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Maybe We're Wrong 26 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
In the circles of olim from America in which I travel, it is very common to talk about all the Jews who are left behind in America. Most of the conversations consist of scratching our collective heads...
Ain't I a Jew? 22 Aug 2013 | 04:46 pm
ITEM: Yesterday, I was reading a newsletter from an organization whose work I admire very much. The newsletter included this video, a 4-minute long collage of images from the Bnei Anousim community in...
The Aliyah Seder Haggadah 14 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
When an aliyah dream that has been nurtured for more than 50 years finally comes true, it calls for a celebration unlike any other. Rabbi Aharon and Batsheva Fine made aliyah from Canada yesterday, fu...
Jew Like Me 30 Jul 2013 | 06:17 pm
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 had a nose job. I hinted that she must be nuts to think a 10 year-ol...
Eicha Over Jerusalem 16 Jul 2013 | 12:31 pm
These past Nine Days have been very hard. Many others have written of the agony of recent infighting among the Jewish people. It lacerates the soul. We are such a small people and yet, we cannot seem ...
GUEST POST: From My Mirpesset #9 - Sweet and Ripe, June 2013 30 Jun 2013 | 04:37 pm
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 dangling over my mirpesset, the tree reminds me of a childhood b...
Paradigm Shifts for Americans Banking in Israel 20 Jun 2013 | 04:34 am
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 other olim. There's a lot of good info there, and I encourage you t...
Earning the Right to Kvetch About Israel: Guest Post by Alison Stern Perez 7 Jun 2013 | 02:16 am
Alison Stern Perez Aliyah, Redux: The end of my ‘Dark Age of Aliyah’ Blessed to bitch about the Holy Land “[Living in Israel] is both such a gift and such an amazing accomplishment.” This has been ...
The Aliyah Question 27 May 2013 | 01:11 am
There have been a flurry of blog posts written this past week or two about the aliyah question. First, Hannah Dreyfus wrote about her ambivalence toward making aliyah: ....the pronouncement of aliyah...
The Blessing of the Unearned Shekel 12 May 2013 | 02:30 pm
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, sometimes less. It's a blessing to have the ability to earn shekels ...
