What a sad day for the Jewish people and for the State of Israel.

See the Artuz-Sheva article here. Kiita-Talk is a new offering by the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption (or as there web-site spells it, Absorbtipon) “that allows you to speak to a representative of the Ministry’s Telephone Information Center, while you are on line, without having to disconnect from the Internet.” I am kind of skeptical that [...]

For the second Shabbat during out pilot trip we went to Neve Daniel.
Neve Daniel is a yishuv of about 200-250 families (with plans to go to around 350) located in the Gush Etzion area, south of Yerushalayim. When you come our of the tunnel on the highway south of Yerushalayim, Neve Daniel is one of [...]

More posts on the way soon.
In the meantime, I have 50 Gmail invites. First come, first served.

Before our pilot trip, we had been considering, at least slightly, to live in locations that were not very close to Yerushalayim. After all, if all of the hi-tech jobs are in the Tel Aviv-Raanana area, wouldn’t it make sense to be a little bit closer to the action?
However, while visiting Karnei Shomron our hostess [...]