by Evelynne Cherny
A community calendar for English speaking events has
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long been needed in Modiin. Evelynne Cherny, a member of our ESRA committee, undertook this huge job, and after much groundwork she was able to send out the first edition of the calendar to participating organizations in August 2014.
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by Sarah Lutz
The journey took a couple of hours with an early start
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but an enjoyable time was had by all. The mountainous region, the views and an excellent guide all contributed to the bonhomie of the group as the hike progressed peacefully up hill and down dale.
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by Cynthia Barmor
In September ESRA Modiin held its 3rd Music Lovers'
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Group with songs ranging from Irving Berlin to Simon and Garfunkel. The events are held to raise funds for Neve ESRA, an afternoon day-care center for children at risk. The next event, on December 11, will be "the (South) African beat".
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by Natalie Elgrod, Stanley Cohen
Few private individuals, especially young people, ever
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have a chance to get a glimpse at history in the making off the battlefield. Natalie Elgrod's father, Stanley Cohen, was an exception. This private memoir describes one of these rare instances.
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by Cynthia Barmor
The bookshop, which opened in the Modiin Azrielli mall
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in 2010. It has since raised hundreds of thousands of shekels for Neve ESRA, the Modiin day-care centre for children at risk. Cynthia Barmor describes the bookshop adventures, ranging from floods and burst pipes to the lucky customer who got her missing money back.
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by Mike Porter
The Porter grandparents' short stay in paradise was
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in Mahé and Praslin, the two largest of the Seychelles islands in the Indian Ocean. Besides bus trips around the islands, every morning Mike picked up breakfast from the thousands of mangoes scattered under the trees along the pavements. "I suppose one could starve here", he sums up, "but he'd have to try very hard".
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by Dov Silverman
There are thousands of blind and visually impaired
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children in Israel lacking sporting and social activities. Dov explains the goal of "Ein Dvarim Ka’eleh" is to provide these blind children with a new sporting and social interest, previously unimaginable to them.
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by Cynthia Barmor
This is the uplifting story of Ilan Kreisman, who has
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been fighting a rare form of cancer for the last 12 years. Ilan refuses to let his cancer rule his life. He sees his life as a whirlpool from which he must emerge, and firmly believes he will eventually win the battle.
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by Sonia Lowman
AIS (American International Schools) Israel student
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project won the International Discovery Award Competition. Their project – based on young Holocaust hero Pavel Weiner – models how young people can be responsible global citizens.
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by Pamela Peled
During Operation Protective Edge, TV news channels
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globally were broadcasting negative one-sided items. Thus, Pamela was relieved to discover i24 News on her
phone and wrote an interesting account of how i24 News was founded. For balanced breaking news tune in to www.i24news.tv.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
The two themes central to the festival are the military
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victory of the Jews over the Syrian-Greeks, and the miracle of the cruse oil. This symbolizes the victory of the eternal Jewish spirit. Rabbi Frimer refers to the two dreams of Joseph - the material and the spiritual, and compares them to the situation in Israel today.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
Thank you again Friends of ESRA. This group, composed
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primarily of Israeli Anglos and UK residents with homes in Israel, organized for the second consecutive year, a most successful fundraising dinner in aid of ESRA’s “Give a Child a Future” Campaign.
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by Meira Applebaum
Moving home is never easy and adapting to a much smaller
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place takes time. But
Meira's amusing account of 'moving on' makes it clear that that the decision was the right one and she is thoroughly enjoying all the new experiences that go with it.
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by Martin Mozer
Aron Grünhut, a Bratislava native, was one of those
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who risked his life to save Jews during WWII. He was helped by a fire fighter, Emanuel Zima, who was posthumously awarded the Israeli Badge of Honour. An exhibition celebrating Mr Grünhut's life recently closed in Bratislava.
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