We are here.
I wont be able to post anything substantial until I have a more reliable Internet connection.
Short version: flight was tiring, not as exciting as we thought it would be. We were interviewed by a TV reporter. Took forever to get our bags and a taxi. Had a wonderful reception at our new home.
Longer [...]

I am making aliyah today with my wife and son.
The day has finally come.
The plane will be taking off from JFK tonight around 8:30pm (with candle lighting and other festivities before hand).
Landing is at Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday around 2pm. As far as I know, the arrival ceremony is full, but if you want [...]

In light of recent discussion on my post Let Them Leave, I would like to post an article that I saw on Arutz-Sheva a few years ago (it is cited on many other places around the net. Most of the new commenters on said post have arrived via Umkahil, the blog of a palestinian sympathizer.
To [...]

05:55 - Alarm Goes Off
05:56 - Hit Snooze
06:15 - Get out of Bed
06:30 - Shacharit Begins
06:40 - I walk into Shacharit
07:00 - Shacharit Ends
07:10 - Arrive at Car Wash, begin vacuuming car
07:25 - Finish Vacuuming Car
07:40 - Get home, hold Moshe

The bad news: It is now 14 degrees F in Boston (Weather.com). Figuring in the wind, it feels like 4 degrees. Yikes
The good news: In Jerusalem it is now 70 degrees F (according to CNN - hopefully they can get something right about Israel).
(This is the reason why when someone from Kochav Yaakov told us [...]

Check out this very cool video. Very well done and very funny. (We never did anything that cool back when I was in Yeshiva…um…4 years ago).
(Courtesy of Pinchas).

I took some pictures of the apartment before and after the lift was loaded. Unfortunately, my camera cable is somewhere in a big pile of things-to-be-sorted and my laptop doesn’t have a cool digital camera flash memory card reader (the desktop with that one is in a box in a metal crate on a train [...]

The movers are coming on Tuesday to pack all of our belongings into a 20 foot container. From there it goes by truck to Worcester, Mass, train to NYC and then to the docks, onto a boat and an eighteen day cruise to some port in Israel where we will hopefully be waiting to pay [...]