by Alan Caplan
Hey, what have we here! Miss Marple vs. Robert Mitchum,
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Agatha Christie against Mickey Spillane. Other players include Lauren Bacall, Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe and, of course, Hercule Poirot. Thrilling matches, well described and annotated – but to truly appreciate all this you must know a game called bridge.
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by Michael Levinson
After 43 years as a teacher in America and abroad,
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Michael Levinson decided to retire and move to Israel. The Esra English Tutoring Program was a natural place for Michael to apply his skills and experience as he describes in this issue.
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by David Lawrence-Young
Writing historical novels for me boils down to combining
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my major loves of researching Shakespeare, historical events and the characters I describe while using my knowledge of English, a language I actively love. So says David Lawrence-Young who has written many accalimed historical novels, and tells of the trials of writing and publishing these books while living in Israel.
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by David Rhodes
David Rhodes tells the story of the Tishbi Winery established
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in 1985 in Binyamina by Jonathan Tishbi. This was the first break-off from the Carmel collective. Today it is the largest family-owned and operated winery in Israel.
David gives a detailed overview of products and best buys from their winery, visitors’ centre (serving meals, tasting and tours), restaurant and café.
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by Michael Lipiner
Michael higly recommends Wes Anderson’s newest film,
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The Grand Budapest Hotel. He feels it is perhaps his best and most interesting work filled with fascinating, likeable, and delightedly despicable characters played by the filmmaker’s usual regulars.
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Helpful consumer hints and good advice - this time
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including home catering services and supermarket tips.
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by Frankie Cronin
The hall was full to capacity at the inaugural meeting
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of ESRA's newest branch in the city of Haifa on June 15. Sam Frydman, Emeritus Professor at the Technion gave a fascinating talk and the goals and purposes of ESRA were explained to the guests.
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by Anthony Green, Jackie Klein
Anthony reports on ESRA Modiin’s Evening of British
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Music, which he says was a huge success. He lists contact details for ESRA Modiin’s Music Lovers’ Group
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by Dov Silverman
This story won third place in ESRAmagazine Short Story
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Competition. It tells the story of a mystical meeting in a synagogue in the Galilee, where the author talks to a wise old man with a worn parayer shawl that passed through many generations of his family.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
A warm tribute to Brenda Brett who initiated and coordinated
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of the successful Modi'in Let's Talk and English Story Hour Programs, and was a founding player of the Modiin Mahj Mavens. Brenda is moving from Modi'in to Netanya. Here there is also areport on how well the Let's Talk program works.
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by Jennia Ganit Chodorov
A regular ESRA feature, here is the latest compilation
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of readers' humorous contributions of jokes and reminiscences to bring smiles to readers' faces.
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by Nechama Namal
A report on the second annual MahJ-a-Thon, a Mah Jongg
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contest held under the auspices of ESRA Modiin.
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by Sandra Broza
ESRA Magazines list of personal announcements including,
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new homes, get well wishes and family occasions and condolences
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
Steffa Reis will be showing a group of works with the
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title “Abstracts – Old and New” at the Seven Stars Gallery in Herzliya Pituach
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