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Aliyah Diary

01. Aug 19, 2024: Preparation In America
02. Aug 25, 2024: First Few Days
03. Aug 29, 2024: Moving In
04. Sept 4, 2024: First Day of School
05. Sept 8, 2024: Two Weeks In . . .
06. Sept 16, 2024: Getting Comfortable
07. Sept 22, 2024: Ready for Guests and Yom Tov
08. Sept 25, 2024: Visiting Jerusalem – Kotel and Concert
09. Sept 30, 2024: Nasrallahed All over the Floor
10. Oct 8, 2024: Driver’s License
11. Oct 13, 2024: Packages. (חבילות.)
12. Oct 25, 2024: October Sun and Understanding the Jew
13. Oct 30, 2024: Bureaucracies and Stories
14. Nov 2, 2024: Traveling with the Kindness of Strangers
15. Nov 10, 2024: Safety Fourth
16. Nov 17, 2024: Where People Look Like Us
17. Nov 19, 2024: Jewish Identity and Outlook

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Aliyah Diary 17: Jewish Identity and Outlook - WARNING: This post includes politics. You might want to skip it!WARNING 2: This post contains personal views which might change repeatedly. Living “Over the Green Line” My secular brother in America asked me, “are...
Aliyah Diary 16: Where People Look Like Me - Return to Israel On a hill top near Jerusalem lives Melech, a 42 year old man, in a one-bedroom house, surrounded by desert in the only house around. Born in Miami, and now raising...
Aliyah Diary 15: Safety Fourth - “Safety” comes after, 1) fun, 2) education, and 3) because I want to. I want fruit trees The idea of growing and picking my own fruits and vegetables sounds great – fresh and there...
Aliyah Diary 14: Traveling with the Kindness of Strangers - Received My Israeli Driver’s License Arriving on the plane did not make me feel Israeli. Done that many times and I was … gently cajoled into doing this after my wife and kids all...
Aliyah Diary 13: Bureaucracy and Stories - Waiting at the Bank I promise there will be a post about traveling and the kindness of strangers – first some stories. At high school football games we used to cheer something like: “Eat...
Aliyah Diary 12: October Sun and Understanding the Jew - Introduction If you have one month to travel to Israel, it should be in October. The weather here is perfect. Sunny. Low in the 60s at night. High in the 80s during the day....
Aliyah Diary 11: Packages. (חבילות.) - Havilot in America Hey, I’ve been here long enough that I put a Hebrew word in the title of the diary entry. “Havilot” means “packages”. Why does that get its own diary entry? Sigh....
Aliyah Diary 10: Getting Driver’s License - Previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . .Part 6: Getting ComfortablePart 7: Ready...
Aliyah Diary 9: Nasrallah-ed all over the floor - Previous diary entries: Part 1: Preparation for departure over here.Part 2: First Few DaysPart 3: Moving InPart 4: First Day of SchoolPart 5: Two Weeks In . . .Part 6: Getting ComfortablePart 7: Ready...

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