by Jackie Graham
Five ESRA English Tutoring Project Volunteers in Modiin
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helped Amit Boys Robotics team (The Kipabots) prepare for a trip to Australia, for the 2019 finals of the FIRST ® LEGO ® League Robotics Competition, which are held in English.. The boys won second place in the ‘Research Project’ section of the competition.
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by Debbie Morgenstern
How a mother, terrified of lighting which reminded
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her of the WW II sirens of her youth, tried to face her fears, and how her sons helped her.
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by Denise Cohen
Denise tells about about a ground-breaking English-language
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project run with the aid of ESRA volunteers. It focuses on the life and work of a little-remembered hero, Isaac Ochberg, who traveled to Eastern Europe in 1921 to rescue Jewish orphans from the pogroms and took them to South Africa, where he lived.
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by Adele Rubin
Jonathan Matityahu aged 14 from the Gutwirth High School,
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Sderot, won first place in the National Debate Competition in English. The debating course at the school is an ESRA sponsored project
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by Jonathan Davis
VP for External Relations and Head of the Recanati
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International School reports on
the extensive educational changes taking place at IDC Herzliya. The institution has
recently been approved to bestow doctoral degrees, putting it on the path to becoming Israel's first private university.
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by Mike Shribman
On 18th January an innovating "English Day" was enjoyed
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by representative junior school students and 10 invited ESRA tutors to monitor the ideas put forward by the students to encourage their schoolmates to learn to speak English. It proved very successful with much valuable input from all sources.
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by Marsha Stein
Technoda, a school of practical applications of Science
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and Technology was established in 1986 in the Hadera area to assist disadvantaged and immigrant children. Today it has expanded to a large state-of- the-art campus that covers every field of science for children from kindergarten to high school from throughout Israel.
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by Clare King Lassman
Givat Haviva has a new academy - Givat Haviva International
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School – which will bring together promising young people from diverse communities from all over the world. The aim is to develop a network of young leaders who will work together towards a shared, sustainable and inclusive society, in the Middle East and globally.
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by Jackie Klein
A former co-chair of ESRA Modiin, Jackie is now an
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active volunteer with a project called Link Literacy which operates in government schools in Johannesburg and Cape Town. It supports the development of literacy and numeracy in children for whom English is a second language, and who attend low-income schools.
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by Pamela Peled
Adi Koll enlisted fellow law-students to teach introductory
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courses to those who were unable to gain entrance to Hebrew University. The result was “Universita Ba’Am, ” an access for all program. Pamela describes this amazing venture, originally for young people at risk, and now has been expanded to include older adults. It has 2,400 participants.
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by Lucille Cohen
A visit to this Waldorf kindergarten reveals what Lucille
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Cohen found to be a haven of calm and quiet concentration. It’s philosophy aims to nurture children as a whole – body, soul and spirit and incorporates Steiner’s Wisdom of Man, which relates to every aspect of life.
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by Lola Katz
A delightful explanation of valuable time spent over
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the years with grandchildren offering unique and innovative entertainment ideas for sharing hours and creating memories.
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by Adam Rawcliff
Debating Matters Israel is the country’s only English-language
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debating tournament bringing together Jewish and Arab students from all backgrounds. Among the organization’s goals are improved articulacy in English and learning to make strong and respectful arguments.
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by Rebecca Kopans
An inspiring report on a guided visit to the most impressive
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IDC University campus in Herzliya, on the 20th anniversary of its establishment. An awesome look at the phenomenal success of this constantly expanding centre of learning.
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