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by Sharon Levisohn
A moving visit by the ESRA Rechovot board to the local
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branch of MESHI, the acronym for the Hebrew name Mercaz Shikum Yomi. This is a sheltered workshop and rehabilitation center for adults with various mental disabilities. Over the years the ESRA Rehovot branch has earmarked some of its funds to provide additional benefits to the center.
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by Lorna Toube
Lorna Toube and Shirley Frenkel run the Rishon LeZion
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Knitting Group. They recently co-opted members of the Ad-120 retirement home in Rishon LeZion onto their knitting group and the new members are producing wonderful sweaters and scraves and also collected money to pay for the wool they use.
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by Emil Murad
Spring conjures up scenes from childhood, and fills
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you with youth, energy, vim and love for life. Read Emil Murad's words on the thrill and joys of spring, and the poems that have inspired him
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by Esther Tolkin
Esther Tolkin reports for ESRAmagazine on a new school
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year in Kiryat Nordau, Netanya. She describes the Bayit Cham activities that provide after school meals and school help to at-risk teenage girls and lists the exceptional projects that ESRA runs with them.
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by Bess Hoffman
ESRA Herzliya had an entertaining and thought provoking
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talk from Linda Silverstone in January which she called "Poetry in Laughter and Tears".
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by Nancy Kramer
ESRA Netanya held their first Arts and Crafts fair
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in November 2013. The committee met to discuss its success, and plan another fair for later this year. They met in the Galleria in Moshav Neve Yamin - formerly an antique shop and now including a wonderful vegetarian restaurant. The next arts fair will be a pre-Rosh Hashana event in early September 2014.
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by Pera, Beryl and Michael Bergman
A moving tribute to a dearly loved mother. A special
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person who filled her life with numerous activities, including volunteering for ESRA. An energetic, vivacious and caring role model, she will be sadly missed and never forgotten.
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by Gillian Heron
Gillian reports on the progress of the English Center
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which provides out-of-school English enrichment to Netanya school children. It is the dream of the late Mrs. Zviya Cohen and is run by ESRA volunteers.
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
ESRA New Generation (ENG) was started a few months
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ago when a young American-Israeli mother, Nomi Sharan-Gazit. They called on English Speakers in the Rishon LeZion area, and the ENG group has since been growing slowly but surely
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by Inge David
The sadness felt by subscribers to the Herzliya Chamber
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Orchestra when its conductor/music director Harvey Bordowitz stepped down soon dissipated when attending an excellent series of music lectures given by Harvey at a venue in Ra'anana. The lectures included gossip, anecdotes, tales of prima donnas and more. Hopefully there will be more of these excellent lectures in the near future.
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by Carl Hoffman
A review of "Heroism in the Forest: The Jewish Partisans
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of Belarus" by Zeev Barmatz, a new compendium of information about Jewish armed resistance to the Germans. The author is to be commended for providing us with this very important record of Jewish resistance and heroism
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by Vera Freudmann
A review of David’s Psalms with Paintings by David
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Sharir and Psalms translated
by Benjamin J. Segal. There is and exceptional foreward by Dr. Shulamit Laderman, and with high production values and the clarity and insights of its three dedicated contributors, it is a delight worthy of space on any coffee table or bookshelf.
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