Last night, Adina made a frosted chocolate cake to bring to work, in honor of one of her coworker’s birthday (who wouldn’t want some cake for their birthday?). I forgot to remind her to take it this morning, and when I spoke with her, asked her if she had remembered. She had, and I said [...]

To the person who searched Google for “can one take a job knowing that he wont be able to daven” and ended up at my recent Rules of Chazzanut post – why are you going to Google for this? If you know that this might be a halachic issue (it most certainly is), and you [...]

I remember motzei Shemini Atzeret last year – out first inclination was to wait to put away the schach from the sukkah until some later point. The reasoning behind this was mainly that we were too lazy to put it away right away. In the end though, we put it away that night, with the [...]

(This list was compiled by a someone I know who has been very involved with Shidduch dating in Israel over the past few years, based on her experiences, both good and bad, during this time. She asked me if I knew any way to publicize it, so naturally, I am posting it here. If any [...]

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 [...]

I have long been hoping that Google will make a version of their Maps site for Israel. I always found it to be extremely useful when trying to visualize a driving route, find directions, etc. But though it is a technology hotspot, there are many other areas in the world that have higher revenue potential [...]

Read about Yaakov Moreshet and his Hilat Shoham investment fund in this article from Haaretz. What makes this investment fund special is that it only makes “halachic” investments:

He wont invest in Jewish companies that work on Shabbat
No investing in Jewis Car Rental companies that rent out cars on Shabbat
No purchasing bonds from Jewish companies that [...]

See this post from WestBankMama for a listing of some good Only-In-Israel stories (along with several links to posts on this blog, taken from the Only in EY category)

My webhost company decided to move all of the websites to new servers…and then messed it up. So the site was down for a couple of days and I have now moved to a better hosting service where there will hopefully not be the same issues.
Luckily I have a month-old backup of the database, combined [...]

Read this article from Yitzchok Adlerstein of Cross Currents