Who needs Disney World? Why not try Montana? You might even be able to get a minyan (from RYGB).

We did not have a baby
Walking to mincha, someone passed me on the sidewalk, walking in the opposite direction and talking into his cell phone. As he passed me, he said “Shabbat Shalom”.
Walking to maariv (still definitely Shabbat) someone was parking a car on the sidewalk next to me. There was a bumper sticker on [...]

See this post from Pinchas in which he tells about the email his boss sent out to company when he was told that Pinchas is going to make aliyah.

(See here for the first post in this series. Hopefully this will be the last).
If your friend (or relative) is fast approaching their due-date, and could go into labor at any second (b’shaa tovah, of course) do not call them with the sole purpose of asking them if they have gone into labor yet or [...]

When my wife and I traveled to Israel last December/January, the primary purpose was to try to find a community to which we would move to when we make aliyah. As our aliyah is planned for either this upcoming Winter or the Summer afterwards, and we did not know if we would be back before [...]

This site was down for the last two and a half days because my incompetant Web Hosting service was having some problems (i.e.: the server hosting this site melted down and it took them 60 hours to reinstall php and mySql). Sorry about that :-(

Yona was a proud Zionist who never regretted making aliyah even after he was permanently paralyzed from the neck down in a homicide bus bombing in 1995. From then on he was on constant, 24-hour life support.
Read about the Yona Malina’s life here. Yehi Zichroh Baruch - May his memory be a blessing.

The Gemara (Pesachim 109a) says that when the temple was standing, the only way to achieve simcha (loose translation: “joy”) on the holidays was to eat meat (from the sacrifices). Today (when there is no temple), the only way to simcha is through wine.
Back then it was an obligation to eat meat on the [...]

I have some things to say in response to some comments that were made regarding my “Kosher” Food Story. Since it is kind of branching into a new topic (and since I can, because this is my blog) I will just post them here (gets more exposure than comment #19).
To sum up: some readers have [...]

Here are some experiences from Mishpachat Barr, olim chadashim from Baltimore to Kochav Yaakov.

At the end of our drivers test we were given a bracha by the examiner that we should be safe and enjoy our new car and lives in Israel
Normally the alarm is set for 6:05 AM, this morning I set it for [...]