Aliyah Blog 66: Return to America 1
Introduction One year and one day ago I invited my friends for a siyum [finishing] on mesechtes Kiddushin [Talmud] and said goodbye to them. Almost a year later, I finally took a trip back...
Category: Aliyah Diary
Aliyah Blog 65: Tish B’Av Hospital
Introduction The person who went in the ambulance to the hospital gave permission to share her story if I mention that the two medics in the ambulance listened to kinnos the entire way. “Kinnos”...
Aliyah Blog 64: Hezekiah’s Tunnel (Siloam Tunnel), Jerusalem
Introduction A long-time reader of my blog suggested I check out Hezekiah’s Tunnels … this is another case of “not at all what I thought it was“. If you haven’t gone and want everything...
Aliyah Blog 63: Golan Heights I / Tzvat
Introduction This is “Golan Heights I” (one) because I trust that there will be more blog entries about the Golan. Thank you, Syria, lover of all minorities, for generously giving us back this beautiful...
Aliyah Blog 62: I MADE IT.
It’s a little under 11 months since I first arrived and I think I’m fully ‘at home’ now with no desire to go back to the ‘old country’. Similarly, after 11 months we stop...
Aliyah Blog 61: Bring it to Israel for Us?
The Case of The Missing Laptop I’ve written about this before – here’s the conclusion. My wife’s laptop of 4+ years broke. It was a fine Chromebook which I bought for her because, like...
Aliyah Blog 60: New Kitten – Pebble
Learning to Love Nearing the end of reading Nesach haKatan, the Little Prince, which I read together in in Hebrew and English, there’s a great little story about a fox that says, “I am...
Aliyah Blog 59: 12 Day War
Background Iran has plans to destroy Israel since shortly after their 1979 revolution, using Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, and to a lesser extent, Iraq, as part of their plan alongside development of nuclear weapons....
Aliyah Blog 58: Called Up to the Army
Snailmail We don’t check our snail mail much. We have to go to a central mailbox area and its mainly ads. Anything of use comes by email or text message around here. You can’t...
Aliyah Blog 57: Ben Shemen Forest
Introduction You could visit Israel as a tourist two dozen times and probably never go to this more than 8 square mile forest! How is there this huge forest in the middle an alleged...