by Val Kantor
After 13 years as its director, Val Kantor is retiring
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from the ESRA befrienders program. A dedicated
and committed ESRA volunteer, Val did a wonderful job helping many people and inspiring many volunteers.
Glenis Bertfield who is now heading the befrienders program has been in Israel for 18 months and comes to ESRA with a great deal of enthusiasm and experience from the UK.
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by Sara Groundland
Sara Groundland writes that once again another very
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successful 3-day trip to Eilat has taken place with 52 people visiting interesting places on the journey there and back. There was plenty time to relax in Eilat as well a trip to the birding center, to the WOW show and a boat trip round the bay.
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by Adele Hunter
Val Kantor came to live in Israel from South Africa
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in 1979 with her husband and 4 children. She first became active in ESRA in 1996 and has run a hotline, was the befrienders coordinator and volunteer leader and is now a member of the ESRA executive. Val is also involved in organizing courses for volunteers and is always ready to give a helping hand, and as Adele Hunter writes, is a truly deserving winner of the Alan Katz Award as Raanana's outstanding volunteer 2009.
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by Jane Krivine
Ramat Hanadiv is a park full of Israeli-Mediterranean
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vegetation. There are many dunams of natural vegetation that surround the beautiful landscaped formal Rothschild Gardens. ESRA volunteers are helping in the nurseries and in the new visitors center. Jane Krivine writes about this project and other opportunities for volunteers – helping pupils with English in the local schools and assisting at the sewing centers for Ethiopian immigrants.
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by Glenis Bertfield
The ESRA activities morning during Chanukah was such
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a lovely event: kids with their mums or grandmothers all having a good time together. It was great to see different generations having fun and we look forward to our next activities group during the Pesach holidays
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by Nina Zuck
ESRA volunteers are involved in over a dozen projects
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in Netanya. Nina Zuck reports that over 60 people attended this “insight” meeting into ESRA where experienced and new volunteers heard about ESRA and its projects from ESRA’s chairperson and volunteer project coordinators.
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by Jackie Klein
Perhaps I was naive when, eight months ago, I was approached
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to expand ESRA activities in Modiin. While offering support in general, the local city councilors are not familiar with ESRA and we are going to have to work hard to prove ourselves. Hilary describes the ups and downs of setting up ESRA projects it Modiin, and concludes "The Mambo continues, but we will not allow it to become a dance marathon."
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by Giora Fried
ESRA’s Raanana Nearly New Shop was opened 18 years
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ago at the height of the mass immigration from Russia by ESRA volunteers in Raanana. The guiding spirit for many years was the late Motti Wiener . Today it is manned by a terrific crew of workers and volunteers, who sort, pack, arrange the shelves and sell with much love, devotion and endless patience, and increased sales will enable us to fund even more ESRA projects in the needy communities.
Giora Fried is the manager of Raanana’s Nearly New Shop.
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by Alice (Aliza) Marks
With the opening of ESRA’s Nearly New Shop in Netanya
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three people who were involved in its start discovered that they came from the same Jewish community in a suburb of Cape Town. Alice Marks was one of the three.
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by Carol Novis
Carol Novis is a journalist who has written for various
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publications over many years. She wonders why the ESRA magazine has survived for so long when so many other journals are no longer published. Read the article she wrote in 1991 for the now defunct City Lights.
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by Gloria Deutsch
“Third Proof Reader” Gloria Deutsch does the final
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proof reading for many of the ESRA articles.
Grammar and spelling will have been corrected but there may still be mistakes that Gloria will find, read about her ‘bête noire’ in the usage of English punctuation
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