18 June 2013 - 10 Tammuz 5773 - י' תמוז ה' אלפים תשע"ג
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UWC March of the Living 2013 A Vehicle for Change E-mail

We walked through the two lines of barbed wire at Auschwitz and, at that moment, there was no air to breathe. It was not the sight and sounds of the place…it was seeing our classmates walking inside the fence. The air evaporated, the mind screamed. Here twentyfive students from around the world were on a search to learn about European history, for the March of the Living 2013.

It is 8 April 2013. Far from their homes, students from United World Colleges (UWC), stand in a circle in the bittercold snow of Poland, listening, thinking about the past. Most of them are young, sixteen to nineteen years old, and have travelled to this place from all over the world, ready to undertake a journey that will change their lives forever.

UWC is an international education movement including twelve schools worldwide, attended by students from over 140 nations. The concept of the movement, created by the German-Jewish educationalist Kurt Hahn in 1962, aims at uniting young people from all over the world, so that they can live and learn together for two years. During this time the students initiate and participate in several projects promoting global tolerance, equal rights, mutual responsibility, international understanding, peace and sustainability.

Last year, a teacher at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong, Hayley Goldberg, decided to try to organise a link between UWC and the March of the Living.

The March of the Living is an annual educational initiativethat brings people and especially students from all over the world together “in order to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hate.”

Since the first March in 1988, over 150,000 people from all around the world have marched down the same path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau.

Experiencing this herself four years ago and curious about her own Jewish past and family history, Hayley had realised that the purpose and idea of the March fitted very well with the UWC mission, experience and values.

The March, commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah, a day to remember and reminds participants that the past should not be allowed to happen againthrough international understanding, celebration of difference and cultural sensitivity, all of which are values central to the UWC movement.

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Barbra Streisand to perform in Israel E-mail

In what the New York Daily News described as “The Hottest Ticket In Town” and whom the Huffington Post called “The Greatest Star by Far,” Barbra Streisand will bring her spectacular stage show to Israel for the very first time this summer, playing the Bloomfield Stadium, Tel Aviv on 20 June 2013.

The Jewish - American iconic singer and actress will perform at the stadium in front of some 16,000 spectators. Barbra Streisand Live promises to be a magical evening of timeless hits, combining her elegant voice, with self-deprecating humor and charming banter.

The singer will be surrounded by a 60-piece orchestra and accompanied by special guests Chris Botti, her son Jason Gould, and sister Roslyn Kind, all of whom performed last year on Back to Brooklyn, Streisand’s highly successful North American tour.

The most accomplished female recording artist ever, Streisand has received 10 Grammys including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Grammy Legend Awards 51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums, and 13 multiplatinum albums. According to the RIAA, she is the No. 1 best selling female recording artist in history and the only woman to make the Top 10 all time best selling artists list.

An artist of unparalleled accomplishments in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has made her mark as an award winning actress of stage and screen, recording artist, concert performer, film director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter, philanthropist, designer, photographer, author and activist.

Streisand is the only artist ever to receive an Oscar,Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors  Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards as well as France’s Legion d’Honneur and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

She is, in fact, the recipient of 2 Oscars, 5 Emmys, 10 Grammys, a Tony and 12 Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

In addition, Streisand is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations.

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Ancient wine press discovered E-mail

Remains of a Byzantine settlement with an impressive wine press, probably owned by Christians, were recently excavated on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) near Hamei Yo’ av, near Ashkelon.

The discovery was made during salvage excavations prior to the construction of a banqueting garden in the area.

According to Dr. Rina Avner, the IAA excavation director, “The wine press exceeded 100 square metres in area. It consists of a large treading floor surrounded by six compartments on the north and east.

These compartments were used for fermenting grapes upon their arrival from the vineyards, to produce high quality of wine. The treading floor slopes to the west, where a settling vat and two collecting pits are situated in a row.

A led pipe connects between the treading floor and the settling vat, which in turn is connected by two led pipes to the two collecting pits”.

“In the centre of the treading floor is a depression, intended for a screw press. This device would allow applying further pressure to the grape remains from the compartments and thus, to produce vinegar and low-quality wine, mentioned in rabbinic sources as “paupers’ wine”.

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