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Local participants in 2012 Hadassah WIN volunteer program in Netanya,
Israel, were Dr. Max Garber, Roslyn Garber, Bernard Cantor, Sheilah Goldberg,
Ruth Vosko and Judy Levin Cantor.
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March 22 • 2012
Local volunteers teach English
to students in Israel.
S
ix local volunteers recently
returned from Israel where
they were volunteer teach-
ers of English to Ethiopian and other
Israeli high school students in the
"WIN" program (Winter in Netanya),
sponsored nationally for 25 years by
Hadassah.
"Each day was really challeng-
ing but very rewarding," said Roslyn
Garber, one of the participants, along
with her husband, retired pediatrician
Max Garber, retired patent attorney
Bernard Cantor and former teachers
Judy Levin Cantor, Sheila Goldberg
and Ruth Vosko.
"We loved the students and they
loved us," added Cantor.
Signing up for either one month
or two, the volunteers worked two
days a week in the "TOM" school, an
endowed boarding school mainly for
Ethiopian boys, and two days in a
Netanya public high school. For four
hours a morning, in four classes, the
volunteers each met with small groups
of students to help them improve their
English conversational skills. Because
the students must pass English exami-
nations when they matriculate after
the 12th grade — exams that are
significant in determining their future
placements — they eagerly welcomed
their American tutors.
"The students were appreciative and
moved that we Americans cared so
much for them that we had come all the
way to Israel just for the very purpose
of helping them learn',' Goldberg said.
The participants in the WIN pro-
gram, from many different American
cities, lived in Netanya at the Hotel
Solomon, where they could enjoy the
Promenade across the street on the
Mediterranean Sea. While the morn-
ings were spent as teachers, Hebrew
lessons were offered in the afternoons,
when the teachers became students
themselves.
Lectures and films, trips to con-
certs or Israeli dancing rounded out
the evenings of this unique program.
Once a week, the group traveled on
guided tours to visit special high-
lights throughout Israel. Among the
weekly trips was a tour of the Hula
Valley to witness the migration of
33,000 common cranes, an amazing
"once in a lifetime" world sight. The
WIN program finished with visits of
several days each to Eilat and then to
Jerusalem.
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