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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia peruses an issue of B’Derech, a Zionist magazine
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published in the mid- 1940s in the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp in Germany. The magazine taught the children about Jewish holidays and Israeli culture. She describes how Succot was celebrated there in comparison to what happens in a modern-day kibbutz
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Lydia describes her visit to The Lower East Side Tenement
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Museum in New York, on Orchard Street. It vividly presents the poverty and struggle to survive of so many immigrants to the USA in the early twentieth century. This is achieved by using personal stories as the medium to speak to the visitors and to preserve history.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Among the most joyous items of this holiday are definitely
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the flags for Simhat Torah, writes Lydia Aisenberg. The flags, with so much fine and colorful detail, are pages of history on a stick, explains Judaica collector Aviram Paz. The story contains many beautiful illustrations of such flags.
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An inviting 60-plus acre urban nature reserve is nowadays
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attracting flora and fauna in large numbers as well as Jerusalemites and visitors from afar. the Gazelle Valley Nature Reserve is already handsomely inhabited by a sizeable herd of gazelles and hordes of species of wildlife.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
London’s Foundling Museum highlights the history
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of this home for abandoned infants, established in 1739, by Thomas Coram together with artist William Hogarth and composer George Frederic Handel.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Almog Boker, a popular television journalist covering
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Southern Israel for Channel 10 Israel News, lives with his family in Kibbutz Zikim near the Gaza Strip. Almog shares some of the many trials and tribulations of reporting from one of the most news sensitive areas in the country.
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Women Wage Peace, an organization devoted to breaking
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down stereotypes and working toward living in our region in peace, held an event in which over 1,000 Jewish and Arab Israeli women participated. They boarded a Peace Train bound for Beit She'an, where the event was held.
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Students on the Birthright-Plus program learned about
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three communities: Kibbutz Metzer, the neighboring Arab village of Meiser and the Palestinian village of Kafin, and about the delicate balancing act between them on both sides of the Green Line.
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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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Lydia Aisenberg writes of her visit to Nailsworth in
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the UK, and how the book Children Write for Peace was warmly welcomed by the Quaker community, where ideas in common were shared and a good connection has been forged.
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Lydia describes the Great Mini World museum of Moshe
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Samter, a 1930s immigrant from Germany. The museum in Yokne'am displays his beautifully hand-crafted scenes in miniature which offer a wonderfully detailed glimpse into all aspects of Jewish economic, cultural, and religious life in pre-WW2 Europe.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A comprehensive museum in PardesHanna-Karkur reflects
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the interesting history of this area with many old artifacts of days of yore and comprehensive and most interesting information.
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Now in her 80’s, Tamar Snir remembers how in 1948
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she was captured by Jordanian soldiers. Frozen with fear, one of her captors, a Jordanian soldier, puts his Keffiya around her shoulders to keep her warm. After a week King Abdullah released all the female prisoners and took them back to their homes.
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Israeli ceramics artist Tsamerit Zamir, lives in Moshav
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Netiv HaAsara near the concrete wall between Israeli communities and the Palestinian residents of Gaza. She combined her ceramic talents and wish for a more peaceful existence for all the people of the region in her work. On a portion of the wall – in clear view of Gazans – thousands of brightly colored tiles spell out peace
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Lesser kestrels are a relatively rare and endangered
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species. As part of projects to increase their numbers throughout Israel, Ron Tzur, a member of Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, heads the local rescue team for fallen chicks.
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