Shrem’s unique musical talents quickly earned him the right to serve as the chief chazzan at some of the most central and well-known Syrian shuls in the city: at Magen David and then Bnei Yosef.

Naomi Shemer's status as a national poet fails to capture her real achievement. Twenty years after her death, a look at a song she composed to Alterman's words, a meeting of two great talents Amid ...