A few weeks ago, our salt had to be relocated to a tupperware, as the salt container was becoming unusable (though there was still some salt left over). My wife told me: this is salt in the tupperware. Not sugar. Fast-forward to this morning – my wife had a sore throat and asked me to [...]

Some new things: A new domain name – Aliyah Blog is now located at http://AliyahBlog.com. Be sure to update your bookmarks The addresses of the RSS feeds are now http://feeds.feedburner.com/AliyahBlog for new posts and http://feeds.feedburner.com/AliyahBlogComments for comments. Be sure to update your links for these as well The layout of the site has been totally [...]

Arutz Sheva has provided links to some moving videos of pictures and movies from Gush Katif: Zeh Haya Beiti – This was my house – Pictures set to song (go here for the words). (If you are a man and you hold that kol isha on recordings where you cannot see the woman are forbidden, [...]

Received from my sister in Israel (she was in the US over the Summer): Well, Since I have come back to Israel I have been completely overwhelmed by the situation here. The news in America presented the disengagement in a somewhat positive way- of one can say that- in that the picture I understood of [...]

Simon Wiesenthal passed away last night. From his biography on the Wiesenthal Center website: Wiesenthal is often asked to explain his motives for becoming a Nazi hunter. According to Clyde Farnsworth in the New York Times Magazine (February 2, 1964), Wiesenthal once spent the Sabbath at the home of a former Mauthausen inmate, now a [...]

I will be posting more soon. Really, I will. Right now I am working on changing the look and feel of this blog, moving it to a new blogging engine and to a new domain. Also, I would like to open up the blog to other writers. As tantalyzing as my twice-a-week postings may be, [...]

In case you can’t make out the small print, it reads: “I think I may need a bathroom break” Photo by Reuters. The caption reads: U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the [...]

This morning I went to a bar mitzvah. Some of you might be wondering what I was doing going to a bar mitzvah on a Tuesday morning that is not a Rosh Chodesh (and therefore no Torah reading). I did a double-take myself…until I remembered that the most important part of the bar mitzvah is [...]

We have been telling friends and family all along that we are planning on making aliyah at the end of December, 2005. However, as that day is now less than four months away, my wife and I have been saying to ourselves: “Shouldn’t we be doing something right now for planning aliyah?” So, over the [...]

A member of my high school class is currently in an IDF officer-training course. His unit assisted in the disengagement. Below is an exerpt from an email (edited for spelling) he sent out to members of our class, telling about what he witnessed at Atmona. It is a very moving account, and I believe it [...]