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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by Mike Porter
The first Jewish city to be established for 2000 years
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Tel Aviv was first envisaged in 1906. It was not until 1921 that it was declared an autonomous city. Mike Porter gives us a potted history of its development until the 1960’s.
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by Pamela Peled
There are many stories of people who in adult life
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discover that they have Jewish ancestors and are in fact Jewish. One such person is Joanne Caras who’s book “The Holocaust Survivors Cookbook” is being sold worldwide to raise money for charity. Her story and the stories told in her book are well documented in this article by Pamel Peled.
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by Nancy Tamir
Nancy Tamir, a lung transplantee, tells her story of
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how she survived a death sentence of irreversible emphysema to win six gold medals for swimming.
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by Eric Moss
Eric Moss was visiting his family in a remote area
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of Costa Rica when he suffered a heart attack. His account of the treatment he received and his journey from the jungle to his home in Israel makes very interesting reading.
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by Pamela Peled
Do we all have moments in our lives when ‘coincidences’
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are so strong that we wonder if the encounters were pre-ordained? Pamela Peled writes about the meeting between 2 patients in a hospital in the USA that led to the rekindling of friendships and the links between people in the USA, Israel and South Africa.
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by Carl Hoffman
Much has happened and been written about Israel and
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its history but small personal accounts can be very interesting and we can learn from them. Carl Hoffman‘s article is about the research that Dr Judith Abrahami-Einat has done to find out about a family tragedy that occurred in 1939.
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by Barbara Abraham
Why have no more golf courses been developed in Israel?
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The rules of the game have to be followed, and as well as teaching strategy and restraint it offers exercise to young and old.
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by Barbara Abraham
The influx of many Russian skaters in the 1990’s
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helped put Israel on the international scene . Israel’s only ice rink in Metulla hosted the International Jewish Ice Hockey championships in July 2009.
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by Yonit Raz
Ralph Cooperman won the British Junior fencing title
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in foil and saber and went on to represent Great Britain at the Olympic and Commonwealth games in the 1960’s. He also participated in a number of Maccabiah Games and became a coach to wheelchair fencers.
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by Shirley Kirsch
Shirley Kirsch was very excited to be invited aboard
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the 5th Esmerelda ship of the Chilean navy. This graceful modern sailing ship travels the world teaching naval recruits and showing the world that Chile is a modern country.
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by Jane Krivine
Pardes Hannna has a modern attractive hairdressing
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salon. It opened in June 2008 and is run by Lisa Kuperman an experienced stylist from London.
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by Nina Zuck
The Jewish community in Denver is supporting two Ethiopian
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families in Netanya. This is through the foresight and generosity of Hinda Raphaela Pottas-Buchbinder a high flyer in the financial services industry and the project she has set up.
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by Shiphra Davis
A well known bridge player and teacher Eddie retired
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with his wife Gloria to Netanya where they also volunteer with ESRA projects.
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