Zipporah’s mother, Selma J. Borowsky
One of her mother's letters home
"Letters from Jerusalem 1947-1948"
Anyone who has seen the movie or read the book Gone with the...
In memory of our son Yaakov Yehudah Frimer (ob”m)
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein ob"m (http://vbm-torah.org/archive/c...
The Weizmann Institute ... where the writer’s husband did his post-doctoral study. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Recently, I came across my diary from 1961, when Israel was ...
Retirement Home Beth Gil Hazahav Photo by David Shai wikimedia commons
I push the hot water button on the water dispenser to ...
Guide dog puppies in training outside the Knesset. Photo: Eli Ben Boher. Courtesy of the Israel Guide Dog Center
Bracha ben Avraham with her dog Dinka, watched by ESRA members.
The ESRA June day outing took us to visit the Israel Guide D...
Star Trek fans will recognise this as a Gorn Photo: Kevin T, Flickr.com
Blessed are You our God, King of the Universe, who has provi...
Photo Credit: Airpix www.flickr.com
One of the tough things about grandchildren is answering tho...
Members of ESRA Ramat Aviv at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technology in Rehovot
Inside the Weizmann home
On a very beautiful, but very warm July 4th morning, a full ...
Michael and Judy Copeland in 1968
Dr. Justin Phillips
At Sde Boker 1968 with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Michael Copeland
1969: WUJS
students go on
an outing
People have often asked me how the WUJS Institute began, so ...
A ticket to ride … Orna Shimoni of the Four Mothers movement and grandsons and (right) ESRA Yokneam branch coordinator Mimi Samucha waiting for the Peace Train at the Kfar Yehoshua-Yokneam station
M.K. Yehuda Glick, addressing the WWP in the Park Eucalyptus, Bet Shean
Give peace a chance...collective plea from WWP activists to Israel politicians
During the Pesach holidays, over a thousand Jewish and...
Talya’s uncle Sidney Bensaid, who fell in the first battle of the Six-Day War
Talya Dahan (left) with her mother, Tsiona (center) attend the troops’ homecoming
Sidney Bensaid’s temporary grave
at Beeri, before being transferred
to Mount Hertzl
It was hot and dusty in Beersheba in late May, 1967. I had j...
Roman and Byzantine city with the high mound that was Biblical Beit She’an
Underfloor heating system at Beit She’an
With great excitement, I was awakened on Wednesday morning b...
Front row: Dr. Bornstein, head of the Burns Unit with his wife and twin sons and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Back row: Prof. Chaim Boiches, who became Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, other volunteer doctors from the U.S., Australia and England and Ben Novis (second on the right)
In May 1967, I was in London doing post-graduate medical stu...
Rona Harris and a guard at the Wall during her three months in Israel after the war
I was a medical technician at the Jewish General Hospital in...
1965: Dov Vogel (standing, left) with other teenagers on the Masada summer program in Israel
I had finished my first year at university and was wor...
The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem (Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Common)
Exhibits at the Lehi Museum. (Photo: Dr. Avishai Teicher via Wikimedia Commons)
Underground Prisoner Museum, Akko. (Photo: Dr. Avishai Teicher via Wikimedia Commons)
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) sets standards w...
Singing in their mother tongues (from left) Dana Keren, Meera Eilabouni and Diane Kaplan (Photo: Gal Mosenson)
Pete Seeger: His protest songs were banned
One of my most abiding memories of my South African childhoo...
It's early 1968, and left-hander Ilana Walsh is in the Arad area of southern Israel, taking aim with a rifle under the watchful eye of a young Ulpan student.
Ilana (second left) with fellow students at Ulpan in WUJS, Arad
Sitting alongside Amud Habulbusim, the stone structure which supposedly marks the location of ancient Arad. In 1968, the structure marked the entrance to the town, but today it is surrounded by a memorial park.
I was born in Leeds, England, and in 1966 graduated from Cam...
