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Many of us carry fond memories of Järvemetsa in our hearts.   For decades, guides and scouts, brownies and cub scouts, leaders and friends have walked those sandy paths, teaching and learning forest skills, Estonian songs, handicrafts, scouting knowledge…and getting into some memorable mischief as well. The organization Federation of...

From December 1, 2014, Estonia became the first country in the world to offer foreigners e-residency. Senior editor for The Economist magazine, Edward Lucas, is now the country's first e-resident.   According to Taavi Kotka, the Deputy Secretary General on ICT at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the aim of...

What can you pick up from a local kohvik on your way to work in Tallinn? From the Reval Café on Müüri/vahe tänav ("Between the (town) walls" Street) in Tallinn's vanalinn (old town), you can grab along a glorious kilu/või/leib among other things.   On dark rukki (rye), often simply...

  A highly successful International Christmas Market was held at the Chicago Eesti Maja (CEM). Nearly 400 people passed through the seven-hour event held on the first cold weekend of the season. It consisted of approximately 40 vendors selling their wares while numerous groups provided live entertainment. It was perhaps...

Arne Kalm: Notes For Panel DiscussionEstonians in America: Past, Present and FutureEANC, Stamford, CT  - Sat. Sept. 27, 2014   Introduction I am delighted to participate on this panel and plan to devote most of my allotted time to a  historical review of past political activities in the broader Estonian...

What a pleasant surprise to witness such an amazing talented young dancer. Alissa Saluri is the daughter of Jessica and Rein Saluri and the granddaughter of Ulle and Peep Saluri. Alissa was always dancing even before joining her first dancing school at the age of eight.   She took her...

Publication of the English-language translation of the“DP Kroonika” (“DP Chronicle”), reported (Oct. 30 English language section) by Enda Mai Michelson Holland, president of the Estonian Archives in the U.S., is welcome news.   The book is a monumental history of Estonian displaced persons in Germany after World War II, and...

Lakewoodi Eesti Kiriku kontorisse hüppas aknast hirv...   LAKEWOOD, NJ –The punchline of the Monday morning (nov. 17, 2104) incident still is largely unknown for parishioners at Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lakewood.   The church's pastor, The Rev. Thomas Vaga, said he still is scratching his head as to...