A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Ivana Kotov

Ivana Kotov is a multi-oriented vocalist, musician, writer and producer. Winning the highest talent scholarship award, Ivana attended prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA - majoring in Contemporary Songwriting and Performance.

Over the years, Ivana has been performing as a lead singer, choir director and vocal arranger, contributing her artistry on tours, seminars and music projects around the world.

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Ivana's collaborations include many internationally recognized musicians, including the Acid Jazz pioneers: "The Brand New Heavies".

Ivana is showcasing her artistry on New York City stages such as The Shrine, The Bitter End, Sugar Bar, Cleopatra's Needle, and Terra Blues, living her dream of continuing The Journey Of A Soul Bird.

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Ивана Котов, вокална солисткиња и композиторка, завршила је на Берклију одсек за савремену композицију и вокално певање. Живи у Њујорку. Као вокална солисткиња сарађивала је са нашим познатим џез саксофонистом и композиторoм Јованом Маљоковићем и његовим Балкан Салса бендом.


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Bishop Stefan (Lastavica)

The first Archpastor of the Eastern American and Canadian, come Eastern American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church was Bishop Stefan (Lastavica) (1963–1966). The consecration of the newly elected Bishop Stefan took place on the Synaxis of the Holy Apostles, July 13, 1963, at the hands of Bishops Hrizostom of Branicevo and Visarion of Banat, in the Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.

Bishop Stefan was born September 14, 1908, in the village of Divos, Srem, into a priest’s family. He graduated from the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at Belgrade University in 1939. Prior to the election of Bishop, he served in the highest Church hierarchical and legislative institutions. Thus, he gained vast experience in Church legislature and administration.

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The Presence of Transcendence

Essays on Facing the Other through Holiness, History and Text

by Bogoljub Sijakovic

The essays collected in this book venture into various domains of philosophy, such as ontology and epistemology, anthropology and ethics, philosophy of history and history of philosophy, philosophy of religion and theory of the mystical, poetics and hermeneutics. The problems here thematized, which are brought to us primarily by the tradition of Hellenism and Christianity as well as life itself, are both traditional and contemporary: self-knowledge and knowledge of God, transcendence and paradoxy, theodicy and anthropodicy, sacrifice, violence, holiness, responsibility, decision-making, evil, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, memory, as well as: wisdom, suffering, good, the other, freedom, fate, history, the Balkans, war, rationality, and also: reading, dialogue, poetry, metaphysic of light.