There is a very useful site that is about to be launched called Newsvine. The idea is to provide a forum constructed for users to post news or opinion articles (seed the vine) – either their own work, or references to others. People on the site can vote on which “seeds” they like. The more [...]

Beautiful day here…around 70 degrees and Sunny. Our first full Shabbat guests in Israel (ie: sleeping here and eating all meals here) are coming in an hour…who also happen to be my parents and sister…so things are a little bit hectic great (food is mostly cooked, chulent up, dishes clean and floor kind of sponge’ad). [...]

Adina: Baby clothes are so nasty! Yaakov: Don’t you mean to say that baby clothes with doodee on them are nasty? Adina: Oh yeah. That’s what I meant. Other than that they are really cute.

Check out this post from Tovya featuring excerpts from an interview of Sheikh Palazzi, expressing some view that probably aren’t so popular in the Muslim world (or in the White House). See the whole interview.

Tu B’Shvat, the “holiday for the trees” is the day marked by chazal as the beginning of the New Year for trees. The halachic significance of this is that we use this date to count years for tithing on the produce of trees. It is the time when the Winter begins to ebb (especially here [...]

Just wanted to write a short post about MB’s new outfits….Whenever he wears socks, they get kicked off. Often within minutes. On two separate occasions (one in Brookline and one recently here), on a Friday night walk back home from someone’s meal, we look down at our sweet little guy, all bundled up in the cold [...]

Well, the time has come (in fact, some- including Yaakov, Rebecca and my sister S, might say it is long overdue), for me to start writing here. Because the truth is, as wife of the wonderful man who created this blog, who has shared this dream of aliyah, and has come with him here to [...]

If you don’t know what happened in Amona last week, please refer to any news source that covers the goings-on in Israel. Many bloggers in the Jewish blogging world have been commenting on this. I haven’t written anything so far because I am still going through my own thoughts on the issue. Here is what [...]

I received this story via email (I think I heard it at an NCSY Shabbaton a number of years ago). I do not know who the author was. Still, it is worth sharing and reading at least once: What would you do? You make the choice! Don’t look for a punch line; there isn’t one! [...]