Bat Aliyah

I have a friend who has more energy than the Energizer Bunny.  Some years ago, perhaps four years after her aliyah, when I was still living...

I like to write about all the big events in our lives in Israel, especially how we spend our first chagim and other special days here.  But ...

In the emotional roller coaster that is Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day to our fallen soldiers and victims of terror, followed imme...

Over Pesach, I read a couple of novels for pleasure.  One of them was Islands by Anne Rivers Siddons , The novel is about a group of lifelo...

A few weeks ago, an old friend sent us an email inviting us to tour Har HaBayit (The Temple Mount) with her family on the first day of Cho...

An early sign of Pesach (or any Jewish holiday in Israel, actually) is that the Coke bottles and potato chip bags start offering holiday w...

Decades ago, my first job out of graduate school was at an Historically Black University. Among certain members of the staff, there was a co...

I knew, when we came on aliyah, that eventually, I would have to face the one bureaucratic demon I was most afraid to face - converting my d...