by Marsha Stein
Marsha Stein belongs to a Masorti synagogue in Netanya
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which has been vandalized several times. Why? One probable reason is that men and women sit together, another that women are called up to the Torah. The vandalism continues – and those responsible probably think they are acting in the name of religion.
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by Wendy Blumfield
The ESRA tour of sites along the Hijaz railway line
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was a fascinating experience with stops at Elroi and Kfar Yehoshua both stops along the original railway line, and finishing at Bethlehem of the Galilee to hear the historic stories connected with this ancient village
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by Marion Stone
Members of ESRA Modiin and Hadassah Israel Levonah
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Chapter joined together and successfully presented an excellent Yom Hashoah program to an audience of over 200. Guest speakers were Holocaust survivor Chaya Subar and Edie Kalb, the daughter of survivors. Two youngsters, who had participated in the recent March of the Living, Rivka Shemesh and Idan Kofman gave personal accounts.
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by Sharon Levisohn
Introducing Joyce and Mervyn Lasovsky and following
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their married life in tandem
with Israel's establishment as both events this year celebrate their 70 years
anniversary.
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by Chaim Freedman
More than forty people gathered in Petah Tikvah’s
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suburb of Kfar Ganim for a tour in memory of Arye Shore who had been a member of the ESRA Petah Tikvah committee and had guided a tour last year of the historical sites in the center of Petah Tikvah. The walking tour was led by Chaim Freedman, a noted genealogy enthusiast.
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by Marion Stone
Marion Stone reports on a talk to ESRA Modiin by Col.
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(res.) Aviad ben Itzhak, a specialist in genealogy, who has helped thousands of people to explore their ancestory and build family trees. Jews were often forced to take surnames based on a town or village where the family lived, while DNA plays an important part for discovering evidence of background.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Interesting report on a visit to the postal museum
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and underground mail train in
London, tracking the history of the postal service of days gone by ,by the Royal Mail.
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by Rachel Dorfan
Light hearted lyrical poem on the benefits of an eggbeater
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over a spatula with a wink at the poet's own personality
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by Deborah Opolion
Guidelines from a professional on how to go about finding
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and claiming
properties purchased in Israel by family members years ago and 'lost'; over time .
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by Alan Caplan
Alan dedicates his Bridge article to his brother-in-law,
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Bill Shutts who paased away recently. Bill was Alan's Bridge guru, and was a master of end plays. Alan describes one of these that Bill played shortly before passing away.
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by Stephen Schulman
An article on bread baking caught the eye and the fancy
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of Stephen Schulman and led to his learning to become an expert baker, discovering the mechanics and chemistry involved in the creation of bread. He sees bread as soul food – reminiscent of the Jewish delicacies of his youth.
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by Barbara Abraham
A visit to the remains of the Detention Camp at Atlit,
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where Jewish refugees were
detained. The occasion was a ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the British Mandate. It was organized by ’Love Never Fails’ which was set up by several British Christian organizations in the late 1990s to demonstrate their sorrow and repentance for British anti-Semitism through the ages.
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by Mimi Tanaman
This time it is the Ethiopian experience, as Mini Tanaman
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takes us on a tour of an Ethiopian village near Kiryat Gat and offers us a taste of Ethiopia.
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