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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  Following 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 PituachESRA Caesarea/Zichron Branch  invites 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  and 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.  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. 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  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. |
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ESRA January Newsletter 
 We are proud to announce that within two weeks of the Carmel Fire disaster, enough funds were raised by ESRA members to assist 30 families who have been affected by the fire. The monies are being distributed directly to the families with help from the Social Services Department of Hof Hacarmel.We are continuing our efforts to help these families and continue our request to donate to our special Carmel Fire Emergency Fund We thank you warmly on behalf of the families of Carmel.  ESRA has always encouraged English speakers in Israel to volunteer in the community around them - in this way both sides gain. ESRA has organised 2 opportunites to help discover how to use your talents and life experiences to volunteer. Two Interactive Workshops will be held in January and an Insight morning in February. A new Social Group is being formed especially for Young Adults with Special Needs. If you know someone who could benefit from such a group please check the link. As a spin off from the marvellous Ahinoam Nini concert, ESRA is proud to be a part of three new projects opening in January 2011: a project of Ethnic Ethiopian Dance at the Matnas in Neot Shaked; a second computer room in Hefzibah, Netanya; a Bayit Cham (afternoon clubhouse) for teenage girls at risk in Herzliya..... and that's just to start the New Year........As ever, your donations in support of our projects are always welcome.  We welcome Yonit Gurfinkel who has taken up the position of ESRA's Director. We wish her good luck as she gets familiar with the breadth and depth of ESRA's activities and look forward to new growth under her direction. A happy and productive 2011 to all our readers |
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Welcome to ESRA Newsletter for December. Continuing on from Israel's hottest November on record, we expect lots of warmth at the various ESRA Branch Chanuka Celebrations and wish a Hag Sameach to all our readers. Only 4 weeks left till our ANNUAL RAFFLE DRAW!  Your opportunity to win the First Prize of a Holiday for 2 in Prague or one of the other wonderful prizes for hotels, spas, restaurants and more.
Please remember to return your ticket stubs together with your payment. If you are looking for a new challenge in your life and would like to become more involved in volunteering, why not attend ESRA's 2-day Seminar in January? At the first Insights workshop on 9th Jan we will learn more about the group and an outline of ESRA's volunteering opportunities. The second Interactive workshop on 16th Jan, led by professionals, will brainstorm innovative ways to contribute.
If you would like read more about this FREE Seminar, check out the details here and register with our Activities Secretary Ingrid. At the end of November we said farewell to Linda Olmert, who has served as our Executive Director for the past two years. We thank her for the good things she did for ESRA and wish her every success in the future. Our new Director will be taking up her position at the beginning of January - details in the next Newsletter. |
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Welcome to the ESRA Newsletter for November 2010. After the excitement of our two recent major events, our ESRA volunteers and committee members, together with our hard-working staff members, are now settling back into the regular routine, planning a plethora of events at local and branch level providing a wide range of activities to appeal to all English speakers in locations all over Israel. To those of you who attended the Achinoam Nini concert, we hope your pleasure was doubled knowing that the proceeds will be well used to ensure that our ESRA projects can move forward and provide services to more and more children, adults, families, and communities who can benefit from our input. Our Volunteer Awards Evening this year hosted journalist Saul Singer. His fascinating talk shed light on the success of Israeli start-up companies and stimulated many questions. The ten 2010 'Volunteer of the Year' honorees were: Ros and Henry Ben Ezra, Annette Bode, Shuka Harel, Susan Kurnedz, Freda Lanesman, Aliza Marks, Aggie van der Laan, Hannah Wende and Ruth Wood. Each in their own way has contributed their share in helping the ESRA organisation fulfil its aims, whether by helping with social activities for English speakers, encouraging other volunteers, or advancing our projects to help those in need click here to see more details.  November sees many branch activities starting up again which you can check out via the links below; book early for another Walking Tour of Tel Aviv with Yona Wiseman on 25 November andthe TAMA Art Lecture on 29 November. ESRA is selling tickets for the Israel Musicals performances of KISMET directed by Israel Lutnick at the following locations in November: Raanana (16th & 22nd), Modiin (17th) and Zichron (28th). All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards ESRA's projects in the community - call ESRA Beit Fisher 09-748 2957 to reserve your tickets (Sun-Thur 08:30-13:00).  Book early also for our two upcoming bus trips: 24th November to the Safari Park in Ramat Gan with a visit around the 'Hiriya' Recycling Center; and on 19th January to the newly re-opened and highly acclaimed Israel Museum in Jerusalem which includes a guided tour and an artistic program. ESRAvision volunteers prepared this video clip about some of ESRA's projects in the community, which was shown to the Opera House audience prior to Achinoam Nini's performance. November's Project of the Month is our Music Centre for Excellence which trains Ethiopian youngsters to develop their potential and self-confidence.  A highlight for the Hephziba girls choir was performing with Achinoam Nini at our Benefit Concert - we can imagine how proud their families were on that evening. ESRA pays for professional music teachers, transport, costumes etc so any sum you can donate will be most appreciated click here to make your donation.Thank you. We wish you all a good month. The ESRA Website/Media Committee team |
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Welcome to our new monthly e-Newsletter keeping you in touch with what's happening in ESRA.  If you can't see this page properly please click here As you scroll down the page, you'll see links to different areas on the website. In the Events section you can click on each orange headline to see more details of each event, or click on the active Calendar where you'll be able to see activities going on by the day, the week or the month. You can click on items of ESRA News to keep abreast of what's been happening in the organisation. You’ll be amazed at the wide range of our involvement in the community. A new feature is our Project of the Month. August's project is the newly  opened Horse-riding Therapy Centre for disabled children. Please support this worthy project. It costs NIS 7,500 per child per year – whatever you can donate will be appreciated.Click here to make your donation on-line. On the website you can buy gifts or donate on-line, subscribe or renew your membership.You can check out volunteering opportunities, watch ESRAvision programs, find information on ESRA offices, bookshops and charity shops, and much more….just click on www.esra.org.il Have you taken any good photographs of an ESRA event or an ESRA project? Would you like to see them on our website? If so please send them, with a caption, to our website team. Sunday 17th October is a special date - make a note in your diaries! Popular singer Achinoam Nini is giving a performance especially for ESRA at the Opera House in Tel Aviv as a fundraiser for ESRA projects. Reduced prices if you book before 1st September - check it out here Enjoy browsing around the website. Feel free to register for ESRAlist or our Talk Back section where you can write in your comments about anything and everything that moves you about ESRA - whether it's activities, our projects, our volunteering opportunities or the website.  We look forward to hearing from you! |
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