Category: Aliyah Diary

Where to start? Let’s use an analogy. American graduation: Israeli Graduation: Any questions? Back in My Day … We practiced over and over walking in line to music from the high school building to...

Elevator Buttons Work Just to see … just maybe … I pressed the ‘close door’ button thinking others in the elevator would roll their eyes at someone pressing the eye candy. The elevator door...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...