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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
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
15. Nov 10, 2024: Safety Fourth
18. Nov 24, 2024: Language – l’at, ‘lat
29. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Still in America
31. Feb 3, 2025: Internet Filtering for Kids
37. Mar 3, 2025: Technical Difficulties
39. Mar 12, 2025: Prove Yourself
40. Mar 17, 2025: Holiday Loneliness

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

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
08. Sept 25, 2024: Jerusalem Concert
14. Nov 2, 2024: The Kindness of Strangers
20. Dec 5, 2024: Tel Aviv Art Museum
23. Dec 29, 2024: The West Bank. (Shomron)
26. Jan 18, 2025: Dead Sea Beer and Ice Cream
28. Jan 26, 2025: Yarkon River Judaism, Tel Aviv
30. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Visits and we Travel
35. Feb 20, 2025: Mitzpe Ramon Stars, Ein Avdat
42. Mar 28, 2025: Hike Nahal Tavor, Mt. Tabor
45. Apr 20, 2025: Desert Llamas and Camels

The Roads
24. Jan 5, 2025: Supermarkets & Highways
25. Jan 12, 2025: Not Cutting Me Off
36. Feb 25, 2025: Road Rules of Israel
45. Apr 24, 2025: Car Towed and Fixed

Recent Posts

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...
Aliyah Blog 42: Nachal HaTavor, Har HaTavor - Printing a Replacement Driver’s License The trip almost didn’t happen – I lost my wallet. My wife is big into saying a small prayer and giving a donation to Rabbi Meir Baal HaNeis Tzedekah...
Aliyah Blog 41: 1/2 Yr Check-In & Shopping Habits - Introduction It feels like about three months, maybe, though it’s now March. I’m here this long without seeing my friends from America? The weather has gone from the 90s with huge differences in how...
Aliyah Blog 40: Holiday Loneliness - Background This isn’t an article that I plan on sharing on social media like I usually do, though I feel that if someone wants to get a fuller picture about what it is like...
Aliyah Blog 39: Prove Yourself and Plumbing - Prove You’re American The best way to let Israelis know that you are American is to open your mouth and start speaking. The second-best way is to walk into an electronics store and ask...
Aliyah Blog 38: Talking in Quiet Peace - Today, I write about a few recent things, none really having much to do with the other. For one, trying to find someone to fix a grandfather clock of a kind no one finds...

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