Today we volunteered at a ’shuk kach-ten’ - kind of a giant yard sale where you bring junk and take other people’s junk. It was at the elementary school in Tzur Hadassah.
It was also the first time I have entered an Israeli school while it was in session. Kids running everywhere. Not unlike my own [...]
Lots of interest in Tzur Hadassah these days, at least in my crowd. Thought I’d update on how the yishuv is doing since our local election and a new local council has letter-bombed all of us residents with their promises. Here are some of those promises:
Plans to finish a locale for the Tzofim (scouts) and [...]
Don’t know about you, but I can speak for myself, my husband, my family, some of my closer friends, and probably some coworkers and ex coworkers when I say that this is the lizrael update I’ve been wanting to share for a long, long time… In fact, I can pinpoint the time. It would be [...]
So there we are, my roommate and I, out on the mirpeset for a romantic start-of-the-weekend dinner of shippudim when I look up and see… a fire.
“Hey, that wasn’t there before, was it?”
Indeed, it was not. And it was growing by the second.
It was a fire started in some trees, right outside the school in [...]
I know it’s been a while since I properly updated with the whole fancy ‘lizrael update’ subject line. And this is likely to be quick, since it concerns school.
Some days I’m soclose to finishing my remaining projects (which these days numbers three) and some days I feel like I will never finish this thing. Fortunately, [...]
*Yawn*. *Stretch*. It’s a sunny winter Sunday. Today is as good as any to update about the awful university situation in Israel right now.
Basically, I have no idea what is going to happen for the rest of the year because the department heads, university presidents, strikers and government don’t know. Somewhere in this giant, ridiculous, [...]