Bat Aliyah

Yesterday, I had lunch with two former colleagues, now friends, from Baltimore, both currently visiting Israel. These are two of the most Is...

A collection of tiny experiences, "Israel moments", from the past week or so. Like many English-speaking olim, I have often thou...

I'm writing from the midst of a difficult week.  My husband is on his first trip to the US since we made aliyah and I am home with the g...

Maybe other countries have these, but I never heard of them until we enrolled our children at Yeshivat Rambam  in Baltimore. Every Yom HaA...

People often ask me what consumer goods they should stock up on to put on their lift.  I have my own opinions, of course, but I thought it w...

On Thursday, I bought a copy of The Garden of Riches by Rabbi Shalom Arush, a book about the spiritual foundations of money.  On the way fro...

Is there a wrong way to make aliyah?  Let's say one makes aliyah and lives in Israel but never takes ulpan and never learns the langua...

While I often object to the inequitable implementation of separate seating in many synagogue settings, let me state unequivocally that I un...

When I was a young teenager and full of teenage angst, I wrote a lot of poems.  Looking back, they were not universally maudlin.  Some of t...

In America, I had an Israeli flag on my car for a few months and often felt self-conscious about it.  In certain neighborhoods, I worried th...

The cover story of this week's Baltimore Jewish Times is about whether younger Jews still care about Israel.  The story, or as much of ...

Rabbi Schlomo Lewis, a Conservative rabbi at Congregation Etz Chaim the Atlanta area, delivered a sermon on the first day of Rosh Hashana 20...

When I was an undergraduate at an enormous state university campus with tens of thousands of other students, I used to give tours of the ca...

Like all writers, I'm happy when people react to what I wrote.  The many reactions to my last post "Chag Sameach and Chag Atzuv...

My husband is a master of Derech Eretz , so I know he would encourage me to start this post with what I most appreciated about the last few ...