by Mimi Tanaman
ESRA runs two shops in Raanana – ESRA Nearly-New
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Shop, selling all manner of collectibles, clothing, and more, and ESRAbooks, the secondhand English bookshop. The big news is - one has been redesigned and the other has relocated.
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by Lucille Cohen
The ESRA Second Story Bookshop has opened in ZichronYakov
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and serves the ESRA 5 town region. There are many innovative ideas being implemented generating an enthusiastic and very popular venue for good reading opportunities for all.
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by Mia Frank
On June 5, 2019 a ceremony was held in The Lithuanian
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Embassy in Tel Aviv to honor the incredible work and contribution of Abel and Glenda Levitt in Lithuania over the past twenty years. Mia describes how Glenda and Abel worked towards helping to create tolerance centers in Lithuania devoted to both remembering and honoring the murdered Jews of Lithuania, but also to promoting tolerance and education.
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by Myra Olswang
Myra describes a moving and memorable ceremony dedicated
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to the commemoration of the massacre of 2,400 Jews in the Pakamponys forest in Birza, Lithuania in 1941. Local townsfolk and children took an active part in the ceremony and committed to retaining the memory of the slaughter and to making sure that such a tragedy would never happen again
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by Leonard Romm
Leonard muses on what is considered to be "Jewish"
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food, and how ideas about food have changed since his youth. He tells a humorous tale of his Ashkenazi mother's attitude to Mediterranean food.
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by Carl Hoffman
An exciting new professional English theater, created
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by Grant and Daniella Crankshaw, is due to open in Raanana.
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by Cynthia Barmor
Cynthia reports on the exciting and impressive new
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education and welfare projects in the various branches from support for siblings of children with disabilities in Petach Tikvah, to a new Students Build a Community project in Akko.
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by Laurence Lebor
Follow your bliss- whatever your age -good advice to
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follow. Your dreams can come true as they did for this writer. Read all about it.
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by Bob Bachman
On his 87th birthday, Bob got an overwhelming ovation
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from the students at Dekel School in Raanana where he tutors English for ESRA
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by Barbara Kliner
The ESRA-sponsored make-up course at the Neot Shaked
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Community Center in Netanya was a fun-filled event for women and children
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by Eli Libenson
Eli selects one of the early classic Hebrew writers,
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Yud Lamed Peretz, all of whose
stories, steeped in Jewish tradition, include a moral to be learned. He relates three of these beautiful stories that highlight the reward in doing good, regardless of how
difficult the circumstances.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
Hetman Symon Petliura was a Ukrainian journalist and
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nationalist leader who was seen as being responsible for most of the atrocities against Jews carried out by his armies. He was assassinated by Sholem Schwarzbard whose relatives were among the many Jews massacred. His trial in 1927 was sensational - he was acquitted on grounds that he was avenging the deaths of victims.
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by Frankie Cronin
On a fascinating 3-day ESRA trip to the north, participants
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enjoyed visits to the Cochin Heritage Center, the Mishkan Techelet factory, the old Beer Sheva train station, Mamshit National Park and the Dead Sea Works.
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by Colin Keyes
Colin Keyes reports on The Netanya Willing Hands organization
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over the years the group has given substantial financial assistance to hundreds of clients referred by social workers. They address any request on its merits, generously, quickly and efficiently
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by Glenis Bertfield
ESRA's move from Beit Fisher to Golomb Street in Raanana
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has been successful and the new facilities and activities such as musical evenings and lectures, Zumba and scrabble evenings have successfully transitioned to the spacious hall and the all-important excellent air-conditioning.
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