by David Rhodes
Dessert wines have always been popular and now many
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Israeli vineyards are producing these sweeter more concentrated wines. David Rhodes writes that they should not be thought of as “Sacramental Kiddush” wine and should be drunk as or with dessert.
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by Michael Brunert
Avi Tanger is an amateur wine enthusiast who produces
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his own wine. Michael Brunert gives us some technical details about how and where the grapes are produced and information relating to the manufacturing process that Avi uses.
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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 Pamela Peled
From a childhood in Romania to international business
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man and philanthropist, Dan David is interviewed by Pamela Peled. The Dan David Foundation awards prizes every year to outstanding contributions in the fields of science, technology culture or sociology and all due to the click of a camera!
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by Merle Guttmann
For twenty years Naomi Ariel has been an active ESRA
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volunteer and an initiator of several important projects. Her involvement with ESRA, her caring, her creativity, her constancy and her hard work show the true spirit of ESRA.
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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 Judy Shapiro
The International Society of Music Education, a worldwide
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organization which holds conventions every other year, has invited Sima Rolnick, a well known music educator from Kfar Saba, to present a paper on the amazing community music activities in Kfar Saba at this year's convention in Beijing (July 25-August 8).
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by Judith Sternfeld
A new immigrant, Judith Sternfeld, celebrates Israel’s
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Independence Day watching a parade in Raanana and remembers how thrilled she was at this multi-cultural event.
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by Sara Groundland
While watching the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”,
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Sara Groundland muses about a time when Jews, living in Eastern Europe, were constantly harassed by Tsarist decrees to leave their shtetls or were driven out by pogroms perpetrated by the local villagers at the behest of the rulers of the time. Today she thanks God that we have our own country and Jews no longer have to worry about being uprooted ever again.
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by Darren Tannenwald
Most of us live lives that are out of balance and out
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of touch with our inner selves. Read what Darren Tannenwald suggests as a way to regain control of your life and reach of point of wellbeing. As a reflexology practitioner he recommends using reflexology not only as an alternative treatment for ailments, but also as a means of preventative care.
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by Mike Porter
Our feet are one of our most important appendages yet
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how many of us really take care of them? Not to mention our toes, without which we would not be able to walk. So when Mike Porter, who is a runner, tells us how to deal with two very common toe problems – ingrown toenails and cracks between the toes – it’s worth taking his advice.
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by Adele Rubin
What does it mean to be a Zionist in this day and age?
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For Adele Rubin the real Zionists are those who came to Israel of their own free will, but she also uses the example of Azarai Alon, now 92, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and this year’s recipient of the Herzl Prize. This prize is given every year to worthy individuals who have contributed to Israel in some way.
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by Carl Hoffman
The latest exhibition at the Litvak Gallery in Tel
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Aviv is by Czechoslovakian artist Vaclav Ciglar who says that glass is the most imaginative material that man has ever created. Carl Hoffman tells us that the exhibition ”Light and Space in the Garden of Reason” uses optical glass, prisms and mirrors that reflect the visitors and makes them a live part of the exhibition.
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by Norman A. Rubin
The magical and mystical world of Jewish incantations,
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spells, magic, curses and oaths are displayed in amulets, jewelery, manuscripts and more in the current exhibition at Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. Norman Rubin tells you all about it.
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