Helen Schary Motro is author of Maneuvering between the Headlines: An American Lives through the Intifada (Other Press, New York 2005). An American lawyer living in Israel for 20 years with her family as well as part of each year in her native New York, Motro began her second career as a writer during the Gulf War in 1991. Motros commentary articles are published frequently in the major American and international press including The New York Times, Newsweek, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune. A columnist for the Jerusalem Post from 1998 to 2002, Motro is recipient of the Common Ground Award for Journalism in the Middle East. Her poetry and fiction appear in literary magazines and anthologies. Motro holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the New York University School of Law. Helen is a member of the New York and Israel bars.
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Following on the 2007 exhibition at Yad Vashem highlighting
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the experiences of women in the Holocaust this book has been compiled of these stories of individual women’s’ amazing reactions to the horrors that they were experiencing.
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We have many beautiful birds resident in this country,
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and with the great variety of migrating birds that visit our shores we live in an avian wonderland. Choosing a bird as our national emblem was not an easy task, but with the help of Internet voters the hoopoe was elected.
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Thanks to ESRA’s support teenagers with cerebral
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palsy have a place of their own that welcomes them, and a group of friends that waits to meet with them every week. For the last ten years ESRA has sponsored this special social club in the community center of Kfar Shmaryahu. Like its other good works, ESRA maintains this club quietly, steadfastly, without fanfare, and largely without publicity.
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The Eretz Israel Museum is hosting two wildlife photographic
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exhibitions; one on loan from the British Natural History Museum; the second is Israel’s version, which captures the power, beauty, and majesty of nature in Israel. Excerpts of nature documentaries by late Moti Kirschenbaum are also screened.
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Held every spring at Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque, DocAviv
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is the country’s premier film festival, screening professional films from Israel and dozens of other countries. Helen Schary Motro describes were some of the stunning student films this year
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Esfir is Alive is the story of a 12 year-old girl,
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the only known survivor of a mass execution of Jews in east Poland's Brona Gora forest. The story grew from the testimony she gave to the Soviet State Commission of Inquiry in 1944.
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With Last Stop, Shula Spiegel Productions and Dana
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Eden have produced an Israeli film masterpiece. The "new" Tel-Aviv central bus station is used as a metaphor for describing Tel-Aviv's underbelly and presents a disturbing picture of a city in transition
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Forget about sweating and groaning as you struggle
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to get that perfect figure in your gym class. The big news now is that aqua gym has become one of the best ways to keep cool and fit at the same time. Exercising in water will tone your muscles and give you a great workout.
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A wonderful tribute written by Helen Schary Motro
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for Shelley Tiber who succumbed to cancer this year. This is a tribute to a vibrant, remarkable, energetic enthusiastic, positive lady of valour and courage
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Paul Kohn spoke about his life to an ESRA group in
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Herzliya. Born in Austria, Paul was eight years old when he left his parents – one of the Kindertransport children sent to Britain. With another Kindertransport boy, Paul was adopted by a Pastor and his wife and spent five happy years in the east of England. The boys were treated with great kindness and respect for their religion. In 1949 Paul was reunited with his parents in Israel.
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Helen Schary Motro describes Martin Fletcher’s book
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“The List” as a terrific read. It is set during the final years of the Second World War and is about actual events of the Holocaust and the Zionist struggle in Palestine. Overlaid is a fictitious love story of a young refugee couple from Vienna who are trying to settle into a new life in London.
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This book uncovers the fascinating history of Herzliya
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Pituach. It is an impressive contribution towards a first-person record of history with hundreds of photographs that bring to life the saga of this vibrant town.
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DocAviv festival offers dozens of the world’s finest
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new documentaries from morning until late night. Directors fly in from abroad to engage in dialogue with audiences, and sophisticated big budget films elbow with maiden efforts of students just mastering the medium.
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