by Mimi Tanaman
The Kibbutz Magal riding therapy center helps children
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with developmental disabilities or behavior problems. ESRA is involved through its Learning Through Nature program, now in its second successful year. Through caring for animals, the children gain new feelings of self-respect and confidence.
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by Cynthia Barmor
Cynthia reports on the exciting and impressive new
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education and welfare projects in the various branches from support for siblings of children with disabilities in Petach Tikvah, to a new Students Build a Community project in Akko.
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by Colin Keyes
Colin Keyes reports on The Netanya Willing Hands organization
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over the years the group has given substantial financial assistance to hundreds of clients referred by social workers. They address any request on its merits, generously, quickly and efficiently
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by Shifra (Reich) Neumann
The Raanana branch of Esra sponsored a visit to the
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Coca Cola factory for the club's end of year celebration which proved to be most successful.
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by Judith Ronat
Judith Ronat works as an ESRA tutor in schools and
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feels that she learns even more than the students she helps.
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by Harry Hiller
Kfar Hanoar Hadati is a school based on the principles
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of Torah and Labor. The
students are from the full spectrum of Israel's immigrant youth at this time; Ethiopian, Russian, French and even the Indian Jewish community of Bnei Menashe. ESRA's Haifa branch helps to support the school's highly successful activities.
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by Debbie Shwartzberg
Debbie Schwartzberg met an Anglo who told her volunteers
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were always needed and so she started volunteering for ESRA and so she became an ESRA befriender. She describes her invaluable work, and calls on us to join the ranks of volunteer befrienders
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by Robert Golub
The Modiin bookstore has become involved in the "Eat2Learn"
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project for the slum children of Mumbai who are receiving one freshly cooked meal a day at school and in addition, the mothers of these slum dwellers are cooking the food for the project, providing them with work..
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by Robert Golub
ESRA Modiin has donated hundreds of children’s books
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to the library of the Joshua Greenberger Learning Center in the Kalwa slum north of Mumbai, India. These books serve hundreds of children, ages 4-14, who participate in the Gabriel Project’s ongoing programs.
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by Cynthia Barmor
Cynthia reports on the relationship between IDC (Interdisciplinary
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Center) students and ESRA. This year, ESRA has welcomed more than 50 IDC volunteers from all over the world who volunteer in a range of ESRA activities.The success of their integration is evidenced by some of their enthusiastic reports:
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by Lynette Karp
Enjoying a full and stimulating life in a retirement
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home while still able to take advantage of all it offers.
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by Adrian Wolff
The first residents of the youth villages in Israel
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were teenagers smuggled out of Europe during WWII. Today the Aloney Yitzhak Youth Village is home to 300 students from difficult backgrounds. Displaying a wealth of success, formerly problematic children continue along positive programs in Israel, and many are candidates for continuing in higher studies.
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by Carol Novis
A group of mature adults is organizing a way to live
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together, yet also independently, as part of a community in a co-housing project.
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by Lucille Cohen
The fascinating image of a sea plane landing on the
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Sea of Galilee epitomized the nature of the earlyndays of air travel between Britain and British mandate Palestine, (pre-state Israel), when tourist guide Robin Froumin delivered an illustrated talk to an ESRA Five Towns audience on the topic.
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by Evelynne Cherny
It was a wonderful evening of Broadway songs, writes
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Evelynne Cherney of the musical evening recently held in a private house. She tells us something about the four singers, who also appear in amateur theatre in Israel.
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