by Baruch Tanaman
Baruch describes the variety we find among ESRA's branches
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– different groups of people with different preferences and in different locations, but he points out that all are united through our unified branding and our shared goals and social values.
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by Brenda Katten
In 1979, our Honorary President and Editor, Merle Guttmann,
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founded ESRA,which now boasts branches from Nahariya to Eilat, In 2019, ESRA’s flagship project “Students build a Community” will be celebrating its bar mitzvah year and marking ESRA’s 40th birthday. To celebrate, ESRA is putting together an event with top lecturers and musical entertainment.
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by Bess Hoffman
Swedish Ambassador H.E. Magnus Hellgren hosted a Herzliya
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ESRA event at which Werner Bachmann gave a moving account of how he and his family, in October 1943, were among the 7,220 of Denmark’s 7,800 Jews who were spirited away in small fishing boats across the sea to neutral Sweden.
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by Tamar Tal-Blum
"Students Build a Community" is a challenging project
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undertaken by ESRA Netanya. Its aim is to provide the mentors with the life skill of cooperation and to build all-important self-confidence and self-image. Tamar describes moments of achievement and the means for achieving it.
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by Adele Rubin
A Civil Rights Course for Volunteers at Sapir College
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in Sderot, funded by ESRA, was very empowering for the participants – personally and as future leaders for their community.The course was free to the 18 participants, most of whom were from the local Ethiopian community.
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by Lucille Laketer
The members of the group have been clicking their needles
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and working hard this past year, making sweaters, ponchos, hats and other items for children in need. Newcomers welcome: contact Lucy 052 859 7195 or Lucie 054 498 1342.
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by Shifra (Reich) Neumann
The social club for young adults with physical handicaps,
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supported by ESRA Raanana, recently welcomed Dovik Gal and his partner Yael who demonstrated their set of Tibetan Bowls. They also brought various original musical instruments including bell harps and Tibetan bells that are used at prayer times.
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by Judi Argaman, Nina Zuck
Judi Argaman and Nina Zuk offer you a peek into ESRA
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activities in the neighborhood. An interesting look at the many events coming and to come.
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by Carole Rosenblatt
In an effort to offer an interesting and energetic
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activity to kids in one of the less
advantaged areas of Beer Sheva, Carole Rosenblatt, Branch Chair and Robert Arnow, ESRA Volunteer for the project, involved the branch in making skateboarding available. Equipment was provided by a donor from ESRA.
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by Nina Zuck
Heart-warming letters written by two college students
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who participated in an ESRA
program for tutoring "inner city"; children in Rishon LeZion. Each relates their first steps in getting to know the children and what social and academic skills they were
able to impart, and the feeling of success with their protegés.
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by Mimi Tanaman
Since its inception in the 1990s, ESRA's English Tutoring
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Program has proven to be highly successful and is praised by both pupils and teachers. As a note of the respect this program has earned, the Israel Ministry of Education recognized it as an Official Provider in its Support for the Teacher Program.
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by Baruch Tanaman
Baruch's message for the new year is one of of hope
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and pride in what ESRA has become over the past (almost) 40 years. He says that improving life and creating a better world are some of the core values of ESRA
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