We had an amazing day yesterday filled with smachot (‘simchas’/happy occurrences/etc) which, again, brought our lives here into focus. The two smachot were on the opposite ends of the Israeli cultural spectrum, which made it all the more interesting. We started the day at a brit milah for our friends’ newborn son. Erez Yoseph Shai… Read More The Brit and the Wedding…

Excerpted from the Israel Highway (March 8, 2007)A Middle East Primer –What Are the Issues? Do You Know the Basics? by Israel HighWay Staff Missiles, terrorists, tanks and bullets are not the only weapons of the Middle East conflict. So are words, concepts and diplomatic formulas. In fact, they can be more important than the… Read More A Middle East Primer–Do You Know the Basics?

The following was originally published via Israel HighWay . If you would like to receive the Israel HighWay directly, please click here. Purim Week: What Makes Israelis Laugh?Political Satire in Israel by Israel HighWay Staff Sometimes it’s hard to laugh in Israel. It seems everyone knows someone who was wounded or killed in last summer’s… Read More Purim Week: What Makes Israelis Laugh

Like everywhere else, there are days here when we feel victories, and days when we get frustrated and ready to scream. Today was a victory. I still can’t believe what I accomplished and I must say that I’m quite proud of myself. In order to transfer my teaching certificate from the States, I have needed… Read More Me and the Misrad HaChinuch

One of the various small jobs that I do is working on a weekly, on-line publication called Israel HighWay. The target audience is North American high school students and the goal is to educate and inspire them about Israel. So, we are going to start posting the ‘Issue of the Week’ each week on the… Read More Israel HighWay

There is one thing that is hard to replace from ‘the Old Country’ for many Olim and that is snow. Our kids (at least the ones who lived in America) have been desperate for some snow since we moved. This is our third winter here and they have been regularly asking, ‘when is it going… Read More SNOW

When we were contemplating Aliyah on and off over the years, one thing that was always part of the discussion was having our kids grow up in Israel. The country is an amazing place to grow up, a veritable Gan Eden (Garden of Eden) for kids. In our first weeks of Aliyah our kids sampled… Read More Visiting the sites of the Tanach….priceless!!

So, shame on us is definitely in order. I can’t believe how long it’s been since we’ve written,but hey, we’ve been very, very busy (moving, starting the school year and having a baby will do that to a family). So, we are finally trying to commit to check in every once in a while. It’s… Read More Chanukah Sameach–5767

We write from a country at war. On Friday we celebrated the second anniversary of our Aliyah amidst a two front war to our North and our South. Rockets rained down on communities throughout the Northern tier of our country and on the small communities and cities that have the unfortunate luck of being situated… Read More Our Two Year Anniversary in Israel–We’re at War…

Since we made Aliyah to Neve Daniel almost two years ago we have been fortunate to have many visitors–friends, family and acquaintances from our past lives have all come to see us in Neve Daniel. Some have come for Shabbat, others for just a few hours and others for a week or more. We have… Read More Our Visitors