder and beauty that is Jerusalem. Nineteen years later I studied photography professionally under Anita Kushner, a photographer and water color artist who today

Until I was almost an adult, I thought there was a long mysterious prayer that women said when they lit Shabbat candles, beyond the initial blessing. This prayer took about 20 minutes. I assumed it was something intricate that had been passed down through the generations, and I wondered how I would ever succeed in