by Adele Rubin
Sapir College trained Sderot residents to man the Social
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Rights Center which helps residents of Sderot in dealing with governmental issues. An interesting insight into Sderot’s diversity of inhabitants, as well as a real picture of their daily issues, is given.
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by Judy Copeland
ESRA Magazine's list of personal announcements including,
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new homes, get well wishes and family occasions and condolences
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by Elaine Benton
In this light hearted poem Elaine Benton who has Parkinson’s
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disease, writes about some basic situations which are becoming harder for her to deal with.
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by Alan Caplan
The most common use of the term “counting” in bridge
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applies to situations where you are interested in knowing how many cards in a suit have been played by the opponents when one is drawing trumps or establishing a long suit. Learn all about it from Alan Caplan.
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by Lynette Karp
Residents of Beth Protea in Herzliya have formed a
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small committee to assist in the sorting, addressing and packing of a few thousand ESRA magazines that cannot be hand-delivered.
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by Carol Novis
Boutique hotels are a new phenomenon in Tel Aviv. Boutique
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hotels tend to be on the smallish side with an emphasis on intimacy and personal service. They each have a unique character and personality, aspire to being hip and trendy and are usually fairly luxurious. They aim to attract a young clientele with above average incomes.
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by Helen Schary Motro
Helen Schary Motro describes Martin Fletcher’s book
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“The List” as a terrific read. It is set during the final years of the Second World War and is about actual events of the Holocaust and the Zionist struggle in Palestine. Overlaid is a fictitious love story of a young refugee couple from Vienna who are trying to settle into a new life in London.
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by Lola Katz
ESRA shows residents of Sderot that it is committed
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to their wellbeing at all times, not just when the rockets fall.
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by June Levy
The Bnei Israel Indian Community is widespread in Israel,
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and efforts are being made to unite these Jews from India and support The Indian Jewish Heritage Center. A meeting where two female Indian Jewish authors – one an Israeli resident and the other on a visit from India were the main speakers is summarized here by June Levy.
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by Enat Meir
Movements that cause pain can be modified – this
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is the thought behind Feldenkrais. It organizes body movements in the most effective and efficient way, helping to improve mobility, flexibility and restore energy.
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by Anthony Collins
Many people are living good quality lives thanks to
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traditional prescribed medication. Others may have conditions to which there is no real medical answer. These might include insomnia, anxiety, mild depression, generalized aches and pains or recurrent colds. If no further help can be offered, Homeopathy might well be an answer.
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by Elaine Benton
Born with Gauchers disease and diagnosed with Parkinson’s
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in her forties Elaine Benton finds writing poetry very therapeutic. She was invited to be the guest speaker at the First International Congress of Narrative Medicine and Rare Diseases in Rome. Her talk was very well received by the participants, most of whom were international professors and academics.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg vividly recalls the Yom Kippur War
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when she was living on a kibbutz with her husband and toddler son. She remembers how her husband and the kibbutz members reacted to the news of the war, within hours the men went off to fight and a new routine descended on the kibbutz.
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