The produce here is really good. And we learned how to make shakshuka 😀 The produce here is really good. You can get it in a variety of large grocery stores but there are also specific little fruit and vegetable stores along the street and they seem to have the best produce. Honestly, the grocery…
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School Meeting – AKA “we really don’t know any hebrew” We had a school meeting two nights ago for the girls junior high school. All the parents (we think it was just for the seventh grade, which is the youngest grade at this middle school, so all the parents and students are technically new to…
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Last week before school starts School starts next week, on Sunday September 1st. We’ve had a bunch of meetings with the kids schools: to meet the counsellors, the ulpan directors, and the new immigrant coordinators. Each of the kids has personal meetings this week with their individual class teachers as well. We’ve tried our…
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Randomly cool things here I took the car in for routine maintenance last week and was waiting in the lounge availing myself of a free cup of espresso from the machine (yes, they even have that in Israeli car dealers 😀) when I noticed that not only do they have free coffee, but they also…
Read moreVisit to Hevron and the “Cave of the Patriarchs”
Visit to Hevron and the “Cave of the Patriarchs” Last Wednesday we did a tour of Hevron. The tour left from Jerusalem at the David Citadel hotel, so we left early from Ra’anana, drove to Jerusalem, parked at Mamilla Mall, and walked to the the hotel to catch the bus. We were supposed to be…
Read moreTouring and A Friend’s Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem
Touring and A Friend’s Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem Last week we did some touring. On Wednesday we went rafting on the Jordan River up in Kfar Blum. It was nice and cool and the kids had a blast. We ate dinner at a very good Indian restaurant in Kiryat Shmona on the way home. the…
Read moreReceiving a package
Receiving a package Last Monday on the way home from running errands we tried to stop at the post office. We had received in the mail a few days prior a notice from the post office that we didn’t really understand but was addressed to Lauren Brodsky, and since we knew that my parents had…
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Ulpan and Work Last week we met with the misrad haklita again to get more details on a medical salary subsidy for my observation period, (Histaklut). First of all, it turns out that yes, such a thing does in fact exist. (The cardiology department chair asked me about it when I met with him a…
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