Akiva Lane grew up in New York. He lived in Monsey with his family for 18 years, and made Aliyah to Ramat Beit Shemesh in 2004. He is a computer programmer — mainly connecting Java to mainframes — and is also an inventor, having invented and patented a perpetual calendar and a foldable bookstand - http://thinstand.com/ . He also has some interesting websites https://colwords.com/ , https://eflip.com/ & http://marocsoup.com/. He can be reached at akivalane@gmail.com