Aliyah Blog 84: Design Museum, Holon, IL
Museums in Israel Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world. They’re often in “bite size” pieces – you can spend about an hour or two in a museum dedicated...
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Aliyah Entry 83: Citrus Orchard Museum, Rehovot
Pre-Game Pain After my Israeli dental insurance hygienist visit, my teeth were like sandpaper. As it’s the same price as a private dentist and two separate appointments have to be made, it’s private dentist...
Aliyah Blog 82: Desert Wedding & Stars
Part I: Desert Wedding How cool is this? While most things in Israel are hard to predict, the weather isn’t one of them. (Double negative.) Paving roads in the desert is optional or perhaps...
Aliyah Blog 81: Dentist & Optometrist
Introduction Dentists and optometrists aren’t the same thing though I can’t keep up with myself so I’m condensing. American is paerve. It’s fine. I don’t miss manufactured experiences and over stimulation of senses to...
Aliyah Blog 80: Sorek Estuary
Estuary: where a freshwater body of water meets the ocean and the water mixes. Israel has … none, according to any tourist website I’ve seen. So far, I’ve found two. The Yarkon river in...
Aliyah Blog 79: Erev Chag (day before a holiday)
Introduction Said many American Jews: It’s difficult to take off so many workdays for the Jewish holidays. FunTime Junction had no idea what hit them when twice a year they were understaffed for Jew-week,...
Aliyah Blog 78: (Separate) Beach Day
Sun, Tue, Thurs for women; Mon, Wed, Fri for men One of my most popular articles in this blog of all time is titled Israel Separate Beaches written years ago. It’s #1 on Google...
Aliyah Diary 77: Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center
Where has this museum been all my life? This museum is about a continuous 3,000+ year old Jewish community referenced in the Bible – which is, in turn, referenced in Babylonian artifacts, and which...
Aliyah Blog 76: Christian Zionist Museum (Friends of Zion)
Introduction I’m getting behind on diary entries about museums, having visited one last week and two this week and still haven’t gotten to write about an event in the desert in the summer. Israel...
Aliyah Blog 75: Leaving America Behind
The financial cost of making Aliyah When we left for Israel, our house in America was left with a renter who promised to take good care of my baby. In no way was I...