by Sharona Bick
Introducing our first Volunteer Column in ESRAmagazine
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which will highlight different aspects of ESRA Volunteering in each issue. Highlighted this time is the outstanding contribution of Merle Guttmann, who founded ESRA some 40 years ago.
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by Carol Novis
Is Yiddish a dead language? Not to Bella Bryks-Klein,
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who runs Brit Ha’avoda (Arbeiter-Ring), an organization which promotes Yiddish culture, literature and language, in the center of Tel Aviv. All are welcome to discover “Vus? Ven? Vu? (What? When? Where?) of Yiddish-language activities in Israel.
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by Aliza Shapiro
Aliza takes us on a journey through a very turbulent
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and historic period in her life as a young Palestine Correspondence Agency journalist, a recruit in the new state’s army, and the PR officer for the IDF Intelligence Service. She reminds us that once, the greater good superseded the individual.
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by Anton Felton
An untold World War II story! Anton relates how propaganda
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even extended to postage stamps and money. After the S.S. produced counterfeit British currency notes in 1942, Britain produced postage stamps in which Hitler’s face was replaced by that of Himmler. Himmler retaliated by producing anti-Semitic mock British stamps and others.
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by Bunny Porath
The personal story of Mr Khaldi,a Bedouin born and
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brought up in a little village near Haifa, educated at Israeli universities, served in the Israeli army and police force and now the first Bedouin ambassador for Israel .
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by Eli Libenson
Tells how two people with very different backgrounds
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meet in America and eventually marry very happily. Eli and Suzy learn from the each other's background, and finally move back to Israel.
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by Barbara Abraham
The Elma Arts Complex Hotel in Zichron Ya’akov is
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the rebirth of a former Histadrut holiday home as a luxury hotel housing art galleries, a concert hall, and a restaurant. The concert hall offers monthly programs of classical music and jazz that are attracting a growing audience.
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by Sarice Holley
Women’s rugby is not only a game that Sarice Holley
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enjoys, but a source of lessons in life. The lessons to be learned include getting up and back in the game when you’re hit, supporting and communicating with others, having patience, and going the extra mile.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
Rabbi Frimer discusses the centrality of matzah in
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our national memory – as a memorial (zikaron), a positive commandment and an encapsulation of the main themes of Pesach. It is matzah, he writes, which transforms the Haggadah into a personal tale which can be relived.
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by Yael Meyer
A bus tour by ESRA day trippers, in which a variety
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of different cultures is explored: Bedouin, Jews, Black Hebrews, and the ancient culture of the Nabateans. All this in 2 days – wow!
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by Marsha Stein
A fascinating description of a visit to Avnei Eitan
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a religious moshav in the southern Golan utilizing a remarkable robot machine to pristinely milk their herd of 60 cows without a human touch.
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by Richard Shavei Tzion
The author, journeyng from Israel, takes us through
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the cemetries of CapeTown and Johannesburg in South Africa identifying the graves of his ancestors and thereby recalling the history of the Jews of the diaspora from time immemorial.
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by Pamela Peled
In 2008 Nadav Levi was recruited to introduce Boccia
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- a wheelchair bowling game for paraplegics to Israel .Levi himself has progressed to championship level and there are over 100 participants in the game in Israel today. The road ahead is beckoning our athletes to future honors.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
In a tribute to him, Lydia tells of her memorable,
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and slightly embarrassing, meeting with renowned US Jewish cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who died in December 2015. She shares the milestones in Wexler’s life, anecdotes she heard from him, and describes his interest in what was happening in Israel.
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by Alan Caplan
Alan discusses the “Negative Double” bridge convention.
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He explains the call, its purpose, and its advantages by using a variety of concrete examples.
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