Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen

Editor’s Note: To honor the memory of her younger daughter, killed by a drunk driver 21 years ago this summer, every year Dr. Cohen stages the Liana Cohen Music Festival, featuring promising young classical artists, on March 25, Liana’s birthday...Two years ago Dr. Cohen celebrated her own bat mitzvah at Temple Beth Am, and she spoke to the congregation about the Torah portion of the week and how she has dealt with her loss.

[Editor’s Note: The newspaper is presenting excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.]

[Editor’s Note: The newspaper is presenting excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

Everyone was surprised to see me, a mother who had just lost a beautiful daughter, able to remain so calm. I wanted to cry and complain. But then I remembered my grandmother and I felt ashamed for myself for I realized I had the best example to follow in my life.

[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired as all of her extensive writings are by the sudden death of her daughter 19 summers ago, as she recounts below.]

The Torah portion of Ha’azinou, which will be read in two days, on the Shabbat between Rosh Hashana — today is the first full day — and Yom Kippur, is composed of two parts:

Second of two parts

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Last week I went through the hell.

We live in a busy area of Los Angeles. All day and night, the cars run after each other. Who knows where and why?