Judy Shapiro was born in New York City and raised in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Very active in the Zionist youth group Mizrachi Hatzair, known today as the youth section of Amit Women, she came on Aliyah in l972 with her husband and three of their eventual five children. She has a Masters Degree in English Literature and studied music and education at Brooklyn College. A teacher of music and piano for many years, she lives in Hod Hasharon with her husband, Menachem, an endocrinologist.
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by Judy Shapiro
The author discovers that the benefits of “offering
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one’s friendship in times of another’s stress cannot be overestimated”.
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The audience at the Kfar Saba monthly ESRA meeting
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were transported to a magical never-never land by the two medical clowns who addressed them this month.
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An invitation to ESRA’s special activities, which
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are held monthly at the clubhouse on Nachshon Street, and a review on the successful guest lecture by former ambassador to Ethiopia, Ariel Kerem, who addressed Ethiopian issues.
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An interesting look at the development of the hat industry
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in Israel. Motivated by the need to make hats more user friendly and attractive, Helen Gurkevich and Helen Rand have each created very successful millinery businesses.
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The all too common frustrating experience of a family
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faced with a plumbing problem, an insurance claim and an incompetent worker.
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Introducing Herb & Lenore Hahn, newcomers to Kfar Saba.
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Herb presented his `Yiddish Ta’am at a monthly ESRA get-together and enchanted the audience with his tales of Jewish performers over the years.
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It is amazing that so many people who came to live
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in Israel find contemporaries from their former lives who now also live here. Judy Shapiro writes about the reunion of 15 ladies who had been students together at the Shulamith School for Girls in Brooklyn 50 years ago. Established nearly 100 years ago the school was the first Jewish day school for girls in North America.
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An excellent review of a children’s story by Josh
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Hasten with a message of tolerance and understanding for all ages.
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This is a true story of 6-year-old Noam, who loses
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her voice after seeing a rocket hit a house in Ashkelon. It is an inspiring story of an Israeli girl's recovery over four years, and illustrates the power and beauty of loving kindness ("chesed"). It is tender, sensitive and charming, and "can bring tears to one's eyes" writes Judy Shapiro.
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On Zion Square Jerusalem, stands an electric piano
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which by passers are invited to play on resulting in some magical hours of pleasure and unity for those who introduced this trial run and all who enjoy this experimental `happening' in Jerusalem.
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A redeemed Torah scroll is one which has been repaired,
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either after having been saved from one of the European communities decimated in the Holocaust, or given by a synagogue in which it is no longer used. Judy Shapiro describes how a redeemed Torah scroll found a home at an IDF base.
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