It’s time for another song. This is one I just heard on the radio yesterday. It’s called Halevai – הלוואי . A direct translation is difficult for this word. It’s sort of an exclamation that means “I wish” or “I wish it were so” or “if only it were so.” The song is a series…
Read morethere and back again…
OK, here goes… Val and the kids are back in the US now. They arrived yesterday. We decided to return to the US for the sake of the girls education, as they will be starting high school next year. We initially moved to Israel (and formally make Aliyah) a year and a half ago with…
Read moreTefillin Bet El Factory Tour and Yaakov’s Dream
This past week I took the boys to Bet El for a tour of the tefillin factory there and to get tefillin for their bar-mitzvahs (which will be בעזרת ה, in a little over a year.) A pair of tefillin takes a long time to make so we arranged it ahead of time that we…
Read moreOK, Last Jewy Chanukah Post
The kids had dentist appointments this evening. The office is located right above the main Ra’anana shopping mall (which just opened back up two days ago from the lock-down here) and the kids love the kosher food court in the mall so we let them have smoothies and Chinese food for dinner. When we went…
Read moreChanukah 2020
It’s Chanukah again, this time under COVID. Things here are still opening up little by little, but they are watching the numbers (which have been rising again slowly) and are considering another lockdown if they continue to rise. Like in the US, people are hopeful that the new vaccines will return life to normal sometime…
Read moreA Few More Things I’ve Noticed At The Hospital – Besides The Chicken Soup
First a brief tour. This is the lobby of the Heart Center. You’ll notice how the elevators are designed to resemble the inferior vena cava and the aorta, one being blue and the other being red. And you can even sort of see the heart itself up above through the glass roof. Next, this…
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