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...
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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...
Aliyah 105: Dead Sea Hidden Hikes (and Arad)
Going off the “off the beaten path” First, what a dream it is to live here. So much to explore, so much culture, so much geographic wonder, so many friendly smiling people. Chol HaMoed...
Aliyah 104: Concerned about us?
Now for something different What follows is a letter from my wife after a cartoon from AI that “I” created, inspired by her letter. I’m in awe of how far AI images have come...
Aliyah Blog 103: Interesting Restaurants in Israel
Blind Restaurant The article isn’t quite ready to print in black and white because I haven’t made it to the blind restaurant yet – you have to pre-pay and book months in advance, and...
Aliyah Blog 102: What a Difference a Year Makes
A Year Ago At about month 7, Purim my first year, I had reached a low point. I had written about it though not shared the article anywhere in a blog entry called “holiday...
Aliyah 101: Tel Aviv Downtown
Introduction Well, looks like I’m not stopping at 100 entries. Finally, I went to Tel Aviv for something that wasn’t an airport, concert, doctor, beach, museum, relative … or … I think I covered...
Aliyah 100: Mazkeret Batya & Winery
Introduction Readership is going down lately as I become more normalized and less, “what on earth is going on here” to my new surroundings. Now it just feels normal to find something completely different...