Aliyah Diary 29: What Does My Adult Son Think?
“What do your kids think” is a common question I won’t answer in the diary. That’s private – mostly. Here are some excerpts from my adult child, who is in America, however. He allowed...
Category: Jewish Belief
Aliyah Diary 28: Yarkon River Tel Aviv Judaism
Introduction As a college student, at the interview with an Orthodox Rabbi with the big black yarmulke, I asked if we’d visit Tel Aviv. He said, nah, it’s just like an American city …...
Aliyah Diary 23: The West Bank. (Shomron)
The Scary Place Little more than a mile from me is the barrier to the “West Bank”. Since I moved here, the barrier in my head has also moved: Month 0: “I’m never going...
Aliyah Diary 16: Where People Look Like Me
Return to Israel On a hill top near Jerusalem lives Melech, a 42 year old man, in a one-bedroom house, surrounded by desert in the only house around. Born in Miami, and now raising...
Why do Good Things Happen to Bad People? Sefer Ivov / Book of Job
Last week I stayed up all night learning sefer Iyov, e.g. “The Book of Job” with my daughter. The general cultural understanding is “it’s not fair and there are no answers.” I’ve found at...
Redeeming Love – Movie Review from a Jew
Redeeming Love – What is it About I love this movie. When Rotten Tomatoes says critics give this movie a 11/100 and regular people give this movie a 95/100 that’s something you have to...
The Story of Uriah Levy
A short play with too much narration – by Moshe Feigin. Narrator 1: Uriah Levy’s great-great-grandfather was the doctor to King John V of Portugal. George Washington attended the wedding of Lecy’s grandparents. Uriah...
Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C. – Jewish Point of View
The Best Jewish Museum I’ve Ever Seen It’s not actually a place I planned to go. I’d read about it in the news when it first opened – all bad press as I recall....
Getting the Hater Arrested
This article is written with much thanks to the Washington D.C. parks department. 9:30am – 2:00pm: At the Israeli Embassy A good part of my day was already spent at the Israeli embassy in...
My Kids Will Go to School
Last week’s Jewish Link included very strongly worded commentaries by Jeffrey Rubin (“Regarding School Closing This Fall,” July 23, 2020) and Rabbi Wallace Greene (“The Ethics of Opening Schools,” July 23, 2020) arguing that...