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 Lydia Aisenberg
The Second Temple necropolis of Bet She’arim in the
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lower Galilee became a UNESCO Heritage Site in 2015 and is well worth visiting. It offers a view of the remnants of a former town of enormous importance in Jewish religious life for centuries following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the dispersion of the Jewish people.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A stroll down Bloor, the main road of downtown Toronto
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takes the author to unusual places of much interest including the Bata Shoe museum as she explores places that catch her eye on the way to the shore of Lake Ontario.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
As part of the centenary celebrations of the Kibbutz
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movements ex volunteers are invited to reconnect and join in the festivities in June 2011. Today only a handful of Kibbutzim accept volunteers from abroad but since the 1960’s thousands of volunteers have worked on the 270 kibbutzim in the movement. Many remained here and became Israeli citizens but most only stayed temporarily and returned to their own countries having had positive experiences to take home with them
Contact the KPC website to join the celebrations.
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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 Lydia Aisenberg
The Joe Alon Center in the Negev focuses on the lives
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and culture of the Bedouins. Who was pilot Joe Alon and why was the center named after him?
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A visit to the Ralli Museum in Caesarea. An architecturally
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wonderful building containing incredible paintings and sculptures, together with a sculpture park. This museum opens up a world particularly of Latin cultures.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
An in depth look at the reality and complexity of conflict
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in the area of Wadi-Ara where a recent Arab demonstration closed the road following on an overnight demolition of a home.This was followed a week later by the Israeli traffic police handing out roses to Arab drivers in an atmosphere of friendship and good wishes for Ramadan.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia describes a visit to East Barta’a, a town on
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the West Bank just in Area B and under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority. Many Israelis and Palestinians do their shopping in this town where goods from scrap metal, building materials, furniture, clothing etc. are for sale. She also visited a charcoal-packing business where Egyptian charcoal is being packaged to be sold in Israel. Lydia explains some of the problems and complications of life on that side of the green line.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg shares her delight at Gilad Shalit’s
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release - a child of Israel who became every one's son. She then takes us to the West Bank and sees the joy of parents and friends of one of the terrorists released in the transfer of prisoners. A thought provoking story of identification and hope.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Ethiopia Street is in the heart of Jerusalem, writes
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Lydia Aisenberg, who proceeds to tell us about the "fascinating buildings created in the 1880s", including an impressive silver domed circular Ethiopian church". She also tells of Ben-Yehuda, who lived here and is considered the father of modern spoken Hebrew
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Lydia Aisenberg