I had a big meeting in Tel Aviv today and afterwards we ran over to a small shopping mall to grab a quick, late lunch before heading back to Jerusalem. Pretty standard Israeli food court fare, a felafel/shwarma place, hamburgers, Chinese and one or two other places. We grabbed a shwarma, washed and found the… Read More The Dichotomies of Israel
We realized that we haven’t written much in the way of a regular ‘update’ in a while. We’ve written about trips, politics, etc but not what’s happening in our regular day to day lives. All in all we are doing quite well: We are thrilled with our choice of schools for Matan. He enjoys school,… Read More Brief Update
‘…Lech lecha mai’artzecha…’ (Beresheit/Genesis 12:1) ‘Go forth from your land…to the land that I will show you’ This week we come again to Parashat Lech Lecha (the weekly Torah portion of Lech Lecha) which is the story of Avraham Avinu (Abraham) heeding the words of Hashem and leaving his homeland, his family and friends to… Read More Lech Lecha….
Over the past week, we have watched from afar as France burns. It has been an interesting topic of conversation around here as many feel an odd sense of satisfaction, not at the destruction or the fate of people who are injured or killed in the violence, but that the country that has most represented… Read More The ‘Eurofada’
As some of you may have heard, Dr. Robert John (Israel) Aumann, was awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics. We have decided to share a profile which appeared in today’s Jerusalem Post with you because Dr. Aumann has something for everyone to be proud of. He is a refugee of Nazi German who made… Read More Our Newest Nobel Prize Winner
Our across the street neighbors and friends, Aharoni & Shoshi Neubauer (who also happen to be living in ‘our’ house) had invited the entire yishuv to the dedication of a new Sefer Torah In Neve Daniel. The entire Neubauer family had commissioned the writing of the sefer Torah in memory of Aharoni’s mother who passed… Read More Hachnasat Sefer Torah in Neve Daniel
I’m not sure what the view is out of the window of your synagogue/shul/other place of worship (for those of you not in Israel and who have a regular place of worship), but the view from our new Beit Knesset in Neve Daniel is quite stunning. Instead of the usual leafy trees or busy suburban… Read More The View from the new Beit Knesset…
It has taken over 5 years of constant internationl condemnation but, with the help of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the recently elected ‘hard-line’ president of Iran, the world should now clearly know what the Arab-Muslim world plans for Israel. During a keynote address to the ‘A World Without Zionism Conference’ being held in Tehran, Ahmadinejad said ‘Israel… Read More It’s about time…
A brief incident that I thought was too funny not to share today. I have been having – shall we say – a bit of difficulty with one of my classes at the school where I’m teaching. I thought I was hired to help these girls with homework as a supplement to their class. Well,… Read More Teaching in Israel…Gotta love it!
The event we had been looking forward to since last year’s adventure at the Pnei Kedem Kite Festival had finally arrived. All year, we had told anyone who would listen that they simply had to make plans to come this year. We recruited friends from near and far (we planned to go with Heidi and… Read More Flying High in Pnei Kedem…back to the grind!
