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by Irving Spitz
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra has discovered yet
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another child prodigy in the form of 12 year old Maya Tamir who played Franz Joseph Haydn’s piano concerto in D Major. The concert can be viewed on Youtube. Maya’s performance was insightful belying her young years. She blended beautifully with the orchestra making the concert delightful.
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by Irving Spitz
The roots of Hindu Temples date back as far as 2000
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BCE, dedicated to one supreme deity and three physical manifestations. In his fascinating article on Hindu Temple Architecture, Prof. Emiritus Irving Spitz takes us back to the beginning, describing the intricate architecture, history, elegance and incredible beauty of the many outstanding Hindu Temples.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A best kept secret is the David Amar World Center Museum,
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celebrating the fascinating and rich heritage of North African Jewry. It’s like visiting a corner of Morocco in the City of Gold – Jerusalem. Specialists were brought in to recreate the authentic and colorful atmosphere from architecture to tiles to furniture, everything that made the North African Jewish Culture so rich and distinct and that so many hundreds of the thousands had to leave behind but never forgot…
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by Sara Groundland
ESRA Cinema Club presented the documentary film, Here
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I Learned to Love
to a packed auditorium in Yad Lebanim in Raanana. This heartbreaking story of two Polish toddlers sent to the Cracow Ghetto with their family after the Nazis invaded Poland stunned the audience into silence. After a horrific journey they finally ended up in Israel. The older brother Itzik, wrote the book on which this film is based.
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by Tania Elfersy
Tania Elfersy established her own solopreneur publishing
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firm, Flower Cap Press, in order to publish her book Purple Leaves, Red Cherries: A Gift for Mothers with Short Stories, Journal & Toolkit. The book recently won two international book awards.
Elfersy sets out her marketing plan for setting up her own e-book publishing company. Many professional people were involved in the process.
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by Linda Olmert
Since 2006 Eretz Nehederet has been reintroducing Israelis
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into the exploration and understanding of their land. Last year a new program called Matnat Shichrur was introduced specifically for IDF soldiers who have completed their compulsory military service. Modeled on the Birthright Israel concept, it is a free10 day encounter with Israel.
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by Rhoda Goodman
Sussex Academic Press. Paperback 2011. 360 pages. £47.03
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/ $52.25. Available from Gazelle Book Services sales@gazellebooks.co.uk & Amazon. (Hebrew edition NIS 98 from Steimatzky).
Reviewed by Rhoda Goodman
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by Richard Sherwin
This book of 25 short poems by Riva Rubin is reviewed
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by well known poet and teacher, Prof. Richard Sherwin. Reflecting everyday domestic objects, the power, elegance and accessibility of the poems is very attractive.
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by Hertzel Katz
Hillel Cook, better known as Peter Bergson, is well
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known for his efforts in America in the 1940’so help the Jews in Europe. This book is based on a series of interviews that David Wyman held with Peter Bergson.
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by Carol Novis
In this book Jonathan Danilowitz details incidents
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in his life in a very honest and intimate way. Most famous for his action against El Al, the ground breaking case that helped established civil rights for homosexuals.
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by David Rhodes
Revised and updated this 2012 edition of Wine Route
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of Israel has extensive new information and is beautifully laid out. Divided into geographical areas, about 100 of the 300 Israeli winemakers are described giving maps, contact details and descriptions about each one.
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by Gitty Glazer
ESRA Ramat Hasharon adopted a local community project,
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Moadonit Nitzanim back in 1995. Gitty Glazer describes the enrichment program and ESRA’s participation in this successful undertaking.
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by Jacki Edry
Netanya students Build a Neighborhood project goes
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international! Jackie Edry writes about the bonding of American volunteers, part of the Masa-Israel Pathways Project, who teamed up with the Netanya student volunteers in the successful project to spruce-up, paint-up and clean-up the neighborhood.
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by Cynthia Yaakovi
Basketball with a Message describes the fun and excitement
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of the ESRA Kiryat Nordau and Hefzibah Build a Neighborhood project where basketball was the star attraction and Hoops for Kids gave away free tickets to the game. Cynthia Ya’akovi gives us the story.
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