By Valerie Kantor and Merle Guttmann Edith Dinar was an amazing ESRA volunteer with many facets. She gave of herself totally to helping ESRA for over 20 years. She joined the ESRA Hanadiv office in Herzliya as a volunteer in 1998. She didn't drive and Roy her husband brought her from Holon every week. She was never late and always stayed as long as...

On October 8, when a friend of mine volunteered for reserve duty, he saw that hundreds of soldiers who had rushed to join their units were lacking essential items. As olim, we have family and friends outside of Israel who are eager to help in any way they can, so when I heard this from my friend, right then and there a "chamal" was opened in my gar...

...Have Special Meaning  From the beginning of the war, I had been collecting and delivering equipment and food on a daily basis directly to the soldiers fighting in Gaza. I received a call from the UK about a 40foot container full of toys ready to send to Israel for children affected by the war, but the donors didn't know where to send it. Be...

3RD PLACE IN THE YOUNG WRITERS COMPETITION 2023  The year of 2033 has arrived. The world has changed dramatically in the last few decades. The advent of artificial intelligence has transformed the way people live and work, and the advances in technology have opened up new possibilities that were once unimaginable. Laura Rowe is a scientist wor...

Almost immediately after hearing the incomprehensible devastating news on October 7, the people responded. While shocked and grieving, the citizens of Israel organized themselves into relief groups providing donations and essential supplies to soldiers and displaced populations. ESRA has an impressive track record in normal times, so all the&n...