by Barbara Abraham
In this article you can read the winning pieces of
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the creative writing contest run by Sderot Media. The stories give touching insights into the traumas suffered by the residents of Sderot. The course for creative writing was set up by Sderot Media in order to encourage residents, both young and old, to try and find some relief from their suffering through the written word. So please read on:
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by Pnina Moed Kass
Pnina writes about current Israeli writers whose work
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has been translated into English. She says they are a reflection of the immediate availability of world culture via everything available in cyberspace. She lists the authors and the books that she highly recommends and says the wonderful English translations of these books will give you a chance to enjoy what’s current in Israeli literature.
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by Cynthia Barmor
On November 18, ESRA Modiin participated in the municipality’s
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first ever open book exchange. ESRA volunteers had an opportunity to distribute thirty ESRA Magazines and talk about the bookshop to Israelis and Anglos alike – which was excellent exposure for ESRA.
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by Carol Novis
Carol Novis reviews Pamela Peled's novel "For the
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Love of God and Virgins" whose main focus is the second-time-around love story of two people whose similarities manage to overcome their differences.
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by Pnina Moed Kass
This book is highly recommended by Pnina Moed Kass,
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It is light to carry and compact, and the printing and layout easily read. With charts and maps it also offers historical facts and information about modern events.
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by Adele Rubin
Jack Cohen, today a resident of Netanya and a VIP of
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AACI, describes in his autobiographical novel, Amanuensis, growing up in the east end of London. But Adele Rubin thinks it would have been interesting to learn more of how Jack succeeded in spite of the difficulties and his career as an adult.
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by Carl Hoffman
Disturbing, yet fascinating novel based in Jerusalem
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Carl Hoffman reviews “Wherever you Go” by Joan Leegant
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by Rolly King Kohansky
Rolly King Kohansky interviews Fradle Pomerantz in
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the wake of the recent publication of her new book, Passionate Pioneers: The Story of Yiddish Secular Education In North America : 1910-1960.
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by Jane Krivine
The ESRA second-hand bookshop finds a treasure among
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some donated books, the1910 translation of a 2,400 year-old manuscript: “The Art of Warfare,” by Sun Tzu . Jane Krivine tells us about her quest for its literary value.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg reviews Yuval Danieli's book and describes
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it as a labor of love. She says that with so many these days lamenting the demise of kibbutzim, it is heartening to find a book that puts the emphasis on the first hundred years of the kibbutz movement.
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by Pnina Moed Kass
Pnina Moed Kass muses about the bookmark which she
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says is a memory keeper: it marks the pages we read, it heralds the pages we have yet to read. The recycled envelopes, postcards, timetables we use as bookmarks are reminders of places and events that obviously we don’t want to forget. Whatever we hold between our fingers and insert between the pages honors the act of slipping into another world, the pleasurable act we call reading.
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by Jason Alster
'Everyone has a story to tell. This is my story." A
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review by Mike Porter of Jason Alster's book Leaving Home, Going Home, Returning Home.
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