Here’s a backup to my last post in case it wasn’t enough to get my point across.
I proudly observe my own brand of Jewishness - and consider it great, holy and everything else - if my alternative for spiritual ‘climbing’ is this:
U.S. immigrant beaten up in ‘pogrom’ by ultra-Orthodox gang
“An American immigrant was attacked [...]
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.
Something I’m going to miss about my little Jerusalem hometown of Katamonim are the amazing Sephardi beitay knesset that pepper the streets:
Most of the residents in this neighborhood are some strain of Mizrachi, mainly Kurdish, Bucharian, Moroccan or Yemenite. The synagogues carpeted and fluorescently lit, reflect that.
I feel 100% comfortable attending services at Beit Aharon, [...]
We spent the weekend as a pilot trip in Tzur Hadassah, a small yishuv right next to Beitar and Gush Etzion. It’s 15 minutes from Jerusalem (without traffic) and it’s the kind of cozy, neighborly community that a young, childless married couple uses to kick off into becoming an experienced, childbearing married couple.
Tzur Hadassah sits [...]