Aliyah 114: Eilat Kosher Vacation
Introduction The South is mostly new to me since making aliyah. Now I’ve been to Beersheva, Ramon Crater, the Dead Sea a bunch more times, and – Eilat. It’s long overdue. The great thing...
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Aliyah 113: Weizman Science Garden
Haym Weizmann University On a previous adventure, I visited Haim Weizmann’s house (and I know, I spell his name differently every time), the first president of Israel and the modern Zionist ‘founding father’ I...
Aliyah 112: Palmach Museum
Multi-room group tour Requiring pre-registration by email or phone, there are group tours though a multimedia presentation looking sometimes like the E.T. ride at Universal studios, with the ‘moving through rooms’ style of the...
Aliyah 111: Israeli Graduation Style
Where to start? Let’s use an analogy. American graduation: Israeli Graduation: Any questions? Back in My Day … We practiced over and over walking in line to music from the high school building to...
Aliyah 110: ‘Close Door’ buttons work!
Elevator Buttons Work Just to see … just maybe … I pressed the ‘close door’ button thinking others in the elevator would roll their eyes at someone pressing the eye candy. The elevator door...
The Way of G-d – an Outline (Derech Hashem)
Introduction One of my daughter’s had some tough theological questions for me … when she was about 10 or 11 years old. So we started learning Derech Hashem by Rav Moshe Chaim Luzatto, known...
Aliyah 109: Good Bureaucracy
My new friend from Nigeria Sometimes it is easy to notice faults and forget all the good there is. When I last visited Caesarea and I saw this man, I had to go speak...
Aliyah 108: Political or Religious Collective?
The Hive Mind Did you know supermarkets can have elevators? Park down below, mosey on over to the elevator, fit up to three people with shopping carts, and there you go. Yesterday I walked...
Aliyah 107: Israeli Boots Song (Blundstone)
Now for something completely different: The Blundstone Ode I bought some leather sandals from the store,I’m fully ready now to move a-broad,I then made aliyah in twenty-four,By all the newest choices: overawed. In sixty-nine...
Aliyah 106: Dead Sea Swimming / Geology
Swimming in the Dead Sea Mineral Beach is not there – it fell into the sea. Ein Gedi Beach not there – it did that first. Mineral Beach was being a salty copycat. Allegedly...