The hammer strikes the hot metal repeatedly.  Muscles, sweat, and skill conspire together to form the steel into the shape and ultimately to the purpose designed by the artisan.  The process is dirty, hot, and uncomfortable. Heat radiates from the forge in temperatures that give the craftsman an ununiform tan.  He is focused as…

     The friends gathered in the torchlight enjoying the meal.  Music could be heard in the streets.  Stories filled the air with sadness and laughter as they recounted previous holidays.  Memories of family and friends that had passed gave the celebration a melancholy feel.  As at every other gathering on this Passover they would recount…

World War II had taken a turn in favor of the allies.  The allied forces were moving across Europe when they ran into the most well known of the atrocities of a war that was filled with countless examples of man’s inhumanity to man.  The Germans called them Work camps with large gates made of…