lizrael update

Welcome home, endangered American Jew.

Here’s the ‘welcome home’ I got while waiting at a bus stop:

Hmm. I’m pretty sure it’s not as crazy as they make it sound, but who am i to judge? I’m not living in the wild jungle of dangerousness that is America.*

* Ok, ok. I’m being harsh. There is truth to moving to Israel for identity-security from the States. But this note is also harsh. And just funny to me, that it’s so American in its hunger for melodrama.

Are your medicines kosher for Passover?

Here’s reason #678 for aliyah: The Clalit health clinic, one of the four major health insurance programs in Israel, has a place on their website for determining if the medicines in your cabinet are kosher for passover.

You can check it out here (works better in IE). You can type the name of the medicine in Hebrew or English.

Aliyah Reason #243: Kosher Ikea.

You know you’re getting old when you’re perfectly happy spending your birthday at Ikea with your husband and mother.

Ikea in Israel (currently located in Netanya, but coming soon to a Rechovot lot near you) is… pretty much the same experience as Ikea in Newark and anywhere else for that matter. Cheap apartment furniture, capitalistic indulgence, pretending to be an interior designer.

Except - the cafeteria is kosher, which, I guess, is reason #243 why we make aliyah.