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by Pnina Moed Kass
Pnina Moed Kass gives the highest praise to the Jerusalem
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Review. Published in English this magazine is packed with wonderful articles – food for the intellect. An excellent Israeli product, sent round the world, and it does not need an export license!
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by Carol Novis
This book by Hannah Brown is on parenting an autistic
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child and on her life as a divorced parent. Her latest writings have produced a very moving novel – a fictional account of four women who have autistic children.
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by Barbara Abraham
UPSIDE DOWN COFFEE BY Kathryn Jacobi, Reviewed by
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Barbara Abraham This novel by Kathryn Jacobi will help readers from abroad and potential immigrants to learn about life in Israel as it really is - its challenges and hardships. The tale is told through the lives of four women who meet at a coffee house to exchange news and views.
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by Barbara Abraham
This year’s annual ERA Golf tournament was in memory
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of Celle Mandel, a keen golfer, who had been a member of the ESRA Welfare Committee. The income from the golf competition was for ESRA’s “Give a Child a Future”. Sixty couples participated and Judy Reefe, herself a long-time member of ESRA and a member of the Gaash Golf Club, devoted her organizational skills and helped to make this an enjoyable and memorable day.
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by Jerry Stevenson
Jerry Stevenson recalls his first visit to Arbanel
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Street to the home of Felix Shulman, the founder and director of the Abu Gosh Music Festival. A doctor and veterinarian surgeon by profession, he also had a very solid musical background. His home was the center for his professional work as well as his musical activities.
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by Holly Stein
Holly Stein, through her photographs, sees Tel Aviv,
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the Hill of Spring, as “my Hill of Art”.
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by Steve Kramer
A journey through some less trodden paths of Jerusalem
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taking the reader to a unique restaurant, the ‘Harp of David’, describing the art and the interesting history and lives of the Pelzig family who own it.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Now in her 80’s, Tamar Snir remembers how in 1948
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she was captured by Jordanian soldiers. Frozen with fear, one of her captors, a Jordanian soldier, puts his Keffiya around her shoulders to keep her warm. After a week King Abdullah released all the female prisoners and took them back to their homes.
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by Brenda Katten
Why is ESRA unique? I could say because of the volunteers
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who truly give of themselves and they feel that helping another is the greatest reward. But it is also because of the tireless support that ESRA gives those who fall through the social welfare net. And the number of projects for English speakers is tremendous. I feel privileged, excited and a little apprehensive to follow in the footsteps of the outgoing chairpersons.
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by Sam Zebba
A chance showing of an 8mm family film in 1954 led
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to Sam Zebba making a commercial film.
Old age tradition in modern Africa is the theme of the film shot in Nigeria with amateur African actors and production team. Those were the days before zoom lenses and modern filming techniques, but with help from professionals in America the film was made.
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by Ilan Hirschowitz
Why does a young IDF cadet go AWL (absent without leave)?
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What makes life for a new recruit so stressful? The incident arouses the fear of a father whose son is serving in the army.
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by Ruth Heller
ESRA helps Gifted Ethiopian Youngsters Gain Scientific
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Knowledge. Ruth Heller participates in a class held at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot. The ESRA-sponsored project was created specifically for gifted Ethiopian youngsters from economically deprived homes.
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by Nanci Schwartz
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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