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by Jackie Klein
The Jewish Community along with the South African white
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population were apprehensive when Mandela came to power. Would he really live up to his words – unification and reconciliation? He did this and more with his wisdom, humanity and kindness. Jackie Klein was visiting South Africa at the time of his death and witnessed the outpourings of love for him from the local communities and from people all over the world .
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by Michael Greenberg
The winner of ESRA’s 2013 short story competition,
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A Fateful Moment, Michael Greenberg reminisces about his Aunt Sari. Brought up in the USA, Greenberg’s Auntie Sari was a colorful exotic lady who visited his family regularly from India. Not encouraged by his mother, Aunt Sari cooked exotic dishes and Michael would help her and listen to her fascinating stories of distant places.
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by Pamela Peled
Pamela Peled and her family wanted a lasting memory
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to her late husband Martin. He was a kind and generous man, a volunteer and a hands on person. So “Martins’s Men” was founded. A group of 12th grade students at Ort Kfar Saba, from underprivileged families, are being taught painting skills for renovation work. Tambour donated the paints and a local DIY store is providing tools and equipment. New ideas are abounding as to how to broaden the project – maybe it will become nationwide
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by Jennia Ganit Chodorov
The creator of ‘Dry Bones’ has written a Haggadah
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with a message for the future.
So taking our lead from Seder Night, we ask him a lot more than four questions
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by Mike Porter
Haifa’s Maritime Museum has much to offer including
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a permanent exhibition about pirates.
Weapons, models of ships and objects that ancient seafarers made or used are on display. Piracy was known in Roman times and was a world wide profitable trade all through history. There are many legends of famous pirates – both male and female, and the museum has a life-like figures amongst its exhibits.
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by Gloria Deutsch
Godfrey Gadabout is the doll knitted by Barbara Portner
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which ESRA is soon going to raffle or put up for auction. “Whatever we do with Godfrey, he’s sure to bring money into ESRA’s coffers, one way or another", says Chairperson Brenda Katten,
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by Annette Keen
The story of the the "Matriarch's" life and death embodies
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the history of so many Jewish American families who struggled to set themselves up in their new country and then achieved the American dream of wealth and success. But at what cost? And who will know how to say kaddish for them when they die?
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by Neomi Meshasha
From the moving speech Neomi Meshasha a volunteer with
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the ESRA Students Build a Neighborhood Project in Hefzibah, gave to the ‘Broadway Hits’ audience in Herzliya
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by Barbara Lyons
Geocaching is Treasure Hunting in the digital age.
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Using a GPS device and following a Compass, it’s a treasure hunt in which all the family can partake. New places are located and lots of historical and local information can be learnt - there are many locations of geocaches in Israel. Started in the USA 15 years ago, geocaching is an international pastime all over the world.
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by Barbara Abraham
Six years ago the Caesarea/Zichron ESRA group established
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a second hand bookshop in Or Akiva where they used a small area in a storeroom away from the center of the town. The shop has moved to bright new premises in the new Binyamina Shopping Mall. With good parking and a coffee shop nearby, it is attracting many new customers.
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by Zachary Taylor
The 1960s sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage showed the
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fictional side of nano-technology. Today it’s a reality. Zachary Taylor reports on the advancing tiny fliers and swimmers at the Technion
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
Outstanding photos from our 173 photo competition,
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and details of the current competition - TRADITIONS
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by Yoel Sheridan
"I am a volunteer not like the others, they teach English
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to students, I teach their mothers." So says Yoel Sheridan, who sees an urgent need to help Ethiopian working mothers to learn basic English skills in order not only to help their children, but also to advance their own ambition to achieve higher education.
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by Brenda Katten
"How much has the Christian world really changed in
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its attitude to the Jews and Israel?" was the subject of a riveting talk given to an ESRA audience by Rabbi David Rosen, the International Director of Interreligious Affairs of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and its Heilbrunn Institute for International Interreligious Understanding.
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by Sharon Levisohn, Susan Lurie
Shivta is a UNESCO World heritage site in southern
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Israel near the Egyptian border. On the spice route in Nabatean times, the city flourished for many centuries but was finally abandoned in the 9th century. The site was excavated in the 1930’s – churches and a mosque once existed, and fragments of frescoes and mosaic floors have been found. Remains also indicate that a thriving desert agriculture once flourished.
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