by Nanci Schwartz
ESRA Magazine's list of personal announcements including,
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new homes, get well wishes and family occasions and condolences
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by Joseph (Joe) Morgenstern
How things have developed in the electronic world.
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It’s nearly 30 years since Joe Morgenstern bought his first software package that started his career in publishing newsletters.
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by Ben Krengel
A poignant and descriptive emotional poem recalling
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the magic world of Rosettenville Johannesburg through the eyes of the writer in his youth. A time of innocence lost.
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by Mimi Tanaman
A remarkable tale in which a man discovers, at the
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age of 64, that his life up to then had been a complete fabrication. A Life-Changing Discovery is the story of how Geoff Isaacs embarked on a search for his Jewish roots which led from England to New Zealand to the US and finally Israel.
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by Ira Grinberg
ESRA Rechovot visited Testimony House, on Moshav Nir
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Galim.This museum bears impressive historical testimony from Holocaust survivors in film and art depicting life in Europe before and during the Shoah.
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by Carol Novis
A harrowing event experienced by the family of a schizophrenic
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young man, David’s Story, is written by Jill Sadowsky, and reviewed here by Carol Novis. Ms. Sadowksy describes the feelings of grief, fear,
guilt and bewilderment suffered by the family having to deal with this terrible disorder as they try to cure, and ultimately have to live with this complex mental illness.
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by Esther Tolkin
A Warm Afternoon Home in Kiryat Nordau provides a rich
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program of learning, playing, art and enrichment classes for teenage girls at risk.
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by Fonda Dubb
How to really see the stars and night sky – Join
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a trip to the desert north of Eilat with Eitan Schawartz. With the naked eye and the help of a green laser and a telescope the most amazing beautiful vista can be seen.
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by Marian Lebor
Get some exercise and fresh air for the whole family
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while contributing to a good cause: Come and Walk for Benji’s Home takes place on Friday May 4th. The home is built in memory of Benji Hillman, a major who was killed in the Lebanon War, three weeks after his wedding and is intended to provide a home for lone soldiers. Marian Lebor gives the details.
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by Ilan Shachar
Since Madonna is coming to Israel in May, her fans
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have implored the PM not to attack Iran before the concert so that it woudn’t be cancelled. Yes, Strategic Planning is called for when important events like that are to be considered! Ilan Shachar suggests a few other such urgent matters that give pause for thought in this satiric article.
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Tidbits in this issue covers New Discount Credit Cards,
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increase in British Pensions and the 24 hour emergency service offered by the Electricity Board. As well as giving items to the ESRA nearly New Shop, interesting bargains can be found to buy. ESRA’s Ethiopian items or a subscription to the ESRA magazine make excellent presents.
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by Bet Alpha Editions, Berkeley, CA, USA
In October 1988, the most definitive exhibit on the
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Hebrew Book ever assembled opened at the New York Public Library. One of the important and beautiful Haggadah manuscripts was the original Moss Haggadah. A Haggadah for our Time details the creation of this hand- written and hand-illuminated manuscript, a formidable undertaking by the artist, David Moss.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
Rabbi Arye A Frimer illuminates for us what is meant
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by these four expressions of redemption. God promises the Israelites to free us from the Egyptians, to deliver us from bondage, to be redeemed and take us to be His people. The explanations reveal interesting insights into our Judaic roots.
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by Doreen Mirvish Bahiri
Two sisters, Miriam and Doreen, were the well-known
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owners of Dervish, a shop specializing in exotic and ethnic items, which they brought from faraway places. Doreen Mirvish Bahiri rediscovers a treasure in My Grandmother’s Cloak, embellished with the Sultan’s signature.
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