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...
Category: Jewish Belief
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 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 59: 12 Day War
Background Iran has plans to destroy Israel since shortly after their 1979 revolution, using Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Yemen, and to a lesser extent, Iraq, as part of their plan alongside development of nuclear weapons....
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...
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...