by Baruch Tanaman
In this time of of internal anxiety in Israel Baruch
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Tannaman highlights the postiive work aims and future fund-raising projects of this wonderful volunteer organisation, ESRA, that truly represents the motto of `promoting the future'.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Today, children at Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek play on a
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concrete dreidel, built as a memorial to a tragic bombing that took place on Chanukah in 1948, when an Iraqi bomb killed three children who were asleep in a children’s house, as well as a pregnant kibbutz member.
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by Meira Applebaum
Manof , a youth village near Acco gives children from
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disadvantaged and distressing backgrounds the chance for a new start in life working with animal sand agriculture, learning life skills all in a positive environment.
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by Ruth Corman
Ruth writes about her visit, as a tourist, to Cuba
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and amusingly describes the life and challenges of the small Jewish community in Havana and their own unusual contribution to its survival.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A fervent message of hope in these troubled times when
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Arabs and Jews who have lived and worked together successfully stood together in harmony on the busy Megiddo highway promoting dialogue and a shared peaceful life together.
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by Sara Rabani
Sara’s son Uri, a Golani soldier, was the unfortunate
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victim of a shooting accident. After a painful hospital stay and lengthy rehabilitation, he returned to the army as a volunteer. Now recovered, Sara considers him “one of the lucky ones.”
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by Victoria Habib
This past summer Pier Giuseppe Greco, president of
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the Italy Israel Association for Alba, Langhe e Rocro, (a group of people, most of them non-Jewish, who support Israel) came to visit Sderot. He loved it, and told Victoria Habib that he will never forget Sderot. He often comes to Israel, where he also volunteers in Sarap-el. Ms. Habib, immigrated to Israel from Rome almost 10 years ago.
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by Beth Sarafraz
Yosef Mendelevich, now in his 60s, recalls the anti
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Semitism of his childhood and his experiences as a refusnik and member of the Jewish underground. After he and his friends hijacked an airplane, he was sentenced to imprisonment. In 1981, he was released and came to Israel, with no regrets.
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by Morty Leibowitz
Three main diets – studies carried out at the Ben-Gurion
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University of the Negev – are discussed. "All participants lost weight, with the maximum weight loss being in the first 6 months", writes Morty Leibowitz. The good cholesterol (MDL) increased in all three, with the largest increase being in the low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet.
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by Fonda Dubb
Fonda recounts her personal victories over the system
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of apartheid in South Africa. Working around a discriminatory bureaucracy , she used her considerable skills in ballet and cooking to enrich the lives of many children and adults who would otherwise have been excluded from the opportunities she gave them.
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by Brenda Katten
Brenda Katten, co-chairperson of ESRA, has written
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an open letter to the Israel Broadcasting Authority asking why, at a time when Israel so needs to be heard, have they silenced the TV News in English.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
The contents of an unused synagogue from Sweden were
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donated to a Raanana synagogue, but import duties made it impractical to bring them to Israel. What to do? The solution involved creative thinking, a move on paper of the contents to Denmark and a few bottles of Slivovitz.
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by Barbara Abraham
Life is full of surprises! Barbara Abraham was on
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a tour of delightful Copenhagen (the last stop on their Baltic Sea cruise) when the guide began pointing out places of Jewish interest to the mainly non-Jewish tourists. Barbara soon discovered that the guide, Annette, was originally a Christian, married to an Israeli, fluent in Hebrew and with a deep love of Israel!
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by Leon Charney
The late Menorah Charney was a spiritual healer and
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teacher and their home was "an open centre for New Age activities." She began to be interested in crystals in 1985, when she felt their energy. Her daughter and her daughter's husband, Shani and Adam, continued this interest, and today their participation in trade and exhibitions is world-wide.
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