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Aliyah Diary

Arrival
01. Aug 19, 2024: Preparation In America
02. Aug 25, 2024: First Few Days
03. Aug 29, 2024: Moving In

Cultural Adjustment Fun
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
09. Sept 30, 2024: Nasrallahed on the Floor
18. Nov 24, 2024: Language – l’at, ‘lat
39. Mar 12, 2025: Prove Yourself
50. May 19, 2025: Lag B’Omer

Cultural Adjustment Difficulties
15. Nov 10, 2024: Safety Fourth
29. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Still in America
31. Feb 3, 2025: Internet Filtering for Kids
37. Mar 3, 2025: Technical Difficulties
40. Mar 17, 2025: Holiday Loneliness
49. May 13, 2025: It’s Broken.

On the Roads
24. Jan 5, 2025: Supermarkets & Highways
25. Jan 12, 2025: Not Cutting Me Off
36. Feb 25, 2025: Road Rules of Israel
46. Apr 24, 2025: Car Towed and Fixed
47. Apr 27, 2025: Taking the Bus

Shopping
11. Oct 13, 2024: Packages. (חבילות.)
34. Feb 17, 2025: Finding Obscure Things
41. Mar 23, 2025: New Shopping Habits
44. Apr 6, 2025: Pesach Shopping & Osher Ad

Government and Bureaucracy
10. Oct 8, 2024: Driver’s License
13. Oct 30, 2024: Bureaucracies and Stories
19. Nov 28, 2024: Taxation for Americans
22. Dec 23, 2024: Doctors & “Choleh Chadash”
27. Jan 23, 2025: Healthcare in Israel
32. Feb 5, 2025: How To Hire the Wrong Person
33. Feb 10, 2025: Quest to Pay My Taxes
48. May 4, 2025: Bank Account for Business

Politics & Thought
12. Oct 25, 2024: October Sun and the Jew
16. Nov 17, 2024: Where People Look Like Me
17. Nov 19, 2024: Jewish Identity and Outlook
21. Dec 11, 2024: Let Freedom Ring
38. Mar 6, 2025: Talking in Quiet Peace

Travel and Trips – South
08. Sept 25, 2024: Jerusalem Concert
14. Nov 2, 2024: The Kindness of Strangers
26. Jan 18, 2025: Dead Sea Beer and Ice Cream
30. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Visits and We Travel
35. Feb 20, 2025: Mitzpe Ramon Stars, Ein Avdat
45. Apr 20, 2025: Desert Llamas and Camels

Travel and Trips – North
20. Dec 5, 2024: Tel Aviv Art Museum
23. Dec 29, 2024: The West Bank. (Shomron)
28. Jan 26, 2025: Yarkon River Judaism, Tel Aviv
42. Mar 28, 2025: Hike Nahal Tavor, Mt. Tabor
50. May 18, 2025: Casearia






Recent Posts

Aliyah Blog 51: Fire Holidays (Lag B’Omer) - Chanukah and Passover Fire Jews do love our natural phenomenon. Fire is an especially fun one. We recall the fire offerings in the Temple three times a day and before every Sabbath we start...
Aliyah Blog 50: Caesarea - Named after the same guy who brought us the C-section, czars, kaisers, czars, kings, and the month of July, Herod named a city after Caeser in Israel about 2,000 years ago, not to be...
Aliyah Blog 49: It’s Broken. - Flowers of the Season No reason to make this blog entry all sad – let’s start off with some flowers from K’far Rut – planned for the next blog entry: The Internet Breaks Now...
Aliyah Blog #48: Bank Account for Business in Israel - An American Trying to Open a Business in Israel “The banks are a test of your Zionism.” – said at a Nefesh B’Nefesh thing about money I went to years ago. “I don’t understand...
Aliyah Blog #47: Taking the Bus in Israel - Preface here: It’s 2025 and the last time I took a bus in Israel before this was in about 2003. The last time I took a bus in the United States … 2010-ish? Maybe...
Aliyah Blog 46: Car Towed and Repaired. - Fun New Experience Exploring new foods, places, ideas … I like all of it. I didn’t choose to go into patent law for nothing. In some sort of perverse and twisted way, I was...
Aliyah Blog 45: Ramon Crater Revisited with Llamas - Introduction Having loved my previous visit to the Ramon Crater, I returned again with some more kids. This time a very different, and unplanned adventure ensured based on the selections by younger kids. We...
Aliyah Blog 44: Pesach Shopping & Osher Ad - Pesach Shopping is Easier in America Culture shock #997: kosher supermarkets don’t have shmura matzah, fruit jellies, chocolate leaves, or onion powder for Pesach [passover]. Where, oh where, are all the Israeli matzah brands...
Aliyah Blog 43: ANU Jewish Museum in Tel Aviv - The Diaspora Museum –> Anu Museum of 2021- The “Anu” museum – formerly the “Diaspora Museum” . . . is a completely redone museum in 2021. When I was first there, there was the...

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