by Mike Porter
You wake up. Nothing but utter darkness surrounds you.
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You don't know where you are or what happened to you. Then the chirp of a little bird helps puts everything back into perspective
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by Lorna Toube
ESRA Rishon Lezion organized a Purim party at its adopted
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after-school center, Ofakim. There were games and hamentaschen and the children presented the ESRA members with gifts, showing their appreciation
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by ESRA MAGAZINE
The ESRA Modiin knitting ladies have had a busy year,
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knitting for lone soldiers, for babies, for children at risk, and for sick children
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by Myra Olswang
The ESRA Magazine website now includes the Self Help
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Organizations in Israel directory. If you are looking for information about any personal or health issue, or indeed any other problem, search this directory. You might well find a group of people with the same problem as yours with whom you can connect http://esramagazine.com/self-help
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by Alan R Deutsch
A comprehensive overview of the 2016 U.S. and Israeli
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tax-filing season. Proper tax planning, U.S. child credit rules and Social Security Benefits are just some of the many topics related to by Alan Deutsch, a CPA with over 30 years experience
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by Baruch Tanaman
Baruch’s personal message at Pesach time makes note
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of the enormous range of ESRA’s volunteering projects. From helping immigrant children to integrate, to a safe haven after school for children at risk; from fundraising to bookshops and clothing, ESRA’s many volunteers successfully work to make a difference.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
“We Were Neighbors” is a permanent exhibition documenting
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the deportation of Berlin’s Jews between 1941-1945 using, in many cases, Nazi records. Personal stories behind some of the exhibits provide a chilling insight into the events. In Berlin’s streets is another permanent exhibition, “Places of Remembrance,” which displays Nazi anti-Jewish legislation.
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by Joseph (Joe) Morgenstern
The story of a very special friendship that started
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by chance and developed into a close bond between 2 people of very different backgrounds but with very deep care and concern for each other.
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by Helen Schary Motro
A review of the fascinating exhibition of Egyptian
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art at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The main exhibit, called Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story features over 600 objects found locally. Ancient Egypt is also featured in a concurrent exhibit :The Allure of the Sphinx, Ancient Egypt in European Art and both exhibits express the interconnectedness and overlap of human cultures.
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by Emil Murad
Monument unveiling brings back vivid memories. In Or
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Yehuda in 1966, Emil Murad attended the unveiling of a monument commemorating the Iraqi heros Yosef Basri and Salah Shalom, who engineered the escape of over ten thousand young Jews from Iraq to Iran, and on to Israel. The two were accused of planting a bomb in the U.S. library in Baghdad and were executed on January 19, 1952.
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by Hadassah Fidler
There are many ways of dealing with sibling conflicts,
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including parents acting as judge and jury; having children sort it out themselves; or parents being deeply involved. A new approach, mediation, avoids the problems of other methods by identifying needs rather than judging and helping siblings come up with creative solutions.
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by Shlomo (Salomon) Liberman
A courageous Ecuadorian Consul General, Muñoz Borrero,
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in Sweden saved many Jews in Europe during World War II by issuing 250 false passports. Borrero suffered personally as a result, but was posthumously bestowed the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
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