Bat Aliyah

Buses are positively ubiquitous in Israel. I've written about them lots of times before, including here and here and here and here ...

The Moon’s Lost Light: A Torah Perspective on Women from the Fall of Eve to the Full Redemption by Devorah Heshelis Targum Press, 2...

I've just returned from my third trip back to the US in the 2+ years since we made aliyah. This was a trip I especially did not want to ...

There's a highway called I-695 that rings around Baltimore. It's also known as the Baltimore Beltway. There's a similar one...

When I first started hearing about this, I didn't understand the concept. Then someone made this short video and it became clear. Watch ...

About a week ago, someone sent this comment in response to a positive, uplifting post about life in Israel . WHY do you live in Israel w...

This post is a roundup of some photos I took with my iPhone in the last few months of just ordinary life in Israel. The heart-shaped pot...

This prayer, which appears in English and Hebrew on the inside front cover of To Dwell in The Palace, comes from Bigdei Yesha by Zadok H...

    Is It Odd or Is It G-D? Guest Post by Joan Kristall   Is it bold to say that living in Eretz Yisroel (the Land of Isra...

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” e.e. cummings It's very hard to understand why Hashem picked me to bec...

Last night at the grocery checkout, after having unloaded a lot of canned goods, I asked the bagger, in Hebrew, to please not make the ba...