Parallel Lives, Parallel Nations, is a narrative history of Rome & the Jews, their relations and their worlds from 161 BC to 135 AD. The time frame effectively covers the rise and fall of Roman-Jewish relations, beginning with the first Jewish delegation sent to Rome by the Maccabees, and culminating with the bloody Bar-Kochba Revolt some three hundred years later during the reign of Hadrian. The book covers in depth Rome's fall as a republic and rise as an empire alongside the parallel rise, fall, and eventual destruction of the Jewish national state. Largely set in the first centuries BC...

Parallel Lives, Parallel Nations, is a narrative history of Rome & the Jews, their relations and their worlds from 161 BC to 135 AD. The time frame effectively covers the rise and fall of Roman-Jewish relations, beginning with the first Jewish delegation sent to Rome by the Maccabees, and culminating with the bloody Bar-Kochba Revolt some three hundred years later during the reign of Hadrian. The book covers in depth Rome's fall as a republic and rise as an empire alongside the parallel rise, fall, and eventual destruction of the Jewish national state. Largely set in the first centuries BC...

Drink, drink, with a killer in your midst. Then fate shakes you out of your stupor. Through the Crack Zone is a psychological thriller set in New York City. The central character is a bartender. Having lost all interest in life after a failed romance and other personal setbacks, he has severed all ties and is determinedly drinking himself to death. Even a series of nearby murders and the possibility of a serial killer on the loose in his neighborhood fail to awaken any emotion. Then one victim is found just outside his apartment, and the strange behavior of an upstairs tenant finally captures...