by Richard Shavei Tzion
The author is moved to tears as he moves among the
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graves of the Mount of Olives cemetery. The first Jewish burials took place here about 2,800 years ago, but on that particular night homage was paid to 15-year- old Gracie (Yaffa) Harush and others who fell defending the newly-established State of Israel.
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by Flori Cohen
The Modiin Anglo community, including ESRA Modiin,
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hosted a moving commemoration evening for Yom HaShoah. Among the speakers were Dr. Teria Shantall, a clinical psychologist and specialist in Logotherapy, founded by Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl, and Sara Shor, Collection Manager, Artefacts Collection at Yad Vashem Museum.
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by Maia Aron
How do you wash a floor in Israel? To new olah Maia
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Aron, that was a mystery which took her some time to solve.
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by Henry Gild
A successful ESRA outing included a view of spring
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flowers on Mount Gilboa, archaology at Beit Shean, the 6th century synagogue at Beit Alpha and the Tel at Kibbutz Yisrael.
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by Marion Stone
The documentary film "Torn" tells the story of Yaacov
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Wecksler, who found out at age 35 that he was Jewish. Yaacov, who had become a Catholic priest at age 17, today works at the archives department of Yad Vashem, but to date has not been granted full Israeli citizenship.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
Rabbi Frimer explains that the real key to our spiritual
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survival is our ability to maintain our uniqueness throughout the diaspora. Our secret weapon in resisting assimilation and the cultural influence of our enemies is the Torah - our “portable identity”.
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by Miriam Crosbie
Miriam describes a fascinating visit by ESRA Petach
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Tikva to the Planetanya in Netanya. The activities included exploring the principles of gravity, sound waves, solar activity, and ended with a lecture on the star systems in the Zodiac
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by Alan Caplan
Our bridge correspondent describes achieving a glorious
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grand slam, vulnerable, doubled and redoubled.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A memorial grove at Sonoma State University honors
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victims of the Holocaust. It features a sculpture of railway tracks, which converge at a glass tower and eternal light, and a horse chestnut tree, grown from a sapling next to the Anne Frank home in Amsterdam.
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by Harry Hiller
Yisrael Neeman is a political analyst and instructor,
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and lectures at Haifa University. Speaking to ESRA Haifa he said that there are no immediate solutions to the conflict
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by Rhoda Goodman
A trip to Japan revealed a country that is beautiful,
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fascinating, but, because 60% of young people do not marry or have children, somewhat lonely.
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by Marion Stone
From an early age Romi Ozeri loved movement so much
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that her parents sent her, at age 5, to an acrobatics class. At age 6 she was on the Snunit Acrobatics team, and two years later was part of the team when it won 17 medals at the recent Acrocup 2017 acrobatics competition held in Germany.
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by Brenda Katten
In response to Carole Kaye's innovative idea of establishing
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a Facebook page for Netanya ESRA Harvey Benson of the Pzazzband offered to donate their services for an evening's concert which had the audience singing and even dancing along at this very successful event.
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