by Lydia Aisenberg
Over one hundred Haggadot written and illustrated by
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Jewish soldiers and refugees in the 1940s make up the fascinating historical and illustrative content of The Exodus from Egypt – Then and Now compiled by Israeli Judaica collector, historian and sculptor Aviram Paz.
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by Lola Katz
Before coming on holiday to Israel many people contact
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ESRA, offering their services as volunteers, writes Lola Katz. The offers are not always effective, but the Stearns from Michigan came for three months and volunteered at ESRA's horse riding therapy project at Kibbutz Magal. Their twin children socialized with children at the Sharett High School and they liked Netanya so much they decided to stay.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
A 20-strong group of teenagers has graduated from a
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pioneering Young Ambassadors course at a school in Zichron Yaakov. The students not only improved their English speaking skills, but learnt from the experts how to analyse the media with a view to discerning bias and methods of counteracting it. The program is now being adopted in other schools around the country.
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by Ros Ben Ezra
For ten years, 80-year-old Anita Budman has been coming
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to Israel from Canada. She volunteers two months of her time in the three sewing centers for Ethiopian immigrants in Netanya.
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by Lynette Karp
After finding herself out of a job Hannah Baum discovered
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Omega 3 in its natural vegetarian form as an alternative to the fish oil. The product, derived from the Clary Sage plant, has many health benefits and Hannah is now representing the Israeli company that produces the Clary Sage seed oil.
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by Joan Weisman
Thirty Netanya residents walked on a wheelchair-friendly
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path alongside the Alexander River. The weather was cooperative, the hike easy and all were thrilled to see soft-shelled turtles. A picnic lunch let everyone 'mix and meet' and it was unanimously agreed to have more such enjoyable outings in the future.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
ESRA Tiberias - Jordan Valley Branch joined an event
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held to raise awareness in the community of environmental issues in the Jordan Valley area providing a cake stall to support the initiative.
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by Yossef Ben-Meir
Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, who lives in Marrakesh, Morocco,
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is president and co-founder of the High Atlas Foundation. The HAF mission is to catalyze grassroots development in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in Morocco. His theory of participatory development stimulus in the form of human development projects can help shorten recessions and promote growth.
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by Flori Cohen
An American-born Israeli journalist, and a frequent
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lecturer on Israeli diplomacy, Herb Keinon came to speak to ESRA Modi'in. Herb is also the Diplomatic Correspondent of The Jerusalem Post and in his speech he shed an interesting light on the daily political situations prevalent in Israel and throughout the world.
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by Steve Kramer
One of the impressive displays of this new exhibit
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at the Jerusalem Bible Lands Museum are original artifacts, clay tablets in cuneiform dating from 586 BC, giving a picture of the daily life of the exiles. ".. a wonderful way to understand what made the Jewish nation so enduring…" writes Steve Kramer.
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by Evelynne Cherny
Music from military bands, the Royal Naval Volunteer
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Band and the Big Band era of the 30s and 40s, entertained the foot-tapping audience of enthusiastic music lovers in Modiin who meet in private homes. A most successful evening's entertainment
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Some sound advice about keeping receipts on a "home
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file", (you never know when you'll need them), reading the fine print in sales adverts, cut prices at supermarkets that are out of the way, and more helpful hints.
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by Dorith Bigon
Dorith Bigon reports on ESRA’s Project of Excellence
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at the Ruppin Marine Science Institute in Michmoret. The project caters to 36 motivated, underprivileged teenagers who come to the Institute for enrichment in the sciences, ecology, marine biology and teamwork skills.
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by Lynette Karp
Janet Kiesari,Chairperson of Esra Rishon L'tzion leads
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a vibrant, enthusiastic, stimulating group of dedicated volunteers in this very active and constantly expanding branch of Esra
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by Marsha Ohayon
Marsha is a volunteer English teacher in a school in
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Kiryat Motzkin and she loves her work there. She is very much appreciated by the students and the staff. She discovered by chance that some of the children come to school without having anything to eat, and she also finds ways to help with this problem.
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