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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This is a charming, beautifully-illustrated children's
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book written in Hebrew rhyme, which tells the story of a lonely orange tree.
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Judy describes how In his book, My Medicine, My Body,
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The Serious Physician becomes a Serious Patient, Dr. Basil Porter, a South African pediatrician living in Israel, records with candor, humility, humor and empathy what it felt and still feels like to be a doctor one day and a patient the next.
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Judy Shapiro discovered the children's book "How Much
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is a Million?" by David Schwartz in the ESRA second-hand shop. Although the book is written in a jovial tone and is meant to entertain children and teach them the meaning of great quatities, Judy could not help thinking of the terible connotations the phrase has for the Jewish people who will always remember the million children murdered during the holocaust.
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A clinical nutritionist with a Sephardic-Greek background
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Orli Ziv wrote this cookery book as a culinary inheritance for her family. It has a photo by Katherine Martinelli for every recipe, Judy Shapiro highly recommends this book. She has tried many of the recipes and found them healthy, natural and very much homemade.
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Many talented musicians from Russia now live in Israel
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and are involved in teaching here. Judy Shapiro tells us about The Center for Musicians of Tomorrow founded by MaximVengerov in 2006 in Migdal in the Galilee and the Kfar Saba Conservatory Kfar Saba for talented young piano students.
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A very clear description of a typical Friday morning
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on the tayelet along the beachfront of Tel Aviv on a balmy winter morning. Beautiful sights, interesting people.
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Judy has some useful advice on how to start a diet
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using the Clalit Health Fund nutrition and diet program which has issued a user-friendly pamphlet and has weekly meeting and regular visits to a dietician in cities around Israel. The other health funds have similar programs.
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Leila Marinbach, originally from New York, taught for
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25 years at East Midwood Jewish Day School in Flatbush and made a lasting impression on her students as serious, no-nonsense and hard-working. In 1977 she came to live in Israel and volunteered in Amit and ESRA. When she died she left a legacy of tolerance, stoicism and optimism, and love of family and friends.
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Judy fondly remembers her uncle, Shimon Gewirtz, a
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very special, talented and generous man, who passed away at age 82. Shimon made Aliya from the U.S. in 2009 and settled in Kfar Saba where he was involved in many community and family activities.
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Judy describes this book as a piercing autobiography
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of a brother and sister. He is a giant and she is a dwarf. She feels that the story succeeds as an emotionally captivating story that is absorbing and profound both for adults and for children
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The light hearted email communication between Mitzi
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and Bertie, a cat and a dog in rhyme and in prose guaranteed to bring a smile to the reader’s face.
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The International Society of Music Education, a worldwide
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organization which holds conventions every other year, has invited Sima Rolnick, a well known music educator from Kfar Saba, to present a paper on the amazing community music activities in Kfar Saba at this year's convention in Beijing (July 25-August 8).
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Just 2 1/2 hours from Tel Aviv one enters the Golan.
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Judy Shapiro gives a colourful survey of an unusual family, the Levines of Moshav Nov on the Golan. They went back to a naturalistic life – growing organic food and fruit, building guest houses, giving lessons and guided tours and recycling and rebuilding items.
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A tongue-in-cheek meander through inappropriate dressing
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in the workplace advising the reading of a satirical poem urging us to try "to see ourselves as others see us"!
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