Jerome R. Verlin was born and raised in Philadelphia and have degrees from Washington & Lee University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I'm retired now, but for forty years, I wrote custom business software - accounting, manufacturing, etc. - in real life. I was president of the fraternal order Brith Sholom in its 98th and 99th years. Before Here & Now, I authored Israel 3000 Years on my Jewish people's continuous three-millennia homeland presence in Israel, and co-authored Pressing Israel: Media Bias Exposed from A-to-Z. For decades, I've haunted used bookstores and library book sales, and I have a private library of a thousand ancient through modern Israel history books.