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by Alan Caplan
Alan says "Rules, Shmules!" - there is no substitute
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for thinking! He explains how sometimes it is necessary not to follow the accepted rules.
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by Siri Jones-Rosen
Siri Jones Rosen had to get from Eilat to Ben-Gurion
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Airport to meet a friend. After arriving at Sde Dov in Tel Aviv she went to the Tel Aviv University Train Station and from there on a double-decker train to the airport. She had such a great time that she's now investigating further travel around the country by train "for the fun of it".
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by Harry Hiller
Murray Greenfield, a charismatic young 88 year old,
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gave a talk to the Haifa ESRA branch. The evening was a huge success. Murray entertained the audience with stories of his fascinating and impressive past.
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by Lisa Brink
Jeweled Confetti Salad With Honey Coated Nuts ’n
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Noodles from Lisa - a feast for your eyes as well as your palate!
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by Miriam Grunwald
For 3 years Miriam Grunwald has been visiting Sofia
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Yanovich as part of the ESRA befrienders' program. Miriam tells Sofia's moving story of survival during the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia, to her life after the war and eventually her Aliya to Israel in 1987. Today at 90 years old, with a very lucid mind, she lives in Netanya and is still enjoying life.
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by Judy Shapiro
Just 2 1/2 hours from Tel Aviv one enters the Golan.
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Judy Shapiro gives a colourful survey of an unusual family, the Levines of Moshav Nov on the Golan. They went back to a naturalistic life – growing organic food and fruit, building guest houses, giving lessons and guided tours and recycling and rebuilding items.
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by Herb Hahn
Ravello is a UNESCO World Heritage site. At its centre
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is the CAMO – the Cameo and Coral Factory, with its own museum. What caught Herb Hahn's eye was the Shema over the entrance to the museum. From the Jewish owner Herb learned about the generations of Jewish cameo carvers that lived and worked there.
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by Pnina Moed Kass
Pnina tells a modern-day fable reminding us of Aesop's
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tale of the Fox and the Grapes. The moral of her story: Winter reveals the truth as summer cannot
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by Evelynne Cherny
ESRA Modiin’s recent Music Lovers Group was hosted
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by Barbara and David Wirtschafter. A most successful evening of jazz and supper was enjoyed by all.
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by Joan Weisman
The Netanya lecture series is a highly successful project
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with the dual purpose of giving the English speaking community in Netanya quality lectures in English as well as to help fund the activities of ESRA’s Netanya Projects. The bi-weekly lectures are held at the generously donated hall in the Yona Apartments - an ideal solution.
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by Aryeh A. Frimer
The Gemara presents seemingly opposing interpretations
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of judgment by the Almighty on Rosh Hashana. These raise the question: Is judgment individual or is mankind judged as one? Rabbi Frimer shares a Tamudic response to this contradiction which offers an answer to spiritual preparation for the Day of Judgment.
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by Esther Roiter
Esther Roiter tells the moving story of Holocaust survivors
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who went to America, and the poor conditions they lived in. She says that "We, the second generation, are obligated to teach our children about the flourishing yeshivot in Poland, and of Hungarian and German Jewry". Esther also talks of the burden of suffering carried by the second and even third generations of Holocaust survivors.
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