Orel having fun with customers
A young guy building a relationship with a positive adult figure
Two innocuous second-hand clothing stores, one in down-town Tel Aviv and the other in Rishon Lezion, have presented at-risk youth in Israel a chance to discover meaning to their lives and learn valuable job skills at the same time. Ani Shlishi, founded four years ago, is a nonprofit organization that trains vulnerable young people to work as part o...
On February 24, ESRA held an online event in honor of Lola Katz, marking her retirement from years of devoted work as professional consultant to ETP, ESRA's very successful English Tutoring Program. In recognition of her dedication and significant contribution to the development of ETP, it was decided to allocate an annual scholarship in Lola's nam...
Assaf Friedlander and Niv Zuckerman, Grandson of Pat and Moshe Zuckerman, Won the National Mens Tennis Doubles ChampionshipPassover 2021
By Estelle SlevinSelf-publishedIllustrations by Aliza Friedman Reviewed by Pamela Peled This Happened to Us is one book that Estelle Slevin wishes she'd never had to write. Exactly twenty years ago her son, Mark, died of leukemia after battling the disease for over nine years. He was just fourteen. "One of our pressing needs was to know how to talk...
Judith (in blue and white) dressed
for work in the Corona Care Unit at
Tel Hashomer Hospital.
The Torah Study Group at Beth Protea
Patients suffering from the Covid-19 (corona) virus in Israel receive first class medical care, but because the disease is so frightening and isolating, they also need emotional and spiritual help. Hospital pastoral care counselors help provide that aid. Pastoral counseling (ליבוי רוחני) is a form of therapy which uses spiritual resources as well a...
The Late Prof. Myron Lieberman
By Deborah Lieberman and colleagues of Myron from Israel and Abroad Myron Lieberman, our husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather passed away on February 11th 2021. We are saddened by our loss but are grateful that his passing was quiet and without obvious pain, and that Myron had been able to accomplish significant goals that were...
Cathy Raff at the entrance
to Beit Elfashara, decorated
with the butterfly motif.
Photo courtesy of Nura Kurdi.
In-gathering of the seminar participants, From left to right: Nura, Iman, today’s
chief cook, her son Samir, who’s helping, and Amal, the assistant cook.
Nura on the roof lounge of Beit Elfarasha, overlooking the sea.
The table is set, before we begin. Amal is standing to the left.
"What is a nice Jewish girl from Columbus, Georgia, doing in Akko, and why?" When I started writing this article, I wanted to know what a nice Jewish girl from Columbus, Georgia was doing in Akko, and why she was doing what she was doing. Since then, the armed campaign unexpectedly launched on May 10 by Hamas but kept going by Israel, has for...
As Israel is emerging into post-pandemic life thanks to the vaccination, it is clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted many of our habits and way of life. Given the still existing struggle to cope with the pandemic, it is not so simple to jump on a plane to visit friends abroad or go on vacation with the family. The implications are applicab...
I had heard the story many times. And it never failed to move me. It is one of the many stories about my grandmother, my personal Chaye Sarah. My mother was about seven years old – which places this story in the winter of 1914. Her father had died two years before, leaving his wife, Chaye Sarah, with a houseful of children; my mother was the younge...
Edith Dinar, celebrating her 90th birthday,
in Raanana, with her family and friends
Happy birthday to Dr Albert Jacobs
on his 90th with ESRA friends.
From left to right: Estelle Schulgasser,
Jeremy Weil, Helen Stohl, Irwin and Ethel
Weintraub, Dr. Albert Jacob (on his 90th
birthday), Carole Rosenblatt (Chairperson
ESRA Beer Sheva), Dr. John and Ruth Gravinar,
Joan Avigur, Ingrid Barzel, and Judy Levine.
Photo by Wolf Levine
Please share your Milestones with ESRA readers: Births, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Marriages, Deaths Email your Milestones to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Tel: 09 950 8371BIRTHSOn your granddaughterSharona and Ari BickLaurence and Bebe JacobsEllen and Emanuel KronitzLinda and Michael SherringtonOn your grandsonEvelyn and Miguel Grausz...
