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Aliyah Diary
Beginning and End
01. Aug 19, 2024: Preparation In America
02. Aug 25, 2024: First Few Days
03. Aug 29, 2024: Moving In
62. July 17, 2025: I MADE IT
75. Sept 14, 2025: Leaving USA Behind
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
55. Jun 11, 2025: Idiosyncrasies
60. Jul 7, 2025: New Kitten – Pebble
65. Aug 3, 2025: Tish B’av Hospital
72. Aug 31, 2025: Unholy Words
82. Oct 25, 2025: Desert Wedding & Stars
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.
58. June 22, 2025: Army Draft Notice
59. Jun 29, 2025: 12 Day War
61. Jul 13, 2025: Bring it to Israel for Me?
73. Sept 8, 2025: Quit Blocking the Roads
79. Oct 15, 2025: Eruv Chag Busyness
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
74. Sept 11, 2025: Notary Overnight to USA
81. Oct 21, 2025: Dentist and Optometrist
Politics and 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: Indoors / Museums
20. Dec 5, 2024: Tel Aviv Art Museum
56. Jun 15, 2025: Agam Art Museum
68. Aug 17, 2025: Cramim Fancy Hotel
69. Aug 21, 2025: Weizmann House
71. Aug 27, 2025: Museum Islamic Art
76. Sept 17, 2025: Christian Zionist
77. Sept 22, 2025: Babylon Museum
84. Nov 4, 2025: Design Museum, Holon
Travel: Outdoors (Except Hikes)
08. Sept 25, 2024: Jerusalem Concert
14. Nov 2, 2024: The Kindness of Strangers
23. Dec 29, 2024: The West Bank. (Shomron)
26. Jan 18, 2025: Dead Sea Beer and Ice Cream
30. Jan 31, 2025: My Son Visits and We Travel
45. Apr 20, 2025: Desert Llamas and Camels
50. May 18, 2025: Casearia
52. May 25, 2025: Flowers of Kfar Rut
78. Sep 29, 2025: (Separate) Beach Day
83. Oct 28, 2025: Citrus Museum
Recent Posts
Aliyah Blog 84: Design Museum, Holon, IL - Museums in Israel Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world. They’re often in “bite size” pieces – you can spend about an hour or two in a museum dedicated...
Aliyah Entry 83: Citrus Orchard Museum, Rehovot - Pre-Game Pain After my Israeli dental insurance hygienist visit, my teeth were like sandpaper. As it’s the same price as a private dentist and two separate appointments have to be made, it’s private dentist...
Aliyah Blog 82: Desert Wedding & Stars - Part I: Desert Wedding How cool is this? While most things in Israel are hard to predict, the weather isn’t one of them. (Double negative.) Paving roads in the desert is optional or perhaps...
Aliyah Blog 81: Dentist & Optometrist - Introduction Dentists and optometrists aren’t the same thing though I can’t keep up with myself so I’m condensing. American is paerve. It’s fine. I don’t miss manufactured experiences and over stimulation of senses to...
Aliyah Blog 80: Sorek Estuary - Estuary: where a freshwater body of water meets the ocean and the water mixes. Israel has … none, according to any tourist website I’ve seen. So far, I’ve found two. The Yarkon river in...
Aliyah Blog 79: Erev Chag (day before a holiday) - Introduction Said many American Jews: It’s difficult to take off so many workdays for the Jewish holidays. FunTime Junction had no idea what hit them when twice a year they were understaffed for Jew-week,...
Aliyah Blog 78: (Separate) Beach Day - Sun, Tue, Thurs for women; Mon, Wed, Fri for men One of my most popular articles in this blog of all time is titled Israel Separate Beaches written years ago. It’s #1 on Google...
Aliyah Diary 77: Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center - Where has this museum been all my life? This museum is about a continuous 3,000+ year old Jewish community referenced in the Bible – which is, in turn, referenced in Babylonian artifacts, and which...
Aliyah Blog 76: Christian Zionist Museum (Friends of Zion) - Introduction I’m getting behind on diary entries about museums, having visited one last week and two this week and still haven’t gotten to write about an event in the desert in the summer. Israel...…………………