We are moving to Yad Binyamin.
We first heard about Yad Binyamin from some friends a few years ago. We had been talking about potential communities to live in, Yad Binyamin came up in conversation as one of the new "in", up-and-coming communities in Israel that Americans (including young families) were beginning to flock to. As [...]

When we made aliyah nearly two years ago, we moved to an apartment in Kochav Yaakov. We had looked at a number of different communities, and eventually settled on Kochav Yaakov because of its location, friendliness, diversity, religious orientation and demographics. It was a wonderful place to come to right off of the plane. We [...]

I would like to announce a new blog project that I am working on: Parsha Blog.
From the mission statement:

The purpose of this blog is to provide a constant stream of bite-size Divrei Torah relating to the Torah portion of the week.
Unlike many other parsha-related sites on the Internet, the typical article on Parsha Blog will [...]

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

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 be redesigned. [...]

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, I recognize [...]

Please welcome our son to the world.

Born: 29 Sivan, 5765 (July 6, 2005) at 4:23pm EDT. 7 lbs, 15 oz.

This site was down for the last two and a half days because my incompetant Web Hosting service was having some problems (i.e.: the server hosting this site melted down and it took them 60 hours to reinstall php and mySql). Sorry about that :-(

I just added the ability to see how many times a post has been loaded. There is also a link at the bottom of each post listing labeled Google It!. If you click on the link it will open a Google search in a new window that uses the post’s title as a search time. [...]

Welcome to aliyahBlog.
This blog is a compilation of all of the different entries in the different subblogs:

aliyahLog - A log of the personal aliyah journey of my wife and myself.
aliyahArticles - Torah, articles, thoughts and more related to Israel, Aliyah, the Jewish People, and anything else I am in the mood to post about.
aliyahLinks - [...]