I guess it’s that time of year again. I saw the English version of the prayer in one of the English Israeli newspapers last week. I thought it was a nice sentiment and didn’t think much else about it. Then this week I received a WhatsApp text from my local Ra’anana shul containing the Hebrew…
Read moreMeeting In Tel Aviv, Dinner In Netanya
I had a meeting with another Israeli biotech company earlier this week, this time in Tel Aviv. I love going to Jerusalem, the holy city, but I also love going to Tel Aviv. This was just a quick in-and-out for a 9:30AM one hour meeting, but just driving through all the glass and steel skyscrapers…
Read more“Hi, sorry to hear. You made Aliyah in very challenging circumstances. I’ll keep my ears open.”
Yeah that pretty much describes my situation right now. That was what a friend texted me back after i told him that I had been turned down by a second hospital for a job. I guess a quarter of the country is unemployed so I shouldn’t really feel too bad about it. And I have…
Read moreFirst Camping Trip
Our first camping trip in Israel! We went camping with one other family at the Mishmar HaCarmel campsite. It’s on top of the Carmel mountains near Haifa. The campsite was in a beautiful pine forest very similar to the campgrounds we’ve been to in the Arizona mountains. Instead of reserving a specific numbered campsite as…
Read moreI’m Pretty Sure We Actually Have To Live In The Society We Build
My last post was the one about kneading the dough for the challah. The following funny-if-it-weren’t-so-sad thing occurred when I went to post that story: I had updated the website service I use to do the online journal and as I was looking at it one final time before I officially published that post, I…
Read moreKneading Dough
Val always made her own challah for shabbat in Phoenix. We used a recipe where she would use a bread-maker machine to make the dough, then braid the loaves and bake them in the oven. But since we’ve been in Israel we haven’t had a breadmaker. So she found one recipe she had for completely…
Read moreToo Much Time On My Hands
We’ve been here for over a year now and I’ve been working part time so far (sort of). (Hoping to change that soon, btw.) So, as I mentioned in a prior post, in addition to keeping this online journal I’ve taken to writing about some of the issues that I feel are important today regarding…
Read moreGoing Stir-Crazy
Its day 10 of my 14 day home quarantine. It sucks. I try to keep to a regular schedule. I read a little, write a little, I have some remote medical work I can do, but not nearly enough to keep me busy. I watch movies with the kids in the evenings sometimes, and we’ve…
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