by Annette Keen
Annette Keen recalls an incident when she was 8 years
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old, on Yom Kippur 1952. Her father was a survivor from a displaced persons camp in Germany and she and her family were living in a rural community in the USA. Her father was the Cantor and he was unusually quiet and thoughtful as they set out for the Kol Nidre service. Finally he told her that he had been thinking about the past and was praying for forgiveness for leaving his father behind.
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by Cynthia Barmor, Jackie Klein
ESRA Modiin raises funds to support their afternoon
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center for children at risk. The secondhand bookshop brings in a good regular income, lectures and an evening held with other branches also boosted their funds. Many volunteer activities are also run with great support from the community.
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by Helen Bar-Lev
Brought up in New York, Helen Bar Lev lived at the
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absorption center in Ramle when she came to live in Israel in 1973. People of many backgrounds lived there, bringing with them the culture of the lands they came from. With this background, the Yom Kippur War and the death of her brother made her feel truly Israeli and absorbed her very quickly into this country.
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by Lynette Karp
Ageing is a challenge, but to experience it with humor
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and with your spouse of over years 70 years makes it a privilege to experience. Moe Bergmann accepts that changes have to be faced, but with his sharp wit and wisdom, he can still laugh at the idiosyncrasies of being old.
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by Fonda Dubb
Colin Porter, a native South African and specialist
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in guiding tours in Israel’s deserts, shows Fonda the beauty and secret places of the Eilat Mountains.
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Why do large supermarkets not have a small café area
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where shoppers could rest and check over their shopping lists? Does every Kupat Cholim have an emergency medical service – Naomi tells us how to contact the Maccabi service and how delighted she was with it. The Ministry of Interior issues a card that can be used for discounts for Senior Citizens – women over 62 and men over 67. City taxes can be reduced, bus and train fares halved and some banks offer special discounts.
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by Lea Malul, Rhoda Goodman
As the rockets fall at 2am, residents of Ashkelon have
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only 20 seconds to rush into their safe rooms or shelters. What happens if they are caught outside when the sirens go off? The local hospital too, which is inadequately protected, is exposed to the rockets and cannot function when it is most needed. The doctors are both Israeli and Arab doctors and they treat Israeli and Arab patients.
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by Lola Katz
Babette Kaplan came to live in Israel in 1963. She
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taught English through drama which she had studied in her native South Africa. Later she studied for a doctorate and became an internationally recognized counselor. A protestor and demonstrator for many causes she also found time to volunteer in the local community and with ESRA.
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by Rhoda Goodman
Rhoda relates her experiences of travelling abroad
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with only hand luggage, and gives some useful tips and challenging ideas.
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by Bess Hoffman
Review on a tour around the Caesarea ruins, followed
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by a moving visit to ESRA’s Horse Riding Therapy Project at Kibbutz Magal, where disabled children have happy and close experiences with animals.
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by Pamela Peled
Dr. Pamela Peled introduces the dream to create the
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Galilean Resort & Spa, a spiritual center for Christian tourists. Its educational facilities will provide for religious development, while at the same time enabling its guests to relax and enjoy the wellness and spa service. Unique is the deep meaning of its location: the Galilee, on the banks of Lake Tiberias, where Jesus established his ministry 2000 years ago.
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by Carl Hoffman
Jewish gangsters were a well known part of the American
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criminal scene in the first half of the twentieth century. Benny Fein was one of these New York mobsters. The terrible fire in March 1911 in a garment factory that killed over 100 young women caused him to rethink his life style – he became a fighter for better conditions for the workers.
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