A friend sent me Gdumb and so inspired me to play around a little bit with the Google suggestions-as-you-type feature. I explored the big three topics an Israeli Jewish blogger such as myself might feel connected to:
Image 1: Israel
I know I’m American, and I know that makes me a candidate for being dumb about geography, [...]
I’ve been going through a bit of soul-searching lately; one begins to feel more responsible for one’s actions when constantly being watched by the cute, easily-influenced eyes of a littler one.
May I come clean for a moment?
I’ve been in Israel for almost five years. It’s an aliyah faux pas to actually admit at any point [...]
Subject: update from the mideast
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 09:30:06 -0400
hey friends,
i honestly dont think ive felt this happy in years. im in a place where i belong and im having an incredible time. its so real and unbelievable at the same time. i never understood those ppl who go to israel and never return, [...]
I’m covered in dust as I write this from the depths of old documents, yellowed papers, stacks of ancient bills. Call it spring cleaning, call it nesting, call it what you will but I have managed to set aside three cartonim of dead trees to recycle.
What’s super fun about doing something like this - in [...]
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, [...]