If you own a car in Israel (or any type of moving vehicle), than once a year you need to visit a place called Test Line (in hebrew, that would be טסט ליין – no joke, that is really what it is called and how it is spelled) to get your annual inspection. It can [...]

So Adina was having contractions for most of Thursday night (a week and a half ago) and she woke me up at 5am on Friday morning – “I think you had better daven soon…”. A neighbor came over to help Moshe get ready for his day and take him to Maon and we left the [...]

Born Friday, 19 Adar, 5767 at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital, Yerushalayim. Ima and Baby are doing great. (Lots of “Only in Eretz Yisrael” stories to come from the experience, for another day). For those who know who to look for, more pictures are up OnlySimchas.

One year and one day ago we made aliyah on NBN’s Chanuka 5766 flight (lit candles for the third day of Chanuka in Kennedy Aiport, for the fourth day in Kochav Yaakov). Though I am too busy to write anything substantial in commemoration, I did put together a little list of every-day things for which [...]

Quick Only-In-Israel story that happened tonight: there is a hachnassat Sefer Torah (dedication and completion of a new Torah scroll) tonight at one of the shuls on the yishuv. I had seen some announcements and flyers up over the past week, but wasn’t planning on attending. Still, around 5pm I started to hear some music [...]

The windshield wipers on my car have been slowly failing over the past few months. They were not exactly brand-new when I got the car (the car was a 2002 model, so I am pretty sure it still had the original wipers on it when I got the car). Of course, during the Summer this [...]

If you are looking to part on the side of a street in Jerusalem, there are four different options:

Parking is illegal (signified by a red circle side with a diagonal blue line running through it and/or red and yellow stripes painted on the curb)
Parking is legal…but you have to pay (signified by black and blu [...]

On my way back from Yerushalayim this afternoon, I stopped in the local supermarket (Rami Levi at Shaar Binyamin). The main reason was to get some pizza for dinner (they have a small take-out pizza place right there, with the cheapest pizza in the area by far – 24 shekel for a pie with toppings [...]

Literally.
Yesterday I was walking in Meah Shearim for a few minutes, and right there on the street corner, there was a pile of little cages, each one containing a chicken or three. Kaparot refers to the custom of slaughtering a chicken on Yom Kippur eve and giving it to someone poor. Although it should not [...]

A couple of weeks ago, there was a parent’s night at the ma’on (daycare center for babies) in preparation of the beginning of the school year. I was busy with something that night, so Adina went alone. With Moshe’s bedtime at around 6-7pm, he obvisously wouldn’t be coming, but we thought that we might try [...]