Haven’t done this in a while, but here goes.
Aliyah
At this point, I’ve been living in Israel for three and a half years. Seems like so much longer… I can now count ‘old friends’ I had when I first came, I have a lengthy list of apartments I’ve lived/crashed in, I’ve been married for nearly two [...]
The recipe for aliyah success is a complicated set of characterstics; not because what is required but because I think attaining what is required is seeded way before making aliyah.
I’ve mentioned creativity, open-mindedness and flexibility before. One other major ingredient in this recipe, I’ve discovered, is direction.
Now, direction is an ingredient for many successes: making [...]
There are plenty of reasons to make aliyah, but I just heard the most amusing:
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just keep a blog?
There is a new show going into production called HaOlim (”The New Immigrants”) which is a sort of Real World for new immigrants to Israel. As Jewlicious reports:
“So the concept is pretty straightforward. Eight young olim from different countries live together in a big house in Tel [...]
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 [...]
Spent the evening strolling around the Yom Haatzmaut celebration going on in the Tzur Hadassah elementary schoolyard. Clowns, kids, silly string, shaving cream, noise makers, cotton candy, lights, balloons… This no singles’ event.
I started reading old entries from a few years ago, describing my purpose for moving to Israel, my role in the aliyah movement, [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a long couple of weeks. I haven’t had much to say and haven’t been wanting to think about the news. I’m currently a bachelorette living in this big apartment since my roommate went to Australia for two weeks. I’ve got a lot of school work to do and a lot of work work [...]
It’s some sort of rite of passage that olim go through; the idea of “becoming more Israeli.” In this case, I don’t mean wearing flowy skirts or forgetting grammatically-correct English.
I mean the process of becoming overly defensive and jumping to attack at any flare of doubt or wrongness - the process of becoming more accusatory, [...]
Reason #213 to make aliyah:
When you work in an all-Jewish company, lunchtime on Sundays smells (and tastes!) like Shabbat all over again.
Although - shhh - I’d take Sunday off in a heart beat.