It has never occured to me to buy a new car. Being the daughter of a mechanic, second hand cars were the only option ever on the cards. In our family, the rule was a new car had to be at least half as old as you. So naturally as a new olah, where we are trying …
Well you would think shopping in the land chosen especially for us by the Lord himself would have everything one needs to live a healthy life. Sadly not the case. We have been here for weeks now and I haven’t tasted a decent tomato. In fact I havent tasted a decent anything. I have been told …
I once had a rabbi in Sem originally from Brooklyn who told us that the day he woke up in his balcony succah, with an icicle on his nose, was the day he decided to make aliyah. Clearly mitzvot are designed to be done in Israel, you can’t argue with that one. Anyhow for years our family …
Israeli weddings are really good fun. Unlike the english formulas, there seem to be no two weddings the same here. And there appear to be no rules, people just do what they feel like and if it’s not your bag – tough! Little Yaron was the youngest guest at our friends wedding on sunday night. …
For a country that has a relatively high birth rate, there seems to be a bit of a problem. Nobody seems to know much about babies. Seriously, I kid you not. Aside from that there is an annoying lack of trust in mothers. Apparently we are the last person on earth to know what’s best …
The only thing that can make shul on 2nd day Rosh Hashanah even longer is when you know the service will be followed by your sons brit. I spent 2 and a half hours trying not to think of the awful wails and terrible screams that were to follow. We had met the mohel the day before, …
Shalom ladies and gentlemen And welcome to my brit My mummy helped me write this poem As I am a little young for wit I turned up last Friday morning 2 weeks before my date I wanted my brit on Rosh Hashanah So I couldn’t afford to wait After thoughtfully letting my parents sleep I …
Number of Cockroach Sightings: 0 (come on, it’s not that bad! Israel is a developed country you know!) Number of Schnitzel consumed: 5 Number of Nurses spotted who have walked straight out of the 1950’s: About 17 Tzfat hospital. Beautiful mountain views. My window looked onto the stunning Kinneret. Brand new almost-finished maternity unit. Lovely birthing rooms (not …
So after our lovely night out with friends I felt confident that they would be able to look after Jojo when I went into labour, so the following morning [friday] thats just what I did. Woke up just before 7, got everything ready, awakened Sleeping Beauty [Husband] and called a cab. We got to Ziv …
Apparently this is supposed to be my “nesting week.” According to my pregnancy book, many women feel a desperate urge to clean under shelves and behind cupboards and need to be restrained. Thankfully this is convenient timing as there is a lot of work to be done on our new house. Finally, our kitchen is unpacked …