Aliyah Diary 33: Quest to Pay My Taxes
Photo credits go to Homestar Runner and Sierra-Online. Paying Taxes: U.S. vs. Israel Citizen: “I want to pay my taxes.”United States: “Sure! How would you like to pay? Credit card? Here are three competing...
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Aliyah Diary 32: How to Hire the Right Professional and . . . Oops
Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. I’m probably not your lawyer. Legal information here can have mistakes. I’m not licensed in Israel and don’t want to be.Disclaimer 2: Facts are changed to protect the...
Aliyah Diary 31: Internet filtering … sometimes
Imagine a Higher Life Form Thinks You’re Cute Sometimes I wonder if this is what G_d thinks of us … “oh, the kids don’t have internet filters and the government wants more money from...
Aliyah Diary 29: What Does My Adult Son Think?
“What do your kids think” is a common question I won’t answer in the diary. That’s private – mostly. Here are some excerpts from my adult child, who is in America, however. He allowed...
Aliyah Diary 30: Visit from My Son in America
. . . continued from the last blog post. It was about four months since I saw my son back in America. When he finally came, we made sure to show him a good...
Aliyah Diary 28: Yarkon River Tel Aviv Judaism
Introduction As a college student, at the interview with an Orthodox Rabbi with the big black yarmulke, I asked if we’d visit Tel Aviv. He said, nah, it’s just like an American city …...
Aliyah Diary 27: Israel Healthcare Experience
Introduction I consider myself a moderate Republican – Susan Collins being my favorite Senator. If there’s ever anything that could move the needle towards socialism, here it is. Israel has four health care companies...
Aliyah Diary 26 Dead Sea Beer and Ice Cream
Taking Thursday and Friday Off At around diary entry 20 I thought it was time to wrap things up – things were getting more commonplace over here. A little over a month later and...
Aliyah Diary 25: Not cutting me off this time!
My favorite road sign Apologies for the low quality. I have been meaning to take a picture of this sign every time I drive to Jerusalem. For those who don’t understand the Hebrew or...
Aliyah Diary 24: Supermarkets & Highways
Fruit out of Season Shlomo HaMelech (King Solomon) was so rich that he had available to him fruit out of season. I use this as an example so show how rich we are today....