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Some sound advice about keeping receipts on a "home
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file", (you never know when you'll need them), reading the fine print in sales adverts, cut prices at supermarkets that are out of the way, and more helpful hints.
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by Dorith Bigon
Dorith Bigon reports on ESRA’s Project of Excellence
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at the Ruppin Marine Science Institute in Michmoret. The project caters to 36 motivated, underprivileged teenagers who come to the Institute for enrichment in the sciences, ecology, marine biology and teamwork skills.
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by Lynette Karp
Janet Kiesari,Chairperson of Esra Rishon L'tzion leads
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a vibrant, enthusiastic, stimulating group of dedicated volunteers in this very active and constantly expanding branch of Esra
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by Marsha Ohayon
Marsha is a volunteer English teacher in a school in
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Kiryat Motzkin and she loves her work there. She is very much appreciated by the students and the staff. She discovered by chance that some of the children come to school without having anything to eat, and she also finds ways to help with this problem.
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by Alice (Aliza) Marks
The youth of the Heftzibah and Neot Ganim neighborhoods
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of Netanya "don't know how lucky they are" writes Alice Marks. A new music center "will enable them to enter the world of music – listening, playing, learning." Open three times a week, from 15:00 to 21:00, it is run by a professional staff of teachers, youth leaders and ESRA volunteers.
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by Gert Goldstein
A farewell fashion show of the ESRA Kfar Saba and Ethiopian
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women sewing group held at Beit Avraham had members wearing the latest fashions they had sewn. The group began more than 17 years ago, with the women being taught to create fashions for themselves. A new group of pupils, consisting of young women and one man, has been formed.
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by Sandra Broza
ESRA Magazines list of personal announcements including,
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new homes, get well wishes family occasions and condolences
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by Michael Jaron
Michael Jaron recounts the experience of tutoring students
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for their oral English matriculation exam. Both teachers and students enjoyed their time together, and the students found a "very English" way of saying thank you - by baking a cake for the teachers!
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by Michael Lipiner
Rosewater, which was shot in Jordan, is based on a
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memoir by a journalist who was brutally treated in a prison in Teheran. "Very impressive" writes Michael Lipiner of this first film by Jon Stewart.
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by Gloria Deutsch
This is the third book in a trilogy by Sid Cooper which
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"are not only thrillers," writes Gloria Deutsch, "but also English primers for teenagers struggling to learn the language." Other words about the book: racy, exciting, plenty of twists and turns, showing influences of Rider Haggard, Agatha Christie and even Shakespeare.
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by Henry Shakenovsky
Henry Shakenovsky pays tribute to an old friend, Herman
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Musikanth, who died on March 6, at the age of 82, and was buried at Maagan Michael. A former South African, Mr. Musikanth and his wife made aliya and became members of Maagan Michael. A professional accountant, he helped put the kibbutz management and its factory on their feet. Later he helped establish the retirement home of Beth Protea in Herzlia.
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