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by Lydia Aisenberg
Tama plastic industries of the Jezreel valley in Israel,
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manufacture netwrapping for agricultural use, particularly popular with British farmers.This year the product for the UK was produced in bright pink to incorporate breast cancer awareness and the British landscape is dotted with this important reminder wherever one drives.
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by Leon Charney
The late Menorah Charney was a spiritual healer and
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teacher and their home was "an open centre for New Age activities." She began to be interested in crystals in 1985, when she felt their energy. Her daughter and her daughter's husband, Shani and Adam, continued this interest, and today their participation in trade and exhibitions is world-wide.
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by Laura Rusk
Laura Rusk, today a resident of Beth Protea in Herzliya
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tells the detailed story of her experiences during the Holocaust, Her horrific journey brought her ultimately to Auschwitz extermination camp, a factory of death.
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by Ralph Alon
The poignant story of the memorial stones laid in memory
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of Julius and Elfriede Burg in Berlin, after a three year search to find living descendants of the couple who perished in the Shoah over 70 years ago.
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by Herb Hahn
Was life in Don Draper’s "Mad Men" world really that
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mad? Herb recalls some of the humorous stories and experiences of working in the advertising business in New York
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by Dave Bloom
Why is it that certain memories remain so powerfully
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embedded and come to the surface so readily, whilst others remain buried and irretrievable? From Proust to psychologists today who claim that reminiscence is therapeutic, we learn how important it is to remember and record our family histories.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Lydia Aisenberg reports on the recent visit to Wadi
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Ara and Givat Haviva of Dwayne Zacharie, the Canadian First Nation (Mohawks) police chief. He was accompanied by Dr. David Mendelssohn, formerly of the Givat Haviva academic staff and a boyhood friend from the days of the Canadian national wrestling team.
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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 Yoel Sheridan
In 1887 Baron Nathan Meyer de Rothschild initiated
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an economically viable project that was able to provide affordable housing for working class families in the East End of London, England. Yoel Sheridan suggests that the model used by the Baron could work today and provide reasonable housing for rent to under priviledged families.
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by Lucille Cohen
Orr Shalom, www.orr-shalom.org.il,through foster homes
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throughout the country, gives a warm environment and hope to boys and girls at risk, from birth to age 18 and beyond. A few of the thousands of Orr Shalom "graduates" tell their stories, and we see just how important early encouragement is in the lives of disadvantaged children.
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by Joan Weisman
ESRA volunteers who visited Kibbutz Magal toured the
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almond orchard and learnt about the plight of the bees. They visited the riding centre which provides joyful therapy for physically disabled youngsters between 5-18 years old. In some cases, the therapy eliminates the need for an operation. A truly stimulating experience,
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by Lydia Aisenberg
The town crier still exists in Britain today. Lydia
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Aisenberg came across one of them in Wimborne Minster, a town in Dorset. Once a week Chris Brown dons a black hat and a red gown, rings a brass bell, calls out "oyez, oyez" and makes mayoral announcements. During his break he told Mrs. Aisenberg of his visit to Bergen-Belsen when he was 12 years old, and the family's acquaintance with an inmate, "Eva", who eventually settled in Norway.
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by Ingrid Rockberger
The Jewish Genealogy Societies will be meeting in Jerusalem
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in July 6-10. Nearly 200 lecturers will cover Jewish research around the globe. Besides the lectures tours and other activities will be held. For beginners the writer suggests the main website for Jewish genealogy – www.jewish.gen.org.
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