by Yael Meyer
A description of an ESRA day trip to Jerusalem to visit
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two incredible museums that bridge the founding stories of the State of Israel – Yad Vashem and the Herzl Museum.
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by Peta Singer
The ESRA Tiberias/Jordan Valley branch members have
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provided six electronic dictionaries to a boarding school in the Golan for children with learning or behavioral difficulties. Permitted for use in exams, these allow the students to cope with English translations
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by Herb Hahn
Fascinating story of Howard Schack, loyal American
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businessman and hidden undercover spy who acted on his love for Israel by working closely with the Mossad and was able to pass on useful information over the years.
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by Claire Rabin
A grandmother complains about the many and exhausting
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problems facing new Israelis in planning, and having, visits from their extended families overseas. Psychologist Claire gives some useful advice
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by Adele Rubin, Nina Zuck
The Ethiopian Sewing-Circles from Sderot and Netanya
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joined up "halfway" at the Bet Govrin caves for a most successful day's outing together. They also visited the Atachlit farm near Kiryat Gat which is set up as a village in Ethiopia, and well worth a visit.
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by Maia Aron
Maia explains the surprising link between her favorite
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Rosh Hashana prayer, Adam
and Eve, and Star Trek!
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by Steve Kramer
Perhaps the most outstanding event in Jerusalem every
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July is the Jerusalem Film Festival, organized by the Jerusalem Cinematheque. More than 150 films were presented at the last ten day festival.
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by Lydia Weitzman
The 3rd Jerusalem Biennale for Contemporary Jewish
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Art, titled 'Watershed' showcases the work of nearly 200 professional artists – Israeli and international – in tens of diverse exhibitions around the city, will take place from October 1 to November 16.
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by Gloria Deutsch
Gloria thoroughly enjoyed reading this literary but
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immensely readable work which she thinks gives a true insight into the lives of Jews in the 1920s. Originally published in 1929 it chronicles the lives of communities in Europe, Great Britain and Palestine at that time.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
The Slihot service includes a recitation of the “thirteen
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attributes of God’s mercy.” Rabbi Frimer discusses the meaning of this text, as analyzed by many scholars.
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by Pnina Moed Kass
An interesting new approach to a story of the Holocaust.
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Combining fact and fiction introduces the reader to people that draw one into the personal emotional experiences of living in those horrific times.
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by Carl Hoffman
In this debut book of short stories, Rosenfeld presents
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us with characters dealing with the broad issues of looking for love—often in all the wrong places – exploring one’s identity, sexuality, and capacity for love and assessing one’s level and depth of Jewishness.
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by Anna Banasiak
Born in the 1904, Shin Shalom is considered one of
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Israel's great poets of the 20th century. His grandfather, the Drohobyczian Rabbi, was a pioneer in cross-culture dialogue, and advocated unity over religions. He believed that the Jerusalem Temple could become a place of dialogue and prayer for different cultures and religions, writes Anna Banasiak.
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by Miriam Crosbie
The late Aryeh Shore had two great professional loves:
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science and Torah and he successfully merged the two in his life. He contributed greatly to the Petah Tikvah ESRA committee and will be sadly missed by his ESRA friends.
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