Richard Shavei-Tzion stands between his grandparents' and his wife's grandparents' graves facing each other amongst tens of thousands in the Pinelands Cemetery, Cape Town
Unmarked children’s graves at Braamfontein Cemetery, Johannesburg
Richard Shavei-Tzion at the grave of his great-grandfather at Braamfontein Cemetery, Johannesburg
My family's experience reflects the migratory patterns of So...
Aliza Shapiro - new Oleh from London (taken on her 90th birthday)
Please share with ESRA readers your celebrations - Bir...
Above and below: Karmiel students busy painting on Volunteer Day. Photos: Rory Frankel and Brian Fink
Ayalim group with members of ESRA Karmiel committee
Karmiel is one of the areas in the Galilee where a student v...
We’ve arrived ... Eitte and Morris Silber in Raanana
Fulfilling a lifetime's dream by making aliyah to join their...
Vineyard. Photo: Gabriel-flickr.com
Sitting around the table with my Yesh Atid colleagues in the...
Checkmate ... parts of a chess set. Story and photos by Yael Meyer
New York sculptures in Miami colors
A rocking chicken
Sausage roll? Almost - it’s a sausage rocking hotdog
Items in a cactus garden
Biological reactors at the Shafdan plant
On a chilly, but mostly sunny January day, a busload of ESRA...
Photo by: Ashley van Haeften-flickr.com
The Netanya Office/Drop in Center has now been open for two ...
Youngsters enjoying a game of table football at Neve ESRA
When ESRA Modiin decided in 2010 to adopt an afternoon care ...
Pull the udder one ... robotic cow milking at the moshav
Marsha Stein feeds a cow at the moshav in the Southern Golan Heights
Avnei Eytan, a religious moshav in the southern Golan Height...
Photo: Fuzzy Gerdes flickr.com
Around the time of the holidays, many of us try hard to get ...
The couple pictured later in life
Elaine Rosenberg-Kuritzky was a much loved member of her loc...
Bonah and her Israeli passport
As of February 12, 2016 I have lived in Israel for two years...
The old embraces the new: A solar-panelled mosque at the Bedouin agricultural village of Dirajit
Final resting place of David and Paula Ben-Gurion at Sde Boker
The Prime Minister at Avdat National Park in 1960
Tea for a guest at the Joe Alon Museum of Bedouin Culture
Taking a look at Abraham’s Well at Beersheba
Sculpture depicting Nabatean life at the Avdat National Park
A view of the Nabatean ruins at Avdat National Park
Music played at the Black Hebrew Museum, Dimona
Dessert in the desert ... at Dirajit the Bedouin agricultural village
As 2015 was ending, an adventurous group of ESRA bus t...
David Goshen ... letters in the paper every week
David (Dave) Geshen (Goshen) was born in Durban on April 16,...
Photo credit: Victoria Rachitzky Hoch- www.flickr.com
In Exodus 12, verses 1-13, God describes the details of Pesa...
The Ecuadorian passport which was provided for Alex de Haas and members of his family
Rabbi Jacobson
One of the Righteous: Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero
Interior of the Jeschurun Synagogue, Stockholm ... it survived Kristallnacht
At Yad Vashem (from left) granddaughter Manuela Bjelke, Dr. Efraim Zadoff, Seth Jacobson, grandson Manuel Bjelke, son Lennart Bjelke and Mrs. Betty Meyer, one of those saved by the passports
"And so we must know these good people who helped Jews durin...
David Eidelman ... left a thriving dental practice in South Africa to start again in Ramat Hasharon.
Although David started off as my family dentist, he eventual...
Photos: Ilan Hirschowitz/Luba Zuk
Negev's Flowers As a teeny, tiny fragment The city sleep in ...
Photo: Avgar Idan
Writer Sarice Holley (in red top) with fellow rugby playing friends (from left) Roni Kipnis, Melanie Kraus and Michal Taraboulos. Says Sarice: “We all started playing at the same time five years ago in Jerusalem, and now we play in different teams.”
Keep on running ... Israeli children have taken up the sport of rugby
I was introduced to rugby five years ago by a flyer glued to...