Aliyah Blog 46: Car Towed and Repaired.
Fun New Experience Exploring new foods, places, ideas … I like all of it. I didn’t choose to go into patent law for nothing. In some sort of perverse and twisted way, I was...
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Aliyah Blog 45: Ramon Crater Revisited with Llamas
Introduction Having loved my previous visit to the Ramon Crater, I returned again with some more kids. This time a very different, and unplanned adventure ensured based on the selections by younger kids. We...
Aliyah Blog 44: Pesach Shopping & Osher Ad
Pesach Shopping is Easier in America Culture shock #997: kosher supermarkets don’t have shmura matzah, fruit jellies, chocolate leaves, or onion powder for Pesach [passover]. Where, oh where, are all the Israeli matzah brands...
Aliyah Blog 43: ANU Jewish Museum in Tel Aviv
The Diaspora Museum –> Anu Museum of 2021- The “Anu” museum – formerly the “Diaspora Museum” . . . is a completely redone museum in 2021. When I was first there, there was the...
Aliyah Blog 42: Nachal HaTavor, Har HaTavor
Printing a Replacement Driver’s License The trip almost didn’t happen – I lost my wallet. My wife is big into saying a small prayer and giving a donation to Rabbi Meir Baal HaNeis Tzedekah...
Aliyah Blog 41: 1/2 Yr Check-In & Shopping Habits
Introduction It feels like about three months, maybe, though it’s now March. I’m here this long without seeing my friends from America? The weather has gone from the 90s with huge differences in how...
Aliyah Blog 40: Holiday Loneliness
Background This isn’t an article that I plan on sharing on social media like I usually do, though I feel that if someone wants to get a fuller picture about what it is like...
Aliyah Blog 39: Prove Yourself and Plumbing
Prove You’re American The best way to let Israelis know that you are American is to open your mouth and start speaking. The second-best way is to walk into an electronics store and ask...
Aliyah Blog 38: Talking in Quiet Peace
Today, I write about a few recent things, none really having much to do with the other. For one, trying to find someone to fix a grandfather clock of a kind no one finds...
Aliyah Diary 37: Technical Difficulties
Let’s do some back and forth – explanations follow: Birds Internet Yawning at Work VPN “Free” Online Hebrew Phones Side Effect of Learning Hebrew Immigration It’s Included In the Price Coconuts Plastic Bags Water...