Almost Eden

During our pilot trip we received, from an acquaintance who later became a friend (thanks Ron!), what I now know was/is the best piece of Aliyah advice: Don't expect Israel to be like the USA. Like most things in life, your experience here will be l… more »

I can't believe another year has flown by so quickly! I planned to select a photo from my gallery and make a Rosh HaShanah greeting card out of it for you but I can't decide which ONE to choose. Since I'm running out of time, I decided to share with you… more »

My husband pointed out today that I have neglected to report here that our 8-year-old son has begun his own blog - Aliyah: Tagging Along. It all started during the summer break as tensions built over our move from Ma'ale Adumim to Ra'anana... Yisrael mis… more »

Since posting about yesterday's Nefesh B'Nefesh Aliyah flight, I've had the opportunity to correspond with dozens of people in the US who want to make Aliyah but feel they can't for various reasons. So I decided to consolidate my responses here in order… more »

Back in 1997 when my husband and I met on the Internet it was deemed quite a newsworthy event by the local newspaper - our photo was splashed across the front page (it was a small town) along with a nice human interest story. In the technologically adva… more »