The 10th Aharit Hayamim festival in memory of Emil Leuchter Our Abba, Emil Leuchter, one of three children, was born in October 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, to a musical and cultural family. In 1967, following the "Six Day War" Abba decided to come to Israel as part of "Sherut La'am" in order to [...]

The Aharit HaYamim festival began in 1994 as a tribute to Emil Leuchter, father of the Leuchter family, who was an American-born musician who played with Shlomo Carlebach, the Diaspora Yeshiva Band, JBB (Jerusalem Blues Band) and many other artists. The small jam-session tribute which began at the family's backyard a year after he died [...]

This is the seventh year that the Aharit Hayamim festival is taking place in Old Massuot Yitzchak in Gush Etzion. This place has significant meaning for our family. Our grandparents, Yoni and Rachel Doron were a part of the group that established the community in 1945. On 5 Iyar, 1948 – the evening of the [...]