by Helen Schary Motro
DocAviv festival offers dozens of the world’s finest
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new documentaries from morning until late night. Directors fly in from abroad to engage in dialogue with audiences, and sophisticated big budget films elbow with maiden efforts of students just mastering the medium.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Amidst fields of wild cyclamen and anemones lie the
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airbases of Megiddo and Ramat David, British bunkers from the mandate and embedded in a forest, is the little known Slovenian park, and plans nearby for Israel’s 2nd international airport.
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by Steve Kramer
James Snyder, a specialist in museum design from the
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States, was head hunted to head the rejuvenation of the Israel Museum which reinforces the original amazing architecture whilst doubling the gallery space and giving clarity to the huge collection.
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by Adele Rubin
In 1985 Nomika Zion and a group of young kibbutzniks
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felt that the kibbutzim were no longer fulfilling as positive a role as in the past. So they formed Kibbutz Migvan (1987), a new model of communal living, ‘soft socialism’, where the individual is in the center rather than the needs of the cooperative being the deciding factor.
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by Sandra Skarbek
The sudden death of her husband, no work and no friends
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drove artist Sandra Skarbek into deep depression, drink and pills. Then suddenly, after 25 years as one of Israel’s well-know fashion, movie and sports journalists, she gave it all up to go back to her roots as a painter.
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by Vera Freudmann
At 18, Alice married to escape from her deprived life.
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Her husband’s drug habit led her onto the same path. Their two children were removed by social services and adopted by other families. Her husband committed suicide and for twenty years she existed as a vagrant and prostitute until she joined an Al Sam drug rehabilitation program. Back in her vandalized apartment, ESRA donors funded the repairs.
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by Rika Meyerowitz
For the past years Avi Farag, the director of the Community
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Center in the Neot Shaked neighborhood of Netanya, has been arranging a Seder for those who have nowhere else to go for one reason or another. These include lone soldiers, single parents and financially stressed families as well as some physically disabled persons.
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by Nelly Perry
Once again Gil Shohat - composer, conducter and pianist
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- gave gratis an excellent musical performance in aid of ESRA’s Hand-in-Hand Food Pantry. His musical program included Debussy and Ravel, accompanied by explanations on the pieces and on the composers.
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by Shirley Kirsch
With the great appreciation of the Tel Aviv ESRA branch,
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Rica Goldin has been awarded the Volunteer of the Year Award – the first to be given in Tel Aviv – a recommendation which she truly earned. A great and special person who can never refuse a request to volunteer.
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by Joan Weisman
May Karmiel/Misgav become another successful branch
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of ESRA, providing a comfortable and stimulating environment for English speakers in this beautiful area of the Galilee.
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by Nina Zuck
Barry Katz, an international communications specialist,
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gave ESRA volunteers a fascinating and humorous workshop on how they could improve their communication skills both for ESRA and for themselves.
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by Merle Guttmann
Imbued with the Spirit of ESRA, Gidon Levitas has been
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an active ESRA volunteer for over 26 years, involved in several projects: the ESRA magazine, the local Netanya committee, tutoring English to high school students, the Sewing Centers for Ethiopians, the Hand-in-Hand Food Pantry and the Welfare Committee applications.
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by Lisa Brink
Lisa Brink has combined silan with the pureed date
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spread used in baking to produce a salad with a dressing that tastes so good that you'll want to slurp it up with a spoon!
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