Project of the Month


A supportive educational framework to assist teenage classroom dropouts to return to their school environment.

A Special Education teacher costs: NIS 50,000 per year
or NIS 4,000 per month
or NIS 1,000 per week

Whatever amount you can donate will help. Follow this link to make your donation. Thank you.


If you can't see this page properly please click on www.esra.org.il/march-newsletter

Welcome to the ESRA Newsletter for March


As usual, ESRA has been very active in the past month! You can read about some of the happenings in our ESRA News section.

ESRA Classifieds can now be accessed online. Find an accountant, a caterer, a gardener or a mahjong partner, shopping, travel, a massage and more ..... all on the ESRA Magazine website.
To advertise your service or business on ESRA’s websites, please contact Naomi at 09 956 5728

gil_with_piano.jpgFollowing the popularity of recent years, ESRA's 'Hand in Hand' Food Pantry is again organising a benefit concert with conductor, composer and pianist Gil Shochat. This project supplies needy families with monthly food packages and supports the food programme at a Netanya learning centre. Reserve your tickets now for Sunday 13th March at the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya Pituach


ESRA Caesarea/Zichron Branch AnneKbook.jpginvites you to its first New York style Sunday Brunch Book Launch on 27th March, featuring Caesarea resident Anne Kleinberg's new novel 'Menopause in Manhattan'. A unique opportunity to meet the author in a congenial setting.





Spring is on its way, the best season for getting out Holon.jpgand about in Israel. ESRA has organised 3 trips - on 16th March we'll be travelling to the Beit Shean valley visiting several points of interest on the way; on the 22nd March we'll be heading to the South of Tel Aviv to visit the Michal Negrin Gallery and the Holon Design Centre; and on the 7th April to the Bird Observatory and Botanical Gardens in Jerusalem. Remember to book early to avoid disappointment.


ESRA's Right Track Centres
will continue as our Project of the Month for April. RightTrack.jpg Our goal is to pay for 11 supplementary teachers at NIS 1700 each per month. Please consider donating to this most inspiring of projects if you are celebrating a simcha, or in honour of your family or friends. Follow this link to our donations page.



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Special Pesach Offer from our range of hand embroidered Ethiopian designs - an original gift for the guests at your Seder table.
Authentic Ethiopian Embroidered Kippot - NIS 35 only!
Available from: ESRA's Ra'anana office  09-748 2957 or Herzlia office, 09-950 8371


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As you start cleaning out your cupboards for Pesach, please remember that ESRA's 'Nearly New' Shops in Raanana and Kfar Saba welcome all donations of second hand items in good condition - clothes, household and kitchen items and electrical goods. By donating your goods you can help those in need.
If you need anything to be picked up please phone (Raanana 09-741 2631; Kfar Saba 09-765 4652) or drop off your donations directly to either shop.




Our midweek hiking group enjoyed a wonderful tiyul in February amidst the early sping flowers in the Adulam area near Beit Gubrin. One of the regular hikers took some wonderful photos and wrote about the hike which you can read by clicking on the link

Before each Magazine we have a Special Draw for Paid-up ESRA members. The prize is a basket of 'ESRA goodies'. Mag 158 winners were: Shoshana Benjamin, Judith Moore and Steven Baron. Your membership helps to sustain and nurture the ESRA organisation. Click here to become a member or renew your membership online.

We wish you all a Happy Pesach



Click on the links to individual items that interest you in the ESRA Events and ESRA News sections below.



ESRA Upcoming Events

ESRA Kfar Saba Open House on Reflexology
ESRA Midweek Hike to Makhtesh Hagadol
Gil Shochat Benefit Concert
Trip to Holon Design Centre
ESRA talk 'An Alternative View to Staying Healthy'
ESRA Ashkelon - ESOA Fancy Hat Carnival
ESRA Caesarea Sunday Brunch Book Launch
ESRA Ramat Hasharon Concert
ESRA Ramat Hasharon with artist Jonathan Kis-Lev
ESRA Ashkelon - ESOA
Distribution of ESRA Magazine 160
ESRA Cinema Club Raanana 'Children without a Shadow'
ESRA trip to Jerusalem Birds and Flowers
Click Here
 Click on the Calendar
to see what's on


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ESRA Magazine invites you to read articles online

Deadline for adverts for the Pesach issue is 15th March


ESRA News

Herzlia Neighborhood kids visit Dialogue in the Dark
Updates from ESRA Rishon Branch
ESRA hike and spring flowers
Inspiring INSIGHT seminar
Neighborhood Gardening in Hefzibah
Movie Review of 'Precious Life'
Hefzibah Girls Bnot Mitzva celebration
ESRA in Eilat

Project of the Month

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Right Track Centres

provide a 'home away from home' for teenagers at risk. ESRA pays for 11 teachers who give supplementary lessons.

Click here to make your donation