by Larry Butchins
This story took second place in the ESRAmagazine Short
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Story Competition. It is the story of mother and daughter Sylvia Bernstein and Gail Belkin victims of the suicide bomber who hit Dizengoff Center on Purim, March 1966
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by Michael Greenberg
The winner of ESRA’s 2013 short story competition,
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A Fateful Moment, Michael Greenberg reminisces about his Aunt Sari. Brought up in the USA, Greenberg’s Auntie Sari was a colorful exotic lady who visited his family regularly from India. Not encouraged by his mother, Aunt Sari cooked exotic dishes and Michael would help her and listen to her fascinating stories of distant places.
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by Barbara Abraham
Six years ago the Caesarea/Zichron ESRA group established
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a second hand bookshop in Or Akiva where they used a small area in a storeroom away from the center of the town. The shop has moved to bright new premises in the new Binyamina Shopping Mall. With good parking and a coffee shop nearby, it is attracting many new customers.
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by Carl Hoffman
Carl Hoffman reviews Martin Fletcher's new novel "Jacob's
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Oath". He finds Fletcher’s characters, however much they are intended to represent larger issues, are just too small to convey the significance of the events of those years.
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by Gloria Deutsch
Because Abe Died By June Felton creates a cast of interesting
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dramatis personae – all delineated and differentiated with sharp observation of human nature, and a powerful exposition of widowhood. Gloria Deutsch feels that the book keeps the reader’s attention and fulfills the most basic demand of fiction – you really want to know what happens next.
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by Lydia Aisenberg
A vivid journey through the pleasures of reading a
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real book, bookmarks and leather bindings, as opposed to the new fangled electronic tablets. Many episodes are recalled from a lifetime of reading books.
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by Miryam Pomerantz Dauber
The JBC – Jewish Book Council has a comprehensive
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website with every bit of advice book lovers can benefit from. This site is well worth perusing. The joy of sharing opinions on books will last forever and sites like these are invaluable.
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by Mike Porter
A review of the long journey of the Ethopians from
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Africa to Israel battling initially for 25 years to be recognized as Jews. Followed by the many hardships and also miracles of this aliyah covering a 9-year period based on Micha Feldman’s diary.
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by R.M. Kiel
The ESRA Tel Aviv Short Story Discussion Group meets
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at 17:30, the second Monday of every month.
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by Judy Hammond
A.B. Yehoshua spoke to an enraptured ESRA audience
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in Kfar Shmaryahu about his latest book The Retrospective.
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by Richelle Shem Tov
The author has written a psalm of hope and fulfillment
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despite the difficulties and hardships of the world we live in. He was inspired by David Grossman's book of essays "Writing in the Dark".
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by Alan Schneider
The Bnai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism
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is widely acknowledged in the media industry as the most prestigious prize in its field in Israel. Highly respected journalists were present at the award ceremony where winners were honored and speeches were of an exceptionally high standard of content and interest.
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by Barbara Abraham
The Wayward Moon by Janice Weizman is her first novel.
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It is in the form of historical fiction and captures ones imagination immediately. It is the adventure of a young woman’s search for meaning during the 9th century in the Middle East.
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