Bat Aliyah

After nearly a year living in Israel, there are certain consumer habits we've acquired that are beginning to feel normal.  Because of i...

[ Hodel is leaving on a train for Siberia ]                                         Hodel : P apa,   God   alone   knows   when   we   sh...

Last week, shortly after yet another person who lives in Israel told me he's going to America this summer, I updated my status on Facebo...

Yesterday was a very hard day.  It's been a packed week, but yesterday was the most intense. Our community lost a young, 25 year-old m...

I majored in Speech Communication in college.  I chose that major, not from a long history of passionate commitment to saying, "When I...

Years ago, decades ago, after a nasty heartbreak, I moved to a new city. Each time I exited the highway on the way to my new home, I traine...

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...