Helen Schary Motro's road to aliyah may have been slow, but looking back it seems preordained and gloriously inevitable.

Albert Einstein’s scientific genius brought him fame. He also promoted Zionism and helped found the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The aim of this lawyer and her Israel-based law center is to battle terrorist organizations is court, which she has done successfully many times.

The Collini Case: A Novel (Viking Adult, 208 pp. $25.95 cloth, $15 paper) combines murder, love, greed, ambition, politics and Nazis. Written by Ferdinand von Schirach, a