Arutz Sheva today reports that “31 percent of Arabs in the PA think about living permanently in another country”
That is wonderful news. Especially when considered in conjunction with the erstwhile arab demographic threat, we are definitely moving in the right direction.

5 minutes before candle-lighting on Monday afternoon, I went to check the mail. I did not do this because I necessarily had any time to read the mail – but with a small mailbox and two days of Yom Tov coming up, if I didn’t empty the mailbox right then…well, let’s just say that sometimes [...]

It has come to my attention that some of thefrequent visitors to this site have thought about making comments, but for some reason have refrained from posting them for the world to see.
Why? It is so much more fun (at least for me) when people write comments. It only takes a minute. (You. I am [...]

We visited yesterday with some of my wife’s Israeli relatives who are in the states for a couple of months to see their grandchildren. They are an older couple approaching their seventies. He is a retired judge who has been in Israel his entire life and fought at the Suez Canal in the Yom Kippur [...]

(Um…You would be proud too if you were me…)

Right now we are in the middle of chol hamoed Sukkot – the intermediate days of the festival. On these days we are still prohibited from performing many of the same acts of Melacha that are prohibited on Shabbat and Yom Tov. The exceptions are acts which are necessary for the holiday itself (cooking), financial [...]

Looks like some things never change. (Sigh)

See this article in Haaretz that talks about the reactions of American olim to their first High Holidays in their new homes.
The first person interviewed complained that “here, the kids had to be quiet and if they made a noise we had to take them out” (awww shucks).
However, if you get past the [...]

For a few minutes on the first day of Sukkot, we thought that my Artscroll Sukkot machzor was lost (it was found five minutes later in the Sukkah).
Got me thinking though: will I ever be needing this machzor again? Next year, God willing, I will be living in Eretz Yisrael for all of the chagim. [...]

See Leading Kabbalist Urges Jews to Israel – More Disasters Coming in Arutz Sheva.
I do not know Kabbala. Predictions have been made in the past that have not come true. However, on reading things like this, I would like to quote my old Rosh Yeshiva: “Az Very Scary!”