Bat Aliyah

For the record, this is not me. In 4th grade, my girlfriend Laurie told me I don't have a Jewish nose. She hinted that I must have...

These past Nine Days have been very hard. Many others have written of the agony of recent infighting among the Jewish people. It lacera...

I step out into the early morning, before the sun peeks over the rooftops and washes my salon it its brilliance. The plums are ripe and ...

In April of 2012, I wrote a popular post about banking in Israel. It was based on tidbits I picked up over time and some advice from oth...

  Alison Stern Perez Aliyah, Redux: The end of my ‘Dark Age of Aliyah’ Blessed to bitch about the Holy Land “[Living in Israel] i...

There have been a flurry of blog posts written this past week or two about the aliyah question. First, Hannah Dreyfus wrote about her ambi...

I have been among the lucky olim who, since finishing ulpan, has had work for most of the time I've been in Israel. Sometimes more, som...

Lately, there has been a huge amount of tension regarding the role of women in Judaism bubbling up around me. I haven't been so caught...

NOTE: I originally wrote this after a friend was killed in the bombing at Hebrew University on July 31, 2002 (22 Av 5762) . I was still l...

One of the experiences of being an immigrant, and I believe this applies to all immigrants everywhere, is that, at least initially, you l...

I received a copy of Doublelife: One Family, Two Faiths and a Journey of Hope by Harold Berman and Gayle Redlingshafer Berman in the mai...

Item : In an Orthodox shul I attended while visiting friends in another community for a simcha, the men sat in beautifully constructed syn...

Founded by Soccer Dad, Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish and Israeli blog highlights, ti...

This guest post was written by Anabelle Harari. Her bio appears below. An Israeli-American Living in an American-Israeli City (or i...