by Norman A. Rubin
How has our society been able to change so much, and
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bureaucracy overtake so many things? Through Mr. Common Sense, Norman Rubin reminds us how our standards have changed and how so many ways of behaviour have deteriorated and become the accepted norm.
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by Jill Sadowsky
Jill Sadowsky regales us with her experience when she
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saw a snake in her kitchen. Petrified, she called her kids who explained that the snake, Ollie, was harmless. Ollie was a hognose snake that liked to “perform” by playing dead. Later, at a job interview, this information helped her impress the head of the Biology department and got her the job as P.R. assistant. Her amusing account won her honorable mention in ESRA’s literary competition.
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by Barbara Abraham
How did a documentary film called “Israel in color”
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come to be made? Read Barbara Abraham’s account of a meeting with documentary film maker Avishai Kfir, and his own discovery of film footage of the early days of the State of Israel made by Fred Monosson. Monosson, with one of the first home movie cameras, filmed the Jewish /Israeli story from 1945 – 1969. These highlights have now been incorporated into Kfir’s own documentary.
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by Sara Groundland
While watching the movie “Fiddler on the Roof”,
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Sara Groundland muses about a time when Jews, living in Eastern Europe, were constantly harassed by Tsarist decrees to leave their shtetls or were driven out by pogroms perpetrated by the local villagers at the behest of the rulers of the time. Today she thanks God that we have our own country and Jews no longer have to worry about being uprooted ever again.
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by Adele Rubin
What does it mean to be a Zionist in this day and age?
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For Adele Rubin the real Zionists are those who came to Israel of their own free will, but she also uses the example of Azarai Alon, now 92, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and this year’s recipient of the Herzl Prize. This prize is given every year to worthy individuals who have contributed to Israel in some way.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
British And American students participate in MASA Givat
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Haviva Intensive Arabic semester, learning the languages and cultures of Arabs and Jews in Israel. Lydia Aisenberg reports.
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by Steve Kramer
This is not your usual tourist guide but an unusually
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interesting one that takes the armchair traveller on an historical, archaeological, biblical and cultural tour of Israel in a very individual way. Encountering Isael by Stephen Kramer is reviewed by Rolly King Kohansky.
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by Lisa Sanders
Last Ice Cream describes an outing to the beach, in
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sweltering heat, on the last day of the summer school holidays, of the writer and her four young children, the hassles and pleasures.
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by Barbara Grant
The fourth annual community sponsored walk in aid of
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the Benji Hillman Foundation took place in Raanana on Friday April 30. Donations are still coming in from the walk, which has so far raised NIS 180,000.
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by Jane Shalev
The Swedish ‘girls’, Symötet, donated this year’s
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takings to ESRA for students’ scholarships.
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by Eric Moss
Eric Moss, 3rd Prize Winner of ESRA Magazine Literary
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Competition, unfolds his personal story of how his adopted daughter expressed her wish to meet her biological parents before her wedding day. “Convoy to Sderot,” recounts his family’s journey as they travelled together to that highly emotional meeting and the subsequent celebration of the event.
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by Petra van der Zande
2nd Prize Winner of ESRA Magazine Literary Competition,
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Petra van der Zande, has written the true story of loving
hearts, with a difference. In “Grafted onto the Jewish Olive Tree,” Petra tells us how she and her husband Wim, Christian Zionists originally from Holland, came to Israel and took on the difficult task of caring for several special needs children and how this changed all of their lives.
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by Barbara Abraham
“This is my regiment; This is my home; Fighters,
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men and women; Dressed in green uniform.”
These are the words sung by the members of MAGAV, the border police at their passing our ceremony. In her article, “TO BE A FREE NATION,” Barbara Abraham expresses her pride as she watches her 18-year old grand daughter, a new cadet, march by and raise her voice in song.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
Sarika Braverman devotes her time to the memory of
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those of her parachuting comrades, lost in the struggle for the Zionist ideals. The Hashomer Hatsair movement is the inspiration for her life which she shares in her stories of the bravery and commitment of her colleagues.
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by Zelda Harris
Coming to live in Israel in the 1950's Zelda and Leon
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Harris with their young family happily became candidates for membership of a Habonim Moshav. Having worked hard and feeling part of the Moshav family they were astounded when they were rejected for membership. In spite of this the family remained in Israel and as Zelda says – the rest is history.
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