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by Bill Strubbe
A fascinating story of how Nadav Shadmi, one of 400
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volunteers of Milbat, creates and invents devices - often made from old and discarded material - to help handicapped people to perform what we would consider the simplest of tasks.
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by Marion Stone
Members of ESRA Modiin and Hadassah Israel Levonah
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Chapter joined together and successfully presented an excellent Yom Hashoah program to an audience of over 200. Guest speakers were Holocaust survivor Chaya Subar and Edie Kalb, the daughter of survivors. Two youngsters, who had participated in the recent March of the Living, Rivka Shemesh and Idan Kofman gave personal accounts.
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by Marion Stone
Marion Stone reports on a talk to ESRA Modiin by Col.
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(res.) Aviad ben Itzhak, a specialist in genealogy, who has helped thousands of people to explore their ancestory and build family trees. Jews were often forced to take surnames based on a town or village where the family lived, while DNA plays an important part for discovering evidence of background.
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by Stephen Schulman
An article on bread baking caught the eye and the fancy
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of Stephen Schulman and led to his learning to become an expert baker, discovering the mechanics and chemistry involved in the creation of bread. He sees bread as soul food – reminiscent of the Jewish delicacies of his youth.
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by Frank Mecklenburg
Sonya Davidson was a little girl when she spilled water
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on the floor. Instead of scolding her, her mother described the importance of water, awakening in her daughter a life-long interest in water. In 2007 when she made aliyah to Israel she continued her research of energy and water, forming her own company, H2 Energy, today recognized world-wide as one of the top ventures in this field.
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by Carol Elias
Carol tells her family's history during the Holocaust
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within the context of Poland's
latest attempt to rewrite history. Efforts to obscure testifiable acts of murder include
countries other than just Poland. Eighty years later, time for surviving witnesses is
short, and the fight for the memory of the Holocaust is on.
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by Barbara Abraham
Internet research has shed light on the amazing story
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of Rachel Cohen of India who became a famous actress from the 30s, renamed Ramola Devi. Her son Sam Abraham, with whom she had little contact, came to Israel where he married Barbara Abraham, who wrote this article.
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by Susan Nachman-Srebrnik
There is a special joy in owning a pet that applies
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to people of any age. This article suggests where and how to become a beloved owner of an animal in need of loving and caring.
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by Eli Libenson
The writers' description of his fascinating experiences
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with various Uber drivers in Chicago from different religious groups.
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by Zipporah Porath
Bless her memory and bless her mess. This is the tribute
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the author bestows on her mother whose habit of collecting everything of interest throughout her life was the catalyst that promoted Zipporah Porath's first internationally popular book!
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by Mimi Tanaman
It is one hundred years since the letter known as the
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Balfour Declaration was written "One of the most significant letters in history", says Theresa May, the British Prime Minister. A range of activities are being planned across Israel, with members of ESRA actively involved.
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by Michael Jaron
A thought-provoking article on the 'midrashim' of modern
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science on the theory of evolution. Michael Jaron considers the mechanism of the Midrashim in Judaism and the mechanism of analysis and speculation used by modern science to have the same function: to connect the dots or fill in the gaps where necessary.
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