A Jew is does not belong to any creed; he is an individual that chooses to be himself. He is a genius that creates something new that takes humanity beyond previous ideas and concepts. He is guided by the Spirit of the Creator, in whose image he is made.
About the Author: Max Shindler died on June 16th, 2014, at the age of 82, in Toronto, Canada. He was born on August 7th, 1931, in Liverpool, England, to Rose and Edward, both Jews of Polish descent. He was the oldest child of three; Alan Shindler is his brother, and Reva Berman, his sister. Max lived in Liverpool until he was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War; it was here he first encountered open anti-Semitism. On many occasions he was forced to eat his meals in the outhouse on the farm where he stayed; such traumatizing incidents left lifelong scars on his psyche; he would never forget the humiliation he felt due to this abuse. The Second World War deeply affected him in so many ways; many of his relations were killed at Buchenwald, or died in the boxcars before arriving at Buchenwald. Max left his family home during his late teens, and traveled to Israel, where he became a member of the Israeli Army, and later joined England's Royal Air Force as a member of a bomb disposal unit. He was also head of advertising at Avon in Reading, England, and later worked for many years with his wife as a visual merchandiser. He married Pearl, also born in Liverpool, England, in 1957, on the Isle of Man. A year later his daughter Nicola was born, and three years after, Simone; his youngest child, Nigel, was born in the year 1964. Max was loyal, and caring, to his three children, and all his grandchildren. He immensely enjoyed engaging in the arts; he played classical guitar, and revered such men as Julian Bream, and Andre Segovia, among others; he became an talented photographer; he studied various languages, and became fluent in German Hebrew, and Yiddish; he loved opera; Luciano Pavarotti, and Placido Domingo, were his favorite tenors. He had a passion for learning throughout his entire life, and read voraciously on a multitude of different subjects practically day. Nigel Shindler PhD has been honoured with three Doctorate Degrees, and is the author of the five volume "Love Is the Nature of Existence", "The Boy and The Tower", "Watching From A Tower", "Tree of Life", "The Jews", "Love is The Word and the Time is Now Book II", and eighteen collections of art.