by Myra Olswang
The ESRA Magazine website now includes the Self Help
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Organizations in Israel directory. If you are looking for information about any personal or health issue, or indeed any other problem, search this directory. You might well find a group of people with the same problem as yours with whom you can connect http://esramagazine.com/self-help
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by Alan R Deutsch
A comprehensive overview of the 2016 U.S. and Israeli
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tax-filing season. Proper tax planning, U.S. child credit rules and Social Security Benefits are just some of the many topics related to by Alan Deutsch, a CPA with over 30 years experience
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by Baruch Tanaman
Baruch’s personal message at Pesach time makes note
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of the enormous range of ESRA’s volunteering projects. From helping immigrant children to integrate, to a safe haven after school for children at risk; from fundraising to bookshops and clothing, ESRA’s many volunteers successfully work to make a difference.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
“We Were Neighbors” is a permanent exhibition documenting
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the deportation of Berlin’s Jews between 1941-1945 using, in many cases, Nazi records. Personal stories behind some of the exhibits provide a chilling insight into the events. In Berlin’s streets is another permanent exhibition, “Places of Remembrance,” which displays Nazi anti-Jewish legislation.
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by Joseph (Joe) Morgenstern
The story of a very special friendship that started
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by chance and developed into a close bond between 2 people of very different backgrounds but with very deep care and concern for each other.
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by Helen Schary Motro
A review of the fascinating exhibition of Egyptian
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art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The main exhibit, called Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story features over 600 objects found locally. Ancient Egypt is also featured in a concurrent exhibit :The Allure of the Sphinx, Ancient Egypt in European Art and both exhibits express the interconnectedness and overlap of human cultures.
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by Emil Murad
Monument unveiling brings back vivid memories. In Or
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Yehuda in 1966, Emil Murad attended the unveiling of a monument commemorating the Iraqi heros Yosef Basri and Salah Shalom, who engineered the escape of over ten thousand young Jews from Iraq to Iran, and on to Israel. The two were accused of planting a bomb in the U.S. library in Baghdad and were executed on January 19, 1952.
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by Hadassah Fidler
There are many ways of dealing with sibling conflicts,
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including parents acting as judge and jury; having children sort it out themselves; or parents being deeply involved. A new approach, mediation, avoids the problems of other methods by identifying needs rather than judging and helping siblings come up with creative solutions.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
A courageous Ecuadorian Consul General, Muñoz Borrero,
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in Sweden saved many Jews in Europe during World War II by issuing 250 false passports. Borrero suffered personally as a result, but was posthumously bestowed the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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by Sharona Bick
Introducing our first Volunteer Column in ESRAmagazine
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which will highlight different aspects of ESRA Volunteering in each issue. Highlighted this time is the outstanding contribution of Merle Guttmann, who founded ESRA some 40 years ago.
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by Carol Novis
Is Yiddish a dead language? Not to Bella Bryks-Klein,
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who runs Brit Ha’avoda (Arbeiter-Ring), an organization which promotes Yiddish culture, literature and language, in the center of Tel Aviv. All are welcome to discover “Vus? Ven? Vu? (What? When? Where?) of Yiddish-language activities in Israel.
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by Aliza Shapiro
Aliza takes us on a journey through a very turbulent
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and historic period in her life as a young Palestine Correspondence Agency journalist, a recruit in the new state’s army, and the PR officer for the IDF Intelligence Service. She reminds us that once, the greater good superseded the individual.
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by Anton Felton
An untold World War II story! Anton relates how propaganda
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even extended to postage stamps and money. After the S.S. produced counterfeit British currency notes in 1942, Britain produced postage stamps in which Hitler’s face was replaced by that of Himmler. Himmler retaliated by producing anti-Semitic mock British stamps and others.
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by Bunny Porath
The personal story of Mr Khaldi,a Bedouin born and
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brought up in a little village near Haifa, educated at Israeli universities, served in the Israeli army and police force and now the first Bedouin ambassador for Israel .
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