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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 Yom Tov
08. Sept 25, 2024: Jerusalem Concert
09. Sept 30, 2024: Nasrallahed on the Floor
10. Oct 8, 2024: Driver’s License
11. Oct 13, 2024: Packages. (חבילות.)

12. Oct 25, 2024: October Sun and the Jew
13. Oct 30, 2024: Bureaucracies and Stories
14. Nov 2, 2024: 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
18. Nov 24, 2024: Language – l’at, ‘lat
19. Nov 28, 2024: Taxation for Americans
20. Dec 5, 2024: Tel Aviv Art Museum
21. Dec 11, 2024: Let Freedom Ring
22. Dec 23, 2024: Doctors & “Choleh Chadash”
23. Dec 29, 2024: The West Bank. (Shomron)
24. Jan 5, 2024: Supermarkets & Highways

Recent Posts

Aliyah Diary 24: Supermarkets & Highways - Fruit out of Season Shlomo HaMelech (King Solomon) was so rich that he had available to him fruit out of season. I use this as an example so show how rich we are today....
Aliyah Diary 23: The West Bank. (Shomron) - The Scary Place Little more than a mile from me is the barrier to the “West Bank”. Since I moved here, the barrier in my head has also moved: Month 0: “I’m never going...
Aliyah Diary 22: Seeing the doctor as a “Choleh” Hadash and cultural differences - Choleh (Sick) It’s been longer than usual since my last post because I’ve been a “Choleh” Hadash … a play on the term used around here for “Oleh Chadash” which is a “new immigrant”....
Aliyah Diary 21: It’s a free country?? - Security in America Entering the apartment building to get to my college housing (not depicted above) with a box of heavy books in my hand – I head gestured over to the girl to...
Aliyah Diary 20: Tel Aviv Art Museum - Introduction The time came to visit somewhere North of Ben Gurion airport for the first time since I moved to Israel. To the right of me are secular communities. To the left of me...
Aliyah Diary 19: Taxes for Americans - Introduction I’ve just passed the three month mark since making aliyah and got around to talking to / finding an accountant before the end of the year. This wasn’t my first concern … it...
Aliyah Diary 18: Language – l’at, l’at – little by little - The fall has sprung near the end of November with our first day below 70 degrees during the day. The weather since October has been beautiful; highs in the 80s with bright blue sky...
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...

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