Although it is not a new phenomena, I am getting more annoyed of late at the one-sided portrayal of events in Israel designed to cast Israeli as the evil, apartheid, hate-driven society that seeks to oppress the peace-loving Muslims who “just want to get along”.

I happened across an article titled Jerusalem: whose very own and golden city? (which seems to be a plagiarized copy of the same article by Philippe Rekacewicz and Dominique Vidal in Le Monde diplomatique). Although the agenda of the article is clear, I would like to examine a small section of it, drawing on my [...]

One of the common pre-aliyah worries I have heard (and something that we definitely thought about before coming over) was the loss of Sundays. In the United States, custom is (despite all claims of separation between church and state) for Sunday to be a “day off” from whatever it is that you may be doing [...]

No, I am not talking about my impending birthday, Purim, fasting, and God-willing an addition to the family.
I am talking about annoying pre-teens scampering around and setting off firecrackers. All over the place. It has begun.
I do think that my threshold is higher than it was last year. If I see a group of kids [...]

One year ago I was able to make a similar post, showing our neighbors Almond trees that are budding and blossoming within 1 week of Tu b’Shvat. Although temperature-wise, it is definitely more moderate here than in the States, we still feel the difference when Winter comes around. The new almond trees are the first [...]

Welcome to all who may be arriving here via the Aliyah Revolution radio show (I am making a guest appearance tonight to talk about the subject of Aliyah Blogs). As promised, here is a list of Aliyah and Life-In-Israel blogs (along with their tag-lines, where available) for your perusal. The links in italics are either [...]