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...
Category: Aliyah Diary
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...
Aliyah Blog 74: Overnight Notary to America
American Notary from Israel in a Perfect World Google “online notary” and use any one of them for $20. You video chat with a notary somewhere in America, answer some questions, hold your ID...
Aliyah Blog 73: Quit Blocking the Roads
DISCLAIMER: This blog entry contains political views at the time of writing and might have changed already. Roads are for Driving When I get in the Knesset (Israeli legislative branch) I’m proposing a law:...
Aliyah Blog 72: Unholy Words
Computer Words In third grade we had a Tandy single-color LCD laptop with the BASIC programming language. One of the features was “SOUND xxx” and you’d hear the sound in that number of Hertz....
Aliyah Blog 71: Museum of Islamic Art
Introduction My rabidly left of the intersection self-hating Jewish political science professor in college had only one good thing to say about Israel: there’s a museum of Islamic Art in the Jewish half of...
Aliyah Blog 70: Return to America III – Shopping
This is the third and last of the blog entries about my visit to America after almost a year in Israel. The first two entries are here: return to America I, and return to...
Aliyah Blog 69: Chaim Weizmann house, Rehovot, Israel
Chaim Weizmann Short Biography Chaim Weizman, the first president of Israel (not prime minister) exchanged knowledge of acetone production for the Balfour Declaration. The British Empire could continue to make munitions when most of...