by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia reports on the fascinating and extraordinary
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Pollock’s Toy Museum in London which dates back to the 1850s and is packed full of wonderful vintage toys.
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by Talya Dahan Dunleavy
A wonderful description of the impressive Ramon Crater
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recalled in the treasured
memory of the writer who lived there when a young child .It left an indelible impression which is shared here with the reader.
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by Elizabeth Levi-Senigaglia
Elizabeth talks about Primo Levi who was an Italian
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Jew, chemist, author, and poet born in 1919. He was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and survived. He is best known for his autobiographical accounts of the Shoah in a series of books and poems, and his work has won prestigious literary prizes in Italy.
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by Judy Lev
South African born Leah Hyman was honored recently
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by friends and family on the celebration of her 90th birthday with a generous donation to the ESRA welfare fund. Here we learn a little more about this retired doctor's interesting life.
When Leah returned to SA. she specialized in anaesthetics, and eventually was responsible for the medical school undergraduates at Wits University in Johannesburg. This she did for 20 years until making Aliya.
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by Jennia Ganit Chodorov
An interview with Sahar Lev-Shomer, the co-star of
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Billy Elliot, who Jennia says provides us with a very promising acting career to follow
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by Shelley Sharon
An insight into the running of the three Esra offices
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and the army of volunteers that are the essence of this most successful organisation.
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by Moshe Feingold
In March 1948 17-year-old Moshe Feingold left school
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in Manchester to join the new Jewish navy. In this story he describes some of his naval experiences. After the war at aged 18, he went back to Manchester, only to find himself conscripted into the British army. Finally, in 1962, he and most of his family made aliyah.
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by Miriam Maisel
As early as the 1950s cigarette smoking was proved
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to be the main cause of lung cancer. Dr. Maisel defines the temporary pleasure it gives, only to be followed by irritability, restlessness and poor concentration, until the next cigarette. "The good news" she says "is that the moment one stops smoking one's health improves."
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by Debbie Sinai
Debbie recalls her fascinating trip to Iceland in August,
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when the weather is much like our winter, but the landscape is quite lunar. In fact she says she felt like she was walking on the Moon
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by Mike Porter
A holiday on a mountaintop in Greece impresses Mike
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Porter. So does his fight with a gigantic centipede he finds sleeping under the blankets of his new "home". He and Ruti drive around Mani, walk through Sparta and ancient Mistras – with its more than 25 ancient churches, attendant nuns and a tribe of cats – and end the holiday with a boat trip through a series of underground caverns.
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by Yael Meyer
Yael describes a fascinating hike that included places
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of historical interest and natural beauty including Megiddo, Ramot Menashe, and ending with the Muhraqa
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by Lucille Cohen
Reading the ESRA magazine, set Vera Wallerstein, scion
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of a musical family from
Prague, on an astounding journey discovering the history and. sometimes tragic, fate of her gifted family, moving through Theresienstadt, Munich and Berlin, to England, Italy, the United States, South Africa, Rhodesia and Israel.
On her return from London Vera went back to lecturing at Shenkar College. The Joint Distribution Committee granted her the "Eshet Lapidot" award for women who have excelled in their field to work on a project with a community of her choice. Vera chose to work with released female prisoners. Her project, "Making a Bag"', took place over the summer in Shenkar's Textile Design Department, assisted by a few teachers.
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by Eli Libenson
Enjoy a vicarious trip to the Scottish Highlands ,related
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with charm and humor and pure delight and joy.
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