by Anantha Krishnan
In Gujarat, India, the annual Uttarayan festival is
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celebrated by a colourful international kite festival. During this breathtaking spectacle, the skies are filled with thousands of kites, some of which are fighter kites and at night, illuminated lanterns and fireworks add to the festival atmosphere.
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by Morty Leibowitz
How does a lay person start to reconcile contradictory
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headlines? Dr Morty Leibowitz gives us a few pointers to help sort out this dilemma
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by Flori Cohen
At an ESRA Modiin morning tea event, music therapist
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Atarah Fisher spoke on music as a means of coping amongst Holocaust survivors. In the camps, it became a means to relieve their torment and hardships, and provided support as an outlet for the expression of feelings.
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by David Rhodes
This interview highlights the experimentation and innovation
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at Dalton wineries which mirrors the way in which Israeli production has progressed over the last few decades to its present point of International standards able to satisfy local discerning tastes.
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by Nina Zuck
The ESRA annual batmitzvah party for the 12-year-old
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girls in our Students Build a Community Projects took place this year at Beit Davidson in Netanya and was a huge success!
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by Herb Hahn
Haya Samir, is a talented Israeli-Egyptian singer with
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a remarkable history. Her father, an Egyptian poet, was forced to flee Egypt in 1968 as a political refugee and Haya was brought up as an Israeli. Only when Anwar Sadat came to Israel, did she learn about her Egyptian and non-Jewish background. She performs around the world in support of peace and fraternity.
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by Morty Leibowitz
A discussion about James Joyce between Monty Leibowitz
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and 8 Indian gentlemen in a Dublin pub revealed that like Joyce's Ulysses, they were all like 'the eternal Jew' searching for their identity.
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by Sybil Levin
Sybil gives a brief history of fashion from the early
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40s to the present day, comparing men's fashion with that of women. She concludes however that if dressing up isn’t your thing Israel, where anything goes, is the place to be.
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by Judy Shapiro
Judy describes this book as a piercing autobiography
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of a brother and sister. He is a giant and she is a dwarf. She feels that the story succeeds as an emotionally captivating story that is absorbing and profound both for adults and for children
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by Mimi Tanaman
When Mike discovered late in life that he had been
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adopted, it left him feeling betrayed and lost. Dedicating himself to the task of uncovering the facts of his birth, he came up against devastating rejection, horrific and long-hidden family secrets, and a Jewish heritage. In fact, Mike discovered far more than he had bargained for, and it changed his life…
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by Annice Grinberg
Recently ESRA Rehovot met in the Malia Hall and took
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a nostalgic trip to the 1940s songs with the audience joining in. The performers, Grant Crankshaw and Daniella Roman, South Africans, who made aliyah 19 years ago, founded Desert Road Productions, to bring English music and drama to Israel
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by Cynthia Barmor
ESRA Modiin did a major rethink of their English tutoring
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project and by cooperating with the education department and the municipality created a valuable progam for helping high school students with their English studies.
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